Eating a Live Octupus
Aug 23rd
According to the USDA Nutrient Database (2007), cooked octopus contains approximately 139 calories per three ounce portion, and is a source of vitamin B3, B12, potassium, phosphorus, and selenium. For those that actually cook it, care must be taken to boil the octopus properly, to rid it of slime, smell, and residual ink. So, why do people eat live octopus when so much care needs to be given when cooking it? YUCK!
Mad Men Sundays in Tribeca
Aug 20th
According to GrandLifeNYC
“The Tribeca Grand Hotel is hosting themed Mad Men screenings every Sunday night in their Grand Theater. Guests, dressed in 1950’s attire, mingle in the Church Lounge and sip on $9 Old Fashioneds & Tom Collinses for our 9pm-10pm cocktail hour. The prix fixe $22 menu features a wide array of succulent entrees including the Gazpacho with Shrimp and the Free-Range Grass Fed Sirloin Steak. Channeling the Mad Men era, background music includes hits from Patsy Cline, Smokey Robinson, and Ella Fitzgerald. After meeting a Don or Betty, guests make their way downstairs for the 10pm screening in our luxurious Grand Theater. Give in to your guilty pleasures of classic cocktails and Mad Men this and every Sunday evening for this swinging soiree. No RSVP is required, seating is available on a first come first serve basis, get there early!”
Tribeca Grand Hotel
2 Ave of the Americas
New York, NY
Rummage through the best New York vintage stores because the Tribeca Grand Hotel is hosting themed Mad Men screenings every Sunday night in their Grand Theater. Guests, dressed in 1950’s attire, mingle in the Church Lounge and sip on $9 Old Fashioneds & Tom Collinses for our 9pm-10pm cocktail hour. The prix fixe $22 menu features a wide array of succulent entrees including the Gazpacho with Shrimp and the Free-Range Grass Fed Sirloin Steak. Channeling the Mad Men era, background music includes hits from Patsy Cline, Smokey Robinson, and Ella Fitzgerald. After meeting a Don or Betty, guests make their way downstairs for the 10pm screening in our luxurious Grand Theater. Give in to your guilty pleasures of classic cocktails and Mad Men this and every Sunday evening for this swinging soiree. No RSVP is required, seating is available on a first come first serve basis, get there early!
- Tribeca Grand Hotel
- 2 Ave of the Americas
- New York, NY
Jewish Puns At Their Best – 50First(J)Dates.com
Aug 20th
If you like Jewish puns and wit then be sure to check out this blog
FiftyFirstJDates.com
Here’s a bio on the author…
Meredith Fineman was born and raised in Washington, DC. She attended the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in Communications, with a minor in Spanish, Jewish Geography, and BBMing. She spent the past year living and working in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is now back in the Northern Hemisphere and makes fun of her dating misadventures and her self-indulgence on her blog, Fifty First (J)Dates: http://fiftyfirstjdates.com. Justin Bieber says follow her on Twitter @50FirstJDates and be a fan on Facebook. He is also her (g)oyfriend.
Ten Things Girls Don’t Get About Guys
Aug 20th
This Guest Post is by Meredith Fineman from FiftyFirstJDates
1. Why do you give such short answers to questions that clearly require a longer response?
I am waxing poetic about my turkey sandwich and the fact I’m unsure if a romper is appropriate attire for a night-time party. Can you give me more than one line about where our relationship is going?
2. How do you decide which side to “tuck” your “stuff” in your pants?
I know this is crude, but really. How do you decide? How does one “tuck”? Does it depend on your mood if it’s a “tuck left” day? Does a “tuck left” mean that you’re pissed you lost at Madden?
Or is everyone a “right tucker” or a “left tucker” by nature? Or is this like a girl’s part, and you can wear it lots of ways? Burning questions. (The burning being unrelated to that area.)
3. Why do you rub/touch your tummy?
This is pretty subtle, but boys often rub their stomach, and sort of lift up their shirt a little bit when they’re bored, waiting around, or hungry. This is mystifying. Are you pregnant? Are you wondering if your belly button is still there? (It is.) Do you want to be burped? (If so, turn around.)
4. Why would you ever wear sweatpants without undies (also basketball shorts).
Seriously. This is uncomfortable. I know YOUR cash and prizes are very comfortable, but I can see the outline of your package. And like I don’t want to look, but OH HEY there it is and I’m trying not to look and I don’t want to, and its like my eyes are burned to your nether regions but I cant help but look back, OH HEY there it is again.
And around and around we go. Put on some boxers.
5. How do you shower so fast?
I need my face wash. And my body wash. And my toe wash. And my razor. And my shaving cream. And my shampoo, and my conditioner. And then my leave-in. And maybe my body exfoliating shining sparkle vanilla mint almond chocolate pomegranate-acai scrub from Bliss.
If I were able to shampoo, shave, condition, and soak with the hand-soap like you guys, I guess I’d be quicker too.
6. Is it really that hard to make plans ahead of time?
I know it’s Monday, but like, I have a bunch of dates and an important thing with my waxer on Thursday, and I wanted to go to Stacy’s BBQ on Saturday with that girl who I interned with, so I don’t want to go out that late Friday, but like, are you taking me to dinner or not?
7. Why do you take everything so literally?
No, “I hate you” doesn’t actually mean I hate you. In fact it means the opposite. I love you. Don’t leave, I don’t ACTUALLY hate you. I was just being hyperbolic. And it’s opposite day. And I was just trying to get your attention. Oopsies.
8. How are you so simple and easy to please?
You like food and blow-jobs. I like Jo Malone, but only on Tuesdays. And cranberry apple walnut muffins but only when I’m not feeling fat and bloated and only from that place in Union Square that’s totally organic and only when it’s being 
sold by that cute boy named Zed who has his own eco-farm.
YOU DIDN’T BRING ME THE GLUTEN-FREE VERSION!?
9. What does it feel like to grow hair on your face?
Sometimes we have the occasional peach-fuzz, or the unfortunate unibrow that we learned to take care of in the sixth grade. But a full-on beard. What does that feel like? Weird. Itchy?
10. Why do you think the tv can hear you?
Newsflash, it can’t. But the neighbors and the cat down the street can.
(And Zed. He’s standing outside with the CORRECT muffin. Jeez.)
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