No, not the 1960’s. The Medicare Sixties. As parents of sons and a daughter, we discouraged recreational sex. Pregnancy; disease, distorted relationship discernment. Too risky. It marginalized emphasis on social skills, personality traits and achievement potential. Genitals get excited; brain shuts down.
However, medicare recipients and modernized health care advocates should consult with folks like old Betty Dodson (see http://wapedia.mobi/en/Betty_Dodson and http://dodsonandross.com/. She’s done it all and still is.
Once we enter our fourth quarter. Once we begin the end game, things change. Daddy dies or gets soft in the head and other places. Mommy’s skin dries up and so does other places. Meds have their side effects.
Recreational sex assisted by romance enhancers is prescribed. Use alone if necessary. (I will report on Palm Coast “friends with benefits” and “fword Buddies” in another post). Full body orgasms are great for stress relief. Encourage primal screaming. Help reduce blood pressure. Maintain hormonal levels. Facilitate anger management. Calm and relax. Facilitate meditation and spirituality. (Ohhh, God! Ohhh, God)
I’ll just rename cums (I got this idea from Nancy Pelosi) when I report on recreational sex for geezers and gerties in Palm Coast. I’ll call them Therapeutic Sexual Releases.
CAUTION: No quickies for the oldies. Foreplay forever. And you will need some help. Some good vibrations for the ladies. And a call on their cell phone won’t do the trick. It might send a tingle up their leg but it won’t ring their bell.
Palm Coast and all of Flagler County is run by men with performance anxiety. Afraid their women will get there without them. They are paranoid about adult toy stores. Good outcome. We have a neat and clean town with all the junk pushed north and south.
Most are sleazy joints. Adam and Eve (Rt #1, St. Augustine) is a bit more upscale but tends to cater to the kinky: http://www.adamevestores.com/ There is one large store, Xmart Botique, at 2591 W International Speedway Blvd, Daytona Beach and another,The Fantasy Shoppe, part of a complex including The Banned Bookstore at 709 North Ridgewood http://www.yourbigo.com/.
Geezers and Blue Hairs need private,sophisticated, upscale resources (like maybe a friend who invites you to a Passion Party). (http://www.passionparties.com/).
Is it worth the risk to my marriage to dare write about Geezer Sex? Talk To Ted! Encourage me or call me names. Write a comment!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Weed Wackers and Pot Lovers
I had a beer at the Sand Bar, on A1A just before the route 206 light. (I only had one because the Hammock Bandits at the Pay Bridge took my other $2.00) The Sand Bar is part of a threesome of my favorite bars; add Murph's and Pomars and you have Crescent Beach 's version of the Bermuda triangle. Once you enter it you may never be seen again. They also call themselves the PMS and have lots of specials for ladies.
While America's current ruling class of functioning alcoholics continue to kill themselves and others driving home-the Forty Somethings, when they feel like sex, or eating, or music, or enjoying munchies-toke instead. Weed not whiskey. There is a growing number of underground tokers who are substituting alcohol abuse with pot use.
I'm very happy with this. I have some bad scars from my childhood due to parental use of alcohol. A drunken fraternity brother killed someone by running a red light at Bucknell. I watched the poor guy come at me, hit the windshield and bounce off.
In the 60's we used to eat a pot-filled Brownie (Child's Garden of Grass' receipe. I don't smoke) then go to some very 'in' Greenwich Village restaurant for dinner. Followed up with some candy from a great penny candy store there; went home, enoyed wonderful lovemaking. Felt like a million! Two million...she did, too. Had four children. One right after another.
Life was good. Moody Blues, Timothy Leary, Quaaludes. No need to over-drink and get hungover. It's time for a pot revolution. And of course, it has started; in California.
If I go broke waiting for the Palm Coast real estate market to recover, I may head for California, live with my son, and sell MaryJane to old people like myself who have too many aches and pains-or their daughters taking chemo for breast cancer and ralphing like crazy. Haven't tried it? It enhances, not changes, whatever mood you are in. Like Accent (MSG) on food. You need to have 'The Right Stuff' though. Too strong or doctored and you will hallucinate.
You disagree? Talk To Ted! Maybe I can facilitate an intervention for you and your family. Or we can share stories about our close friends and their drinking problems.
Ray, ray AA. Go for the gold token! Or better yet, introduce legislation to decriminalize marajuanna. We can put the Crips and Bloods retailers out of business at our high school.
For more info: http://twitter.com/ArtistsCollctve
While America's current ruling class of functioning alcoholics continue to kill themselves and others driving home-the Forty Somethings, when they feel like sex, or eating, or music, or enjoying munchies-toke instead. Weed not whiskey. There is a growing number of underground tokers who are substituting alcohol abuse with pot use.
I'm very happy with this. I have some bad scars from my childhood due to parental use of alcohol. A drunken fraternity brother killed someone by running a red light at Bucknell. I watched the poor guy come at me, hit the windshield and bounce off.
In the 60's we used to eat a pot-filled Brownie (Child's Garden of Grass' receipe. I don't smoke) then go to some very 'in' Greenwich Village restaurant for dinner. Followed up with some candy from a great penny candy store there; went home, enoyed wonderful lovemaking. Felt like a million! Two million...she did, too. Had four children. One right after another.
Life was good. Moody Blues, Timothy Leary, Quaaludes. No need to over-drink and get hungover. It's time for a pot revolution. And of course, it has started; in California.
If I go broke waiting for the Palm Coast real estate market to recover, I may head for California, live with my son, and sell MaryJane to old people like myself who have too many aches and pains-or their daughters taking chemo for breast cancer and ralphing like crazy. Haven't tried it? It enhances, not changes, whatever mood you are in. Like Accent (MSG) on food. You need to have 'The Right Stuff' though. Too strong or doctored and you will hallucinate.
You disagree? Talk To Ted! Maybe I can facilitate an intervention for you and your family. Or we can share stories about our close friends and their drinking problems.
Ray, ray AA. Go for the gold token! Or better yet, introduce legislation to decriminalize marajuanna. We can put the Crips and Bloods retailers out of business at our high school.
For more info: http://twitter.com/ArtistsCollctve
Hot,Damn- I Gotta Hold My Water
Winter is when my crabgrass dies and my expensive St. Augustine grass gets a chance to fill in the holes. So I water it and encourage it with fertilizer and affection. But now the Green despots are turning it brown. Save water. Kill your grass.
The good city of Palm Coast, being politically correct, has cut back watering to one day a week. Do they realize how many grubs are going to starve? How many Armadillos will go hungry because of the scarcity of the grubs? How many lawn service companys will have to lay people off because our grass, which usually grows like crazy this time of year in Florida, is going limp as a geezer's Willy?
Check out GoToby's newsletter to see when you can water. You like rules and regulations? Palm Coast has rules and regulations. And hires lots of employees to enforce them. City payroll goes up. City's managers can justify requesting more pay. Larger offices. City politicians have more voter dependents. We are just following the example of our national leaders.
And us rebels have another chance to play "Catch Me If You Can", feel righteously indignant, and have something else to bitch about...just Talk To Ted!
Here's the news from Toby Tobin: http://www.gotoby.com/news.php?id=846
The good city of Palm Coast, being politically correct, has cut back watering to one day a week. Do they realize how many grubs are going to starve? How many Armadillos will go hungry because of the scarcity of the grubs? How many lawn service companys will have to lay people off because our grass, which usually grows like crazy this time of year in Florida, is going limp as a geezer's Willy?
Check out GoToby's newsletter to see when you can water. You like rules and regulations? Palm Coast has rules and regulations. And hires lots of employees to enforce them. City payroll goes up. City's managers can justify requesting more pay. Larger offices. City politicians have more voter dependents. We are just following the example of our national leaders.
And us rebels have another chance to play "Catch Me If You Can", feel righteously indignant, and have something else to bitch about...just Talk To Ted!
Here's the news from Toby Tobin: http://www.gotoby.com/news.php?id=846
Bald Heads and Muslim Headcovers
I was watching football on Sunday and saw this neat black scull cap this guy was wearing under his helmet. Last week during Biketoberfest I saw another worn under a biker's helmet. I took note. The weather is turning chilly here and my bald head loses lots of heat.
Then today, when I went to pick up my car from Manny and Raphy's, my favorite jalopy repair joint, this guy was in there wearing a brown one. I asked him where I could get one. He said on the internet. Only he couldn't remember the site so he called his wife for me and asked.
I should have guessed...my black with beard and skullcap friend said his wife got it at ShopMuslim.com. I ordered one. I plan to wear it wth a cross around my neck and to tell people it is a yammaka. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXs-eM2kcZs&feature=popular(I hope this posting isn't to die for!)
I'm into learning about Muslims and the Koran and stuff these days. We have a Mosque nearby in St. Augustine at ISLAMIC CENTER, 1770 SR. 207,
Saint Augustine, FL 32086, USA, Phone: 904-826-1991 Email: omarherzalla@hotmail.com
I will see what more I can learn about Palm Coast's Muslim community. I know there is at least one more Mosque. Your informational posts will be appreciated.
Then today, when I went to pick up my car from Manny and Raphy's, my favorite jalopy repair joint, this guy was in there wearing a brown one. I asked him where I could get one. He said on the internet. Only he couldn't remember the site so he called his wife for me and asked.
I should have guessed...my black with beard and skullcap friend said his wife got it at ShopMuslim.com. I ordered one. I plan to wear it wth a cross around my neck and to tell people it is a yammaka. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXs-eM2kcZs&feature=popular(I hope this posting isn't to die for!)
I'm into learning about Muslims and the Koran and stuff these days. We have a Mosque nearby in St. Augustine at ISLAMIC CENTER, 1770 SR. 207,
Saint Augustine, FL 32086, USA, Phone: 904-826-1991 Email: omarherzalla@hotmail.com
I will see what more I can learn about Palm Coast's Muslim community. I know there is at least one more Mosque. Your informational posts will be appreciated.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What Floats Your Boat?
I need to start a thread about boats and boating in Palm Coast. Sailboats. Fishing boats. Kayaks. Motor yachts and floating porches. Whatever kind of boat you like, we got a place for it.
Lots of topics running through my head, but for the time being the Floating Docors of Palm Coast caught my interest...
From my Facebook post: "Reading Toby Tobin’s great local real estate newsletter at GoToby.com. this morning. Toby wrote about the ‘Floating Doctors’ in Palm Coast. I checked out their two CNN videos. Kudos. I will have to send them a donation. Check it out. Go to gotoby.com or go to cnn.com and search Floating Doctors."
Send them some money. I just wrote my sailing nephew, dentist Paul Boger, and suggested he either join them on one of their stops or start his own, look-alike adventure. Do good, have fun, write it off.
I will get some videos of our boating activities asap. Write me if you have a favorite watering hole you would like me to know about. Talk To Ted!
Lots of topics running through my head, but for the time being the Floating Docors of Palm Coast caught my interest...
From my Facebook post: "Reading Toby Tobin’s great local real estate newsletter at GoToby.com. this morning. Toby wrote about the ‘Floating Doctors’ in Palm Coast. I checked out their two CNN videos. Kudos. I will have to send them a donation. Check it out. Go to gotoby.com or go to cnn.com and search Floating Doctors."
Send them some money. I just wrote my sailing nephew, dentist Paul Boger, and suggested he either join them on one of their stops or start his own, look-alike adventure. Do good, have fun, write it off.
I will get some videos of our boating activities asap. Write me if you have a favorite watering hole you would like me to know about. Talk To Ted!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Flagler Beach – Palm Coast's Eclectic Neighbor
Visitors and my real estate prospects always ask me if Palm Coast has a beach. We don’t, really but we always claim we have. Because of Flagler Beach, Beverly Beach, Hammock Beach, Ocean Beach…because we function as a dysfunctional family with the whole string of communities that line the ocean from AIA to the John’s County line at Marineland.
Like a family, we have great differences and strongly held opinions that give us each our own character and personality. I went to the Farmers Market in Flagler Beach this morning, had breakfast overlooking the ocean. So I decided to write a thread about this peculiar place.
FB is not like a New York or Jersey or even a Florida beach community. I understand way back it was a gay destination like Key West and Provincetown. Still has some remnants. It is widely known among the New Age community as having a major energy meridian intersection about thirty miles into the ocean off Beverly Beach. You will see two large dome shaped buildings; ‘The Domes’ where my wife and I have gone for Course of Miracles and White Eagle classes and other eccentric spiritual ideas we brought with us to Palm Coast from our home in Key West. Like meditation, Full Moon celebrations, and all kinds of studying about ‘Eastern Religions’. No Islamic stuff though. I will have to cover my Allah Akbar inquiries in another thread soon to come.
Alas, the Domes kook died. His wishes were that it would always remain a spiritual center. But a couple of guys bought them real cheap as an investment. They live in one. The other lanquishes sort of empty. Don't know what is going on...zoning and ordinances or our friend reaching from beyond and messing up their energy meridians?
Anyway, if you like to surf, lay on the beach, walk the boardwalk, drink and party, sing Karaoke, ride a bike, have sex with your own sex the other sex or both sexes, eat at good restaurants, fish from piers, swim, surf, lay on beaches or boat and fish the Intracoastal…almost anything-it’s here or its ok to bring it with you. Except for diseases.
Long run politically by a bunch of nut jobs, these radically independent types are struggling to hold on to power as they age and the town grows; grows more expensive anyway. (Look up Lambert Avenue on your GPS. It has some of the most beautiful houses on the Intracoastal. In FB it has, at least since 1996, always cost more to buy a older house than a similar newer one in PC. That says a lot, right?
PC has a major retired police and retired firefighter community. PC is more of a Law and Order place. PC likes to tell you what you can and cannot do. However, read the news; even the Flagler Beach police and firemen aren’t always heavy on the law and order bit. Tolerant of others; tolerant of themselves.
I’d like to live there. View of the ocean. Boat on the intracoastal. I grew up at the Jersey Shore. Asbury Park area. Well, almost grew up. Never quite made it. Sand in FB is coarse and red, though. And for now we rent up in St. Augustine on Crescent Beach immediately north of Marine Land where the sand is very soft and the water gets deep much more gradually. Not good for surfing but great for small grandkids.
One thing different, though. The whole Flagler County oceanside is a bit behind on the racial integration thing. Way behind us in Palm Coast. Not so much intolerance of blacks as non-existence of blacks. Few live there. There is probably an interesting history of blacks going to the beach that I will have to look into. Yeah, they don’t need tans. But eye candy is eye candy and partying is partying, and water is wet and cool.
Write me something interesting about Flagler Beach. Talk To Ted!
Like a family, we have great differences and strongly held opinions that give us each our own character and personality. I went to the Farmers Market in Flagler Beach this morning, had breakfast overlooking the ocean. So I decided to write a thread about this peculiar place.
FB is not like a New York or Jersey or even a Florida beach community. I understand way back it was a gay destination like Key West and Provincetown. Still has some remnants. It is widely known among the New Age community as having a major energy meridian intersection about thirty miles into the ocean off Beverly Beach. You will see two large dome shaped buildings; ‘The Domes’ where my wife and I have gone for Course of Miracles and White Eagle classes and other eccentric spiritual ideas we brought with us to Palm Coast from our home in Key West. Like meditation, Full Moon celebrations, and all kinds of studying about ‘Eastern Religions’. No Islamic stuff though. I will have to cover my Allah Akbar inquiries in another thread soon to come.
Alas, the Domes kook died. His wishes were that it would always remain a spiritual center. But a couple of guys bought them real cheap as an investment. They live in one. The other lanquishes sort of empty. Don't know what is going on...zoning and ordinances or our friend reaching from beyond and messing up their energy meridians?
Anyway, if you like to surf, lay on the beach, walk the boardwalk, drink and party, sing Karaoke, ride a bike, have sex with your own sex the other sex or both sexes, eat at good restaurants, fish from piers, swim, surf, lay on beaches or boat and fish the Intracoastal…almost anything-it’s here or its ok to bring it with you. Except for diseases.
Long run politically by a bunch of nut jobs, these radically independent types are struggling to hold on to power as they age and the town grows; grows more expensive anyway. (Look up Lambert Avenue on your GPS. It has some of the most beautiful houses on the Intracoastal. In FB it has, at least since 1996, always cost more to buy a older house than a similar newer one in PC. That says a lot, right?
PC has a major retired police and retired firefighter community. PC is more of a Law and Order place. PC likes to tell you what you can and cannot do. However, read the news; even the Flagler Beach police and firemen aren’t always heavy on the law and order bit. Tolerant of others; tolerant of themselves.
I’d like to live there. View of the ocean. Boat on the intracoastal. I grew up at the Jersey Shore. Asbury Park area. Well, almost grew up. Never quite made it. Sand in FB is coarse and red, though. And for now we rent up in St. Augustine on Crescent Beach immediately north of Marine Land where the sand is very soft and the water gets deep much more gradually. Not good for surfing but great for small grandkids.
One thing different, though. The whole Flagler County oceanside is a bit behind on the racial integration thing. Way behind us in Palm Coast. Not so much intolerance of blacks as non-existence of blacks. Few live there. There is probably an interesting history of blacks going to the beach that I will have to look into. Yeah, they don’t need tans. But eye candy is eye candy and partying is partying, and water is wet and cool.
Write me something interesting about Flagler Beach. Talk To Ted!
Friday, October 23, 2009
It's Great To Be Black In Palm Coast
My nephew is a dentist. Lives in Warren, Pennsylvania. Does my teeth for free so of course I visit often. I will show you my implant some time. Anyway, he was trying to pull a root out to make a hole for an implant post and he had lots of trouble. Broke a drill. Said he had only seen patients with that dense a jawbone in one other place. The local prison where he does pro bono work. They were all black. Seems there is a little known but common characteristic among many black Americans; dense bone.
Also, when I was working in the garment district for DuPont and passing as Jewish I took advantage of the fact that whitey would not acknowledge many blacks had skinny calves, thick thighs and asses about an inch or two higher than whites; round asses that stick out. I loved the asses and the attitudes of the black girls in my high school (1951-1955 Neptune, New Jersey) and had my favorites. (Janet Lee I hope you are reading this. Roslind Leonard, where are you? You, too, Fern Stewart. Write me on Classmates)
Anyway, at DuPont in New York in the 60’s I worked with a couple of casual slacks manufacturers who had the right cutting patterns for African Americans with well-muscled theighs and high asses. They catered to the uniqueness of this black market and were very successful.
I gained minor fame within Dupont for passing as Jewish (just add an “n” and I become Teddy Leshner) and introducing the new synthetic fiber, Dacron polyester, into the casual slacks for blacks market. Got a bonus. Wash and wear. Easy care. Black and Beautiful everywhere. Rah Ray Dacron.
Today fashion conscious woman everywhere are paying lots to get bee sting lips. Black is still beautiful!
Anyway, this dentist nephew Paul Boger asks me if I am Italian. I remind him I am half Sicilian. He says AhHa (or was it Ha Ha?) and tells me about how the Moors from Africa conquered and ran Sicily for a while. So the evidence is there. I am part black. What the hell. In my youth whitey said one drop would do it. I can see lots of common traits in me. And I know a bit about the Palm Coast Black community. I was into new threads in the ‘60s. So let me start a new thread again. “Being Black in Palm Coast” I will create a string of pearls for this new Blog. Black Pearls on a white thread. I love it!
COMMENTARY: The Jazz Society, several churches, all the golf courses, there are lots of places where whitey can be politically correct and make some fine black friends. Then there’s the duplexes in the P section and some streets in the R’s if you want to score some drugs or join a nationally 1ed gang; but they ain’t where I am going. I am going to take you to some Cosby type http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gh3_e3mDQ8&NR=1some uppity and some proud to be Black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ggrIbX0TE&NR=1 spots and gatherings here in Palm Coast.
My first post will be after the black and white mixer taking place this Saturday night. After we go to hear my nephew J.B. Scott (white) www.myspace.com/kellyscottmusic and his tweet wife Lisa Kelly (white) play at:
SATURDAY 24th / 7:00pm
THE ST. JOHNS RIVER CITY “SATIN SWING”
JB Scott-Jazz Trumpet, Lisa Kelly-Featured Vocalist
Palm Coast United Methodist Church Concert Series
5200 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast, Florida
Ticket Price is $15
Phone Number is 386-445-2098
Is there a white and black difference in jazz? No color prejudices. Just something about how you should to learn to play-educational disagreements. Discipline vs soul? I don’t quite understand it because I am mostly rock, country and gospel fan; don’t know anything about music except how to dance and what I like to hear, and it seems not politically correct or practical to talk about it-the musicians just all play together and love each other. Say La Vee.
Anyway, JB is a tenured professor in the Jazz Studies program at U of North Florida under Bunky Green, he is in charge of the First Band and teaches trumpet. JB was leader of the Dukes of Dixie and studied under Arturo Sanibel. See http://www.kellyscottmusic.com/ and come hear some great music and meet some good people.
And join our Northeast Florida Jazz Association, NEFJA, here in Palm Coast. They are a terrific group with a wonderful program. http://www.nefjaonline.org/ Or call Muriel McCoy, President-who is doing a great job running the thing since her husband Jeep crossed over-(well…call me and I will give you her number-386-503-1101) .
Namaste Bro, Paison or whatever
Also, when I was working in the garment district for DuPont and passing as Jewish I took advantage of the fact that whitey would not acknowledge many blacks had skinny calves, thick thighs and asses about an inch or two higher than whites; round asses that stick out. I loved the asses and the attitudes of the black girls in my high school (1951-1955 Neptune, New Jersey) and had my favorites. (Janet Lee I hope you are reading this. Roslind Leonard, where are you? You, too, Fern Stewart. Write me on Classmates)
Anyway, at DuPont in New York in the 60’s I worked with a couple of casual slacks manufacturers who had the right cutting patterns for African Americans with well-muscled theighs and high asses. They catered to the uniqueness of this black market and were very successful.
I gained minor fame within Dupont for passing as Jewish (just add an “n” and I become Teddy Leshner) and introducing the new synthetic fiber, Dacron polyester, into the casual slacks for blacks market. Got a bonus. Wash and wear. Easy care. Black and Beautiful everywhere. Rah Ray Dacron.
Today fashion conscious woman everywhere are paying lots to get bee sting lips. Black is still beautiful!
Anyway, this dentist nephew Paul Boger asks me if I am Italian. I remind him I am half Sicilian. He says AhHa (or was it Ha Ha?) and tells me about how the Moors from Africa conquered and ran Sicily for a while. So the evidence is there. I am part black. What the hell. In my youth whitey said one drop would do it. I can see lots of common traits in me. And I know a bit about the Palm Coast Black community. I was into new threads in the ‘60s. So let me start a new thread again. “Being Black in Palm Coast” I will create a string of pearls for this new Blog. Black Pearls on a white thread. I love it!
COMMENTARY: The Jazz Society, several churches, all the golf courses, there are lots of places where whitey can be politically correct and make some fine black friends. Then there’s the duplexes in the P section and some streets in the R’s if you want to score some drugs or join a nationally 1ed gang; but they ain’t where I am going. I am going to take you to some Cosby type http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gh3_e3mDQ8&NR=1some uppity and some proud to be Black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ggrIbX0TE&NR=1 spots and gatherings here in Palm Coast.
My first post will be after the black and white mixer taking place this Saturday night. After we go to hear my nephew J.B. Scott (white) www.myspace.com/kellyscottmusic and his tweet wife Lisa Kelly (white) play at:
SATURDAY 24th / 7:00pm
THE ST. JOHNS RIVER CITY “SATIN SWING”
JB Scott-Jazz Trumpet, Lisa Kelly-Featured Vocalist
Palm Coast United Methodist Church Concert Series
5200 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast, Florida
Ticket Price is $15
Phone Number is 386-445-2098
Is there a white and black difference in jazz? No color prejudices. Just something about how you should to learn to play-educational disagreements. Discipline vs soul? I don’t quite understand it because I am mostly rock, country and gospel fan; don’t know anything about music except how to dance and what I like to hear, and it seems not politically correct or practical to talk about it-the musicians just all play together and love each other. Say La Vee.
Anyway, JB is a tenured professor in the Jazz Studies program at U of North Florida under Bunky Green, he is in charge of the First Band and teaches trumpet. JB was leader of the Dukes of Dixie and studied under Arturo Sanibel. See http://www.kellyscottmusic.com/ and come hear some great music and meet some good people.
And join our Northeast Florida Jazz Association, NEFJA, here in Palm Coast. They are a terrific group with a wonderful program. http://www.nefjaonline.org/ Or call Muriel McCoy, President-who is doing a great job running the thing since her husband Jeep crossed over-(well…call me and I will give you her number-386-503-1101) .
Namaste Bro, Paison or whatever
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Ted's Favorite Restaurants-Thai by Thai
Here are some stills and videos that show where Thai by Thai is located and what it looks like inside.
I will scan the menu and add it to this post asap.
My earlier post, Quick Start, gives Connie Rice's review and my comments about it. We both love the place
I will scan the menu and add it to this post asap.
My earlier post, Quick Start, gives Connie Rice's review and my comments about it. We both love the place
Fast Start
My friend Andy Rice, who is a great web designer, (andy@creativepages.net) introduced me to his wife, Connie-who I hired to tutor me in writing blogs. Connie also writes for www.examiner.com about food. So rather than start my food rant from scratch; I just copied her article and added my comments. It's a real good start. I will add videos, photos and more stuff later. If she sues me I will fire her.
Top ten restaurants in Palm Coast Florida
June 19, 8:46 PM Daytona Food Examiner Connie Rice
Ten years ago the most popular place in Palm Coast, Florida was the KFC. This quiet coastal town has come a long way since then. The closest city to both I-95 and the Atlantic coast of Florida, Palm Coast has attracted many vari eties of restaurant since its unprecedented population boom over the past decade.
Palm Coast is a great place for a spectrum of inspired food, infamous altercations involving calzones notwithstanding. A sampling of the best restaurants would have to include this top ten list:
Thai by Thai - beautifully designed and decorated interior, simple Thai fare at reasonable prices, and phenomenal take out. Standouts are the fresh spring rolls and the Tom Ka Gai soup, as well as the Mussuman curry. A great, small restaurant in the old PC shopping center. I will add my favorites later. I wouldn't call it beautiful. "No table cloths" type. Nice though.
Kokoro - the superior sushi restaurant that rates at the top on Tripadvisor for Palm Coast. Only five minutes off I-95 and some of the best Japanese fare and service in the United States. There is simply nothing there that is not over the top delicious. Have not been able to afford to go here yet. It is on my list. I will take Connie's word for it-she's finniky
Golden Corral - one of the larger restaurant chains in the South and most definitely the best buffet out there. It features a vegetarian's fantasy salad bar and steaks cooked to order. I'm overweight and havent been here either but our early bird special, limited budget friends say to go about 3:30-4:00 pm to get the lunch prices then linger until they put the dinner stuff out and you can pig out on that, too.
Barbara Jeans - fun Southern-style cooking and crab cakes a la Maryland. The pumpkin cornbread served before the meal will bring you back again and again. The rich, homecooked accompanying side dishes are superb. Nonsense. this is a franchise deal. The original one is in Ponte Vedra and has great food. Ours has limited the menu and is really struggling. As is all of European Village.
High Tides/Snack Jack's - gets the award for hardest name to keep straight, and best seafood in the city. Freshly caught snook is prepared several ways and served on handsome sandwiches. Technically located in Flagler Beach, Florida but close enough and vital enough to be on this list. Hanging precariously over the ocean it has a great view and usually a rowdy crowd. Lot of beer. Lots of laughs. Lots of regulars; but where to park??
Highjackers - it's all about the atmosphere as you watch the small planes take off at Palm Coast's municipal airport. Try the beer cheese soup appetizer; it makes a good main course as well. The most kid friendly restaurant in town; adults favor it highly as well. If you don't use the internet for dating, go here after work. Lots of good beers. The best peel and eat shrimp. Large, fun place. Except for all the damn children. Same owners as Snack Jacks. They named the place before 9/11. Couldn't afford to change the name after it happened. We forgive them.
Mezzaluna - the most happening place in town almost any day of the week. Located in the rather curiously designed European Village retail/residential center along with Barbara Jeans. European VIllage is known for late night music and revelry, and Mezzaluna boasts great Italian food. Most people think they have the best pizza in town. I am part Sicilian and old. I like the traditional stuff. All the creative newvo pizza ain't for me. I plan a blog on all the independent pizza shops in town. Son (forgot the name; I take Aricept!) runs this one. Daddy jjust moved out and opened another Mezzaluna's in the new Town Square shopping center.
Strathmore Bagels - like most of the restaurants in Palm Coast, this deli has a very authentic New York vibe. The bagels and lox platters are works of art on the plate, and hugely satisfying. Usually impossible to leave without a sweet treat from the bakery. Good place. More like Long Island than Manhattan. The waitstaff are fun. The coffee is great. I can pass for Jewish and so can this franchise restaurant chain.
Firehouse Subs - delicious and somehow a step above Subway and Quiznos in the quick custom sub sandwich category. Huge selection of hot sauces are to be found as well as firefigher-inspired restaurant design. Get the Italian sub, "fully involved". I used to eat lots of them when they first opened and I was at Weichert. Got tired of them. I rotate now. All are commonplace chains Subway is cheapest.
Steak 'n Shake - go back in time to chocolate malts and succulent "steakburgers". Their low fat offerings have improved recently as well, and any family member will find something they like at this retro diner. Steak 'n Shake is the only restaurant on this list with a drive-thru, the food cooked to order. Another chain. But they cook the burgers on a griddle like Waffle House and they have that old '50s taste. Sometime I think its worth the wait for them to be cooked and go there.
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Top ten restaurants in Palm Coast Florida
June 19, 8:46 PM Daytona Food Examiner Connie Rice
Ten years ago the most popular place in Palm Coast, Florida was the KFC. This quiet coastal town has come a long way since then. The closest city to both I-95 and the Atlantic coast of Florida, Palm Coast has attracted many vari eties of restaurant since its unprecedented population boom over the past decade.
Palm Coast is a great place for a spectrum of inspired food, infamous altercations involving calzones notwithstanding. A sampling of the best restaurants would have to include this top ten list:
Thai by Thai - beautifully designed and decorated interior, simple Thai fare at reasonable prices, and phenomenal take out. Standouts are the fresh spring rolls and the Tom Ka Gai soup, as well as the Mussuman curry. A great, small restaurant in the old PC shopping center. I will add my favorites later. I wouldn't call it beautiful. "No table cloths" type. Nice though.
Kokoro - the superior sushi restaurant that rates at the top on Tripadvisor for Palm Coast. Only five minutes off I-95 and some of the best Japanese fare and service in the United States. There is simply nothing there that is not over the top delicious. Have not been able to afford to go here yet. It is on my list. I will take Connie's word for it-she's finniky
Golden Corral - one of the larger restaurant chains in the South and most definitely the best buffet out there. It features a vegetarian's fantasy salad bar and steaks cooked to order. I'm overweight and havent been here either but our early bird special, limited budget friends say to go about 3:30-4:00 pm to get the lunch prices then linger until they put the dinner stuff out and you can pig out on that, too.
Barbara Jeans - fun Southern-style cooking and crab cakes a la Maryland. The pumpkin cornbread served before the meal will bring you back again and again. The rich, homecooked accompanying side dishes are superb. Nonsense. this is a franchise deal. The original one is in Ponte Vedra and has great food. Ours has limited the menu and is really struggling. As is all of European Village.
High Tides/Snack Jack's - gets the award for hardest name to keep straight, and best seafood in the city. Freshly caught snook is prepared several ways and served on handsome sandwiches. Technically located in Flagler Beach, Florida but close enough and vital enough to be on this list. Hanging precariously over the ocean it has a great view and usually a rowdy crowd. Lot of beer. Lots of laughs. Lots of regulars; but where to park??
Highjackers - it's all about the atmosphere as you watch the small planes take off at Palm Coast's municipal airport. Try the beer cheese soup appetizer; it makes a good main course as well. The most kid friendly restaurant in town; adults favor it highly as well. If you don't use the internet for dating, go here after work. Lots of good beers. The best peel and eat shrimp. Large, fun place. Except for all the damn children. Same owners as Snack Jacks. They named the place before 9/11. Couldn't afford to change the name after it happened. We forgive them.
Mezzaluna - the most happening place in town almost any day of the week. Located in the rather curiously designed European Village retail/residential center along with Barbara Jeans. European VIllage is known for late night music and revelry, and Mezzaluna boasts great Italian food. Most people think they have the best pizza in town. I am part Sicilian and old. I like the traditional stuff. All the creative newvo pizza ain't for me. I plan a blog on all the independent pizza shops in town. Son (forgot the name; I take Aricept!) runs this one. Daddy jjust moved out and opened another Mezzaluna's in the new Town Square shopping center.
Strathmore Bagels - like most of the restaurants in Palm Coast, this deli has a very authentic New York vibe. The bagels and lox platters are works of art on the plate, and hugely satisfying. Usually impossible to leave without a sweet treat from the bakery. Good place. More like Long Island than Manhattan. The waitstaff are fun. The coffee is great. I can pass for Jewish and so can this franchise restaurant chain.
Firehouse Subs - delicious and somehow a step above Subway and Quiznos in the quick custom sub sandwich category. Huge selection of hot sauces are to be found as well as firefigher-inspired restaurant design. Get the Italian sub, "fully involved". I used to eat lots of them when they first opened and I was at Weichert. Got tired of them. I rotate now. All are commonplace chains Subway is cheapest.
Steak 'n Shake - go back in time to chocolate malts and succulent "steakburgers". Their low fat offerings have improved recently as well, and any family member will find something they like at this retro diner. Steak 'n Shake is the only restaurant on this list with a drive-thru, the food cooked to order. Another chain. But they cook the burgers on a griddle like Waffle House and they have that old '50s taste. Sometime I think its worth the wait for them to be cooked and go there.
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Initial Post
Hi,
I'm Ted. Moved from retirement in Key West to Palm Coast in 1996 (feel my pain)so wife Barbara could care for her Mom. Town was at 30,000 with few red lights and no red light district. Now we have the red lights. PC has grown to 70,000 and become a city. I've seen some dramatic changes; some good...some not so good.
I've learned some interesting stuff I want to write about and found some special places I like. I have a real estate broker's license, so alot of what I learn relates to that stuff. But I also love to eat, fish, golf, go to the beach, and I talk, talk, talk to just about anyone and everyone.
Maybe you will find this blog interesting and informative. Maybe you will disagree or even get mad. I am a bit eccentric. Comments are what make blogs interesting, so I hope you will add yours. Here are some of topics that interest me:
-Little known but really good places to eat
-All our different neighborhoods and their individual personalities
-Where bad things are happening in town; the ones that don't get reported
-Everything geriatric. I am 72 and preparing to die...what fun! Do It Now!
-Divorce and single parenting. Been married 47 years but daughter not so lucky
-Video-touring places I like that I think few folks haven't been to yet
-Spiritual Stuff. Been a Lutheran, Episcopal, Mormon, Now go to Unity and Presby.
-Love music. Rock, Country, Jazz, Oldies.
I have lots of ideas. If you would like me to cover something. Post a comment or email me. At 72 I need to be needed: tedleshersr@gmail.com
I'm Ted. Moved from retirement in Key West to Palm Coast in 1996 (feel my pain)so wife Barbara could care for her Mom. Town was at 30,000 with few red lights and no red light district. Now we have the red lights. PC has grown to 70,000 and become a city. I've seen some dramatic changes; some good...some not so good.
I've learned some interesting stuff I want to write about and found some special places I like. I have a real estate broker's license, so alot of what I learn relates to that stuff. But I also love to eat, fish, golf, go to the beach, and I talk, talk, talk to just about anyone and everyone.
Maybe you will find this blog interesting and informative. Maybe you will disagree or even get mad. I am a bit eccentric. Comments are what make blogs interesting, so I hope you will add yours. Here are some of topics that interest me:
-Little known but really good places to eat
-All our different neighborhoods and their individual personalities
-Where bad things are happening in town; the ones that don't get reported
-Everything geriatric. I am 72 and preparing to die...what fun! Do It Now!
-Divorce and single parenting. Been married 47 years but daughter not so lucky
-Video-touring places I like that I think few folks haven't been to yet
-Spiritual Stuff. Been a Lutheran, Episcopal, Mormon, Now go to Unity and Presby.
-Love music. Rock, Country, Jazz, Oldies.
I have lots of ideas. If you would like me to cover something. Post a comment or email me. At 72 I need to be needed: tedleshersr@gmail.com
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