with the market in a state of change the focus of the flip shows has tipped from flipping for big dough to resto for the love of it (cough cough... ) style of flipping show :

Have you ever stared at the carpet on your floor and wondered if there was a beautiful, original wood floor underneath just waiting to be restored? Or seen a run-down shack that looks like it was once a beautiful Victorian mansion?

If you have or are just fascinated by meticulous restoration, don't miss our fun, new show, Flip It Back. Airing November 17th at 9PM on TLC, Flip It Back spends a full hour following Gable Painter (yes, it's his real name) as he obsessively restores an old Victorian home in Union Hill neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. This special episode offers an detailed look at how Painter reuses, restores and recovers materials to ensure an authentic look.

the host comes off pretty well on this show as a genuinely nice guy with real skills and good judgment. at one point he blows off steam hopping in his truck to do some dumpster diving around the hood and finding useable doors and fireplace mantles, thusly saving on a tight budget funds and keeping the materials real - not home depot junk.

rip squeezer/actor dick wilson

Coming up at 8:00 on AMC: The Searchers, John Ford/John Wayne post-heroic western. Often cited as the peak of the genre.

I'm making my first attempt at brining a turkey. We followed this Chez Panisse method. Put it in the fridge at 6:00pm last night. We'll see.

What are other folks making today? Adman? Skinny?

the real news

The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself.

Nothing in the children’s entertainment of today, candy-colored animation hopped up on computer tricks, can prepare young or old for this frightening glimpse of simpler times. Back then — as on the very first episode, which aired on PBS Nov. 10, 1969 — a pretty, lonely girl like Sally might find herself befriended by an older male stranger who held her hand and took her home. Granted, Gordon just wanted Sally to meet his wife and have some milk and cookies, but . . . well, he could have wanted anything. As it was, he fed her milk and cookies. The milk looks dangerously whole.

dim sum here was only good after a very nice meal many months ago, was expecting more on the dumpling camp, plus the gang was not feeling that yahoo so it slowed me down, i ate my share of yummy pork parts inc a great dish of super crispy baby pig

dirty bird need to get here soon, as fried chicken and coleslaw is on my all time favorite combo list....

with the directv hr20 settop pvr & dsl, one can download movies to the hard drive. mostly free. five thousand, three hundred titles.

An 18-foot minke whale ran aground on a sandbar in the Amazon jungle some 1,000 miles from the ocean, Brazilian media reported Friday.

withnail and i
is on tcm at midnight.

KEITH OLBERMANN SPECIAL COMMENT ON WATERBOARDING NOV 5, 2007

Can an operating microwave oven interfere with a wireless signal?

A - Z in pictures

new vegan restaurant

I will give them a try.......

Flex-ing at Shortys.32

Jer. Artichoke Soup, Pork Belly, Rucola Salad w/ Winer Veggies, Pasta w/ Mushrooms...............all yummy.

Remember, there’s a writer’s strike on.
From Page 6:
after having five servings of WD-50 chef Wylie Dufresne's delicious "popcorn soup" at the Taste of New York event at the Puck Building the other night, hydrated comic and "LateNet" host Ray Ellin asked the chef, "Do you do a Milk Dud bisque?"

brooklyn 2012. this is the first i've actually seen any visuals of the plans. skyscrapers will make brooklyn a vibrant community? this sucks.

i just watched the latest season ender for curbed. what a sweet ending! dream sequence? i dont want the blacks to ever go away.

ryley and i decided this is worth top spot on our netflix queue: Doggy Poo
This charmingly eccentric cartoon from Korea features a little mound of dog poo on a quest to find meaning and purpose in his life. Left all alone on the side of the road and feeling abandoned and helpless, he believes his life is without value. Luckily, the despondent poo is befriended by a dandelion sprite who helps him recognize his worth.

NICE

hi from my new q. omg this is tedious. i hope i get faster at typing. kthxbai

looks to be a fairly interesting night of more obscure crime dramas on tcm chosen by la confidential writer james ellroy.

((from Strong Buzz http://thestrongbuzz.com ))
New Amsterdam Market—Chefs Needed!
If you’ve never heard of the New Amsterdam Public Market, there’s a good reason. It doesn’t exist—yet. This future market is the vision of founder Robert LaValva, an architect, city planner and Slow Food advocate, whose mission it is to create New York’s first indoor public food market dedicated to sustainably produced foods, sold by purveyors and sourced regionally. He describes it as a cross between Greenmarket and Chelsea Market, with a little of London’s Borough Market thrown in there too, and he’s rallying the city to locate the market in the former Fulton Fish Market space at the South Street Seaport, New York’s public market district since 1642. To generate buzz and give you a taste of what’s to come, he’s gathering producers and purveyors to hold a Wintermarket on Sunday, December 16th with a selection of wild foraged foods to artisanal cheeses, all produced or sourced within 500 miles of New York City.

Here’s where all you chefs come in. Robert is looking for chefs to prepare a seasonal dish, using primarily regional ingredients and offer small tasting samples during Wintermarket. The dish should be one that can be cooked at home and should come with the recipe. The idea is that folks attending the market will taste the dish and run around and buy the ingredients needed and head home to make it for themselves. They’re looking for dishes that use more economical or less popular cuts of meat, as one of our goals is to encourage a fuller appreciation for animals used for food. For more information on how to participate in the New Amsterdam Market please contact Robert at robert@newamsterdampublic.org.

a poet succumbing to the green fairy