fromthemouthofmoi

I have to get this one out. There are so many pieces that I am writing right now and so much going on in the world but this is the one that I wake up to each morning. Last year when my daily morning email arrived from, The NY Daily News, I quickly scanned the headlines and noticed the phrase: Headless Body in Topless Bar. The email only mentioned that the writer who'd coined that phrase had died. And then I heard someone knocking at my door and I failed to open the story or follow up on it at a later time. It was a phrase I was well familiar with and one that made me, as well as others, chuckle. What I did not know last year is that the writer of that phrase was a man I had dated back in the 1990's. Vincent Musetto. Everyone called him Vinnie. The only reason I didn't call him Vinnie is I think I started laughing when he suggested I call him Vinnie. It was such a goombah name and I couldn't say Vinnie without sounding like I was his Italian mother. And he introdu...