That's the foot of now-notorious sun worshipper Bruno Battaglia up there, carving his patented sand ottoman so as to provide for proper ventilation. Bruno, an unapologetic beach bum at the age of not-quite-59, seems to have touched a bit of nerve among readers today. While some thought the story "a nice thing to read with all the troubles," lots of people were offended by Bruno's devotion to a care-free, activity-free, work-free, shade-free lifestyle on the Ventnor beach. "Are you kidding me with this guy?" said one caller. "Get some pride. Get some self respect. And we love the beach." Others objected to his glorification of tanning, his dismissal of any possibility of getting skin cancer, and to his plan, at 100 years, to do himself in right there on the beach. Christina Matsinger, reading the story with disgusted coworkers in Broomall, said the story was merely "promoting laziness": "Could you find nothing more entertaining then a 59 year old bum who takes advantage of his poor mother and sits and does nothing productive with his life, but instead wastes away in a lounge chair on the beach?!" Steve Hill wrote: "This guy is a lazy loser who has accomplished nothing in his life and you are celebrating it? The self-absorbed sun king is not someone worthy of print space in your newspaper. Surely there are more meritorious topics to cover." To which I say, I am all ears. If anyone has any ideas for stories about people hanging on the beach in Jersey that might fall under the category of "meritorious" and "substantial," please, send them my way. Also, people wanted to know how Bruno supports the lifestyle, beyond his explanation of freelance masseuse and various and sundry types of mooching and housesitting. Let's just say his expenses are shockingly low.