That's right, Bruno Battaglia, now nearing 60, back for another summer of beach bumming on the Ventnor shoreline. Hey Bruno! You look, well, EXACTLY, the same. "Nothing has changed," he says. Battaglia, who prompted a bit of a firestorm last summer after revealing his determination to live each and every day happy and relaxed and working on his tan, looks in excellent mid-summer bronzed form. At least from the front. I almost didn't recognize Bruno from a distance this morning because he was wearing a black tank top on his way to the beach. I've never seen Bruno with a shirt on! But Bruno says early in the summer, when his front is much tanner than his back, he doesn't like to go shirtless except on the beach. At some point, working on his back in the early morning hours, he will have evened himself out, he says, and will leave the shirt at home. Here's a picture from last summer for comparison's sake. Meanwhile, he's in towel crisis, with the last of his orange and yellow sun towels in rotation. He can't find any more! Help! He's even thinking of switching to a palm tree motif, which seems to be in all the stores. Good to see you made to another summer in Ventnor, Bruno. You never know what could happen over a winter. (Running on the Boardwalk yesterday, I did note that a lot of people got pregnant! Congratulations, Ladies!) One woman he passes on his way to and from the beach lost her husband over the winter, so the ever-helpful Bruno is spending extra time talking with her. awwww. Anyway, good to see Bruno's back: