The Hot Club

THE HOT CLUB
WHERE HEARTS ARE ON FIRE

BUT IT’S NEVER TOO HOT
FOR THE DEVIL MAY CARE

575 South Water Street

Providence, RI


Congratulations to Citizen Caroline who just got a promotion in joining Sovereign Bank. So she has gone from Citizen to Sovereign. Does that mean we have to genuflect, bow or kiss her ring? All hail Sovereign Caroline!



Former Hot Club doorman Russ stopped by the HC. Foot Joy arrived wearing a hat and overcoat. Russ saw Foot Joy and said, “Oh hitman!” I added, “No a hitman would be more conservative. No hat. Wouldn’t want to draw any attention.” Foot Joy the assassin?



High Wire Bill played Time of the Season by the Zombies. I mentioned that it’s the first song that I remember that used the expression, “Who’s your Daddy?” Foot Joy asked, “Is that Pedro’s song?



5 Angels already bought that Dodge van and it’s outfitted with a TV and bed. 5 Angels calls it ‘a boom boom van’. He says it’s better than a bed and breakfast in Newport. And cheaper. Bags observed, “5 Angels wishes it was a boom boom van.”



That led me to mention the Boom Boom Room, a place in the Graceland Mansion where Elvis used to squire a bevy of beauties. Hooks has been to Memphis and Graceland but he doesn’t remember the Boom Boom Room.



5 Angels thought that the Bob Marley song No Woman No Cry meant that it’s good not to have a woman. When I questioned him, he said “It’s all up to your interpretation.”



Met a guy named Paul who used to work at the Hot Club. High Wire Bill and I were discussing Bill Belichick going on 4th and 2 from his own 28. Paul said that the Patriots go on 4th down more than any other team and also are the most successful. 67%. A check of NFL stats shows that the Pats have gone on 4th down 12 times and succeeded on 6 in 2009. They were tied for 9th in attempts. KC was 1st with 20 tries and 12 made. The Rams were 2nd with 18 attempts on 4th down but were successful only 6 times.



Foot Joy said that he got a call from the nursing home when his grandmother was still alive. He took the call in his car. The nurse said she was calling because FJ’s grandmother was running low on diapers. Foot Joy had to pull over and couldn’t answer the caller because he was laughing uncontrollably.



Sportzine is also available at jimdawsonsports.com (Thanks Buffalo Steve)

The Hot Club

THE HOT CLUB
WHERE HEARTS ARE ON FIRE

BUT IT’S NEVER TOO HOT
FOR THE DEVIL MAY CARE

575 South Water Street

Providence, RI


Buffalo Steve is looking for a Keely Smith song named You Are My Love which is on the flip side of a Louie Prima and Keely Smith 45, maybe Black Magic.



High Wire Bill pointed out that Jackie can now do 5-star sudokus. I recalled that last St. Patrick’s Day, Jackie had given me a very good tip on visualizing the game by looking for groups of 3. You then compare what’s on either side. However I can’t do 5-star sudokus. Jackie is 5-Star.



There were 2 guys and a woman who visited the HC last Wednesday. At one point, one guy was upside down with the other man and the woman holding up his feet. Later they switched some of their clothing. Then the woman seemed to be searching one of the guy’s…Then one guy had toilet paper on his head. Buffalo Steve and I thought it might be a coed fraternity. I said hazing. Buffalo Steve said initiation. Initiation into a cult? Then Buffalo Steve said it was a game called Truth or Dare which the threesome confirmed.



Wednesday was Veteran’s Day and the Buff One wore a poppy. He asked if I knew the history of the poppy. Flanders Field in Belgium. The blood red flower against the field of white crosses. And there’s a poem about it. In Flanders Fields by Canadian John McCrae (per Wikipedia).



Told ORric about a guy named Morgan who used to inhabit the Hot Club during summers, but who went to the Burning Man Festival and died when he got too close to the Burning Man. ORric said that Morgan won the Darwin Award – he removed himself from the gene pool.



ORric then gave me another example of a Darwin Award winner. A guy’s car had a blown ignition fuse. He had been hunting all day so he put a .22 caliber bullet shell casing in place of the blown fuse because it was the same size. It was aimed toward his nuts. It took off his testicles. He’s out of the gene pool.



Mr. D had a ’57 Dodge, the ‘Bat Mobile’, which had a huge trunk. He and his girl friend used to go in the trunk and make out. 5 Angels was talking about buying a Dodge van and outfitting it with a bed and TV. We kidded him. Mike Module said he should have a sign on the side that says ‘Do Not Disturb’. I suggested the sign say ‘If you see it rockin’, don’t come knockin’.



Per Charlie Clancy here is this week’s Health Tips Bulletin Board for Baby Boomers: 10 FDA-Regulated Foods that can make you ill – leafy greens, eggs, tuna, oysters, cheese, ice cream, tomatoes, potatoes (usually potato salad), sprouts and berries.

The Hot Club

THE HOT CLUB
WHERE HEARTS ARE ON FIRE

BUT IT’S NEVER TOO HOT
FOR THE DEVIL MAY CARE

575 South Water Street

Providence, RI

We were talking to Bronwyn about her move to Asheville, NC, where my brother Brad and his wife Dee Dee live. The Wizard said that Pilot Mountain is near Asheville and was featured in the Andy Griffith Show. Everyone would get dressed up and go to Mt. Pilot.



The conversation turned to Howard Cosell and his Monday Night Football comment “Look at that little monkey run.” We couldn’t recall the name of the player though Sean said the player later defended Howard, who we believe was fined but not suspended. A Google search reveals that it was Washington Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett whom Cosell was describing on 9/5/83. As a result, Cosell stepped down from Monday Night Football 2 months later (Wikipedia).



Jimmy Chelo told me about a book by Dom DiMaggio, one of his favorite players. It’s called Real Grass, Real Heroes. I noted that Dom got hurt during Game 7 of the ’46 World Series. Some say had Dom been in CF, Enos Slaughter would not have scored.



Dan said that the Yankees won 19 World Series from 1949 on (to present). His friend Charlie Clancy thought it was 14. Charlie added that those were the darkest days of his life. A check of the ESPN Sports Almanac shows that the Yankees won 15 World Series from 1949 up to this year’s. Mr. D could be heard to declare, “How to lie with statistics.”



Met a man named Walter Richard, who is from New Orleans, and who went to the Patriots Super Bowl vs. the Chicago Bears. Walt bet $1400 on the Patriots after he got more points than the spread. He still lost. However he sold a ticket to the Super Bowl for $1400. So, it was a wash.



Mike K asked the Wise Man and I where Curt Schilling was born. We didn’t know, though I offered Michigan. “Alaska” said Mike. “Military brat?” I asked. Curtis Montague Schilling was born in Anchorage, Alaska. The K Man asked me how many times Ted Williams had been thrown out of a baseball game. “None”, I said. Correct.



In 1959, Buffalo Steve danced with Annette Funicello at Disney Land. I asked if he got up close and personal with her. Just a dance, said Steve. Annette is from Utica NY.



Buffalo Steve said that on The Mickey Mouse Club, we watched Mouseketeer Annette outgrow her T-shirt.



Was discussing the 9 foods that are good for you. Charlie Clancy thought I should print the list under the name Baby Boomer Bulletin of Health Tips. So here is the list of good foods: garlic, yogurt, tea, sweet potatoes, beef, mushrooms, fish/shellfish, oats/barley and chicken soup.

The Hot Club

THE HOT CLUB
WHERE HEARTS ARE ON FIRE

BUT IT’S NEVER TOO HOT
FOR THE DEVIL MAY CARE

575 South Water Street

Providence, RI

To paraphrase Philippe and Jorge, you had to be there or be square - at the Hot Club that is, on Sunday afternoon. It was the last regular shift for Patti Quimby who has moved on to Doherty’s East Ave. Café in Pawtucket (she’s there Wednesday nights). There were cakes, flowers and salutes galore to Patti, who passed on her title of Grand Dame to…



When 7 PM arrived, the new Grande Dame kiddingly told Patti to leave. Not sure if Patti passed on the title along with an ermine robe or, as Tom McGinn suggested, a sash.



Francis said that there are two draws about the East Avenue Café: Patti is there and Contraire is not. Contraire asked Fran whether he had a finder’s fee for bringing customers to East Ave. Café.



Alexander the Grate said that Bronwyn is moving to Canada. Broc said “Where the deers run free.” “The does too,” I added.



Turns out that Bronwyn is actually moving to Asheville, NC, where my brother Brad and his wife Dee Dee live. I told Bronwyn that I had visited Asheville and found it to be a great city that went beyond all my expectations.



One wag observed that Patrick Kennedy and Joe Paolino were winners in the ovarian lottery.



In a conversation with Jimmy Chelo, I learned that Pawtucket’s Beef Hearth started after Chelo’s, which opened on Mendon Road in Cumberland in 1955. The Beef Hearth started in 1963.



The Chelos brothers were also involved in backing Ted’s Big Boy in Cranston. Eventually they took it over and changed it to Chelo’s Beef Hearth.



The Ornery Asshole Cook showed me a new bottle of booze – Crystal Head vodka by Dan Akroyd. It’s in a blue crystal skull. Ornery A says that Akroyd discovered a glacial stream and decided to use that water for his vodka. Akroyd wanted it pure so he triple filtered it thru diamonds. Crystal Head. Ornery A says that’s a good name for a porn star or a new term for receiving oral sex while on crystal meth.



I kidded about the sign for Akroyd’s vodka being misspelled (it had an ‘i’). Then I just googled it and found out that I misspelled it too. It is spelled ‘Aykroyd’.