On The Beat- Sunday, March 29, 2026 - From Broadway to Biscayne Boulevard, from the Bird Streets to Euclid Avenue to Lark Street- Any Topic is Fair Game Until it is a Bore…
By Mr. Curmudgeon
Columbus-style pizza is gaining popularity and it’s not surprising. What’s the difference between regular New York thin crust and Columbus? Sugar. Is anyone really all that surprised that pizza with a cup of sugar dumped on it is popular in America?…
Former Vertigo starlet, Kim Novak, age 93, is hating on Sydney Sweeney who was cast to play her in the upcoming film Scandalous, saying she is a “totally wrong” fit for the part. The film explores Novak’s relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. Novak’s bizarre worry is that Sweeney “sticks out so much above the waist” and the movie will focus too much on the sexual nature of their relationship…which was deemed scandalous due to the fact that it was interracial back in 1957…but I don’t know, is it just me or is Novak a little bit jealous of how “hot” Sweeney has been looking lately…just saying…when people then think of Novak they’ll see Sweeney…”O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”…
A half naked woman in San Francisco found clinging to the cliffs above Ocean Beach. The pink-haired woman explained that she felt a sudden urge to leap into the frigid waters (a cold plunge) with notoriously strong and dangerous currents, and not surprisingly got swept out to sea before being hurdled back toward the jagged rocks where she was able to grab a hold of them and start climbing…she can expect a nice bill to cover the expenses of her rescue…
Yankees legend, Mickey Mantle’s memorabilia has become the most valuable in sports history with over $162 million in total sales at Heritage Auctions encompassing over 16,000 items. Mantle’s 1952 Topps card sold for $12.6 million. If I was Aaron Judge I’d have every one of my cards rounded up and sealed in a controlled environment. In 80 years they’ll be worth $1 billion each. In March of 2026, A Judge 2013 Bowman Chrome Draft Superfractor Autograph 1/1 sold for $5.2 million.
New women’s sports bar, The Sports Bra, coming to Indianapolis…Opening soon at 15 E. Maryland Street, will be a place to go and watch and cheer on women’s sports…highlighting the popularity of Caitlin Clark and the Fever…
Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, khas reported that 12 tons on KitKit bars were stolen from a truck in central Italy…I wonder how long it takes before novelty of the crime wears off and the thieves start to wonder if it would have been more advantageous to steal something like diamonds or gold…
China deploys 42 “research” vessels to map the Pacific, Indian, and Arctic oceans… that’s not suspicious at all…
The Jefferson Valley Mall in Yorktown Heights, NY, is feeling the dull knife blade of progress and the blowback from Jeff Bezos and Huang Zheng’s insatiable need for bigger yachts as the once retail hotspot for teenagers in the 1980s and 1990s in Putnam and Westchester counties gasps for air. Remember that Tiffany video, “I think we’re alone now,” and the electricity and energy those malls once had? It was like they were living entities, now just empty shells, filled with fading memories of big hair and Motley Crue muscle shirts, old fast food that is disturbingly impervious to rot, and the echoes of a bygone generation…
The rumor for a while was that Hollywood heartbreaker, Madelyn Cline, was dating the Prince of Denmark, or Greece, or Casterly Rock, or maybe some combination of those…I don’t know, but I think, uh, I’d be more fun, but different strokes for different folks, right…
I went to buy Belgian Boy bite-sized pancakes “Light & Fluffy,”, flipped the package over and saw they were loaded with “natural flavors chemicals…”’Why?!?!? Pancakes taste just fine the as they are made from flour, oil, eggs, baking powder, salt, and milk…So I didn’t buy them… Instead I saw Boulder Canyon, Canyon Popper White Cheddar popcorn because I love popcorn… I flipped the bag over to preview the ingredients and “natural flavor chemicals” and “citric acid”which, I recently read, is derived from black mold. A double whammy, chemicals and a toxic preservative…
Watched Duke vs. UCONN in the elite 8. Last minute and a half took forever! Too many timeouts. What do they get, 12 each a half? If I was in charge it would be 1 timeout each per half, use it wisely…
It just recently came to my attention, like ten minutes ago, that South Carolina doesn’t allow gambling. Why not? What are you trying to prove? “We are trying to prevent gambling addicts from losing everything…” No you’re not. Guaranteed there are more prohibition-style gambling dens in basements throughout South Carolina than legal casinos in the entire state of Nevada…And you can take that to the bank…We present it, you decide.