The Rockaway Times
BOYLEING POINTS
Of course, Anthony Weiner is a lightning rod. Most people loved our cover showing the former congressman in a chef’s hat; some people got skeeved out.
Of course, Anthony Weiner is a lightning rod. Most people loved our cover showing the former congressman in a chef’s hat; some people got skeeved out.
Needless to say, all things considered – and I do mean all things considered — I thought it was pretty tame.
The Rockaway Times’ scoop – at least that’s what others called it – got picked up by all sorts of media outlets. Figures. We can decry the sorry state of the boardwalk and rally and plea to keep the ferry but that stuff goes into a vacuum. Ah, but the mere mention that Weiner is thinking about opening a restaurant in Rockaway snaps the media awake. Even those across the pond.
The London-based newspaper, The Daily Mail picked up our story and asked in a headline: “Has Weiner swapped politics for chef’s whites? Mayor candidate linked to restaurant project that will train drug addicts and convicts to be cooks.”
And, of course, there’s nothing like an Anthony Weiner story to turn everyone into jokester. The New York Post asked, “What’s on the menu, wiener schnitzel and humble pie?”
Meanwhile locals chimed in on our Facebook page and at RockawayTimes.com with suggestions about what to name the new venture. Somebody said, too bad Breezy Dog is already taken. How about Weiner’s World?
Another suggested Rockaway Weiner just in case tacos ever go out of style. Anthony’s Weiners was a simple suggestion. Another one recalled the alleged alter ego that was exposed during his mayoral campaign. The suggestion? Danger Dogs.
That’s a reference, of course, to Carlos Danger, the name Weiner used for online shenanigans. And that prompted Matt Walsh to suggest a sad truth: If Weiner were mayor, we’d keep the ferry. Carlos Danger may have stolen the ferry.
And someone else was just tired of Weiner. Would somebody just show this guy the Bronx?
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Boyleing Over: It pretty much went without notice but last Sunday, August 10, marked 37 years since David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam, was arrested. Because it seemed he was targeting “lovers’ lanes,” those places were empty for many months.
The night after he was arrested, couples were back in cars watching submarine races as they were cornily called. If you were born in the spring of 1978 you might ask your parents where they were on August 11, 1977.
And what’s the Rockaway connection here? Back then on Thursday nights, bands played at the Silver Gull and hundreds of young people came to party. After his arrest, Berkowitz said he was going to do a mass shooting and go out in “blaze of glory.” He mentioned doing it at Hamptons nightclub but that was translated into imagine if he did it at Silver Gull.
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Speaking of nine months later and offspring, the piping plovers had a baby boom, producing five times more fledglings than last year. Just what we needed. More birds, less beach. Anthony Weiner won’t be serving them for lunch by any chance?
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The annual question must be asked: why is the Night Out Against Crime held in the daytime?
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