The most vicious movie ever filmed in the winter had to be FARGO by Coen Brothers. Critics portrayed the flick as a dark comedy about a kidnapping gone bad in the frozen wasteland of North Dakota. A place few Americans have ever visited. Murder, betrayal, horrifying body disposal and dialogues marked by huffs of icy breath earned the movie seven Academy nominations in 1996. Punishment was cruel in the snow, however this week New York's mayor found revenge for his humiliation during the Xmas weekend blizzard by firing the director of NYC's EMS force.
This man had worked his way through the ranks and spent most of the blizzard digging out ambulances and helping his people respond to the deluge of 911 calls from snowbound New Yorkers. 49,478 emergencies filtered through the system resulting in a backlog of 1,300 calls on Dec. 27. A failure ratio of about 4% during the most savage snowstorm to hit the five boroughs in decades. The NY Post and Wall Street Journal excoriated the labor unions for a rumored slowdown on the weekend.
Everyone else was at home eating Xmas left-overs and EMS, Sanitation, NYPD, and FDNY were at their posts. Wall Street was on on their fat asses Monday. Me too and I didn't go anywhere on that Snowday, since I had wine and weed on hand in my apartment.
Wait a sec.
I went to a party underneath the Williamsburg Bridge with my nephew. We got fucked up. A taxi drove us to Fort Greene. A girl kissed me good-night. It was a beautiful night. Only not for the workers. They always lose in America today.
Good work Commissioner Peruggio.
You're my kind of man.
And one more thing
Fuck Mayor Bloomberg.
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