parino show closes next saturday, plan to go today
elevator to the gallows on tcm now
hawk mountain anyone saturday.
daily count
Two former high-ranking policy experts from the Bush Administration say the U.S. has been gearing up for a war with Iran for years, despite claiming otherwise. It'll be Iraq all over again.
Exciting day today. Flew to San Diego for a meeting. Meeting was canceled due to evacuation of facility. (SoCal is on fire.) Was about to fly back when I noticed my laptop was gone. Left it in the seatback pocket. Phone calls to a couple of computer geeks I know (starting with JimL, then MB) to get my yahoo email password changed. Flew back. Busy changing other passwords, just in case. Five minutes ago found out my laptop is in San Diego. Now need to arrange transport for said ancient computing device. Always carry a machine with
low residual value. (It was teh awsum!!!! in 2003.)
Shorty's .32 - 199 Prince St. at Sullivan. Super thumbs up. Best burger in New York. Amazing short ribs. Definitely worth a look. Dinner only. No reservations.
Shorty came up with Wiley through the Jean-Georges empire, but now has gone in something of the opposite direction doing absolutely perfect comfort food at his new 32 seat place.
New York Mag,
Eater,
Andrea Strong.
Adopted Christian Name ..........Real Jewish Name
# Joey Adams .............................. Joseph Abramowitz
# Eddie Albert ...............................Eddie Heimberger
# Woody Allen.............................. Allen Konigsberg
# Lauren Bacall ........................... Joan Perske
# Jack Benny ............................... Benny Kubelsky
# Milton Berle ............................. Milton Berlinger
# Ernest Borgnine .........................Effron Borgnine
# George Burns ........................... Nathan Birnbaum
# Joan Blondell............................. Rosebud Blustein
# Joyce Brothers ..........................Joyce Bauer
# Mel Brooks .............................. Melvin Kaminsky
# Joey Bishop .............................. Joey Gottlieb
# Charles Bronson ....................... Charles Buchinsky
# Rona Barrett ..............................Rona Burnstein
# Cyd Chrisse ...............................Tula Finklea
# Tony Curtis ............................... Bernie Schwartz
# (daughter is Jamie Lee Curtis)
# Joan Crawford .......................... Lucille Le Sueur
# Dyan Cannon ............................ Samile Friesen
# Kirk Douglas ............................ Isadore Demsky
# (son is Michael Douglas)
# Bob Dylan ..................................Robert Zimmerman
# Rodney Dangerfield ..................Jacob Cohen
# Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ............. Douglas Ullman
# Joel Grey .................................. Joel Katz
# (father of Jennifer Grey)
# Elliott Gould ................................Elliott Goldstein
# Zsa Zsa Gabor ............................Sara Gabor
# John Garfield ............................. Jules Garfinkle
# Judy Garland .............................. Frances Gumm
# Paulette Goddard ....................... Paulette Levy
# Eydie Gorme............................... Edith Gormezano
# Cary Grant .................................. Larry Leach
# Lorne Green ................................Chaim Leibowiz
# Judy Holliday .............................. Judith Tuvin
# Leslie Howard ............................. Leslie Stainer
# Buddy Hackett ............................ Leonard Hacker
# Jill St. John .................................. Jill Oppenheim
# Danny Kaye.................................. David Kominsky
# Alan King ..................................... Irwin Kniberg
# Larry King......................................Larry Zeiger
# Tina Louise.................................... Tina Blacker
# Ann Landers...................................Esther Friedman
# (Abigail Van Buren is her sister.)
# Dorothy Lamour ........................... Dorothy Kaumeyer
# Miehael Landon ........................... Mike Orowitz
# Steve Lawrence ............................ Sidney Leibowitz
# Hal Linden..................................... Hal Lipshitz
# Jerry Lewis .................................. Joseph Levitch
# Karl Maiden .................................Maiden Sekulovitch
# Ethel Merman .............................. Ethel Zimmerman
# Jan Murray .................................. Murray Janofsky
# Walter Matthau ........................... Walter Matasschanskayasky
# Lilly Palmer .................................. Maria Peiser
# Jan Pierce..................................... Pincus Perelmuth
# Roberta Peters..............................Roberta Peterman
# Eleanor Parker............................. Ellen Friedlob
# Joan Rlvers ..................................Joan Molinsky
# Tony Randall .............................. Sidney Rosenberg
# Edward G. Robinson .................. Emanuel Goldenberg
# Dinah Shore ................................ Fanny Rose
# Shelly Winters ............................ Shirley Schrift
# Gene Wilder................................ Jerome Silberman
Late Thursday afternoon, the newly arrived pest-control troops swarmed over Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. In their flashy red and black jackets, they fanned out among the flowers and shrubs, searching for aphids, mites and other threats to the greenery at the heavily landscaped campus of Manhattan’s most famous middle-income rental complex.
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.”
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
dont fear fig beer
(
Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery, is the author of “The Brewmaster’s Table.”)
clockwise or counter clockwise
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 sup
er dave osborne