New York STORY Exchange

06/18/2026

06/17/2026

A CHORUS LINE: "Kiss the day goodbye and point me to tomorrow..." LOVE that song, long that play, LOVE YOUR POSTS! LOVE THEM. xox - Barbara Aliprantis , Trilingual (Engish/Greek/American Sign Language), Visual Vernacular/Cinematc Sign Language Jim Kissane, Storyteller

06/17/2026

Bob Sacomano Memory Eternal 🥰

Seinfeld had a particular fondness for characters who existed entirely through reference — figures so frequently discussed, so consistently woven into the fabric of conversation, that audiences came to feel they knew them intimately despite never once seeing their face. Bob Sacamano stands as perhaps the finest example of the technique.

Kramer invoked Bob Sacamano with remarkable regularity throughout the show's nine-season run, citing him as the source of various pieces of dubious advice, peculiar anecdotes, and questionable life experiences. The character became a kind of running joke purely through accumulation — each new reference adding another small, strange detail to a portrait the audience was forced to assemble entirely from secondhand information.

And yet Bob Sacamano was never seen. Not once, across the entire run of the series, did the character physically appear on screen. He existed purely as a name attached to a constantly expanding catalogue of stories, always one step removed from the actual narrative, always just outside the frame.

The choice not to show him was, in retrospect, exactly right. Bob Sacamano's value to the show lay entirely in his unseen nature — in the gap between how much the audience came to know about him through reference and how little they actually knew, having never seen him speak, react, or exist independently of Kramer's retelling.

It is a quietly brilliant piece of comic restraint in a show that rarely practised restraint of any kind — proof that sometimes the funniest character is the one you never actually meet.

06/15/2026

Yes!

Happy Obama Appreciation Day!

06/15/2026

The mosquito !