Mike "C." Bucuvalas, in a familiar pensive pose, will host this week.
If we're lucky, the Jay Man will bring his reputedly delectable guacamole dip to Geoff Shlaes' chateau, 105 Southgate, tomorrow night at 8:28 and will remind me that I want to try it well before Hemorrhoid is dealt.
Meanwhile, I spent a goodly part of my vacation writing a children's book called "Where's Wolffo?" It features a madcap wiseacre in bermuda shorts who shows up in the most unlikely of places (box seats directly behind home plate at Yankee Stadium, Gun Hill Road, the South Side Club, a "spa" called Socrates' Respite) but can never be found at his friendly, neighborhood poker game. It's surely soon to be No. 1,453,942 on Amazon.com.