one great dish at Bond St. (the risotto) but over all underwelming, The Basil people opened #3 called The Basil we went to taste last night and it looks good, and taste's great for a soft opening night, fab wine list!!!...
"So says a report on the three cable news outlets by news analyst Andrew
Tyndall for Terrence Smith's media unit at PBS' NewsHour With Jim Lehrer."
The Jersey City public library gives free internet access in 30 min. alotments. (17 min's remaining.) This looks like it's going to work for me.
She Never Read the Books and Dozed Through the Movie
"Now Mr. Cheney is Lord of the Rings, ruling over his very own Moria, an underground kingdom of bureaucratic hobbits and orcs." --Maureen Dowd, March 3 NYT editorial
frontline: the monster that ate hollywood
simple is usually better, lunch today at Marichu another place i never heard of was clean, flavorful, comfortable and well priced,
wine list ok....looking forward to going back....
we watched Lidia of Felidia cooking on TV sunday so when monday rolled around we went right in for lunch. great wine list with lots of super estates but its an expensive place to drink, we settled in on a bargin 1994 Knoll Gruner Smaragd for $66 bucks, awesome!!
I just finished reading Kitchen Confidential. It was a fun read, but I'm wondering how it was received in the biz.
I'm amazed and pleased to learn that Laura Miller, a muckracking journalist of many years (not the Salon book critic), has just been elected
Mayor of Dallas in a runoff vote. Dallas is the heart of Bush Country, a city run behind the scenes by righteous conservative businessmen. Miller's in for the fight of her life, but that this can happen in Dallas, now, gives me hope that there may be enough populist anger about Enron, etc., to evict Bush and the other thieves come 2004. The odds against her winning were simply unbelievable!
Oh, those tabloids!When I saw the giant
Daily News headline SARAH! I thought they were congratulating our friend Sarah Macfadden on her big jewelry sale to toney retailer
ABC Carpet & Home, but our Sarah's not
that big (not yet): it was surprise gold medal figure skater Sarah Hughes of Long Island. She's also on the front of the
Post, under a big headline screaming MURDERED, which made me start, until I saw that it was an unfortunate congruence with the sad story of captive Wall St Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. You know these editors are agonizing over what is the real news. But the best line was on the back of the Post, where a picture of fallen favorite Michelle Kwan was tagged NO KWAN DO!
I like the fractal tree. Very bauhuaroque!
im listening to a radioshow which asked, "whats the worst tv spinoff of all time?"
1) The Ropers
2) Enos
3) Fish
4) Flo
5) afterMASH
they disqualified joanie loves chachi because they thought it too obvious. others mentioned were a jeffersons spinoff for the housekeeper, carmine apparently had one from laverne and shirley, three sanford and sons spinoffs, two whats happening spinoffs and gloria and archie bunkers place from all in the family. any favorites?
whats the deal with
ultra wideband, not to be confused with the average white band?
Still haven’t come up with that LOTR movie review. Probably should see it again; first time around I was preoccupied with comparing it to my own imaginings. It measured up pretty well, but what about Tolkien’s vision? Well, here’s a good presentation of
Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien, which includes most of his illustrations for
LOTR, The Hobbit, and the
Silmarillion. He wasn’t a great artist, but an effective illustrator, and his renderings must be considered definitive. In line with his prose, he excels at landscape, which he lovingly describes in the books (these pictures were clearly studied by the filmmakers), but he could barely draw figures. Just so, his written descriptions of persons are often vague and general, which leaves room for your own imagination, but is rather frustrating for the geek who wants to
know what an Elf really looks like. I can only find
one picture with Elves, and while it’s one of my favorites, it’s not much help. It’s like a
Claude Lorraine: the figures are just a foil for the landscape. Still, you can see (try this
oversized version) that these Elves wear culottes and pointy shoes! In fact, Tolkien’s conceptions are much closer to Victorian fairy art than today’s sword and sorcery fans would probably like.
AI NailedJustine Elias, in the Village Voice's 2001 Films in Review:
This is the image in A.I. that to me sums up the team of Spielberg and Kubrick: The fugitive mechas escape to Smut Island or whatever it's called, which looks like the Food Court at a 1970s shopping mall, and Gigolo Joe, the Kubrick figure, is happily pointing out the sights—"Here's where I ply my sleazily robotic trade!"—which would be totally perverted if the sex talk weren't sailing right over the head of little RoboBoy, Steven, who's going, "My mommy told me to look for the Blue Fairy! I love my mommy!"
One Last Pathetic Lie from a Dying, Former Free Internet Service Provider
"AltaVista's free Web-based e-mail is the last of the portal-like services that the site offered, and, as many of you became aware of AltaVista's pure search focus, usage of the service has waned. As stated in our e-mail, the company will no longer support free e-mail after March 31st, 2002."
Translation: "As more and more of you saw flies hovering over our company..."
No, wait! I see what they mean. "As more and more of you realized how incredibly good the AltaVista search engine was getting, you guessed that email couldn't possibly be a priority for the company, so you began seeking out services for which you would have to pay." Right?
Or, maybe it means, "As our pure search focus improved, you began spending more time surfing the web and less time sending email..."
Hard to know which half-truth actually applies here. But hats off to the copywriter for such well-crafted BS.
