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This Guy is Quickly Gaining on Basil Marceaux for a Place in My Heart

I flew JetBlue down to North Carolina this week. The flight attendant that graciously catered to me offered a cold Coca-Cola (the whole can!) and a bag of animal crackers (the lady next to me also offered her Star magazine and told me I smelled better than her sisters, but that really has nothing to do with this story). There was no turbulence, and everyone on the plane obediently followed the pilot’s fasten-your-seatbelts sign.

However, this was NOT the case on a JetBlue flight into JFK yesterday, where flight attendant Steven Slater became so enraged at a passenger that he yelled obscenities into the loudspeaker of the plane, stole two beers, deployed the plane’s emergency blow-up slide, escaped the aircraft by sliding down said slide and went home to his house in Queens, all the while fist-pumping and yelling “suck on that!” Ok, the last part I made up.

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A View from the Bridge

When you haven’t been home in a while, you appreciate it more when you come back. This summer, I’ve been spending most of my weekends on Long Island, so imagine my enthusiasm to once again cross the Hudson on the Bear Mountain Bridge. Here are some pics from my bberry. Also, can’t forget the Manhattan skyline (this time from the Throgs Neck, because, don’t worry, I still made it to LI). I love New York.

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When Cool People Meet Cool People

Photo courtesy of the Poffs.

My friend Katie took a family trip to Carmel, CA last week, and apparently left way too early.

While on a visit to the supermarket, her sister Claire met Betty White! Just strolling in the parking lot! Because in California, famous people are everywhere and do their own grocery shopping.

We don’t even let my Nana go to the supermarket on her own, and she’s only semi-famous.

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