This Is War

I worked from home on Friday which was a damn shame because I missed a special delivery that came in a package marked “savory, vibrant, luscious & sweet” but, more pressingly, “PERISHABLE.” So I thought it was good fortune that someone not named Blarney had the good sense to put it in the fridge. I thought. After the jump, behold what a certain CNBC anchor and his goombahs sent to the office under the semblance of a gift. I see it more as a threat. Like the fish in the Godfather that signaled Luca slept with the fishes, No Sleeves is letting me know via deli meat that I’m going to die. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point in the not too distant future, one of his associates will be paying me a visit and for what? Merely sharing with the world how he likes to work out, sartorially speaking. You know what? That’s fine. He wants to play hard ball? I’m game, by which I mean watch for the package of week-old lox, coming your way. Vaffanculo, testa di cazzo, Charlie Gasparino.


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*If this wasn’t a Sicilian message, and just a kind gesture, thanks Charlie. The soppressata looks delicious.

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Comments (23)

  1. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 3:04 PM

    Oh this is going to be goooood…

  2. Posted by jag | February 4, 2008 at 3:06 PM

    Ah, good to see a Bess post amidst all this Carney blather.
    Who’s up for pelting Charlie with stale bagels?

  3. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 3:11 PM

    hahaha

  4. Posted by GAnalYst | February 4, 2008 at 3:14 PM

    Just curious, how big is that thing?

  5. Posted by good luck bess | February 4, 2008 at 3:15 PM

    that thing is huge

  6. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 3:15 PM

    brilliant
    whose return address was on the package though?

  7. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 3:15 PM

    What girl doesn’t like to receive meat?

  8. Posted by ive been at the nytimes for 20 yrs and i've never received so much as a slice of turkey | February 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM

    andrew ross sorkin is so fucking bitter.

  9. Posted by Dick Trickle | February 4, 2008 at 3:31 PM

    @3:15 That’s what she said…
    Meaty!

  10. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 3:31 PM

    BESS LEVIN! I hope to gawd that is a beef supersata.
    Oh your grandpa Moishe must be turning in his grave right now, and you a nice jewish girl receiving traif from a goy!

  11. Posted by Anonymeemous | February 4, 2008 at 3:32 PM

    she wants for breakfast ?

  12. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 3:35 PM

    there used to be (actaully could still be for all I know) a sign in Katz’s Deli “send a salami to your boy in the army”. I challenge the more creative of you, that would be you 3:31, to reformat that for the current situation. I’m waiting.

  13. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 3:56 PM

    @3:35 yes katz’s still exists and they still have those signs. you can bet thats not a pork salami though!

  14. Posted by Anal_yst | February 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM

    KLW, I have a sausage (kosher, of course) I”d love to send you

  15. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    This is WAR peacock! Casualties are inevitable. You can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs, every cook will tell you that.

  16. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 4:26 PM

    But look what happened to the cook!

  17. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM

    Going to the mattresses, Bess?

  18. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 4:53 PM

    clue rules

  19. Posted by Johnny Canuck | February 4, 2008 at 5:06 PM

    A sausage-gram? Awesome.

  20. Posted by Gaspipe | February 4, 2008 at 5:07 PM

    Gasparino’s some heck of a cool guy …. nothing says generous and swarthy like sending someone sooprezaat

  21. Posted by Gaspipe | February 4, 2008 at 5:42 PM

    Gasparino’s some heck of a cool guy …. nothing says generous and swarthy like sending someone sooprezaat

  22. Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2008 at 10:21 PM

    that’s ugly. looks like a penissss that has cancer

  23. Posted by Anonymous | February 5, 2008 at 7:56 AM

    is that how you spell that?

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