SARAH PALIN GETS OUT OF THE KITCHEN

Sarah Palin will be stepping down as Governor of Alaska.

Smart political move? Good for Alaska?

Couldn't handle it when things got tough? Letting down everyone who voted for her?

Let the debate begin.

JEFF GOLDBLUM DEAD!?

Reports are coming in the Jeff Goldblum has also died today. Please please let this be a hoax.

UPDATE: Goldblum is alive. His career, however...

FIRST FARAH NOW MICHAEL

What a day. First Farrah and now Michael. Was Ed the first of the "it always comes in threes?"

AMALGAMATED BANK RIBBON CUTTING

Amalgamated Bank is having a ribbon cutting this Thursday.

WHEN: Thursday, June 25, 9:30 AM.

WHERE: 426 86th Street (between 4th and 5th Avenue) Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

WHO: Local officials (Marty Markowitz and Vincent Gentile), neighborhood merchants, educators, Amalgamated Bank’s Derrick Cephas, Fontbonne Hall students and residents.

Amalgamated’s President and CEO Derrick D. Cephas will congratulate students from Bay Ridge’s Fontbonne Hall Academy who recently won the Brooklyn Championship on The Challenge TV show.

You will also be able to place bets on when it will be robbed.

TERRAN TWITTER

I got this from a friend of mine today and wanted to pass it along.

If anyone is on twitter, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut Iranians' access to the internet down. Cut & paste & pass it.

"Twitter is increasingly becoming Iranian protesters' lifeline to the outside world, as international news organizations are banned from covering the demonstrations."

So get out there and join the revolution.

TWITTER

FOLLOW UP TO LA FIN

I've received a lot of emails and comments about the last post. Some people are sad to see the blog end, some are overjoyed.

When I started this blog I didn't think I'd get one reader. I was wrong. I had two readers...and thankfully one of them liked to use various aliases so it looked like I had more readers than I did. Thanks Joe.

I may come back to Left in Bay Ridge at some point. But right now life and new interests are taking me in a different direction.

Thanks again, everyone. I wish you all health and happiness.

~Mark

LA FIN

END OF THE LINE FOR CARRADINE

UPDATE 6/11:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The independent forensics expert who examined David Carradine's body says the actor didn't commit suicide, and Carradine's brothers are asking for understanding as Thai authorities investigate.

"The autopsy findings and the evidence thus far available demonstrate that Mr. Carradine's death was not the result of suicide.

Actor David Carradine, of Kung Fu fame, has been found dead, hanging by a nylon rope in a hotel room closet in Bangkok, Thailand, according to a Thai police official.

So far they're saying that there is no evidence of anyone else being in the room and

Carradine's friends and personal managers...brushed aside suggestions that Carradine might have taken his own life.

Sounds like a night at the Gregory Hotel.

RIP David.

SHERLOCK HOLMES

This ain't your daddy's Sherlock Holmes!

Release Date: 25 December 2009