Wednesday in New York

Wednesday has it all over Sunday in New York. Even if Jack Jones never sang about it.

---Times Square, pictured above, has gotten even more garish. The lights are so bright that you could look up and have Lasix surgery on any street corner.

---It's astounding the number of chain restaurants all over the Great Bright Way. Hello, can we get out of the freakin' food court, folks.

---Because nothing says "pre-theater dinner" more than some microwaved spaghetti from the Olive Garden.

---I look at the lines in the Hershey Chocolate store and I wonder why Michelle Obama hasn't put this on her hate list.

---Because nothing says "post-theater dessert" more than a handful of Hershey Kisses down the gullet.

---There should be a screening process in place before anybody purchases Broadway tickets.

---If you don't have a driver's license with a New York or California address, there are no tickets available for you.

---Before I start getting hate comments, I am making some notable exceptions to selected friends and relatives in Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Texas.

---All others can sit home and watch "Wheel of Fortune."

---Or wait for the next production at your local dinner theater. Adrian Zmed and Audrey Landers starring in "My Fair Lady."

---If you wants my other recommendations on how to "thin the herd," please forward them to me in a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

---You could start by closing down every airport west of Chicago, north of Dallas, and east of Los Angeles.

---Those folks want to vacation? That's what Las Vegas is for. Have yourself a time.

---Another warm weather season has begun and you know what that means? Idiots walking into an airplane restroom with no shoes on.

---You might be used to wading through a lot of urine, but I'm not.

---The same people doing that are also the ones who buy hand sanitizers by the boxful at Walmart.

---These are the days where America needs to be viewed with a laugh track.

---That Gulf oil spill reminds me of an old plotline on "Dallas."

---Obummer has really hopped to it, hasn't he? Essentially trying to clean it all up with a Bounty Towel.

---The Quicker Picker Upper.

---Everybody says that the oil catastrophe was an act of nature. Just like Katrina.

---Except you couldn't blame a hurricane on a major corporation.

---Speaking of POTUS, I watched him last week on one of the news shows. The guy looks like shit.

---The white in the hair is starting to make him look like Benson on "Soap."

---If he looks that bad after a year and a half, who knows what we will see in 2012.

---Mr. Jane Pittman.

---The major nightly news programs finally took him to task on the oil snafu. Finally.

---Even Darla on the Little Rascals probably had to take a dose of castor oil every once in a while.

---Rumor has it that Obummer is skipping the usual Memorial Day wreath laying ceremony at Arlington to spend some vacation time in Chicago.

---Is it a law or something that the President has to go to the cemetery on Memorial Day?

---But, as long as he gets to spend some quality time at "Cominsky Park."

---They're sending Vice Dumbbell Biden instead to Arlington. I can envision this comment from him while standing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

---"What's his name again?"

---The guy is completely lost. Lost as in addled, not lost as in a TV series finale everybody but me watched last Sunday.

---I was not a fan of the show. Watched the first six episodes of the first season and was just like the title says.

---Lost.

---I did, however, relish in the last two hours of Jack Bauer's final day. Terrific acting.

---And, for once, the noise wasn't ear splitting.

---Although one guy had his bitten off.

---24, I will miss you.

As for this Wednesday, 11:59:59 PM...and out.

Dinner last night: Hanger steak at Bobby Flay's Bar Americain in NY.