It’s a classic Abe story — there are so many classic Abe stories — set at one of those panel discussions that crop up periodically about the death of delis, which seem to have been dying as long as the theater. Abe is Abe Lebewohl, who started the Second Avenue Deli on the Lower East Side in 1954 with 14 seats, bought out his partners and turned it into a beloved New York institution.

He was at that conference of food writers, in the mid-1990s, along with Mark Federman, the owner of Russ & Daughters, which is to “appetizing” what Second Avenue was to deli. Appetizing refers to smoked fish — lox, herring, whitefish — and even though it’s not corned beef or pastrami, it’s still Old World Jewish food loaded with salt, so he fit right in. Federman went first, speaking from copious notes, about how fish is good for you. When it was Lebewohl’s turn, he got up, noteless, and looked at the audience. “What am I gonna tell you?” he said. “My food will kill you.”

10 Things Your Restaurant Won't Tell You

what every kid wants to be for halloween this year.

with the end of times select also comes an additional bonus, they've opened up the archives. i always wanted to link to this previously expired story :

Kentucky Doctors Warn Against a Regional Dish: Squirrels' Brains

someone get cheney down here

rip lady jaye breyer p-o

dont fear fig beer

( Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery, is the author of “The Brewmaster’s Table.”)

clockwise or counter clockwise

Broadcom unveils 3G 'phone on a chip'

Very Basic Co-location Package

this is the last of the old school italian delis in down town jersey city. 2nd street bakery

Rudy!
-- If he's nominated, he's a real threat. Look at the governator, for example. Is Dobson playing some kind of Kabuki so that the left doesn't worry about Rudy?

colbert on larry king now. they are using clips from the colbert show (ironic whirling graphics) and then book end them with larry king show (non ironic mega rotating mic graphics). quite an eyefull.

life imitates seinfeld II :

marty funkhouser is really bob einstein is really super dave osborne

ny mag article on lack of sleep in kids and how it can affect their ability to process memories and also increases rates of obesity.

post ambush comedy

josh marshall must have found his i heart gore/lieberman pin this morning and pined for the days when he would have fellated gores 2000 presidential campaign handlers given half the chance. as i vividly recall, gore ran shrieking away from his "liberal" environmentalism, not on it. and there was that thing about not winning his home state and refusing to embrace the successes and the aid of his predecessor during the campaign. which is not to say nader hasnt lost his luster in the intervening years but to continually blame him for gores failings, and the media heathers who lambasted him at every turn, is tiresome.

ScanCafe: cheap, high quality photo scans. Kevin Kelly has a rave review.

This service will digitize your old slides, negatives and photographic prints at high quality and at a very cheap price. I've been using them to scan my 30-year backlog of photographs and I have been delighted with the results. I've used other services to scan my old photos; ScanCafe is by far the best deal. Their prices are fantastic. To scan a slide is just 24 cents, a color negative 19 cents.

Did I post this already? I don't know, but I've always been amused by the weird use of quotation marks found on so many signs. And here's a whole blog "dedicated" to the subject.

i found a good toy site this morning, for those with kids.

recycle old electronics in october. what to bring:

working and non-working:
computers (laptop & desktop),
servers, mainframes
monitors
printers, scanners, fax-machines, copiers
network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, etc.)
components (hard drives, CD Roms, circuit boards, power supplies, etc,)
tvs,vcrs & dvd players
audio visual devices
radios/stereos
cell phones, pagers
pdas, telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)
media (floppies, cds, zips, vhs tapes)

PS3 to Debut as IPTV Set-Top Box

I thought Folgers tasted like poo until I heard of this

An Interview with architect Lebbeus Woods.

new to me as an old rocker is Ticketmaster Auctions

my partner and i wanted to spend a nite out this fall and so we heard neil young was playing uptown at this beautiful place called United Palace Theatre (owned by a church), so i went to see on sale date and discovered they were auctioning the front rows (part of??), we got 4th row center for 2 x face....

i assume neil oked this and made the $$, the scalpers whom i assume also bought now are charging 4x.....