Tocayo Comes Home

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Since he was born in The Bronx and his name is Rob, and my name is Roberto, and I'm living on City Island we're neighbors and Tocayos. Rob is best known as Meathead, no fakakta, that I can tell you. But more about that below. I went to watch Rob @robreiner Reiner's latest motion picture with good friends. Three gave the filmmaker a thumbs up and one gave it a sideways thumb.

Suicide Epidemic

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Suicide is the act of intentionally causing your own death. Reasons include mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and substance abuse, along with alcoholism and the use of benzodiazepines.

POTUS TGIF

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Trump Gets Intensely Flanked on Friday when he goes to G7 alone near the end zone. FLOTUS says she's is not going. Would some of America's established trading partners prefer it if POTUS stayed away and turned it into a G6? We'll have to wait and see, believe me.

A frosty and chilly reception is expected at the G7 Summit in Canada The US has not been isolated from allies in more than 100 years. America, the leader of the western alliance, is not acting like it and it has not been this way for a very long time.

City Island Film Festival

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Do you love motion pictures as much as we do? Then join filmmakers and videographers from the region to support this art form.

We nurture artists producing the masterworks of tomorrow in movies, television, documentaries or however great stories are told.

Enter the City Island Film Festival by submitting your entry of 15 minutes or less in length. Winners will be chosen by the public.

Do you love movies? Then join film and video from the region to support the art form we love.

Egg Drop on Face?

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During my travels through Shanghai, Ningbo, Hangzhou, which the Chinese call Next Best Place to Heaven and other cities, I can’t tell you how many times I faced online problems when I bumped into The Great Firewall of China. The many online platforms on the Internet which we take for granted are not available to The People's Republic of China.

2026 2034 Dooms Daze

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Doomsdays are algorithms of determination of the days providing a calendar because the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years and we're going to be gone long before.

Vote like your life depends on it because it does. Medicare's hospital trust fund is expected to run out of money in less than a decade, followed by US Social Security less than another 10 years afterward. The Federal Government warns that US Medicare will become insolvent in 2026, and Social Security to follow in 2034.

Will Paul Manup'n Fold?

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Some predict that Paul John Manafort Jr. the American lobbyist, political consultant, and lawyer who joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign team in March 2016 and served as campaign manager from June to August 2016 may be going to jail. According to former officials, Roger Stone was the one who convinced Trump to hire Paul Manafort.

Lifetime Planning

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I went for a walk today and noticed an official-looking black SUV parked in a no-parking zone and when I found the driver, he told me there were some Very Important People #VIP meeting at the #CityIsland Community Center.