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A Tribute to Ed Koch

14 Feb

February 14, 2013

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died last week. He was Mayor for three terms, from 1978 to 1989.

I am old enough to remember NYC back in the 70’s. It was crime ridden and dirty. The city had no money. Sanitation workers went on strike. Things were not good. But Mayor Koch turned things around. And he was a true people person. He loved not only New York but the people of New York. He loved to be among the people and of course, even more so, he loved the spotlight. Growing up, he was the first mayor I was old enough to be politically interested in and I thought he was great. Even today, long after he left office, I still consider all the Mayors who followed him to be sitting in Ed Koch’s office. The man cast a long shadow.

After his term in office, he hosted a radio show and did movie reviews. He always kept in front of the microphone or the camera and always stayed in the news. Did he have an ego? Sure, a big one, but he was one of us.

One thing that the tributes and obituaries mention only in passing is that, from September 8, 1997 to June 25, 1999 (with reruns airing until September 10), Ed Koch hosted The People’s Court. There are not many clips of him on the TV bench on the internet. The show has not aired anywhere since 1999, long before any and every scene put to film ended up on YouTube.

Luckily, I was- and still am- a big People’s Court fan and as I cleaned out a closet this week I found an old videotape and what was on it? An episode of The People’s Court featuring Ed Koch. And what an episode it was! Koch was presiding over the case of Titanic Tony, a wannabe wrestler, suing The Behemoth, his trainer. The best part? They are all in costume and demonstrate their moves in the courtroom. Little wonder that toward the end of the clip Koch tells Titanic Tony he needs to see a psychiatrist. (Ed Koch was not one to mince words.)

I won’t say any more, the clip speaks for itself, though Allan Keyes has a few things to say on this subject next week. So right now, sit back and enjoy.

I also need to mention that this is the first video on the brand new Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride YouTube channel! Stay tuned for more great stuff!

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Imponderable #80: North Fort Myers Florida

8 Feb

February 8th, 2013

This is kind of a long one so let me give you the bullet points first:

  • Gregory Mathew Bruni climbed onto Tony Lands’ roof (Oh yeah, he was already naked.)
  • Leapt off the roof, onto Tony, and hurt Tony’s shoulder
  • Ran into the house. knocked over a tv, spilled the dirt out of a vacuum
  • Dodged gunshots from Tony’s wife LaDonna
  • Ran into the living room and masturbated
  • Cleaned himself with clothes he found in the son’s room
  • Took not one but two dumps on the floor
  • Drank the dirt from the vacuum

Howzabout that for a good day’s work? I never accomplish that much at my job, and I rarely have to dodge bullets at the office.

It might make things a little clearer if I tell you that Gregory Matthew Bruni was a carnival worker. Yes, a carny. I don’t know if he guessed people’s weight or just cleaned up after the animals and took down the tents, but man, how many stories this good do you know that also feature a naked carny? Not many, I’ll bet. Maybe he bit the heads off chickens.

According to the police, they are going to do some tests to determine “what Bruni was on.” Personally, I think the cops might be jumping the gun. I’m not so sure he was on anything at all. This might just be normal carny behavior. Have you ever been to a state fair in Alabama? ‘Nuff said. I’m not saying these guys are not the sharpest tools in the shed, I’m saying they cannot spell shed.

At this point, I might- just might!- be going a little hard on the carnies. I’d be happy to apologize to them, but I am sure none of them are  capable of reading this blog.

Among the charges against Bruni is criminal mischief, which really seems to cover a huge array of behavior.

More to the point, I have a few options for the Imponderable, including one or two related to the masturbation which I am going to skip for the sake of not disgusting myself. As far as the dumps he took, in that kind of extreme situation, is it so hard to believe that he crapped his pants, so to speak, bearing in mind he was not wearing said proverbial pants?

How did LaDonna Land manage to miss the naked man defecating and playing with himself in her own living room?
The question is Imponderable.

And while I am railing against carnies, I’d also like to mention that I have never found circus clowns funny. Not at all.

pooper

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