Lunchtime for Old Bud and his daughter Ivy as they dig into some famous Chicago deep dish pizza from an excellent restaurant in Lombard, Illinois, back in 1977 called Sorrento’s. Their pizza hooked me on deep dish pizza for life and I sorely miss eating true Chicago pizza now that I live here in North Carolina. Unfortunately, Sorrento’s closed their doors back in the 1980’s, but there are plenty of other deep dish pizza places in Chicagoland.
A little nod to comic John Pinette’s routine about Chinese Buffets on the sign next to the recording studio. “You go now! You here four hour!” as John mimicked the buffet’s owner. Mr. Pinette was a rather large man and he made fun of that fact in many of his bits. Unfortunately John passed away a few years back, but we still have his recorded comedy bits to make us laugh.
Living in a New York flophouse for a week certainly brings to mind the Doors’ “Roadhouse Blues” as I’m sure Bud and the gang will wake up and get themselves a beer to ease the pain of living in such squalid facilities.
Here’s John Pinette’s bit on Chinese Buffets. It’s hilarious!
Just to pick a few nits: I f Sorrento’s went out of business in the 80’s then how can Bud and Ivy be eating their pizzas in what is supposed to be more or less the present? (but I agree on deeep pan pizzas being SO much better than the ordinary ones – may all Neapolitans forgive me)
Wonder if they are call girls they had a hotel on top of a bus stop in Toronto where they and their customers congregate. I even saw them in leopard printed catsuits, leather jackets, hot pants, panty hose and heels. Meanwhile I had to walk over a hobo who probably got cheap thrills looking up my little black dress and heels just to see electric circus. Don’t blame Ivy I would not go to flop house unless destitute to avoid getting infested with invincible bedbugs and cockroaches rahahahaha. I cook my own bok choy, rice, mushrooms and vegetables. Make your own pizza it’s cheaper to get Italian flat bread, pour tomato sauce, olives, mushrooms, puffballs, anchovies and cheese oh yeah. Wonder if Plan 9 will see the Village People maybe dancing on a Kidd class destroyer to in the navy video. Jeff could be the ship’s b-t-h oh that’s mean. At least they are no sadomaohistic teddy bears wearing leather caps, harnesses, chaps, jock straps, gloves and boots dancing to Judas Priest midnight on love bites yet mohahahaha.
Deep dish pizza…we call that lasagna up here 😉
I think the Airforce put me up in that Toronto hotel once…nice lobby but the halls had torn up stained carpets and the rooms were worse, pretty sure they charged by the hour…there’s nothing like laying garbage bags on the bed before lying down on it.
and of course this popped into my head
“sittin’ and starin’ out of the hotel window…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSur0mFviT0
The buffet on the other hand, conjured up this one…looks like it fits right in
A Canadian cuisine treat for y’all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydZhK-66Bw
15ips, nice touch 😉 love the little digs and asides that get dropped in
I usually used 7 1/2 for production work unless I knew there was going to be a lot of splicing bits in, it uses more tape but it’s a heckuva lot easier to hit the mark with 15. Even with a multitrack Ampex I still ended up splicing a lot because it was easier to get the timing right.
Nice shout-out to the late, great John Pinette!!
So great to see the John Pinette tribute (RIP)! I bought that tape at a truck stop on I-80 in PA and played it in the car to stay awake! It was so funny I wore it out playing it over and over! “Eat brocurri!”, and, “You scare my wife! YOU GO NOW!” ?