November 3, 2017

DNAinfo and Gothamist are now shut down, I will miss them. The news business is a tough road and digital is tougher.



Shake Shack now has Chili. Of course I went right to the Chili Dogs. Quite good and a little messy.



Christmas lights already up on Bell Boulevard.



Tired of hearing "So fun" used by adults. From the Grammarphobis Blog:

Well then, is “so fun” legit?

The usage is out there, but not as out there as you might think. Although a Google search for “so fun” can get more than 5 million hits, the number drops to a few hundred or a few thousand when you actually call up the results (depending on how you do your search).

We wouldn’t recommend using “so fun” until the editors at a few standard dictionaries clearly indicate that the use of “fun” as a predicate adjective is standard English.

One other problem has to be mentioned. Adjectives generally have comparative and superlative forms, so if “fun” is an adjective, should we also recognize “funner” and “funnest”?

That depends on the dictionary you consult. Most don’t comment on the extended forms, but two do.

This is from the American Heritage usage note: “The inflection of the adjective (as funner, funnest) is another matter, however. Although this practice goes back to the 1950s, the inflected forms are almost never used in edited prose aside from direct quotations, usually of children.”

And this is from the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate entry for “fun” as an adjective: “sometimes funner; sometimes funnest.”

It’s true that we “sometimes” hear people use “funner” and “funnest,” but we have to agree with American Heritage that the speakers are usually children—or adults quoting them.



Louie and Ernie's Pizza in The Bronx deserves it's reputation as a classic Pizza parlor.



This is the fresh Mozzarella / Tomato pie. The crust is similar to Staten Island style: thin and sturdy.



Her Seneca bio was great,now can't wait to start this one.