HAVE A SEAT...

...make yourselves comfortable, let's pour some martinis and catch up on all the hub bub...

Has the battle of the local newspapers begun?

We see today that Russ Lemmon has written about the Stanford financial situation, calling it a "Mini-Madoff" scandal:
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/feb/23/russ-lemmon-mini-madoff-scandal-trickles-down-vero/

But we know for a fact that the story from Mr. Milton R. Benjamin appeared in last weeks Verobeach32963 and finally made it to their website today:
http://www.verobeach32963.com/

Are we now to think that in addition to constant culling from the AP wires and other news sources, that the PJ is now picking up tidbits from the new local media? We won't even mention that Miss Vero first reported locally (back on February 5th), the unfortunate connection between Mr. Madoff and Mr. Sandy Koufax that Mr. Lemmon mentions today! Nope, not sayin a word.

Instead of frettin about what the people who are paid to bring us news are doing, maybe we should just stick to our carryin on and cavortin ways around town. And yes, we are finally back, late this afternoon, but before we make our way out again, let Miss Vero just tell y'all about last Friday night downtown....

Bodega Blue was rocking! A full house greeted Miss Vero and several friends when we arrived at 9pm to see Ben Prestage play his unusual style of fun and music. In fact, it was so packed that the crowd spilled out on to the side walk due to max. capacity laws or some such thing! Have y'all ever experienced Ben's talent? Y'all should see him if you get the chance:

http://www.myspace.com/bprestage

So much happenin at the "Blue" these days. We wished we could have been there Saturday to see City Councilman Kevin Sawnick do his meet and greet and we are excited to see that sort of accessibility from our city council. In fact it should be mandatory that all the local politicians come out and do this, I'm sure so many folks in the community, would love to speak one on one with our elected officials, it's only seems like the right thing to do, don't y'all think so?

Anyway we are certainly looking forward to more events at the "Blue" and Miss Lynne, the owner made us feel so welcomed, that we might have to take up drinkin beer now, just to be hospitable of course.
http://www.bodegabluecheeses.com/index.html

FUJIYAMA!, FUJIYAMA!, FUJIYAMA!
Seems like everyone we know is going to the new restaurant that we told y'all about back in December. Here's an email we received today from one of our friends -

Hey Miss Vero!
Reading your blog recently prompted me to visit Fujiyama. I just had to see about this squirting Sake in your mouth firsthand. So I took my lovely wife out for a date, and we ordered a sashimi appetizer and the filet mignon and shrimp entree. I am very impressed, the sashimi was wonderful, better than some of the other sushi bars in town. The hibachi was also very, very good! And yes, the chef gave me a good long squirt of Sake right into my mouth. He didn't stop until I raised my hand, so I got a real good mouthful! As always, thanks for keeping me abreast of the best (and worst) Vero Beach has to offer!

Now hurry up kids, get there soon before that pesky reviewer at the PJ ruins it for everyone!


MWAH!


missvero@live.com

TASTY THURSDAY TREATS

It's a big ole buffet of info today, so get y'all a biscuit to sop up the pot liquor we'll be servin.



FABULOUS FLORIDA!

This weekend, the finest of all things Florida will be in Gulfport, over there in the Tampa area, where the 2009 Floridiana Festival will be swingin at the Gulfport Casino. Perfect road trip excuse!
http://www.hulahula.biz/2009floridianafestival.html







WE TRY TO BEHAVE,
BUT HE HE KEEPS ENCOURAGING US!

And speakin of Florida road trippin, y'all know we ventured out Tuesday night to see the fabulous Mr. Tim Dorsey (look at how happy he was to see us!), at the Vero Beach book Center and picked up his new book "Nuclear Jellyfish", which we have already finished reading! We believe this one might just be our favorite, but then again, we say that every time we get our little paws on somethin Serge.
http://www.timdorsey.com/home.html





ARE THE DODGERS CURSED?


Oh no! Say it isn't so. Vero Beach's own Mr. Sandy Kofax taken in by that crazy Madoff money man!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/04/madoff-victims-list-relea_n_164097.html





GOOD OLE BOYS, CHEWIN AND A CHATTIN

As possibly promised, we listened to Charlie Wilson on Rhett Palmer's radio program, Monday (the rebroadcast hunnies, because y'all know we don't rise from our beauty sleep till the crack of noon). And we were particularly feeling sorry for Mr. Wilson who couldn't get a word in edgewise between Rhett's crazy country singin and County Commissioner Gary Wheeler, so to be real nice to Mr. Wilson for all his sufferin, we thought we'd give y'all a link to his new website:

http://indianriverreport.blogspot.com/

Let's just hope that he updates it more frequently than Rhett's "readers forum" who forever keeps asking us to "check back in a few days" or the TV10 website, which is still "under construction".

Oh! We did hear a little rumor about that, it seems that the host PDMNET is holding the station owner hostage and won't release the domain name. We also hear that the same principle for this company (PDMNET) is responsible for the $600,000 wireless system(600THOUSAND?! Can that be right?) that is not working properly at the Indian River Medical Center (like they need another problem). Can any of y'all shed more light on this big ole stinkin pile of rumor and gossip? And that's just the tip of the pile kids, y'all wouldn't believe the volume of hospital rumblings stuffin our mail box concerning the goings on at that hospital. Pity.

WE THINK WE'RE HALUH-CIN-ATIN!

Can it be true? Did a beachie charity event really look this good? Y'all won't believe how beautiful the Whiney Festival was photographed:

http://mdsimages.blogspot.com/2009/01/out-at-valet.html

A big MWAH! and special thank you to the always fabulous Die Muse of our World for sending us such a lovely gift!

ARE THEY TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHIN?

Some of Miss Vero's friends are suggesting we try a "Zumba" class that apparently is all the rage (and offered right here in Vero!) As y'all know, we have tried to exercise in the past but have never actually gotten past the initial planning phase. Maybe this time will be different. Yeah, maybe.

http://www.zumbaworks.com/index.htm

SINGLE? DATING? IN VERO?

We offer our sincere condolences. Now if any of y'all would like to share those experiences with Miss Vero and all the Beach House readers, we will be featuring a new writer on the dating scene tomorrow and hopefully every Friday, but we're sure she'll run out of material fast, so that's why we're asking, no begging, for y'all's help. So jot somethin down and send it right now! (It's not like you're super busy getting ready for a date or anything, might as well commiserate).

A big Thank Y'all to everyone who faithfully visits the Beach House and sends gifts of gossip!

MWAH!!!!!!!

misvero@live.com

MORE RESTAURANT DISHES AND OTHER GOODIES

YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANT'S REPORT CARD
A few weeks ago a sweet little birdie, who is well connected in the medical community, whispered in Miss Vero's ear about an increase in ER visits one night due to some bad crab. Now, Miss Vero well knows that anyone can have a bad reaction to shellfish, but when a double digit number of people find themselves too closely associated with the porcelain god, sumthins up. We wonder, did the crab arrive putrid from the purveyor or are the ingredients being stretched to justify the menu prices? Because this is a complex combination of rumor, gossip and documented fact, we will not reveal the name of the establishment, let's just say it was once St. Tropez or Saint Tropei or whatever we're just too damn hungover to look it up. Anyhoo, Miss Vero has dined there and knows some of the folks that work there - in the kitchen even! So we are chalking this up to a one time unfortunate incident.

Now here's something for y'all that should be provided as a public service by the PJ instead of those silly Diana Foote reviews:
http://www.orlandosentinel2.com/data/restaurants/inspectResultsAlpha.php?txtBizName=&txtZIP=32960
A detailed health code violation report courtesy of The Orlando Sun Sentinal, so much more informative than trip advisor don'tcha think?

Miss Vero is still amused and somewhat perplexed over the Olive Garden's popularity. Yes, more service industry jobs for the community, blah, blah, blah. But that is not our angle, Miss Vero is more interested in cuisine and believes that one would find a more authentic Italian meal at Stella's. Miss Vero has enjoyed dining there on a few occasions including one time while seated next to the table of baseball god Mr. Sandy Koufax! (Vero celebrity name dropping officially completed for today).

Here's a useless yet interesting story: One time a neighbor of Mr. Koufax who was friends with Miss Vero, gave a decorative item to Miss Vero that once belonged to Mr. Koufax. In this six degree of separation way, Miss Vero came to know of Mr. Koufax (It certainly wasn't from baseball). Miss Vero heard many tidbits from this neighbor including the amount of taxes that poor Mr. Koufax had to pay (Lawhdy how we hates that taxman), but at least it was all insignificant and not horrible shizz like this:
http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2003/02/24/koufax/

DOES MR. LEMMON HAVE A CRUSH ON MISS VERO?
Children! Pull today's PJ out of the cat box and read Mr. Lemmon's column!
He begins:

"An assortment of Lemmon Drops while waiting for Miss Vero's next blog entry"

Miss Vero will admit that we were a little cranky today, waking up at the crack of noon with alkeehol leaching out of our pores. But this, boys and girls, has made Miss Vero's day, we are officially a Lemmon dropping! Miss Vero will not be so rude as to deny Mr Lemmon's goodwill gesture.

Mr. Lemmon might actually turn out to be some one who we may like, if indeed the accusations by today's letter writer are true. http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/08/letter-sarasota-shows-charter-isnt-left-right-issu/
Miss Vero does not know or care what in the H. E. double toothpicks this man is talking about only that he called
Mr. Lemmon -

"Press Journal’s leftist paranoid pundit, Russ Lemmon, who also hates the IRNA and urges everyone to run see Michael Moore movies."

If this is indeed true kiddies then it would be Miss Vero who has the crush on Mr. Lemmon. Keep that to yourselves it may just be that all the alkeehol hasn't left Miss Vero's brain yet.

Must go, find aspirin bottle.
MWAH!
missvero@live.com