"Failing the "Perception Test"

"PBS routinely ignores its own rules in allowing conservative/Republican propagandists surreptitious, unacknowledged access to its network."

PORNADO REPORT :

" As you know the Bada Bing Girls from the Soprano's will be appearing in the
August Issue of Playboy.

On June 28th they will be on the Winstar Radio station from 9 to 10 A.M. to
promote the Issue. They will also be appearing on the RON & FEZ Radio Show
at 2:15 PM.

ELEKTRA and the other girls will be appearing at Tower Records in Manhattan,
sometime in midday. And in late afternoon they will be appearing at Tower
Records in Paramus, New Jersey in late afternoon.

Then it's off to the BADA BING (aka SATIN DOLLS in Lodi, New Jersey) for a
HUGE PARTY from 9 to 10 PM. Phone Number is 201-909-8983.

Also at this Party besides the BADA BING GIRLS will be the PLAYBOY CYBER
GIRLS, and cast members of the SOPRANO'S. The age requirement to get into
Satin Doll is 21. Elektra told me there should be a great time had by all.

More news will be available soon."

the ekpyrotic universe - SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS THAT THERE WAS A UNIVERSE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL MATTER THAT WAS EXISTING BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WE ARE IN THAT WAS SLAMMED BY ONE OF THESE 5TH DIMENSIONAL WAVES. AND THEN SETS OFF AGAIN WHAT WE HAVE BEEN CALLING THE BIG BANG WHICH WAS THIS ENORMOUS, RAPID EXPANSION OF HEAT AND ENERGY BEFORE THE CURRENT MATTER UNIVERSE.

I think I'll wait for Alex's confirmation before I believe this, but apparently,

...[a] slithering, evil-eyed alligator is lurking where New Yorkers least expect it - in an otherwise peaceful lake in Central Park.

And like all great media stories, this one provides local New Yorkers with an opportunity to show off their amazing grasp of historical events.

"It was hysterical - like Napoleon crossing the Delaware or something," one source said, chuckling.

Indeed.

according to a TV show linda and i were watching the top 3 illicit trades are 1) drugs 2) endangered animals 3) arms

Mermaid Parade gets packaged.
NY Post article.

But do they have a vibrate mode?

Doh : OED

Unhappy people make the best workers. Boy, that really makes a lot of things clear. (via plastic)

dave on strike?

sarah macfadden
one of a kind jewelry show
one night only

tues. 6/19/01 6-9
clemente soto velez cultural center
2nd floor gallery
107 suffolk st nyc
riv/del

Richard Helms's niece and the Taliban.
After all, the American Right and Islamic Fundamentalism have a lot of common ground.

Food and Wine magazine call's Beppe one of the Best New Restaurants--so i stopped in and tasted 5 dishes all good++ (again we did seafood only) with the app's better than the main course, the farro risotto which FW recommanded was a bit too salty but very fine(big enough to share)--want to go back for more app's--tuscan only wine list is a bit boring....45E22nd st.

Wren's Nest
Pagan weblog.

saddam's book to be tv series

Marijuana after age 45 harder on heart than sex
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
June 12, 2001
New York (dpa) - Smoking pot after age 45 puts more stress on the heart than strenuous sex, leading to a five-fold increase in the likelihood of a heart attack for about an hour afterwards, Canadian and U.S. scientists said in media reports Tuesday.

Our friend Ann Scott Cardwell finally got keys to the space I'm sure will be the best restuarant in Lynchburg Virginia.

bull branch
109 eleventh street
between main & commerce
lynchburg, virginia
804.847.8477

Opening September 22.

So just in case you're down that way...

godapalooza

JIMWich has a bunch of links to treehouses. (That's not really a permanent link. I'm guessing that this will be the permanent link after the end of this month.)

"Dave's Not Here !?"

Software as (the real) digital art. This is along the lines of something I was trying to say at last weeks YAT meeting. But I really disagree with the quote from Jon Ippolito, curator of the Guggenheim Museum: "software art shouldn't be too functional, but should help viewers see the world in a new way via original code." Shouldn't be too functional? That's what I don't get about the art world.

I am glad to know people who have--or have tendencies towards--finer culinary habits than I do. It implies a possibility of improvement should I so desire. That I will not always seek the easiest, most cost effective route to hunger appeasement. But for now:

The redesigned Taco Bell at the corner of Broad and Tulane in New Orleans, Louisiana, which is across the street from the Courthouse/Parish prison is not a success, if success is measured by the number of customers drawn to it's interior, which was redesigned with high tables and stools throughout, an orientation clearly not preferred in the hood. The old design of perimeter booths, a short wall in the middle with tables on either side was better. The new design works out in the suburbs where I feel people are more titillated by new things but here in the inner city we want our booths back, and we don't feel at all advantaged by sitting in chairs the tallest of us can barely reach. I myself do the drive-through but have never been inside my newly redesigned neighborhood Taco Bell because there is rarely anyone else in there and, as a lone diner, I like a little company with my americanized mexican food, of which I recommend the steak soft tacos with lime sauce. And Pepsi is ok with that.

I saw Swordfish yesterday. I wish someone had warned me not to, which is what I'm doing now. Instead one might better listen to the Tom Waits song, Swordfishtrombones

Cooking with Wylie.