Last night my second son had his high school graduation. He's off to the shore with a bunch of his classmates on Saturday. We'll have a big party for him on the 22nd. I told him this could and should be the happiest time of his life. Make the most of it.

He's sharing a house on the beach for a week with four attractive girls from his class. My wife asked me if this was a good idea. I said, "What am I supposed to do? Tell him 'no?'"

She said that he might get passed among them as if he were a piece of meat. I said, "Only if he's lucky." She didn't think it was funny. Anyway there's another male friend of his sharing the house too.

Bronx officials have also stepped up efforts to re-brand their borough. A tourism magazine will be relaunched this summer with a feature called “What I love about the Bronx.” And a new Bronx tourism Web site, ilovethebronx.com, lists a dozen approved tours of the Bronx so far, including a free trolley ride to City Island that attracts hundreds of tourists every month.

The Bronx name already carries weight in some unexpected places. In the Kansas City area, for instance, a chain of four restaurants named d’Bronx deliver New York-style sandwiches and pizza.

The singer Ashlee Simpson has a young son named Bronx, and a hard-core punk band from Los Angeles also chose that name before ever stepping foot in the Bronx proper (the members have visited since). “It’s got a tough vibe to it,” explained Matt Caughthran, 34, a band member. “It always struck me as a place where you have to be street-smart, and that’s where we were coming from.”

Andrew Meyers, the director of a program on the Bronx experience at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the borough, said that half of his incoming students now associated the Bronx with the zoo or Yankee Stadium rather than the “Fort Apache” movie. “These kids were born in the late 1990s,” he said. “I think the stigmas that we grew up with are on the way out.”...

Good question, Klyd. Eventually, the money has to run out, no???

Good point. The group has plenty of food and I know he brought down a good amount of money, but a person can go through money quickly at the shore.

He comes home Saturday night. He has to go to work Sunday night to start replacing what he spent, and I have yard work for him as we get the place ready for a graduation party. I spent the last two days painting the basement. I still have some trim work today before I rehang the pictures and put the room together again. My oldest is helping me with that.

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Hey Kly I dunno if he went to OC MD. My class went there had a blast a lot of crazy shit happen. The cops are out in full force to get you god forbid.

Klyd, hope you have a wonderful party. Sounds like you have some great kids!

Kly, sounds like your son is having a blast. He comes home tomorrow? AND you have work for him? And reality hit.


TIS

I've lucked out with my kids, SB, and I give most of the credit to my wife.

Gee, they are digging for Jimmy Hoffa again in Detroit. LOL Wouldn't that be something? CNN reported that authorities thought they had "a very credible source", a former mobster.


TIS

Tony Zerilli the former Detroit underboss is the mobster in question, there's a few topics about it in the oc section.

You know what Camarel? I should have assumed it would be. I never go to OC section much. Thanks

Anyway, one of the mysteries of my lifetime would be solved. Gotta say, whoever got him, hid him pretty well no?

How many jokes throughout the years have we heard as to where Hoffa was? Still, probably another wild goose chase.

TIS

Anyone know this Aaron Hernandez guy that's being arrested? Don't know who he is but police evidently confiscated items from his house. Possible murder charge????

TIS