NUTTY BIT SOUP: Lennon’s Birthday Edition (Oct 9, 2008)

It’s Johnny’s birthday! But before we sing the Nutopian International Anthem, first let’s dig on these random NYC odds and ends: gobs of Gotham goofiness, a cornucopia of crazy! Then we can all join in and belt out Happiness is a Warm Nut… A Hard Day’s Nut… Woman is the Nutter of the World… Whatever Gets You Thru the Nut… and I Wanna Hold Your Nut… Yeah yeah yeah!

NUTTY ‘REDNECK’ PRANKSTER HAULS MISSILE AROUND MANHATTAN

Arye Sachs describes himself as a “crazy redneck Jew”. According to the New York Post he is being “sued for trademark infringement by Pfizer Inc. for hauling the fake rocket emblazoned with the words ‘Viva Viagra’ through Midtown last month.”

The Israeli-born resident of West Babylon said “cops just laughed as he passed through the Queens Midtown Tunnel,” and “also claimed he drove his ‘missile’ through the Lincoln Tunnel five times, and was only stopped twice.”

Photo credit: NY Post

CRANBERRY BOG ON AN OCTOBER MORNING… AT ROCKEFELLAR CENTER??

Snagwiremedia reports on “an impressively sized cranberry bog in the middle of New York… The people wading around in the cranberry soup are cranberry farmers there to answer all your burning cranberry questions.”

Via: snagwiremedia

Photo: Slashfood.com

SMOKING ADVERTISING EXHIBITION: NOT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD

From the NY Times, “The exhibit will be on display through Dec. 26 at Healy Hall at the Science, Industry and Business Library of the New York Public Library, 188 Madison Avenue, at 34th Street.”

It can also be viewed online: tobacco.stanford.edu

NEED A DOGGONE BOOZE BUZZ, MS. PALIN?…

Among other groovy shots on New York Portraits, Kitty posts this photo of a nutty bar sign in Park Slope:

Kitty spells it out for us: “A bar in our neighborhood posts funny quips to draw people in for happy hour. This one riffs on the Republican nominee for Vice President.“

Source: New York Portraits

JUST SAY NO TO CAVIAR

According to the online Wall Street Journal, because of the financial crisis on Wall Street, New York’s wealthy are having to tighten their belts in ways the rest of us probably haven’t yet considered…

A nose job in a hospital with a private nurse in attendance had been something of a rite of passage for Joan Asher’s children. But when her fourth and last child was ready for her own rhinoplasty recently, Ms. Asher asked her to postpone it…”The other noses were more prominent,“ the stay-at-home mother from…Westchester County told her 16-year-old daughter. She could get hers done when things settled down.

Shouldn’t every young woman have this nose?

Photo source: Gossippando

LOCAL SCULPTOR TO BE SHOT FOR IMPERSONATING MOOSE

Apparently, local sculptor Elliot Arkin is a bit of a nut — in a good way of course.

Exhibit A, from artnet Magazine:

Arkin…emcees a burlesque show at Annabelle’s in Red Hook on the night of Sunday, Oct. 19, under the provocative marquee “The Red Hookers.” The show features…noted West Village dancer Legs Malone, who will apparently impersonate Sarah Palin shooting a compliant Arkin, costumed as a moose.

(Who says we eastcoasterners don’t enjoy Republicans and firearms??)

Legs Malone

Who is Elliot Arkin, you ask? (Besides a guy I know by coinkydink, thru another sculptor.) Here’s a little bit about some of his successes:

Elliott Arkin…journeyed to Muhammad Ali’s Michigan mansion to cast the champ’s fist for a sports award… The Obama for President campaign has also commissioned Elliot to design an editioned sculpture to be given to donors at a fundraiser…

But click the link above because there’s plenty more to read about Elliot…

Photo credits: Elliot Arkin, Ted D’Ottavio

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