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For our baby-havin', Halloween-celebratin' Slice readers, the perfect costume for your sweetie pie. It's probably a little late to purchase this get-up now, but if you order via FedEx, you might be able to get it on time via next-day Saturday delivery. For anyone doing the whole Halloween thing: Have fun with that. Just don't come to Slice HQ expecting treats. Since the "Devil's Christmas" doesn't involve pizza, we say "Bah, humbug" to the whole ball of wax. [Via Laren, who spotted this on The Food Section.]...Ain't That A Wicked Pissah?
REVERSE THE CURSE: With the help of Pedro Martinez (and perhaps his little-person good luck charm), right, the Red Sox have a chance of breaking the curse of the Bambino (left). (We like this fella's take on Mr. Martinez's sideshow-like antics.) SLICE ON BOSTON PIZZA Boston P. Party: Our roving reporter E-Rock visits a Beantown pizza parlor on his most recent trip up north.Beantown Brouhaha: A Boston pizzeria gets wicked pissed about the loss in business due to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.DID YOU KNOW ...that Nelson de la Rosa played the role of Majai in Marlon Brando's universally...Future Shock
While organizing a bookshelf last night, I started leafing through some old Eightball comix. Written and illustrated by Daniel Clowes, Eightball skewers a wide range of high- and low-culture phenomena. Surely, I thought, there must be some reference to pizza somewhere in one of these old issues. I wasn't about to page through twenty-some issues, but, as luck would have it, the second Eightball I picked up had a piece that featured pizza. Click the image above for a larger version. If you're not familiar with Mr. Clowes's comix, you still might know his work: Ghost World, starring Scarlett...One Cheesy Date
The Sunday New York Post has what might be described as a print version of the old Chuck Woolery dating show Love Connection. Each week, a bachelor or bachelorette is presented to readers and then chooses among three potential dates. The next week, we read about the date and are introduced to a new set of candidates. Last week 28-year-old bachelor-contestant Sean caught our eye because the blurb introducing him mentioned his obsession with pizza. October is National Pizza Month, and Sean, a financier and stand-up comic, has been trying to eat pizza every day in observance. Last week's Post...May The Farce Be With You
Sadly, stories about pizza delivery drivers getting jacked are a dime a dozen (it's a dangerous job), so Slice rarely reports on them. This story, however, is priceless (and we can only laugh because the victim was unharmed, well, except for that stun-gun shocking): KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A man dressed up as Darth Vader used the infamous disguise to scare, and then try to rob, an unsuspecting pizza deliveryman over the weekend. Investigators in Kissimmee have been trying to find him ever since. Dearmas says a Pizza Best employee drove to a home on Oak Drive in Kissimmee on...Pizza Box, Or 'Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting'
...[Felix] Trinidad [red trunks] weighed in at 1573⁄4 pounds yesterday at the Theater at the Garden. [Ricardo] Mayorga [black trunks], with his hair dyed orange-red, weighed in at 158. Mayorga has shown up at previous weigh-ins eating an apple, a slice of pizza and a piece of fried chicken, but yesterday his only accessory was a warm-up suit he declined to remove. From a New York Times story about Saturday night's Trinidad-Mayorga fight. Trinidad won by a knockout in the eighth round....Ready! ... OK!
A couple of related stories for you this morning out of Texas. And they involve cheerleaders, so we couldn't resist running them (nor can we resist chortling like Beavis and/or Butthead). In the first-day lede, from yesterday, we learn that police were called out to break up a fight at an annual cheerleader pizza-eating contest. According to San Antonio's ABC affiliate KSAT-TV: Things got out of hand shortly after Churchill High School cheerleaders were named the winner of this year's competition, which kicks off festivities for the Gucci Bowl football game between Churchill and Clark high schools. While the celebration...Oh, Would You Just Go Home, Kramer?!
All-things-New York blog Gothamist has an interview with Kenny Kramer (right), the inspiration for Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld. We were chatting with Gothamist editor Jen Chung, and she reminded us of one of the many boneheaded ideas that the fictional Kramer had: a make-your-own-pizza pizzeria. Ms. Chung was then kind enough to send us the relevant parts of the script from the episode titled "Male Unbonding."KRAMER: That's for me. (into phone) Kramerica Industries.. Oh, hi, Mark.. No, no, no. Forget that. I got a better idea. A pizza place where you make your own. KRAMER: Oh, hey guys. Man, I'm...Mousecrap
CREEP E. CHEESE A photo of Chuck E. Cheese, by Eric Neely, from his Chuck E. Cheese series. Thanks, Eric! Who knew you had to be at least 18 to get into Chuck E. Cheese's? The last time I went to the themepark-meets-arcade-meets-pizzeria playplace was for a friend's birthday party back in Third Grade. Under the auspices of an adult I was granted entr�e—oblivious to the fact that without parental supervision I would have been persona non grata in Mr. Cheese's domain. No, my perception was clouded by visions of skee-ball, Galaga, Elevator Action, and the prospect of watching creepy...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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