Clocks fall back tonight, and that is my favorite household chore. Synching all dials.

Last night, I had a hankering to visit Reddstone. Angry Guy and Gale joined me. Reddstone is getting to be known as "the old Snickers" down on West 76th, bordering Battery Park. It's sort of a limited menu. A few entrees, burgers, pizzas, a couple of salads, and some appetizers.

I thought it had a good vibe going on down there. Kinda dark, really good music, nice selection of booze. I heard music ranging from Nine Inch Nails, Elvis Costello, Melanie, She Wants Revenge and Placebo to name a few, so that was cool. It was piped in and there was a jukebox, but who needed to spend money with that music playing.

I had a house salad that hit the spot. We also ordered a different kind of pizza (at least for me), that had sausage, ham and pineapple, but we had to sub BBQ'ed onions for the fruit. It could have been better. I thought it tasted OK, however, it was the crust that was overdone and Gale opined that it seemed to taste of the frozen variety. But the atmosphere was great. They had two Plasma TVs with DirecTV, so the Cavs game was on. And people actually seemed interested in it. Next time, I'll opt for a Burger, but overall, I was pleased.

Let's see how they survive the winter. They claim they are going to be open til 2:30 on a nightly basis and I dunno, that's a rough go in this town. But, I'll definitely go back. Their website is here.

Meal of Links

Dog is in trouble. He used the N-word. Uh-oh. His show got yanked. I'm not sure of this guy's appeal, as I never tuned in for more than a few minutes the whole time his show was on A&E.

Whatever happened to those "Seinfeld" bit players? It's funny how some of these people show up from time to time. Elaine's office mate who wanted to be with George, the "Bad Boy", is in a commercial for an airline or maybe Orbitz. The girl who wouldn't let Jerry play with her toys shows up in a commercial wearing "Julie from Time-Life" headphones. And I recently saw the cop from the "90210" episode on a "Two and a Half Men" rerun.

Stuff you didn't know. Well, some stuff.

Exercise Yard

Boxing from Cardiff, Wales? Of course, that means HBO is showing the Super Middleweight unification bout at 168 between the pride of Wales, Joe Calzaghe and the Viking Warrior, Mikkel Kessler. This is anticipated as a big fight as 50,000 fans are cramming into a rugby stadium to watch. And since both combatants are undefeated, somebody's 0 has got to go.

This is a test of faster hands (Calzaghe) versus better boxing skills (Kessler). Kessler had the best of the fight through the first four rounds. He was jabbing well, and Calzaghe's unorthodox southpaw style was getting him into a bit of trouble now and then and he was taking some shots from Kessler's counterpunching. Calzaghe has a pretty good chin and he needed it as Kessler was connecting with some big uppercuts.

However, around the fifth and sixth round, Calzaghe started mixing his power with some terrific boxing. The jab was working beautifully in these rounds and Calzaghe kept backing Kessler up. Even his father/trainer, Enzo, normally not shy with the criticism, told Joe he "was fucking boxing Kessler's ass off". Calzaghe ended up taking Rounds 5 through 11, with minimal struggle.

It was unfortunate for Kessler, because he tried a lot of things and nothing seemed to work. He showed the guts of a champ though, because he never gave up. He got stung with a Calzaghe body shot in the seventh, but still kept coming. As was mentioned on the broadcast, he had his moments in the fight, just not enough of them.

Both guys fought a nice 12th, with Calzaghe not backing off at all and Kessler trying to connect with some bombs. Kessler won the 12th, but that was too little, too late. The unanimous decision went to Calzaghe.




















So, what's next for Calzaghe? In the pound-for-pound argument, he's near the tippy top. Tonight was a pretty good dismantling of a young championship fighter in Kessler. Joe says he's done at 168. A move up to fight Bernard Hopkins would be a very good matchup between unbeatens. Probably more important for the boxers, it would also be a very good payday.

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