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Underlying Notes
by Eva Pasco
A New England fisherman wakes up.
Hod floats down the dark hallway, shack money jutting from his oilers
Fired from the steel trawler HOPE
His boot caroms off a porcelain Kangxi vase, now an umbrella holder
Chinking the broken chips saved inside
Great-great-grandfather had packed it in beach straw, stuffing his seabag
Avoiding the prostitutes of Old Honolulu
The fury of Cape Horn
A West Indian hurricane
The purple gums of scurvy
Coaxing his sea legs up Pelham Street to the cottage in Newport, Rhode Island
He presented the vase to his wife
Who rebuked the blue and white dragon motif as blasphemy
The weary whaler hung a pineapple on his porch
A pink and white sampler - Home Sweet Home 1859 - in the hallway
Then descended to the dirtfloor basement and guzzle-rummed himself insane
Now Hod's feeling his way along the papered walls
His fingers reading the wheat paste bumps like Braille
Television rays pulsate from the parlor
Hod's father snores, sprawled in a recliner within reach of an empty whiskey glass
The remote control nestled in his crotch
Hod attempts to press the "off" button
The oak chairhandle snaps forward
The bastard launches from his La-Z-Boy
Battering his son backwards into the hallway
Hod grabs the windpipe and squeezes, pumping his right fist, feigning
His captain gurgles, flushing to a ruddy green
One more mock roundhouse
The sampler's splinterglass severs the radial artery wrapping Hod's thumb bone
Blooddrops fly, splattering the faded wallpaper
Spotting the smashed - Home Sweet Home 1859 - sampler
The porcelain dragonskin appears flecked with rubies
Red-handed Hod twists the basement doorknob
Shoots down the screaky stairs
Mashing footprints in the marl
Vaults out the bulkhead to a silent snowfall
A bloodline drips to his rusted Lincoln Town Car
He's soothed by the sound of snow crunching under the tires
The windows open, the heater blasting
Headlights off, he parks the car near his ex-wife's house
Trespasses onto her lawn and peeks into his former living room
She's asleep on the couch, wrapped in an unfamiliar comforter
His suspicion fires
He taps on the window
"It's cold!" Hod grumbles.
Ex-wife is frightened - for an instant- then hurls the comforter on the floor
"Get out of here before I call the cops!" she threatens.
Hod offers his injured hand, arousing her Florence Nightingale
She releases the new boltlock
Offers him soap and hydrogen peroxide
He pinches a pair of tweezers
Picking out tiny shards of - Home Sweet Home 1859 - glass
"You're not going to sell this place, are you? After all, it's been in my family for…"
"None of your business now, Hod. You had your chances."
"You sound like that lawyer of yours. What'd you tell him?
You still love me, but your not in love with me.
That's a good one. You have a new blanket."
"This will take some stitches."
Hod extends his wounded hand rubs the robe near her breast
"What are you doing?"
He freezes
Then scuffs out, leaving the door open
Hod brushes his windshield and drives to the dock
Parking behind stacks of lobster pots on the wharf
Veiled under a layer of snow, he sleeps on the cold leather backseat
The driveshaft hump in his ribs
Coughing and shifting until daybreak
The headache begins at first light, with the cottonmouth, and the fear
Hod rolls out onto the pier
Pisses in the snow
Lights a cigarette
Shoulders his dufflebag
He scrunches along the deserted sidewalk
First holding a telephone pole, then a wire fence
Careful not to fall
Doric pilasters smeared with graffiti frame the marble entrance
Inside the etched glass door is a round mosaic the color of urine - AXIS HOTEL 1888
The gilt lobby mirrors are cloudy
The mildew carpet reeks of Ocean Breeze air freshener
A plump woman with a pimply, crimson face slouches over a desk
Painting her fingernails
She wears a beret bobby-pinned to tight haircoils
With a fake gold butterfly clasped upside-down
Frozen in a tailspin
She brushes on the Fiery Cherry, reading a paperback romance
The cover art a handsome man with coal-black hair
In an ivory blouse
Lifting a blonde maiden off a white steed
Her body melts into his arms
The plump woman never looks up
Taking enough of Hod's fish money for a one week stay
The elevator is out-of-order
Hod lugs the dufflebag up four flights of creaky stairs
Down the sweaty Lysol hall to No. 48
The brass lock is battered
No matter how he wriggles the key, it won't work
"Shut up!" someone hollers.
"Quiet! People are sleeping!" shouts another.
Hod kicks the door open, then flops the bag on the metal bed
The free-standing toilet smiles welcome
Welcome to the fleabag, Hod
The shower waits under potato-chip paint peels
Poised to helicopter off the ceiling
The bare light bulb is shrouded in rainbow dustpoints
A swelled dresser drawer is stuck open, lined with orange shelf paper
Someone left a spool of thread
Four white plastic buttons
Two pennies
A motheaten doily barely camouflages black cigarette burns
Cheap walnut paneling covers the original wainscotting
Echoes of drunken carpenters hammering thumbs, ripping handsawn Victorian moldings
The window sills are fissured, single-pane frames painted shut
Creating vacuums of insect graveyards
Dismembered antennae, tibias, thoraxes and wings
Preserved in grime
The view from No. 48 is of the harbor crammed with working vessels
And the empty channel leading past the breakwater to the open sea
It looks over an empty parking lot
Occupied only by an El Camino on rims
Dotted with broken windowglass and splotched with seagull splats
Inside, the two complimentary Axis gratuities
Hang from a towelrack fastened by five different screws
One threadbare white towel
A blue facecloth
Property of the Axis Hotel
Linens exchanged on Wednesdays
Now staccato jazz floods the fourth floor
Turning corners, filling Hod's room
He hangs the Do Not Disturb sign on the cracked marble doorknob
Unread newspapers covered by pizza flyers litter the corridor
Do Not Disturb these secret haunts, hot plates and coolers
National Enquirers and scratched lottery tickets
Do Not Disturb these oozing hemorrhoids, rotting teeth and dun fingers
Swelled bellies and skinny legs
Do not bring dogs into the Axis
No Dogs Allowed
No Prostitutes
No Guests After 10 P.M.
And No Cats
Nevertheless, prostitutes and cats are sometimes seen
Peeking into the hall from the 3" gap of a chain-locked door cracked open
The perfume and kitty litter mingles with the tobacco, pot, booze and body odor
Waiting for Wednesday's Lysol bombardment
On the first of the month, when the government checks arrive
The courtesans and the cats are shushed
And it is then, especially then
That One Does Not Disturb the Axis guests
Ripping open their envelopes, counting their change, plotting their lives
Behind that 3" porthole to the world
Guests may cash that check downstairs at the Axis lounge
The dark Cape Verdean bartender counts your money carefully
Then lights your cigarette with cupped hands
Tight enough to shield a flame from a Nor'easter
"This is the Ship of Fools and I am your Captain!" the Verdean announces.
"Now drop the clown, shave your palms and rejoice!
There's enough liquor here to last a knifetime!"
Spittle shoots from his chestnut lips
A cascade of tiny pearl droplets that stick to the National Cash Register
The mahogany horseshoe bar grows from a trompe l'oeil mirror
Marked with obsolete phone numbers
And up-to-date emergency information
The mantle's crammed with odd representations of the Four Food Groups
Jars of pickled eggs and pig's feet
Saltines, smoked oysters and sardines
Slim Jims and stuffed quahogs
Aluminum ashtrays and plastic cups are standard at the Axis
No sharp objects allowed at the bar, no coasters
Rags are kept every few feet for accidents, including vomit
But the Verdean prefers the white plastic buckets
Placed equidistantly from each stool on the half-moon
No fuss, easy to clean, accessible
Looking down on this is a crestfallen P.O.W. silhouette
Hanging from a harpoon wired to the tin ceiling
Streetside, the tall plateglass is painted red, white and blue
Serving a dual purpose
Promoting patriotism while preventing the humans from peering in
At least one guest was jettisoned through the thick window
The man's arm severed below the elbow
Most claimed the victim was a highlander
One born beyond a few miles of the ocean
Now dusty polymer ferns disguise the scene, hiding the frayed duct tape repairs
A half-hearted cover-up, because assaulting a highlander was never considered a crime
It's the crowded walls that bait newcomers
A mistake made by the tourists seeking the quaint
Browned postcards
Tarnished trophies
African masks and beer can whirligigs
Manila newspaper clippings
Curled photographs
Tiny American flags and withered leis
Forty model boats
A Clipper Ship oil
A charcoal and ink Sea Captain
Eleven murky mirrors
And a hand-painted sign: ARBIET MACH FRIE
The promise that greeted prisoners at Auschwitz - Work Will Set You Free
In nasty weather, the line forms before 10 o'clock in the morning
Late for these stranded fishermen: longliners, lobstermen, seiners and scallopers
They plod in, silent, scaly hands protecting cash in their slickers
The offshore men are served first
Before the quahoggers, bullrakers that work the Bay
Jerking up shellfish with their muscular arms
Protecting smaller, less dangerous bankrolls
Then come the full-time Axis guests, the Social Security Disability and Welfare drunks
A few frauds, childish and frail
Mostly the destitute that can't cut it in the outside world, but function expertly here
The blue bus from the Veteran's Home arrives
Canes, walkers and aluminum crutches rattle the seats
The wheelchairs rolled in last
Years ago, when the Verdean first introduced the white buckets
Beds-on-wheels equipped with tubes and monitors were allowed
Until a button-down Colonel pulled rank on a Major
And put an end to it
The Vets squeeze in-between the fishermen
Until the bar is crowded with pocket change
Then more coins from the aluminum can men
Carrying smelly plastic trash bags
But who cares here where many either have anosmia
Or their favorite aroma is the blend of fuel oil and rotted fish
Soon, the sea hags appear with smeared make-up
The self-dyed hair hidden by knitted caps
Streetwalkers later converge when the men are drunk enough to pay
The push-up bras revealing enough cleavage
To turn an apathetic into an animal
And last, the transvestites, once barely tolerated on Friday nights
Now common as soaked lumpers
The television repeats black and white movies
The ice machine rumbles
The juke box blares "Driftin' Too Far From Shore"
The eyes are on Hod tramping by the entrance
He doesn't look in
At Jolly Roger's Liquors he buys a quart of Canadian Club
A bag of ice
A six-pack of beer
A carton of Marlboros
A lighter embossed with a naked girl
And two bags of peanuts
"Breakfast," he apologizes to Roger.
"Goin' fishin', Hod?"
"What happened to your hand?"
"Cap'n came in for his usual. He's ready to pull the lines."
"Uh, huh. Well, I'll see yuh."
Hod shoulders the cardboard box back to #48
He wipes out a plastic cup with his finger and fills it with ice
Bronze whiskey cracks the cubes, the vapor rises
Remaining ice tumbles over the cans in the sink
He pops a frothing lukewarm beer
First sipping the liquor, the rye tingles his ears
Quick gulps of beer wash it down
A gag of burning vomit erupts in his esophagus, reaching his larynx
He swallows back last night's garlic mussels
Hod flips open his Spyderco Fisherman's knife
Carves into the paint that sticks the sash to the sill
It opens for the first time in years and he vents his reefer
Snow melts on the cracked asphalt
The seagull splats and engine oil mingle into goo
Pigeons peck at the El Camino
A tarpatch bleeds
Squirrels squabble over Hod's flicked peanuts
A whining pedal-steel seeps into #48
SMASH! A fat icicle fractures on the blacktop!
Jittery Hod jumps, his eyes twitter
He slumps on the end of the bed, waiting for the fear to disappear
The seed germinated two-hundred and thirty-five years before the pineapple
With the criminal on the Mayflower
It sprouted through The Great Swamp Massacre
The Burning of the Gaspee
The Slaughter at Marye's Heights
The Charge up San Juan Hill
The Battle of the Argonne Forest
It flourished during sixteen major hurricanes
Eleven shipwrecks
Five murders
Eight suicides
A chain of alcoholism
Drug addiction and psychosis
Land rich, money poor Grandfather locked the windows
Rotated the gas jets
Now liver-failed father, captain of the HOPE
Stumbles over his pride and repeats the drill, "First of the First!
Pirates and Politicians,
Farmers and Freemasons,
Carpetbaggers and Captains."
Hod, an image of his grandfather
Stung by a Minie ball, paralyzed by mustard gas, trembling in the French trenches
As leeches sucked out the gangrene
He landed home shell-shocked
Carved a cane with a 17th century death's head grip
Warm or cold, rain or shine, snow or fog
He trod the cobblestones of Newport in slippers and robe
Babbling French to the Germans
Then one hazy rosehip summer, seagulls and grandchildren screaming at the shoreline
The painful mirage faded with the fumes
"How come you ain't goin' fishin', Hod?"
The Verdean polishes plastic with a paper towel
Hod places his empty CC cup in the well
It's glugged ¾ full with no ice
Three bearded Bills: Eelskin Bill; Submarine Bill; Skunkbreath Bill
Stare in unison like a box of Smith Brothers Cough Drops
A scalloper, enshrouded in a leather motorcycle jacket, "Riders on the Highway to Jesus"
Blows a smoke ring, then a smaller one through it
A Vietnamese homosexual lights a long brown cigarette with thin, bony fingers
"I always said I'd only stay here if hell froze," Hod says.
"It's very cold now," says the Vietnamese, "very, very cold."
Hod picks dried blood off his fingernail, his eyes closing, then rising, now closing
He drifts back to his childhood, rolling his ancestor's marbles in the sand
Playing dobblers against himself
Knuckling down with onionskins, peppermint swirls and tiger's eyes
Father's at the wheel of the beachwagon
Smoking a Lucky in a noontime haze
Angry at his wife
And her boyfriend
Hod sees his own astonished reflection in the gleaming silver bumper
The Goodyear tire pattern presses into his skull, blood spurts from nose and ears
He sinks into a Howdy Doody coma
Clarabell's squirting DDT on green potato plants flourishing in mounded rows
Furrows running to the sea
Mr. Greenjeans, holding the reins of a mule team, hollers for water
Then cracks a whip over his colored harvest gang
He vanishes, leaving the field free for scavengers
Hunched over bushel baskets, digging fast as fiddler crabs
The Boss stares from a station wagon
It's Buffalo Bob behind sunglasses
Hod squints at his watch
It's early
The aluminum can men haven't arrived
Eelskin Bill argues with the Jesus scalloper
Banging the bar over the Beatitudes
"You serve dynamite, you better expect explosions" says the Verdean.
"I don't know what I'm doin'" says Skunkbreath.
"But I'm doin' it anyways."
The Verdean fingers out a doodle paper from the sink well
A pencil drawing of a scow - I need dope, it says
"Can't go forward when you're in reverse! It's verisimilitude!"
He pours the Vietnamese a draught beer
"Here you go, Vo, us V's gotta stick together.
One time I served a guy in here from Venezuela."
"I want to meet a guy from Venus," says the Vietnamese.
Velma, Submarine's girl, strides in, slamming the door
Commencing her Virgin to Vinegar In Two Hours Act
Hod wraps his aviator glasses on
Velma has earrings like puffs of cotton candy
Pink pendulums mesmerizing Hod
A carnival calliope whistles in his eardrums
He smells the beige-green elephant manure
A skinny barker eats beans from a can
Off the midway, a sword-swallowing midget entices dirty girls behind his tent
Top-hatted Nicotine Nick, an Abe Lincoln look-alike, flicks buttstubs
Into a plywood coffin decorated with white skulls
The Lizard Woman scratches her psoriasis in a green sequin bathing suit
Accentuating the reptile in her
$3 to look, $1 for Circus Management and $2 for her Orlando Condo fee
Another whip cracks, snapping a six-legged cow awake
A two-headed Chinaman, floating in formaldehyde, trapped in a glass carboy
Smiles with blackened teeth
Sylvia Porter, The Elephant Woman with treetrunk brown legs attached to giant pink feet
Trims her pokerchip toenails with Stanley Heavy Duty Wire Cutters
"Born of normal parents" she says.
Beyond the wooden Ferris Wheel
Four red-faced Sailors in Navy whites stumble from the Shore Dinner Hall
Knocking over wooden chairs
One breaks from the pack, blowing out two quarts of orange puke
Powerful as a fire hose, never missing a step, splashing the Midway
With clam pieces and white potato bits
New England-style
"Stuffie, Hod?"
"You want a stuffed quahog?"
"Nah. Liquid for now. Gave my peanuts to the pigeons."
Hod's ankles are cold, the streetside door's open
It's Chicky with his buddy Eppie the Epileptic
A wink, a bow, a salute
"Oh, no," says the Verdean, "the Tube Man Cometh."
Chicky worms up to the bar while Eppie heads for the Head
"Don't ashk him to shing," slurs Velma, halfway to vinegar.
"They got a igneous volcano under them Verdy Islands," Chicky starts.
"I hear them Verdies is good cooked."
"Chicky Chickenmeat," says Velma, unbuttoning her blouse.
"They gonna make a McNugget outta you."
Chickenmeat slides his bony ass onto the stool and the bowel bag gurgles
"Speaking of stool" he says, "where's Eppie?"
"He'd throw a fit if he knew you cared," says Eelskin.
Chicky rearranges the plastic boweltubes
A tall Vodka and Tonic is placed before him
Tubes in place, legs crossed, he smiles his sympathetic smile
"How come you ain't fishin', Hod?"
Hod's watching the Juke Box Technician drain the quarters
"When my father was teachin' me to build boats," Chicky says,
"I used to break the hammers so we couldn't work. Is the boat broken?"
"I got fired," Hod says, counting quarters, trying to keep calm.
"He don't know what he's got," Chicky says.
"Sure he does. I'm here, ain't I?" says Hod.
Chicky peels a coupon from his cigarette pack
"I give these to my granddaughter. Saving up for a new basketball hoop."
"How can you play basketball and smoke at the same time?" asks the Verdean.
"It ain't easy," says Chicky. "I got ashtrays at both ends of the court."
"They should give coupons for lung machines," Eelskin says.
"Or colostomy bags," Skunkbreath says.
A wheelchair Vet is drunk now, "CHICKY!"
"Tell us about the time you met Paul Newman!"
"Sure, man. Listen to this. Paul Newman comes up to me in a bar. Downtown Miami.
He says 'Do you know who I am?'
I said yeah. I know who are. You're Paul Newman, you little asshole,
Now get the fuck away from me."
"No!," wheelchair says.
"Yup," says Chicky. "God's honest."
Submarine needs more, "Tell us about when you used to drive naked!"
"Oh, God. No." says Velma.
"Please," pleads the Vietnamese, "please tell it!"
"I had a 1968 GTO convertible, you know.
Paid for it with my combat pay. Had 2,000 miles on it.
I got into the habit of driving naked. It felt good.
Pull up and get some gas,
The drive-thru at MacDonald's.
I pulled up to the Mt. Hope Bridge toll booth and asked how much?
Toll guy says, 'ONE DOLLAR'.
I says, TOO MUCH!
So, I slam it in reverse and back off about 50 miles an hour!
About-face, motherfuck!
Nude and tattooed, man. ALL NAKED!"
"We're born naked, we die naked," says the Verdean.
"I wish I was naked now," says the Vietnamese.
"You are," says Skunkbreath. "Under your clothes."
Eppie the Epileptic wanders from the men's room, but Hod has drifted too far
His gooseflesh is crawling cold, creeping up his neck
Nosedrips dribble onto the bar
He wipes his forehead
The three bearded Bills blend
Hod mimics Chicky lighting-up, pretending all is normal, but he's shivering
Gas gnaws at his gut
Conversation is muffled, the room sways
He totters to the empty pool table and rolls the eight ball
Get behind the eight ball, Hod, he reassures, but turns white as the cue
The floor lurches as if he's on deck
He makes believe he's reading the Pool Rules of The Axis Hotel
Handwritten in 1967 by a Marine sniper sick of death
Rule #1 - No Cheating - Unless You Have To
The streetside door slams
Hod's outside in the cold air
Sunlight glistens off chrome bumpers and parking meters
He wipes tarsmoke off his sunglasses
Simulates a stroll down the sidewalk, swimming with the stream
Follow the rules, Hod
Ape the humans
I'm normal
I can behave
I need some vitamins
One a Day
Or is it Once A Day?
Three Electric Company workers unwrap grinders
Pry off plastic coffee cup lids
Hod sniffs swirling Columbian steam
Coffee is compliance
Should I have coffee?
He reaches for his wallet
Wipes his moist forehead again
A speeding car shoots slush onto the sidewalk, slopping his ankles
He slips to his knees, his hands gripping a heap of sooty sludge
Down the street comes a brisk walker with swinging arms
Dropjawed Electric workers stop sipping
"GOOD MORNIN'!" she shouts.
Her fur parka, leather boots, golden hair and gorgeous smile
Flabbergasts the flycatchers
Closer, her grace sponges Hod's sickness, nursing it out clean
His confusion lifts, his vision clears
He rises cloudless as the turquoise sky
"Yup. Cappy."
She leans to give him a hug, but he recoils
Don't come in this dirty house
My clothes are dirty
My hands are bloody
My life is contaminated
Her white teeth shine through the muck
He sees she's almost the same
But with tiny crow's feet and faint lines around her mouth
"You shouldn't hug me," he says.
"I don't mind hugging a working man, Hod"
She squeezes hard, draws back, touching his face, gazing into his eyes
The eyes she tried to catch on the playground
At the school dances
Through drying fishnets
She was younger and he was aloof
Once, he wanted her and felt lovesickness
But now, only shame
"You're still a fisherman?"
"Yeah. Well, maybe not. I was just going for some breakfast."
Food is normal
Normal people eat food
In restaurants
And talk about
Normal things
She smells his whiskey breath
It melts her heart and she steps back
Her father was a fisherman
He watches her disappear down the street
Not feeling his frozen toes
Wondering why he's not shivering
Hod returns to his stool
Orders pig's feet, peanuts and more whiskey
Lights a smoke and discovers his face in the mirror
The orange buttglow and dark glasses
He stares for a long time, eavesdropping on himself, watching for tricks in his eyes
No longer sweating or trembling, the fear has passed
He says goodbye, but everyone's watching East Of Eden
He wanders out, sloshes down the sidewalk, enters a store and buys a bottle of glue
He marches the cobblestone streets, past the maze of harborside colonials
Weaving around parked cars, dogs barking, tourists gawking
To the pineapple porch
Down the bulkhead, up the dirtfloor basement screaky stairs, into the hallway
The Home Sweet Home 1859 sampler
Still smashed on the floor
Bloody splinterglass now dried maroon
He lifts the Kangxi vase into his arms
And hugs it all the way back to The Axis
In Room #48 Hod swishes out his whiskey cup and fills it with cold water
He scans out the window, past the seagulls on the El Camino
The steel trawler HOPE is steaming out to sea in a chop
Smooth, gliding, as if her bow was greased with cod liver oil
Hod licks his finger and rubs the blood flecks from the porcelain dragonskin
Then he removes the saved broken chips
And begins to glue them back together
The End
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State falls out of worst 10 in nation for first time in 6 ½ years; number down 60.4% from year ago.
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83% of state's babies have breastfed, 'getting a great start in life,' state health official declaims.
Tempe-based US Airways, American Airlines combining would reduce competition, governments argue.
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Iran has already been able to free up some 20% of its frozen assets, around $19 billion. At best, that's without doing anything, and at worse, that's while continuing to rush towards a nuclear bomb.
Egypt attacks jihadists with F-16 warplanes. Israel closes borders to Gaza and Egypt.
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Oren, now a representative of the Kulanu party in the Knesset, has moved on from diplomacy to politics.
Shin Bet foils attempt by Hamas to overthrow Palestinian Authority government in Judea & Samaria.
A demonstration and call for action against terror are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday across from the official of residence of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Government officials got on the soap box after Monday's night murder of Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld and spoke beautifully against Palestinian Authority incitement and terror. Action is something else. […]
Hamas claims the company, which just so happens to be headed by Abbas' honchos, is dodging taxes.
Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, 26, was buried in Kochav HaShachar in Samaria early Wednesday afternoon after he succumbed last night to bullet wounds from Palestinian Authority terrorists. Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) chairman and Minister of Education Naftali Bennett was among hundreds of people at the funeral. He called Rosenfeld "a symbol of the State of Israel, […]
Some 70 Egyptian soldiers have been killed simultaneously in a multi-prong attack in Sinai.
An ancient mikvah is discovered beneath a Jerusalem living room.
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Oklahoma's Supreme Court says the 10 Commandments cannot stay at the state capitol.
Neo-Nazis vandalized a Talmud Torah in Boro Park, Brooklyn this week.
US Pres. Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll "walk away" from a bad deal with Iran. So far, he hasn't.
ISIS proclaims its next goal is to conquer Gaza, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli physician Dr. Yuval Rabinovich reviews possible reasons 'why we have never met aliens.'
Students from around the world participated in a Jewish Roots art project; winners gathered in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
Widening "Highway 1″ has unearthed the church, oil lamps, a mosaic floor and mother-of-pearl shells.
Bennett preached unity, but Herzog scolded him for crossing the "red line" in the elections.
Iran tried to buy UN-banned products in the Czech Republic but was caught and stopped, Reuters reports exclusively.
Special needs artists showed their talent at Jewish Children's Museum on Mother's Day in New York.
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Ah, Canada, where the beer actually tastes good, there a lot of illegal aliens, the common US dollar is worth 198.76 Canadian and the hockey is good. Go Toronto. Go Leafs Go.
OK, so late start to the biggest city in Canada, but no big deal, right? We�re only pledging. Ha! We were just excited to get the hell out of Buffalo. We thought we were going by ourselves, that�s why we look so excited to see the brothers, coming in big limo buses. Earl, Jarreau and I were in for a little surprise though, yeah how about riding in the s---ter for two hours? Something was fishy about this...what would happen when the brothers had to piss? We were thinking about breaking down the wall and hopping in the trunk. Well, we finally pulled into Toronto and to the lovely hotel who thought we were a chess team in for world chess championships...they were pleasantly surprised.
Our room was a sweet suite. It didn�t stay that way for long, but it was the biggest hotel room I�d ever been in. Complete with our very own maid and washroom attendant. Pretty cool s�t, huh? There was this lady who made us cookies and milk before bed and this other lady who tucked us into bed. How nice. Well, now for the reason we were there: the scavenger hunt. We were on a mission to find and take a picture of: the rocket chair, the Toronto waterfront, three hot chicks, our letters 1122ft. in the air (not meters), Gretzky�s stick and puck that broke Gordy Howe�s record, and the golden sword. Yep, all in a day. We thought this would be like pulling teeth, but it sure did make us work together.
The rocket chair? Who the f--k goes on s--t like this? Not to mention where the f--k is it? We were a little frustrated we were in a city we had no idea how to get around and we didn�t know where anything was. Earl claims, �one person f---in� direct everybody else.� That wouldn�t be working as a group now, would it? Dictator Earl tried taking over the r�gime, but was quickly over thrown when Paul flipped his s--t. Lindo, we are not idiots, we�re just really slow. After a quick argument to release our built-up tension, we finally get our s�t together. Like always, Earl and I are back to being buddies, even though minutes before we were going for each other�s jugulars. We were pretty heated; I wish we brought our helmets and gloves because we would have gone at it right on the street. Did anybody catch the little vein in my forehead bulging? Finally Dad flipped his shit and yelled at us, I was so ashamed. We are down to five hours left in the day.
I�ll be completely honest with you guys, I didn�t want to boss them around but I know Toronto pretty well, and so does Jareau. I used to go to a lot of training camps for hockey there. Earl, sorry buddy I know you�re trying your best to take over here and help out, but you are walking around with a map and your head down. All you need is some sandals with socks and a fanny pack and you�d fit in perfectly as a tourist. Take the map and make a f---in� origami hat and follow us. Once again, I know I�m not the smartest f---er but I do have at least the mentality of a turtle and I know which way the water is. Considering that Toronto is built on the shore and a small hill I figured we should go downhill and not uphill, Earl. We have to get down there...this is a wake-up call for all of us.
�Keeping the mission on the forefront� we ventured up the CN tower, Steve stayed below because he didn�t have the .15 cents American that it cost to go up. Well there was a glass floor at the top you could stand on and look down, it was really cool. I tried to jump on it to see if it would break but it wouldn�t. Well let�s go to the bar, I knew the stick might be there, after all it was a bit closer than the Hockey Hall of Fame, which I really wanted to go to. Well we hit up Gretzky�s Restaurant first and those guys gave up after talking to an idiot manager who was probably a figure skater. F--k that s--t, I knew it had to be there.
Jarreau was pretty adamant about the taxi bit, even though it would have cost only a few American cents, we didn�t get to see the beautiful view of the city and hot foreign chicas. I would have much rather looked at the scenery than the half balding back of a 300lb cab driver. We were already down by the water anyways. I think those were the best shots we took. I tried to pay a bum $10 American to jump in the water, but he was too dumb to convert in to Canadian and realize he could have bought a small house with it. Oh well. It was beautiful down there, it�s a shame Buffalo doesn�t take advantage of the water like they do. The next couple goals came to us like morning wood...the girls were not too hard to find. The rocket chair was back to haunt us, but soon enough we found out it was in the northern most part of Canada near Iceland so we hopped a taxi (which Jareau got a hard-on because of) and went to the rocket chair. Still the Golden Sword was nowhere along the way. I thought the entire time it was one of those little cocktail swords. We�ll see about cocktails later.
With under an hour to go and five of our goals completed, we were on the quest for the golden sword. It sounds like a video game or something, I felt like that weird looking video game dude who was looking for Zelda. We had no idea where the sward was, I was looking in flower pots and s--t, asking random people. I bet we looked like real winners; somebody pointed us towards the city psychiatric hospital. We even started digging in the garden of a Parliamentary Building. The security guard soon informed us that we might want to leave before the funny looking dudes on horses came. Those Canadians are funny mother f---ers. The police dress like they just rolled out of bed with King Charles in 1592. I hate history.
With a minute to go, we returned to the room without the sword, or that�s what we thought. The brothers decided to mess with us a tiddly bit more so they sent us out into the city for one hour more. Personally, I think they just wanted to get their drink on. Finally we realized maybe there wasn�t a sword, so we made one instead. The brothers laughed their asses off as did surrounding people who thought we were invading religious freaks trying to spread the love or make a landing pad for Jesus coming in on a helicopter or something. I thought we did a pretty good job, certainly an A for effort and that�s all we needed. Earl finally realized it was symbolically in our hearts and minds...must have been that rat poison I fed him. We felt like a million bucks after we got everything done. Alex had a great quote that really stuck in my head, �We are the epsilon class of Sigma Chi Omega, 2002. This sword represents our pledge, it represent the heart that we give, the promise we give to the fraternity and each other.� He hit the nail on the head. Bingo. After that touching moment, we partied it up...legally! In glorious Canada, legal drinking age is 19.
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19.30 at ''Sexodrome'', Paris: 28 Boulevard de Clichy, 75009 Paris
Pierre Woodman will be presenting some exciting new changes in the Woodman Girl line-up in Paris, with Nessa Devil this week leaving her exclusive contract with Woodman Entertainment to widen her experience with other producers, and Caylain Curtis considering retiring from porn at the end of the summer, ''Divinity Love'' will be joined in Paris by ''Bulma Rey'' and a sizzling hot newcomer recently discovered by Pierre on his casting trip to Belgrade - ''Kat Serbia'' (click here to check out Kat Serbia).
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Douglas House, Florida Keys
- Free WiFi and free parking
- Airport within 5 mi/8 km: Key West, FL (EYW-Key West Intl.)
Main amenities
- 35 guestrooms
- Outdoor pool
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Garden
- Luggage storage
- Limited hour front desk
- Tour/ticket assistance
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- In Key West Historic District
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Very nice room, with super cool ac, great location and Kevin and Chris were very friendly…
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- Suite, 1 Bedroom (PALMETTO PALM w/ Balcony)
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- Suite (BAMBOO PALM)
- Superior Suite, 1 Bedroom (BISMARK PALM)
- Deluxe Condo, 2 Bedrooms (1108D - Cuban Club w/ Balcony)
- Suite, 1 Bedroom (TRAVELLERS PALM)
- Deluxe Room (KING PALM)
- Superior Suite, 1 Bedroom, Ground Floor (TRIANGLE PALM )
- Superior Suite, 1 Bedroom (BOTTLE PALM)
- Suite, Garden View (FISHTALE PALM w/ Porch)
- Deluxe Condo, 1 Bedroom (1102G - Cuban Club w/ Balcony)
- Suite, 1 Bedroom, Garden View (SUGAR PALM w/ Balcony)
- Deluxe Condo, 1 Bedroom (1102F - Cuban Club w/ Balcony)
- Room (L8 - La Casa de Luces w/ Balcony)
- Suite, 1 Bedroom (L7 - La Casa de Luces w/ Balcony)
- Deluxe Room (SAGO PALM w/ Porch)
- Suite, 1 Bedroom (L4 - La Casa de Luces)
- Suite, 1 Bedroom (L3 - La Casa de Luces w/ veranda)
- Suite, Garden View (CHRISTMAS PALM w/ Balcony)
- Suite (COCONUT PALM w/ Balcony)
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 35 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-9:30 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 25
Travelling with others
- Children (16 years old and younger) not allowed
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets allowed *
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply *
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking (limited)
Other information
- Caters to adults only
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In the hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Pool sun loungers
- Spa tub
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Luggage storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Garden
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Individually decorated
- Individually furnished
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer (on request)
- Premium TV channels
- Free WiFi
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Access via exterior corridors
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Special features
On Site
- Spa tub
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
Douglas House, Florida Keys's small print
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
This property does not have elevators.
Optional extras
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 25 per pet, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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