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Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of prisoners in a Holy Thursday Ceremony that is an important part of Easter Week.

They did the same at my church on Holy Thursday. Several parishioners had their feet washed by Father Chris in the annual ceremony.

I don't know what vile and demented people would post about this but I have come to the conclusion that they are beyond redemption.

Humility and grace.

I pray to get more of it everyday. I fall short. Terribly short. But I have to try none the less.

May God bless our new Pope.

Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Mass as Pope on Easter Sunday. He showed a humility and grace that bodes well for his stewardship of my faith.

I spent the day at Mass in the morning and then at a friends house where we had a great Easter dinner.

Other vile and hateful people spent the day trashing and mocking the Pope and my cousin Cardinal Dolan in the most disgusting way to get blog hits and comments. It is almost beyond belief how low some people will go.

Almost but not quite unbelievable.

What a sad, nasty and vile person.

Happy Easter Everybody!

I had more time than I thought today as the people all came in early or ordered on the Internets.

I hope that you and your families have a wonderful Easter.

I will be at church.

And then the pizzeria.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have come to the conclusion......

That  you shouldn't link religion and pizza. So don't give up pizza for Lent. It is not right. I went looking for a sign and I found it.

 Next year I am giving up something I can do without. Like the internets. Or TV.

What would Jesus order......

I think a regular Neapolitan margarita pie. You know with just mozzarella and red sauce. None of these fancy four cheese thingy's.

If he appeared at your house I bet he would bring a pie.

Everybody would rather talk about pizza

Even Palladian loves his pizza. Just sayn'

People need to stop worrying about nonsense...

And concentrate on the goods things in life. I can think of three of them right off the bat.

Well four actually.

Oh no not another one......

Some people are obsessed with cats. Some people are obsessed with pizza.

But the two don't mix.

While I am putting away the winter inventory...

You know what I am thinking about. Only one more day until Lent is over!!!!!

What kind of pizza would you serve at a SSM reception....

Why one with a gay icon on it.

Just sayn'

If Amy were to write a post about pizza.....

This is what it would look like!

Chuck knows exactly what I mean.

Squirrel!!!!!

Some people like to distract you. You know like Ritmo and garage. When their team is getting their ass kicked they bring up some irrelevant crapola to derail the conversation.

Don't try and do that about pizza.

Even the squirrels love their pizza.

Sometimes you need a dessert pie.....

And you can get it in pizza. Here is the Nutella thin crust pizza with strawberries the way they serve it at Enoteca on Court St. It is thin crust which is great and covered in powdered sugar. You know. Like spinelli's wardrobe after the donuts.

It is a great dessert pizza.

If I am going to do ten posts a day about the same subject

It will be about pizza.

Now Sicilian. Do you love it or not.

It is the square pie. The way it is normally prepared is the dough is cooked separately. They mold the dough into a rectangular tray that is deep but normally not as deep as a Chicago Deep Dish style pie. You put it in the pizza oven until it pretty much cooks through. Then you would add the sauce and cheese. Normally you don't add anything to it. No mushrooms or sausage or anchovies. Of course anybody that puts ham and pineapple on their pizza should have their balls cut off and fed to them.

Currently the best Sicilian pie is at the aforementioned Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst on 86th St. This photo is one of a half consumed pie. When you go to the pizza shop in NYC ask for the corner. That has the crusty ends. You know like ndspinelli's shorts. 

The best part about a Scilian pie is that it fills you up. A couple of slices is good enough for even a fat fuck like me. Because sometimes your eyes are bigger than you stomach. So you have to be careful. Like when spinelli went to the pizzeria and the guy asked how he wanted him to cut the pie. In six pieces or eight pieces.
He said "cut it in six pieces, I don't think I could eat eight."

This discussion makes me think of pies gone by. There was this little pizza store that was on Henry St between 1968 and 1974. They made this great Sicilian pie with a garlic sauce that was almost like bruschetta since the pie wasn't so thick. It was the best Sicilian pie I ever had. Of course since it was different nobody really liked it. Plus the guy was a gambler and the loans sharks took over the place and busted it out. But for a while it was great.

The funnies thing I ever saw with regards to a Scilian pie was one day in the North Star Pub in the 1980's where this Mexican dude was trying to pick up an Italian girl from Staten Island.  He had on this hideous plaid sports coat and looked like the fuckin' Frito Bandito. He kept telling her "But I'm Italian." She kept saying "No you ain't. You don't look like an Italian you are a fuckin' Mexican." He goes "No I am Sicilian."
She goes "You ain't Sicilian you ain't even a fuckin' slice."

Lie down with lambs....oh and Happy Easter

I got a marizpan lamb to bring over on Easter Sunday. It is a traditional Easter treat.

We still don't have any employees so we will be pretty busy. We are closing on Easter so everyone who is taking advantage of the sale will be coming in tomorrow.

It's gonna be crazy.

So if I don't get a chance....HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

She won't let me eat pizza...

When the wife heard I had a slice of pizza every day she got really pissed. I am supposed to be cutting down.

I said I am cutting down.

To once slice a day.

Seriously. Give a brother a break ya know what I means!

Plus spumoni......

Now spumoni is Italian Neopolitan ice cream and the best in NYC can be found in the Spumoni Gardens on 86th St.

Yummy

I don't know what you gave up for lent....

 I gave up pizza.

It was very hard not to eat pizza, especially on a no meat day like Good Friday. I always liked Lent because that was the only time we were guarrantied a pizza when we were kids. Getting a pizza was a big treat back in the day and we really only had it on a Friday night. It cost three dollars for a whole pie back then. Slices went for ten cents a piece.

I like to get a slice every time I pop out of the store. Go to the bank...get a slice. Go to mail a letter....get a slice. Go to get paper towels from CVS....get a slice.

So I am pizza deprived.

Tits and sandwiches!

Some blogs get obessesed with one subject and go off the rails. Little Green Footballs and the Muslims. Andy the Beagle Boy Sullivan and Sarah Palin's vagina. The Evil Blogger Lady and her Asshole Buddies wanting to get married and stuff.

I want to keep my eye on the ball. Well on big round things. Tits and meatballs.

And now that hero does not look like what you think it looks like.

Shame on you!

I don't hold anything against Costco

I have been in Costco. I went to this one in Florida and even ate a hot dog there!

But the problem with the big box stores is that it destroys the smaller stores and the specialty stores. We bought stuff there. But it was mostly the House brand which is Kirkland or something like that. They had other brand names but you weren't getting a bargain in any way. You are getting bulk but not a much lower price.

I grew up buying meat from the butcher and bread from the bakery and cold cuts from the deli. You only went to the supermarket for paper goods. Which back in the day was toilet paper because we never bought paper towels. We used rags and were glad to do it.

I just lament the destruction of how my neighborhood used to be. I tell all they hipsters that moved in "You know what you love about this neighborhood....well you killed it by moving here."

I never thought I would be that guy. You know. The guy who complains how everything is changing and turning to shit. Who wants to move to the hills and get away from all of these nasty people. You know.
Sixty Grit.

I feel you brother.

It's a lot of bullshit...you can bank on it.

Well I found out that another bank will be going in the space where Good Food used to be. They already put up the scaffolding to start work. Just what this neighborhood needs. Another bank. There are four within five  blocks of the store.

Some of youse guys are very defensive about shopping at Costco. Listen if that works for you then that is great. My daughter lives in Florida and shops at Costco and Walmart all the time. That is what you do. But our neighborhood used to be different. I was talking to one of the owners of the store and he told me he feels bad for all of the old people who used to have their food delivered. They would call up and order what they wanted often by brand name. You know normal All-American brands. Nabisco. Kraft. Brillo. Tide. Little Debbie. Ronzoni. Not just Kirkland. They would put together a box and bring it over. He cited one little old lady that wanted an eggplant. But she wanted them to bring four or five so she could pick the one she wanted. Ricdiculous you say? Maybe so but that was how it used to be. Not anymore.

Luckily all the old people will be dead soon because of Obama care and it won't matter.

Bad news!

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This is how you do it bitchs!

Purchase of the day

Today's purchase was Sicilian olives and potato croquettes for Palm Sunday.

Evil Queen Palate Cleanser

Once Upon a Time.....after too many Titus posts in a row...we needed a palate cleanser....so we called on the Evil Queen.

She has extremely nice apples.

No wonder she got Snow White to bite on one.

Deep thoughts....By Titus....About Bowling

I have been having bowling sex dreams lately.

Last night I dreamed I was in a New Jersey entertainment complex that consisted of bowling, a bar, dancing, a gym, a sauna, a shower room, supper club, curling and lots of other shit.

The guys in the shower would actually be scrubbing their hogs with a huge ice scraper.

I was there with the Crack Emcee. He looked just like Buckwheat. He fondled his black ball and smiled a gap toothed grim and asked if it was O-Tay to fondle his big black ball.

I almost fainted. 



I wanted to bowl the but the six lanes, SIX LANES, were full. So small town. I love large bowling lanes, 32 plus please!


O-Tay!

Deep Thoughts.....By Titus....about Bowling

I have been having bowling sex dreams lately.

Last night I dreamed I was in a New Jersey entertainment complex that consisted of bowling, a bar, dancing, a gym, a sauna, a shower room, supper club, curling and lots of other shit.

The guys in the shower would actually be scrubbing their hogs with a huge ice scraper.

I was there with MamaM. She grabbed the biggest ball and put it right between her legs.


I almost fainted. 

I wanted to bowl the but the six lanes, SIX LANES, were full. So small town. I love large bowling lanes, 32 plus please!

Balls!

Deep Thoughts....By Titus...About Bowling

I have been having bowling sex dreams lately.

Last night I dreamed I was in a New Jersey entertainment complex that consisted of bowling, a bar, dancing, a gym, a sauna, a shower room, supper club, curling and lots of other shit.

The guys in the shower would actually be scrubbing their hogs with a huge ice scraper.

But we used tits to bowl with. We just reached in and took them right out of the waitresses top and grabbed a titty and started bowling.

The funniest thing was that all of tits had three holes.

And three nipples.

I wanted to bowl the but the six lanes, SIX LANES, were full. So small town. I love large bowling lanes, 32 plus please!

Tits.

They didn't care how ,many shots the Riflemand had!

I just downloaded a couple of books to read in between working like a dog at the store.

I got a biography of Chuck Conners who starred in two of my favorite Western TV shows of all time. "The Rifleman" and "Branded." As well as one of the worst shows ever "Cowboy in Africa."

They are replaying the "Rifleman" on METV and I have been DVRing them all week. What is great about them is that they are mostly written and directed by Sam Peckinpah. You can't get much better than that.

Chuck was a teammate of Jackie Robinson on the Brooklyn Dodgers and played center for the Boston Celtics as well as starring in over 70 films and tons of TV shows.

The book should be pretty interesting.

Panda Sex with Charles Bukowski

too much too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody.

laughter or
tears

haters
lovers

strangers with faces like
the backs of
thumb tacks

armies running through
streets of blood
waving winebottles
bayoneting and fucking
virgins.

an old guy in a cheap room
with a photograph of M. Monroe.

there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.

people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.

I suppose they never will be.
I don't ask them to be.

but sometimes I think about
it.

the beads will swing
the clouds will cloud
and the killer will behead the child
like taking a bite out of an ice cream cone.

too much
too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody

more haters than lovers.

people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.

meanwhile I look at young girls
stems
flowers of chance.

there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
though of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no."

Darcy has been working out.

Darcy has been too busy to post comments here because of her exercise program where she is slimming down in all the right places.

And not in the wrong places if you get my drift.

But don't stare. It gets the ball boys all nervous. Just sayn'

Marilyn's Diary

Aunt Lily really didn't like to live in Southern California. But she moved there for Uncle Herman's career. He had a try out with the Dodgers but that didn't work out. I mean they didn't mind Negros but a seven foot tall green monster was not for them. The racists.

So Uncle Herman got a job on TV as the stand in  for James Arness on Gunsmoke. They were the same size you see. He had to do all of things that James Arness refused to do. Shave Festus back. Clean up the puke when Doc got drunk and spewed all over the Long Branch like he always did. Trim Sam the Bartenders eyebrows and nose hairs. Oh and flech Ms. Kitty.

Aunt Lily was left alone at home a lot. So she had to amuse herself with her little hobbies. Killing the mailmen and soaking up the moonlight because she couldn't go into the sun.

I guess that is how they grew apart.

Garage Mahals Road Kill Korner

So Garage Mahal keeps emailing me and begging me to put this new line in the store. Designer Jess Eaton uses Road Kill in her designs because she doesn't believe in killing animals to get feathers or furs.

You can see a road kill chicken wing in the hat in the photo.

Garage doesn't care about the designs. He just wants an in on the fresh meat.

This was one of the best episodes ever on TV

I don't know if you guys are watching "Justified" but the episode called "Decoy" that was on last week was one of the best hours I have ever seen on episodic television. It had everything. It was like an Elmore Leonard novel come to life. Which is of course what "Justifiied" really is in real life.

You have to check out the performance of Patton Oswalt as Constable Bob. Man is he great or what.

Plus Kurt Hummel's Dad ranking out Eva and saying blowjob about fifty times. Pretty funny.

If you get a chance you should check it out. I don't know if you can follow everything but it is pretty cool. Highly recommended.

Beat it.....Mr Trump

You know I am starting to become a big fan of Latoya Jackson. She was great on the last "Celebrity Apprentice" where she really got into it with that POS Amarosa. I mean she lit into her all through the episode. What fooled everyone was when she didn't bring her back to the boardroom to see who would get fired. But she had a good reason. She knew that Trump would never fire Amarosa so early in the competition. She said as much obliquely in the interview. She didn't come right out and say it like the Twisted Sister guy did last week but this show has become such a joke that the Celebs are just getting subversive about it.  Three weeks ago, Trace Atkins said fuck opening up our Meatball sandwich shop for a fund raiser since that is just a mess......just call your big contributors and sit around and drink coffee all day. Worked just fine. (I also liked what he said to Steven Baldwin this week...."Don't be mean to Marilu or I will kill you)

Anyhoo after Latoya got fired she went off on Amarosa. Amarosa's big thing is that she was "engaged" to Michael Clarke Duncan the big dude from "The Green Mile" who croaked recently. She is milking that for all it is worth with crocodile tears and unexplained absences from the tasks. Latoya busted on her like a fiend. She was all "I heard a lot of crying but never saw a tear" and "I bet she pulled the plug on him." It was great. Who knew she had it in her.

Then she was on "Watch What Happens Live" with that schmdreck Andy Cohen and she was just delightful. Funny and giggly and full of surprises. Who knew that she would be the most personable of the Jackson's.

Holy King of Pop Batman. I have a new favorite Jackson.

You have to respect the guy even though Boston sucks.

I just finished reading Terry Francona's book "Francona; The Red Sox Years."

I wonder what his next book will be. "Francona: The Tranny Years."

I didn't follow all the crap that was going on with the Sox at end of his tenure. I mean I just assumed that Boston sucked. And they do. Their players and managers always seem to end up hating the team after they leave. I mean it can be a problem for the Yankees too but no where as bad as for the Red Sucks. It seems that many of their stars can't wait to get away from them and too many of them end up on the Yankees.

Luis Tiant. Wade Boggs. Clemens. Johnny Damon. When Bernie Williams had a chance to go to Boston he called George and begged to take less money to come back to the Yankees.

Francona talks about how the Sox screwed him by releasing his personal medical information. It ended badly with Torre. If offering you 5 million to manage is considered ending badly. But nothing like what Francona describes.

It is a good book for baseball fans. Recomended because it is putting money in Terry Francona's pocket and not the owners of the Red Sox.

That would mean every woman you were with was a lesbian?

Colombian model Natalia Paris states that eating chicken makes you gay. As reported on MSN, this cutie says all the hormones injected into the birds has a foul result. So to speak.

And not that there is anything wrong with that.

What say you chickenlittle?

Camel Toe Corner- with some honey on it

Lately I have been watching "Honey West" reruns on METV. Not as cool as "Peter Gunn" but still a lot better then the dreck you get on TV these days.

Plus Ann Francis is good for some Celebrity Camel Toe every other episode or so.

What's not to like?

Happy Belated St Paddys Day

Happy Belated St Paddy's Day.

Now in years gone by I would have spent the day buying shots for a fair colleen until it was time to hold her hair back while she puked. But now I am an old married man and past all of that nonsense.

Instead I was working like a dog in the store. Which is great don't get me wrong. But we have no employees so we have to do everything ourselves which is very tough.

I was so busy I didn't even have a drink all weekend?

The luck of the half Irish?

The Crack Emcee gets an offer he has to refuse...

"What?"
"You want to marry little old me?"
"I have to ask my congressman."

Ricpic gets and offer he has to refuse......

"What?"
"You want me to play the rusty trombone?"
"You have the wrong number boobula. You need to talk to Titus."

Chip S gets an offer he had to refuse.....

Chip S. said...
A girl at work offered me some pie today in observance of Pi Day.

I took that as a sign she liked me, but then she asked if I'd cosign a loan for her.

[Sorry for the tangent.]

Gratutious Bathtub Photo.....Who took a Shitzu edition

Somebody took a shitzu in the bathtub.

That stinks!

Whose that girl?

Whose that little girl who lived down the lane who is lounging on our couch?

Her street might have been on fire but only because she was being nice to her dog. And her pussy. So to speak which might also be on fire.

Whose that girl?

Betty Rubble is a dirty girl

Betty is a dirty girl. Just like her friend Wilma.

They just loved living in the time of the dinosaur. They didn't love all of the dinosaur.

You see some were hornier than others.

So to speak.

The fish rots from the head.

I think it is now pretty clear that the Nutty Perfessor and Chauncey the gardener have been monitoring us here at little old Trooper York. Because what do they have a big post about today: I Love Lucy.

It seems that they downloaded an episode and looked up Ethel in Wikipedia. Kinda suspicious don't you think since I have been talking about Lucy the last few weeks?

When I closed the blog a bunch of people who I didn't know asked to join. If I didn't know anything against them I approved it. So I am sure Chauncey could be here under another name. Which is fine. I am not doing anything wrong here. And they are not blatantly using my content or quoting what I say. It is just every so often they slip up and show their hand.

I think it is kind of funny. And fair enough if they want to comment under a different persona just as I do over at TOP. A girl is entitled to change her mind. And her identity.

Oh and also they have lesbians today. So I thought this photo would be appropriate.

Burkes Law has the hottest chicks on TV

I have been enjoying "Burkes Law" on METV and man it is great. He has all these great actors from the sixties who are just starting out. William Shatner. Leonard Nimoy. Jeffery Hunter. And the hottest babes ever!

Elizabeth Montgomery. Barbara Eden. Lola Albright. Eileen O'Neil. Terry Moore. And one of my personal favorites Sheree North.

A double feature of "Burkes Law" and "Honey West" and I am all set.

Shaadddup woman!

Katherine McClintock: [after walking out of her bedroom to find G.W. and Mrs. Warren at the bottom of the stairs] What's going on here?
George Washington McLintock: [Intoxicated, with Mrs. Warren sitting on his lap] Now Katherine, are you going to believe what you see, or what I tell you?

Deep Thoughts........by Titus

I had to go to the Boston Harbor today for a very strategic meeting with Key Opinion Leaders.

Anddddddd.

I fucking saw a humpback whale. It really is hump backed. It was swimming all hump like-total Hunchback of Nortre Dame.

I got horny watching the humpback whale swim, with it's huge hump. I ended up Jerky Jerky (alone) at the Legal Seafood (nearby) bathroom. I was thinking about the hump back going up and down and me riding on it with an erection and then finally splewing on it's hump. After the jerky jerky I reflected and though about red staters in flyover country who don't have access to seeing whales and I felt sad and then wiped the chiz that show all the way to my face. The load consisted of 4 "gulps" of load that was pretty intense.

Sometimes you just have to blow a load.

tits.