Comments on: Back from July 4th weekend Long Island City linkage

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:30:20 +0000

You can get the Shannon Pot to show pretty much anything, if you ask. Lots of TVs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:34:37 +0000

I would love it if a bar was showing the Tour!!! I think Domines Hoek would be a great bar to do it but they don’t have a TV (props to them for the other 11 months of the year).

I think Cavendish is going to be a tough sprinter to beat this year!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:49:02 +0000

Well, pretty much all nation-states and nationalism are artificial creations, in some way or another, obviously.

By: R. Belhinge

R. Belhinge — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:40:36 +0000

You may think what you like, and it does indeed gratify me that some of you harbor such appreciation, however, Belgium is not a real country, and I should know inasmuch as I was born in Antwerp and educated at the Royal Charter University of Liege. Much like the United States, or modern Germany, Belgium is a gross political fiction, a product of political expediency conjoined with exceptional private funding. Ostensibly, it was delineated as a provisional territory intended to separate Picardy and adjoining French lands from the Netherlandish counties and properties administered by the pan-European Habsburg dynasty. The French and the Austrians, you see, did not agree on a number of points. In any case, when the Austrians retired in 1794 due to the subtle interference of the English, the French gained control. We Belgians taught the French forthwith how to make the frites, prior to the revolt of 1830.
The French are welcome as tourists, of course.

By: NYC Native

NYC Native — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:38:18 +0000

I was not familiar with this fact.

Well done, Townie.

So have you gotten a room at the Ravel with #12 from the other thread yet?

;)

By: Townie

Townie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:02:35 +0000

When I think of Belgium I think of the Walloons who were the first European settlers in New York City, which of course was not a city yet, just a potential crowbar for settlement. But it wasn’t the Dutch. It wasn’t the spruce-shoed, dike-stuffing Vandies! It was the Belgians…
:-)

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:02:04 +0000

When I think of Belgium, I think of divine chocolates, Flemish carbonnade of beef and waterzooi.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:15:55 +0000

When I think of Belgium, I think of Chimay, pavé, Eddy Merckx, Johan Museeuw, Sven Nys and Tom Boonen.

Speaking of Tom Boonen, he better start riding and giving Cavendish a run for his money.

Any bars in LIC showing TdF in the evenings? Now that would be quaint…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:10:31 +0000

#9 what? lady gaga was in LIC?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:05:57 +0000

12, When I hear “Belgian,” “quaint” is certainly not the first word that comes to mind.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:12:38 +0000

What exactly is Belgian quaintness?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:23:27 +0000

10, true, but it’s made by a bunch of monks for probably pennies.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:03:35 +0000

Their beer is pretty good, though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:52:01 +0000

It’s no wonder Belgium is such a rich country. They sell cheap food like french fries and waffles at exorbitant and us dumbass Yanks go gaga over the stuff.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:41:10 +0000

The waffle and ice cream were actually only $4. The extra helping of Belgian quaintness added $3 to the price…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:54:58 +0000

5, you did not pay $7 for a waffle and ice cream. You’re kidding, right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:40:21 +0000

I could use a $15 Taiwanese Chicken right now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:12:57 +0000

Yes and I paid $7 bucks for a scoop of ice cream and a waffle. A bit on the high side but it tasted pretty good. There was also another truck selling Taiwanese Chicken (I think?). I have seen both of these trucks in Midtown.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:57:57 +0000

Did anyone check out the Waffels truck last night??

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:05:53 +0000

I was thinking of Bruno the whole time I watched that video.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:40:35 +0000

The 4th was pretty sweet. It was a vacation without leaving the neighborhood.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:42:03 +0000

Please move the fireworks permanently to the Hudson. LIC was so pleasant last weekend without throngs of people clogging up the parking and waterfront…