I like to personally imagine that the $25k Guinea pig tower is designed to look like the Empire State Building and that there’s a Guinea pig doorman, and an elevator operator who takes all the others to their proper floor where their apartment is located.
I think it’s Anne’s journalistic responsibility as a “silly blogger” to find out more about this tower.
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Solving the guinea pig problem is relatively simple. It seems these rodents are delicacies in Peru and because there are an estimated 100,000 Peruvians living in New York City, perhaps some City Council members (base salary $149,000 per year) can be persuaded to subsidize some Peruvian eating establishments that feature this national treasure. Multiculturalism at work!
Anne! Ted Gioia just chose your street chess life advice story as one of his favorite things he read this year! Congrats. He’s clearly got excellent taste.
Does Mayor Adams have a position on Guinea Pigs? I’d hate for them to get caught up in his anti-rat crusade. Also, is anyone in the NYC press asking how Adams can afford to lose so much by taking his salary in crypto AND afford a trip to see the World Cup in Qatar?
Wow. That first illustration with the various photos of our endangered friends really IS an explosion of guinea pigs! I looked at it for a long time, ha ha.
My brother and I got guinea pigs as pets in 1970 or so. His was mottled, black and brown, with the kind of fur that goes every-which-way. Name of Blackbeard. My guinea pig had smooth white fur and red eyes, so naturally I named her Ruby Eyes. They lived in a spacious wooden box in the basement, and enjoyed periodic trips to the backyard to enjoy the grass. What became of them? I don't remember. I've probably blocked it from my memory.
Is NYC going to become known as the rodent capital of the world? Or is that what everyone's already saying about us and I just didn't know it? First rats, now guinea pigs!! Thanks, as always, for your "silly blogger" reporting! Have a wonderful, restful break!
Enjoy your break til 2023. The bagel talk was fun. Steam instead of boiling just sounds like progress and way less mess and waste. What the hell do you do with big pots of water anyhow. Almost all food processes go toward steam as it saves a ton of money and way less waste. I'm surprised some environmentalists haven't looked to ban boiling water for bagels in water-starved California :) My guess is that would make the locals say yeah but because they like things the way they are and tend to like exceptions for their own favorite stuff :)
Birdseye view by saying not a reporter, just a blogger. This probably means a future of TikTok and Instagram influencer / jackasses at City Council meetings all over the country. Councilwoman Schulman just likes to hear herself talk. Nothing to add so instead of passing the microphone tell everyone about her dog history.
A few years ago I had the bright idea to make "homemade" pretzels on Superbowl Sunday. The recipe for pretzels and bagels about the same and you have to put them in boiling water before baking. It was the biggest mess with baking soda getting on everything as the pretzels boiled. If this is what people face when making bagels it sounds like a real bad job!!! IMO whatever they cost is probably worth it.
Also, one wonders whether the person behind the ban on rat-adjacent guinea pigs might be a certain mayor... Or perhaps an inundation of street-smart guinea pigs would overtake the rat population and provide a solution to his rat woes!
Best sentence/question: "Since Mr. Varley is a bagel expert, I also asked a question prompted by reader JudgeRoyBean: If a bagel is not boiled (as is the case with Oakwood’s bagels), does it even qualify as a bagel?"
Answer: “Boiling is for sure step one for classic taste, flavor, etc. and you would never get people off the fact that it's necessary for a quality bagel.”
Wow!! Who is that JudgeRoyBean??!! Is he some kind of “bagel-Svengali?”
Words to remember if you want to gain entrance to just about anything: “I’m a silly blogger.”
Want to go through the storerooms at Mar-A-Lago and the Secret Service stops you, just say the magic words, “I’m a silly blogger,” and shazzzaammm! you’re up to your ears in classified documents!!
The woman in the stirrups doesn’t recognize you as her Gyno, just say the magic words, “I’m a silly blogger,” and leave it at that!
Veterinarians charging $600 to spay a guinea pig??!! Now that’s something you should investigate, Sparkles!
Best paragraph: “You know, they fool even me sometimes. Before the balls drop on the boys, it’s hard to tell. It’s kind of an art. There’s no external testicles. You don’t really have much of a penis on them. So it’s not like you’re seeing it hang out there.” It brings to mind the application of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity when guys are walking around the locker-room nude at the YMCA: It’s really a bad frame of reference to have huge thighs and not much of a penis between them. Wear a pair of gym shorts, please!
Lastly I’m usually right on the Café Anne Newsletter every Monday, but I’m 69 and the last 5 days took their toll. Probably nice for Anne and the readers to take a break from me, anyway. I wish you all so much fun at Christmas, Hanukkah and New Years that you won’t sober up or lose the 30 lbs you put on until there’s no rats left in NYC!! Maybe when you all come back, let’s trade stories about crazy uncles at the Holidays!
I like to personally imagine that the $25k Guinea pig tower is designed to look like the Empire State Building and that there’s a Guinea pig doorman, and an elevator operator who takes all the others to their proper floor where their apartment is located.
I think it’s Anne’s journalistic responsibility as a “silly blogger” to find out more about this tower.
Can you find out WHAT IS THE OTHER PROCEDURE that has that vet questioning his life choices?
Solving the guinea pig problem is relatively simple. It seems these rodents are delicacies in Peru and because there are an estimated 100,000 Peruvians living in New York City, perhaps some City Council members (base salary $149,000 per year) can be persuaded to subsidize some Peruvian eating establishments that feature this national treasure. Multiculturalism at work!
Here's the link:
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2014-09-25/the-one-dish-to-try-in-peru-is-guinea-pig#:~:text=Cuy%2C%20one%20of%20Peru's%20most,and%20it's%20a%20Peruvian%20delicacy.
Guinea pig tower. Guinea pig birth control. These ideas could only be dreamt up at a city council meeting. Pure gold.
Enjoy your holiday break, Anne!
Anne, I regret to inform you that I need significantly more information about Eric Adams’ SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLAR RAT RIDDANCE GAMBIT. eg,
What anti-rat strategies were included?
What drove him to these lengths?
Was there one event that led him to a breaking point?
Did it work?
Didn’t the rats just move to a different block?
And then come back?
This is, I’m afraid, just my initial round of questions.
Thank you.
So the 25k$ Guinea pig tower is something they bought to house the unwanted GP’s?
I love how everyone gives the name of their pets including and especially Charlie.
I can imagine you at this wondering if it was going to be juicy enough for an article and then being pleasantly surprised as the hijinks began.
This made me laugh out loud a few different times- thank you!
Anne! Ted Gioia just chose your street chess life advice story as one of his favorite things he read this year! Congrats. He’s clearly got excellent taste.
Have a very merry happy holiday! Thanks for making my 2022 brighter and delighted-er!!
Does Mayor Adams have a position on Guinea Pigs? I’d hate for them to get caught up in his anti-rat crusade. Also, is anyone in the NYC press asking how Adams can afford to lose so much by taking his salary in crypto AND afford a trip to see the World Cup in Qatar?
Wow. That first illustration with the various photos of our endangered friends really IS an explosion of guinea pigs! I looked at it for a long time, ha ha.
My brother and I got guinea pigs as pets in 1970 or so. His was mottled, black and brown, with the kind of fur that goes every-which-way. Name of Blackbeard. My guinea pig had smooth white fur and red eyes, so naturally I named her Ruby Eyes. They lived in a spacious wooden box in the basement, and enjoyed periodic trips to the backyard to enjoy the grass. What became of them? I don't remember. I've probably blocked it from my memory.
You have taught me, so late in my life, that council meetings are the true sources of entertainment. I have missed so many. So many!
Is NYC going to become known as the rodent capital of the world? Or is that what everyone's already saying about us and I just didn't know it? First rats, now guinea pigs!! Thanks, as always, for your "silly blogger" reporting! Have a wonderful, restful break!
Enjoy your break til 2023. The bagel talk was fun. Steam instead of boiling just sounds like progress and way less mess and waste. What the hell do you do with big pots of water anyhow. Almost all food processes go toward steam as it saves a ton of money and way less waste. I'm surprised some environmentalists haven't looked to ban boiling water for bagels in water-starved California :) My guess is that would make the locals say yeah but because they like things the way they are and tend to like exceptions for their own favorite stuff :)
Birdseye view by saying not a reporter, just a blogger. This probably means a future of TikTok and Instagram influencer / jackasses at City Council meetings all over the country. Councilwoman Schulman just likes to hear herself talk. Nothing to add so instead of passing the microphone tell everyone about her dog history.
A few years ago I had the bright idea to make "homemade" pretzels on Superbowl Sunday. The recipe for pretzels and bagels about the same and you have to put them in boiling water before baking. It was the biggest mess with baking soda getting on everything as the pretzels boiled. If this is what people face when making bagels it sounds like a real bad job!!! IMO whatever they cost is probably worth it.
“I’m a silly blogger.” Omg! 🤣🤣🤣
Also, one wonders whether the person behind the ban on rat-adjacent guinea pigs might be a certain mayor... Or perhaps an inundation of street-smart guinea pigs would overtake the rat population and provide a solution to his rat woes!
Best sentence/question: "Since Mr. Varley is a bagel expert, I also asked a question prompted by reader JudgeRoyBean: If a bagel is not boiled (as is the case with Oakwood’s bagels), does it even qualify as a bagel?"
Answer: “Boiling is for sure step one for classic taste, flavor, etc. and you would never get people off the fact that it's necessary for a quality bagel.”
Wow!! Who is that JudgeRoyBean??!! Is he some kind of “bagel-Svengali?”
Words to remember if you want to gain entrance to just about anything: “I’m a silly blogger.”
Want to go through the storerooms at Mar-A-Lago and the Secret Service stops you, just say the magic words, “I’m a silly blogger,” and shazzzaammm! you’re up to your ears in classified documents!!
The woman in the stirrups doesn’t recognize you as her Gyno, just say the magic words, “I’m a silly blogger,” and leave it at that!
Veterinarians charging $600 to spay a guinea pig??!! Now that’s something you should investigate, Sparkles!
Best paragraph: “You know, they fool even me sometimes. Before the balls drop on the boys, it’s hard to tell. It’s kind of an art. There’s no external testicles. You don’t really have much of a penis on them. So it’s not like you’re seeing it hang out there.” It brings to mind the application of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity when guys are walking around the locker-room nude at the YMCA: It’s really a bad frame of reference to have huge thighs and not much of a penis between them. Wear a pair of gym shorts, please!
Lastly I’m usually right on the Café Anne Newsletter every Monday, but I’m 69 and the last 5 days took their toll. Probably nice for Anne and the readers to take a break from me, anyway. I wish you all so much fun at Christmas, Hanukkah and New Years that you won’t sober up or lose the 30 lbs you put on until there’s no rats left in NYC!! Maybe when you all come back, let’s trade stories about crazy uncles at the Holidays!
Anne, every week you succeed in amusing me. Some parts of the guinea pig article were hysterical!!