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WHICH contingencies embarrassingly fought over who was responsible for plowing the boardwalk of snow, so it was delayed in getting done and when it did get done just a six-foot wide path was plowed?  Boardwalk business owners claim that they lost money because of the delay.  (12.29.09)

WHICH Manasquan Atlantic Club member, whose monster SUV was illegally blocking the door of a wheelchair-bound 17 year-old, screamed at the teen “You shouldn’t be here.  People like you make me depressed…. ...

.” after SUV Guy was paged and told to move the gas-guzzler immediately.  Shockingly, despite many witnesses, the Club did not revoke this disgusting man’s membership.  The teen is now off to college and, hopefully, better surroundings.  Email the Club’s Senior Director and let her know your disgust:  kathyg@theatlanticclub.com[10].  (12.29.09)

WHICH talented and popular queen of dining is rumored to be adding a new jewel to her crown – the former Mattison Park space?  How wonderful will it be to have really great Cajun cuisine in our backyard potentially by late February?  She deserves every ounce of her success.  (12.29.09)     

WHICH local’s landlord recently did a walk-through of one of the converted Victorian’s apartment and found a dead mouse stuck in a plate of maple syrup on the counter of a reasonably clean, professional local?  Tenant replied, “Oh, I that’s from a couple of days ago…I had pancakes.”  OMG.  (12.29.09)

WHICH Wanamassa home’s October yard sale brazenly included “hundreds of VHS porn tapes of all types” according to my snitch and, creepily, a set of children’s “Tinkerbell dolls with electric tape around the face or hands?”  (12.29.09)

WHICH greater area casual restaurant had work done recently in the kitchen and the contractor reported there was “layers on layers of grease…soooo gross?”  My snitch said he would never eat there again – or let his friends.  (12.29.09)

WHICH bumbling burglar was caught after shoplifting last week because he was identified on the surveillance camera wearing his TJ’s Pizza delivery jacket?  Ug.  (12.29.09) 

WHICH area town department’s employees most of  Christmas Eve in an office tracking Santa’s travels on NoradSanta.org?  (12.29.09)

WHICH major satellite radio personality stopped in Allenhurst and Asbury Park for a teeny bit of holiday antique shopping last week on her way from New York to her home on Long Beach Island, in Harvey Cedars?  (12.29.09)

WHICH southeast residing straight couple hysterically reminisced about the worst gift he ever gave her – 10 years ago – when they lived in northern NJ?  “He gave me a 20 foot extension cord.  He said he saw me struggling to vacuum the house – always stopping and plugging in the vacuum.  He said he thought it would make life easier for me.  It made life a lot more difficult for him for a while.”  Smile.  (12.23.09) 

WHICH greater-area residing blonde was overheard Saturday during the storm telling friends what their New Year’s resolution should be?   “Just wait till someone tells her what her many, many resolutions should be,” said my snitch.  Ug.  (12.24.09) 

AT which real estate agency’s holiday party were the realtors whining about the lovely meal served at a great restaurant in town – without being able to say what specifically was wrong?  (12.24.09) 

WHICH head of a local gay rights lobbying firm said he was “on vacation” when media outlets reached out to him for breaking news this week – leaving his constituents without a voice in an important evolving issue.  (12.24.09) 

WHO revealed the wonderful light, fragrant and fruity house Pinot Grigio at ultra fancy-pants David Burke’s restaurant[12] La Fromagerie in Rumson – served there at $8 a glass – is by northeast Italy’s Collegiata label [photo right] and available special order at Spirits Liquors in Wanamassa for $7 a bottle?  It’s a really, really fab wine.  (12.24.09)  

WHICH Ocean Grove restaurant was the place to be on Saturday during the storm?  So indicative of the wonderful community spirit, the restaurant – one owner’s career as a fancy model – hosted an intimate, spontaneous BYOB snow celebration as the weather outside was frightful.  (12.24.09) 

WHICH new-ish owner of an area laundromat is suing the former owner because he believes the balance sheets reviewed prior to the purchase were not correct?  The former owner recently reviewed the energy and water usage for the past 10 months and its simply that business is down 30% – nothing to do with doctored balance sheets, as the new owner believes.  (12.24.09) 

WHICH rubenesque local lady – who’s phone number is filed under “b*tch” in at least three cellphones – took an ungraceful tumble as she stumbled out of Watermark recently, to the not-good-karma giggles of many onlookers.  Physically, she is fine enough, after the fall.  (12.24.09) 

NOW, it can be confirmed that the blind item published in Ted Casablanca’s October 2005 E! Entertainment gossip column, naming a “young, pretty” film actress the “Jordache Junky” because she was “smacked out…a horse girl” (on horse tranquilizer).  The film actress referred to was Brittany Murphy, who passed away Sunday morning – in 2005 she was the spokesmodel for Jordache Jeans.  (12.24.09) 

EXCLUSIVE: WHICH of my well placed real estate snitches revealed the cheesy outlet mall at the Manasquan Circle (Route 35) is getting a fancy-pants makeover including a name change – Atlantic Circle Plaza [exclusive preview rendering below]– and a 35,000 square foot “specialty market” – rumored to be a Whole Foods, possibly a Trader Joe’s and more?  The management company and Michele Wilk, the rental realtor, had no comment.  (12.17.09) 

AT which fancy-pants Wanamassa attorney’s first-class 40th birthday celebration at McLoone’s Supper Club, attended by more than 80, Saturday did big-time film producer, James Garbus (“Save Me,” “Dream Boy”) reveal his new project “Brooklyn to Manhattan” – about four people who run for their lives in the Brooklyn subway tunnels after a botched drug deal – has completed production?  (12.17.09) 

WHICH thirtysomething ultra-sexy blonde lipstick lesbian on-the-sly vacationed with her husband in Key West recently?  While he was sleeping, she stepped out for secret lady love.  (12.17.09) 

WHICH home inspector forgot to turn the furnace down after testing it during a hot day last summer…10 hours later, the Ocean Grove tenant returned home to find a dead bird, rabbit and two gerbils.  OMG.  (12.17.09) 

WHICH sexy new boy couple’s favorite fetish is “Wax Play” – hot wax on skin?  They claim to have discovered their passion after a dog knocked over a candle on the couch recently.  (12.17.09) 

WHICH northwest residing gay should plan on an intervention in the New Year?  I hear dear friends are concerned he has been arriving at parties loaded this holiday, drunk-n-texting late night and drinking at home alone. (12.17.09)  

WHICH eastsider’s father was just released from Club Fed after 10 years and is now in a halfway house, soon to come to Asbury Park for the final step in his release – home confinement for a few months?  He went to prison for a white collar crime involving financial improprieties.  (12.17.09) 

WHICH gorgeous local publicist was formerly a way-important fashion model for the Elite agency, traveling the world and living in Milan for months at a time?  Knobelwoman.com has more.  (12.17.09) 

WHO revealed to me that TheBPlot’s email address has been curiously banned from receiving the GayAsburyPark.com newsletter?  Not at all community spirit-ish on the site’s new owner’s part however we take it as a compliment.  At last count TheBPlot has 11 known reporters and producers on its distribution list…and welcomes more. (12.17.09) 

EXCLUSIVE:  WHICH Asbury Park columnist - just guess (smile) – recently returned to the Howard Stern Show to tape a “Best of the 90’s” interview, airing between Christmas and the New Year?  Immediately prior to his interview was Bon Jovi and after was comic Sandra Bernhardt.  Bon Jovi arrived with his group and his wife, Dorothea, however she was not on the Rockefeller Center building’s security checklist.  SO, the rent-a-cops would not let Dorothea into the building.  Understandably irritated, Bon Jovi took his blonde weave-looking hair and wife and left, only to be phoned in his car blocks away by desperately apologetic producers begging him to come back…which the rocker did with a smile.  Total gentleman.  (12.17.09) 

WHICH performer did his well-received exceedingly energetic show high on crystal meth this month?  (12.10.09) 

WHICH post-op transsexual is up to her Oscar-worthy years-old tricks again acting as if she is a victim of the world, her landlord, her neighbors, her friends, the police, her ex-wife, judges, employers, clients, boyfriends…?  Her exhausting, embarrassing and threatening Facebook rants – while sadly humorous to an outsider – are said by some to further “reveal a person who is choosing not to take responsibility for any of her actions.  Complete denial.”  New for me was reading that she is playing the single mother of three children (one is in college) – which is insulting to anyone who has been raised by a responsible single mother, as I have been.  (12.10.09)  

WHICH recently severed Asbury Park lesbian couple is feuding over a charge on one of their credit cards for the other’s boob job?  (12.10.09) 

WHICH downtown lady’s landlord is attempting to evict her again – this time for non-payment of rent for four months?  My sources say that every time she winds up in court she pays up – after wasting our limited city resources (judge’s time, court time, etc.) which all could be allocated to much better use.  (12.10.09) 

WHICH Asbury Park community leader, emailed the following beyond beautiful love story to Senator Kean to lobby him to support the gay marriage bill.  There could be no better, more universally relatable, revealing story:  “…I had my first date for my first high school dance in 1955 and continued to date women until I was 35 years old, that would up to 1976, a long time in anyone’s life to search for and to wait for something special to happen…. My feelings were in turmoil, always somewhere else but pressures to conform, real or imagined, were great and everywhere: church, family, job, the general culture. Positive role models and a vibrant gay rights movement were still in the future. Here is where it really changed for me. I met and fell in love for the first time in my life at age 57– Senator, can you imagine yourself falling in love for the first time in your life at 57?  That is a whole lifetime!  A lifetime of missing the joys of love, fulfillment, comfort, support, peace of mind and security, and the possibility of children. You, and my brothers know and have experienced all of that for most of your lives and you are not yet 57!”  Call or email Senator Kean right now to voice your opinion:  732.974.0400 or SenSKean@NJLeg.org[14].  (12.10.09) 

WHICH two incredibly brilliant Madison Marquette guys were spotted reading The Coaster’s front-page article about iStar taking control of Asbury Partners, over lunch Thursday at Langosta Lounge?  Smile.  (12.10.09) 

NEXT WEEK: I dish about my return to Howard Stern – including my moment with Bon Jovi.  And reveal which mornings my taped interview will air. 

WHICH of my “Today Show” snitches revealed a conversation Wednesday between the producers of the fourth hour of the show’s “host chat” – with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb?  Given the continuing breaking news with the Tiger Woods scandal and Kathie Lee’s experience with public infidelity with her husband Frank in 1997 (with a flight attendant) producers thought it would be a great idea to drum up publicity for the show if Kathie Lee discussed the Woods scandal from a “personal point of view.”  “Absolutely not will I rehash any of that horrible history in my life,” my snitch quoted the fab Kathie Lee as saying loudly.  Frustrated producers gripe that the two ladies are talking about the biggest pop culture news story, on the biggest news show, in a way that the experience is ”so foreign to them both.  It’s the 500 pound gorilla in the room that nobody wants to pay attention to.”   Ug.  (12.03.09) 

WHICH former area mayor cancelled his decade-plus long tradition of hosting a Thanksgiving Day “Man-Only” breakfast, to the dismay of many men?  Many question whether the breakfast was cancelled because what was once a breakfast for testosterone-packed town employees and friends saw more than 700 people attend last year – including…gasp…uninvited women.  (12.03.09)   

IN which beach-area entertainment venue was a man and woman caught full-on kicking-it behind a makeshift stage?  No one stopped them – people took photos!  (12.03.09)        

WHICH firefighter, when asked to be photographed in his boxer shorts for the 2010 calendar (launched last Saturday) replied, “I would but I am not wearing underwear – and I don’t usually under my uniform”?  Excellent answer.  (12.03.09)  

AT which local one-time event in town were security guards hired not to keep peace, but to make sure guys kept their pieces in their pants?  (12.03.09)  

WHICH west-side residing Asbury Park local was overheard raving about the redesigned city website?  He especially loved the new Morro Castle video.  (12.03.09)   

OVERHEARD during Brad Hurtado’s RIDE party at the Stone Pony: “A bear is a self-identified gay man lifestyle sub-category.”  Wow.  (12.03.09)  

WHO knew realtor Sammy Boyd – who is producing the almost sold-out holiday show in Red Bank featuring Ronnie Spector – is planning shows in Asbury Park Spring 2010 with Tony Bennett and potentially Liza Minnelli?  More to come.  (12.03.09)    

WHICH columnist – with the area’s #1 features site – has an interview on Howard Stern airing shortly?  When he went to the studio to tape the interview he was scheduled right after Bon Jovi and before Sandra Bernhardt.  (12.03.09)   

WHICH new and successful realtor, with a knack for dropping friends after a few years, would be going into a shame spiral – if he had a soul – because a friend who claims he was used then dumped by Realtor when Realtor lived in Jersey City has moved here and is telling all about Realtor’s history, including frequent visits to the Eagle (raunchy bar) in NYC?  (12.03.09)  

WHICH greater area restaurant and bar mogul employs a bartender solely to serve him his favorite red wine from 11 am to 5 pm at his home or at one of his bars (all closed during the day), weekdays?  (12.03.09)  

WHICH multiple property owner was spotted at the Adriatic getting cozy with a former much younger girlfriend?  What would his current girlfriend think?  (12.03.09)   

WHICH smoking hot twentysomething, blonde Asbury Park-er shared the creepiest pick-up line she has heard recently in town: “Does my napkin smell like chloroform?”  Yikes.  (12.03.09)  

WHICH owner of an iconic Italian restaurant in town tells her employees, “No chewing in the kitchen”?  Staff at this hugely successful restaurant brown bag it to work – waitresses can’t even sample the specials.  That’s why these hard-working, superior waitresses say “I saw (insert menu item) and it looks great” to customers – no mention of the taste.  My snitch bitterly said, “(The owners) won’t spring for twelve-cents worth of pasta for each of us.”  Ug.  (11.25.09)     

IN which recent house sale did the ultra-cheap seller – a multiple property owner in the area – remove many of the home’s light bulbs after the walk-through, before the closing?  (11.25.09)  

WHICH recently widowed wife of an avid saltwater aquarium hobbyist quietly donated two huuuuuuuge fish tanks – and their contents of beautiful fish – to Jenkinson’s Aquarium in Point Pleasant?  (11.25.09)    

WHICH realtor – who is said to go from one person to the next mooching everything from cigarettes to meals – bumped into a friend and reamed him out because Realtor is owed $83 by another friend?  Realtor’s friend said, “I was about to start going through my wallet to get out $83 to make him stop talking about it and go away.”  (11.25.09)  

WHO knew that Donna Bell’s Southern Desserts (the dessert truck seen on Cookman Avenue during First Night) uses decades-old New Orleans recipes courtesy of Pauley Perrette’s (star of TV show NCIS) mom?  Darren and Pauley have been friends for decades.  The banana pudding is to die for and I hear Darren is getting tons of holiday orders.  (11.25.09)   

WHICH additional media outlet – this one a quarterly mag out of Red Bank – should be added to the list of print and online publications that leverage TheBPlot for their story ideas and fact-checking, without giving us credit, instead of doing their own work?  Since The New York Post and The Asbury Park Press (not Nancy Shields) have done it, the other ones are in good company, despite irritating me immensely.  (11.25.09)  

WHICH downtown star chef has a “casual encounters” ad online that would make you want to tear your eyeballs out with a rusty spoon?  (11.25.09)  

WHICH fancy Asbury Park antique store relies too much on the honesty system (read zero research) when ascertaining the genesis of new merchandise acquisitions?  A male salesman recently told customers the benches were from the 1920’s however upon further review, the customer knew Phillips Head screws were not used en mass until at least the late 1960’s.  Regardless, the benches are in happy area homes and Stella Marina and were outside of Langosta Lounge.  (11.25.09)  

HOW many locals are loving the great Mexican cuisine from El Monterey on Main Street?  The décor doesn’t do the food justice – sooooo good.  And they deliver too.  It’s one of my new favorite places, introduced to me by local in-the-know foodie Sonja O’Brien.  (11.25.09) 

WHICH local, prominent businessman wanted to kill time in between meetings and wanted to watch CNBC – which he claims is not on any of the TV screens in the Brick Wall and Rafferty’s during the day.  So, he went to an area go-go bar.  He continues the story, “It was me and I think two other guys in the place and three dancers and a bartender.  I gave the bartender a five dollar tip for my beer and to turn on CNBC, which she gladly did.  As the dancers came around I gave them each five dollars and told them I wanted to watch the TV.  The last girl whined ‘You want to watch that instead me?’  So I said, ‘I’ve seen better sweetheart.’”  She started screaming at me that I was an asshole – which I was, but so was she.  I walked out to the bartender screaming at the dancer to shut the f**k up.”  What a bananas scene that place sounds like.   (11.19.09)   

WHICH realtor thought she let a homeowner’s indoor cat out while showing an Ocean Grove property?  She and the prospective buyers scrambled to get the cat back in the home…it wasn’t the right cat!  (11.19.09)   

OVERHEARD at Jill Potter’s fabulous birthday at Laila’s restaurant (named after one of the owner’s grandchildren) to Amy Quinn, who ran for city council this year, “Amy, next time will be your time.”  I love Amy more every time I speak with her.  (11.19.09)   

WHICH kind and sweet bank teller – just doing her best at Bank of America in Allenhurst – was Branch Manager, Diane, beyond excessively berating about her time sheet Thursday

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