FRIDAY, JULY 2, 2010
July 2nd, 2010
I couldn’t get through the Fourth of July without looking at a picture of my all-time favorite cake… only improvement would be the ice cream… but I usually eat the ice cream before I get it home from the store…
BRIAN SMITH is the same Brian Smith from his morning show on WPLR, and his afternoon talk show on WICC… he has also worked with the stadium marketing entertainment for the Bridgeport Bluefish and the Fairfield University Stags… email him at…
THE VOICE has his festive weekend picks and pictures… he is busy down at the Prognosticator Grill and Cafe, putting heavy duty tarps over his patio tables 
and chairs to prevent a repeat of last year’s fireworks incidents… just last week he found ANOTHER table leg in an awning from last year… check out his BASEBALL… YANKEES, METS, RED SOX and more… NFL and ARENA FOOTBALL NEWS… TENNIS… NASCAR… JAI-ALAI NEWS... new pictures and more… and of course, THE CHEERLEADERS… go to SPORTS PICKS on the right, or just click (here)…
If you want to get a listing of the fireworks and festivities, see the news on the front page over at DoingItLocal.com
I hope your weekend is going well so far… here in the CT/NY/Long Island part of the world we are going to have a hot and beautiful couple of days… thanks for listening… -Brian
esterday morning he had to hire a carpenter to put up some temporary dividing walls to keep the peace… one of the tennis fans told one of the soccer fans to “stick his vuvuzela up his poopoozela”, a direct reference to placing one of those loud South African soccer stadium horns into the wrong part of the anatomy for maximum effect… THE VOICE did have time to file his report for this week… and it is full of his usual pictures and predictions… news and views from the world of BASEBALL… and don’t forget it’s THE YANKEES vs THE DODGERS this weekend… also… WORLD CUP WAGERS… and more from WIMBLEDON… BOXING… FOOTBALL… JAI ALAI… more wisdom… and, of course, THE CHEERLEADERS… to view upon the greatness, click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (
Check out this week’s wisdom and sports picks from THE VOICE… it’s the YANKEES vs METS SUBWAY SERIES at Yankee Stadium this weekend… Manny comes back with the Dodgers to BOSTON… and plenty of pictures this week from the hockey playoffs and the NBA finals… and of course, the CHEERLEADERS… click on SPORTS PICKS on the right, or just click (
NATIONAL BEARD AND MUSTACHE CHAMPIONSHIP… and the winner goes to the gentleman with the ridiculous nose hair… very impressive, but how does he fit through a door… and forget elevators… now he wants to go on to the world championship in Denmark… for the story, click (
locations that gives THE VOICE his sixth sense of sports savvy… click in this week for his latest predictions about THE YANKEES… THE METS… THE RED SOX… more baseball… THE WORLD CUP… THE NFL… ARENA FOOTBALL… and a lot more, including, THE CHEERLEADERS… to take a vacation to the miraculous place of THE VOICE, click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (
ROADHOUSE DUES… I finally got a chance to eat at the Texas Roadhouse last week… I’ve tried to do that before and always had the talent of picking the busiest times (waiting time, three weeks… have a seat)… but last week I got in and ordered up a feast… Awesome Waitress Jessie (she told me to call her that if I wrote about this) recommended (insisted) for my first time I skip the fish or chicken and go right for a steak, which I did… along with a side order of ribs. Because I’m on a healthy kick, I skipped the loaded mashed potatoes (with cheese and bacon), and went for the regular mashed…
I was with my cousins… who told Awesome Waitress Jessie it was my birthday… (two weeks early)… and although I have a feeling Awesome Waitress Jessie KNEW it wasn’t actually my birthday, she came back with the Saddle-on-Wheels for me. Try saying “no” to Awesome Waitress Jessie when the rest of the Texas Roadhouse patrons sense a birthday is ready for a round-up. You can’t stop the stampede. Bottom line… I had to sit on the Saddle-on-Wheels while Awesome Waitress Jessie announced (yelled) it was my birthday… to the restaurant and the eastern part of West Haven… and then made me throw a napkin around in a circle around my head and yell (me, yelling this time)… “YEE-HAH!”… I did, without exactly the exclamation mark at the end of it… and then Awesome Waitress Jessie let me get back to my carnivorous attack on the steak and ribs… Thanks, Awesome Waitress Jessie… and I’ll be back to try a few different steaks I didn’t get to the first time…
And… Abby Sutherland, the 16 year-old who was trying to be the youngest person to sail around the world, went missing yesterday… but was found safe today, although her boat has been damaged enough to look like her global attempt is done… story, click (
BARBECUE BILLBOARD… here’s a grocery store advertising it’s beef… with a billboard that smells like it’s grilling food… click (
AHOY, MATEY…. TOMORROW IS CAPTAIN KIDD DAY in MILFORD… and I am honored again this year to be arriving at Lisman Landing as Captain Kidd at 10am with some other motley pirates… all day there will be bands and pirates throughout downtown Milford… put on an eyepatch and stop by… (well, an eyepatch and clothes of some kind… it’s a family event…)
ia of facts, predictions, and analysis of sports and the world at large… and the large world… YANKEES, METS, RED SOX and the rest of the MLB… THE NFL… HOCKEY… BASKETBALL… HORSE RACING… TENNIS… and, of course, the CHEERLEADERS… to read it, you don’t have to run to the store or even look for your remote… just click on “SPORTS PICKS” in the column on the right, or even easier… just click (
cone with the strawberry stitches)… THE VOICE has sent this week’s list of picks and predictions to us with the Festive Frenzy Fireworks Collection from Costco… we’ll be lighting fuses and barbecues later this weekend, but for now… check out his look at… BASEBALL… including the YANKEES, RED SOX, AND METS… THE NFL and Arena Football… including some action pictures… also the NBA.. NHL… NASCAR… BOXING… Amateur Jai-Alai opening in Connecticut… and of course, what could be more patriotic on this holiday weekend than… THE CHEERLEADERS… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right… or just click (
WINNER WEINER: After studies frowned on hot dogs because too many kids were getting them stuck in their throats… there is a new hot dog design to stop the choking… click (
SPEAKING OF HOT DOGS… I have been on a mission to find a place that sells the Sabrett’s Hot Dogs condiment called “Onions in Sauce”… it’s what they throw on your dog at the carts in New York. I picked up some Victoria’s Hot Dog Onion Sauce (out of Brooklyn)… but it’s not the same… if you know where I can pick some up in Connecticut, please email me… (email address above near the top of the page)…
Joe sandwich will now be the Sloppy Mets Deluxe… and will stay that way until they can get through an entire game without making a dumb mistake… CHECK OUT the rest of what THE VOICE has to say about the METS vs YANKEES SUBWAY SERIES… the Red Sox… NASCAR… THE NBA… BOXING… and, naturally, THE CHEERLEADERS… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (
R.I.P: Ronnie James Dio… dies at 67... and at an age when a lot of people are dancing wobbly at a retirement community, he was still touring…. he started playing trumpet with a rockabilly band… and then became one of rock’s strongest and most identifiable voices starting with the band Elf… and then on to heavy metal… he took Ozzy’s place in Black Sabbath… then teamed with Richie Blackmore in Rainbow… then his own bands Dio and Heaven and Hell... read his Wikipedia entry, click (
we were sitting around discussing how the THOUGHT of puffing on a cigar is actually a lot more fun than ACTUALLY SMOKING a cigar… when the talk moved on the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of 
Mexico… and I thought back to my elementary school days and that barrel of green sawdust our school janitor pushed around… he used it for everything from water spills to soda spills to… well, vomit… and worse. Where, I asked out loud… too loud, probably… but where was the green sawdust now, and why isn’t it being thrown on the oil slick off the Louisiana shores?… and… just over the past couple of days… 
a few inventors have said they have been trying to get the BP company to take their calls because they have magic powder they can throw on the oil to clean it up… I’m betting these inventors are the offspring of my school janitor… and if it’s green sawdust they are selling, of course it will work…
Red Sox… weekend tennis… the NFL… Arena Football… NASCAR… and more, including, of course… THE CHEERLEADERS… so take time from your busy escapism… and check out this weeks edition of THE VOICE… click on “SPORTS PICKS” over on the right, or just click (
And what could be better for Mother’s Day than starting things off with an old-fashioned love story…