lunch at 66 was out of site, braised beef chow fun was absolutly amazing, massive dumpling list inc fantastic fried shrimp wonton's, sesame noodles were incredable.....food prices are not too expensive (9 shared dishes was slighty exsesive @ $65 each, so if you had a normale meal it could be like $50), but massive wine consumption can run the bill up, the 2001 Dr Thanish Spatlese at $87 is the wine for the spicy food and its one of the worlds great wines but due to it being lighter in alcohol one bottle per person is easy....
The Viridian Blog has a new URL.
One of my nephews joined the army reserve out of high school about a year and a half ago, for the free college education. He's been called to Kuwait, stopping briefly in Virginia for last minute training. I guess the show is on.
Otto take one is NG on the pizza: doughy, poshed to unpurrfection (lardo one is nice), cold before you bite the 2nd slice......some of the app's rock, but overall our table will not return often...will try one more time soon
Mike emailed this fun link to me.
another fantastic GSIMidtown meal.....followed by late nite snacks at Town (not my scene but, the best frogs legs I have ever eaten in NYC, other app's were also very good, place was pretty full-up too)
I'm not sure if this means anything, but coincidence is always intriguing, and I almost posted this, and now since Frank's given me another opening… Anyway, I'll do it here, to avoid trolling for trolls…
So my mother (who, unlike me, actually reads contemporary poetry) sent me (hardcopy, via USPS) a poem she thought I'd like, about birds and love and such. It was by Anthony Hecht. I couldn't really place him, though the name was vaguely familiar, but immediately thereafter I was following a search from my referrer log which led to a page of "literary symbiosis": parodies, symbionts, retellings, etc. There I found a poem I'd long recalled, though I'd read it many years ago and had forgotten the poet. Of course, it was by Hecht. The poem is The Dover Bitch, which gives a third party version of Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach, with an appreciation of the girl's point of view. This had nothing to do with the search, which was for Sumer is Icumen in, but in view of the current weather you should check out Ezra Pound's wicked winterizing of that old lyric, appearing on the same page. If you know what this all adds up to, you can tell me.
anyone bump into the rumored aerial photo of last saturday's protest rally ?
These are great times.
"The attraction of hydrogen is great, since hydrogen-based transportation would both be environmentally benign and reduce the need for the United States to import petroleum. But Bush's proposal joins a new convention of rhapsodizing about hydrogen-powered transportation--Jeremy Rifkin numbers among current hydrogen zealots--while skipping over the small matter of where we get the hydrogen. Worse, the White House plan offers a long-term distraction from a short-term need: While the administration dreams big about our hydrogen-powered future, it does little to improve fuel-economy standards today."
Artforum mentions blogs (not very interesting, but I thought Tom should see.)
virtually free hiptops at amazon. is it worth it?
the local news this morning mentioned the possibility of snow. anybody know anything about that?
New Orleans food is as good as thier music.....

#1 Uglesich's with thier shrimp and grits, crawfish balls, fried green tomatoe's, grilled catfish, bacon wrapped shimp served with sweet potatoe, firecracker shrimp, fried oysters,
we did 10 app's and no main's as the owner agreed that was the best way to taste...
#2 Frankie & Johnny's (see below)
#3 Mother's: Po-Boys, Etouffee's

Went to Peristyle which had some good dishes and a super chicken dish and Herbsaint which also had some super dishes (gnocchi app, short rib app) but the other dishes were just ok but we tried only a small part of the menu.....

Want to try next time: Irene's Cuisine (rumored to have soft shell crabs served over crawfish linguine:>), Jacques-Imo (place looks cool, next to maple Leaf Bar and I hear the food is better than ever), Pascal's Manale (local's fav), Dooky Chase (Creole super star some say), and oh so many more.....
5 Meals / 21 Hours / New Orleans

*3:00pm Felix Oyster Bar: 24 Oysters and Beer.
*5:30pm Frankie & Johnny's: 2lb Boiled Crawfish, Boiled Shrimp Plate, Crawfish Pie!!, Aligator Soup, Crawfish Po-Boy, Oyster Po-Boy.
*1:00am Camellia Grill: CheeseBurger, Chocolate-Cherry Freeze, "Yankee Sandwich" (a gravy-groovey version of a Philly Cheese Steak)
8:00am Mother's: Crawfish Estoffe Omelete w/ Grits
11:30am Louisiana Pizza Kitchen: Crawfish Pizza

* Jim-Louis(iana) special guest!!
Mike and Linda, that was some fun, thanks.
finally a place i can be comfortable just being me. meet you out back at the cowshed.
google buys blogger
phore peace
goodbye dolly
spam for peace


Join the CARNIVAL BLOC on FEBRUARY 15th

PLEASE REPOST!

Your Friends at Mobilize New York and Reclaim the Streets

Invite YOU to a FAT SATURDAY PARTY and PARADE FOR A WORLD WITHOUT WAR!

Join the CARNIVAL BLOC on FEBRUARY 15th for a MARDI GRAS PARADE to give up WAR-MONGERING for LENT (and a long time after)

Calling all freaks, revelers, puppetistas and drummers, musicians, singers and loud hummers; samba bands, hungry marchers, jugglers, baton twirlers, fire eaters and artists of all stripes; ravers, beehives, and vikings; billionaires for bush, gore or perma-war; radical cheerleaders, reclaimers of streets and critical massers; church ladies for choice, drag queens and kings, radical rockettes, perms for perma-war, church of stop bombers, missile chicks, babes for bombs, students for an undemocratic society, new kids on the blac bloc, those united for peace and justice and anybody and everybody who thinks that this war is absurd. (sorry, but no mimes)

WHAT: A festive and theatrical CARNIVAL BLOC FEEDER MARCH to the anti-war rally on February 15th.

WHEN: 11:30, Saturday Morning, Feb.15th.

WHERE: Between the Lions, on the steps of the New York Public Library, 5th Avenue between 41st and 42nd Streets. From there we1ll march to the big rally

From the steps of the NYPL we'll wend our merry way to the United for the Peace and Justice rally, likely to be at the UN, though this is subject to change, so we'll go where they are. For details on the rally, see www.unitedforpeace.org

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Bring Mardi Gras Beads, costumes, instruments, drums, beats, boom boxes, dancing shoes, noisemakers of all kinds, bring posters and banners and puppets. Bring yourselves and friends. Be prepared to mock the Axis of Oil without mercy.

And please, playful or stern, SPREAD THE WORD!

PLEASE REPOST WIDELY!

Cypress

"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." George Bush, President of the United States Trenton, NJ September 23, 2002
ls.com has some new info about the rivington st hotel.