how to grow tomatoes. scroll down for growing in pots, city people. i am going to try it out this year along with strawberries and basil.
I can't find a complete transcript anywhere, but in yesterday's Senate Foreign Affairs hearing with the General and the Ambassador, one senator nailed it with his framing. Might have been Feingold, but I didn't recognize the voice. He turned around the opening statement of the shill general, something along the lines of "a struggle for power and resources among sectarian and ethnic factions". Is this something America should be sending it's children to die for? And he wouldn't let them squirm away, using specifics to put the question right back in front of them when they tried to dodge. If middle America could drop the "rag head terra-ist" image for just one moment, and see the occupation in the way that senator framed it, I think they might, you know, think.
lali, baby born with 2 faces in india
another tough decision about the proper department to post this. but since its been awhile since ive made a bacon post..... heres meatscapes.
Golf Trivia Game. Pretty fun, I stunk, got par, going to the clubhouse for a drink.
Charlton Heston's guns now available
Here's an article on my friend's who have always had some great ideas
richard price interview on lenny lopate from the other day. i love listening to him speak. he was also at union square b&n, did anyone go? i went to see him read from, must have been clockers, years ago down near battery park or somewhere on the water downtown and he called martin amis a midget.
Given the roots of this program, one would have to call this lapse ... um ... what's the word? ... ironic?
mike wallace interviews from the fifties archived online including gloria swanson, frank lloyd wright and eleanor roosevelt among others .
grindhouse fridays on ifc. tonight though is blaxploitation @ 9 with coffy, foxy brown and black caesar.
director jules dassin died this week.
http://decanter.free.fr/7.xhtml
captain creepy
Greenspan's economics Ph.D possibly BS?
florent, the beloved Meatpacking District hangout set to close this summer after almost twenty three years in business, will at least be going out in style, according to Frank Bruni, who spoke with owner Florent Morellet yesterday. The bistro's long goodbye will last five weeks, with each week dedicated to one of the Kubler-Ross stages of grief. Week One, starting Monday, May 26, will be Denial, with the remaining four weeks themed as Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.
Each theme week will have special dishes, decor and performances by familiar faces like burlesque star Dirty Martini, all leading up to a big sad send-off on June 29th, Gay Pride Day. The Post also mentions a writing contest in which entrants would share their favorite Florent memory, with the winner getting a free dinner on the last night. Morellet tells Bruni:
So many of our customers are either at the stage of Anger or Denial. Some are just in a state of shock. We’re going to gather together to go through those stages and celebrate those stages, and end with a bang, and with irony, which we’ve always done.
The quirky French bistro – housed in an old diner that was a speakeasy in the ‘20s and a favorite greasy spoon for longshoremen and meatpackers in the ‘50s – has become even more cherished in recent years as a corrective to the fratastic Bridge and Tunnel scene dominating the neighborhood. The closure is caused by the increasingly repetitive groove in New York’s broken record: obscene real estate prices. Once Morellet vacates, the lease will jump from $6,000 to $50,000 per month; odds are the new tenant won’t be operating an idiosyncratic bistro.
Each theme week will have special dishes, decor and performances by familiar faces like burlesque star Dirty Martini, all leading up to a big sad send-off on June 29th, Gay Pride Day. The Post also mentions a writing contest in which entrants would share their favorite Florent memory, with the winner getting a free dinner on the last night. Morellet tells Bruni:
So many of our customers are either at the stage of Anger or Denial. Some are just in a state of shock. We’re going to gather together to go through those stages and celebrate those stages, and end with a bang, and with irony, which we’ve always done.
The quirky French bistro – housed in an old diner that was a speakeasy in the ‘20s and a favorite greasy spoon for longshoremen and meatpackers in the ‘50s – has become even more cherished in recent years as a corrective to the fratastic Bridge and Tunnel scene dominating the neighborhood. The closure is caused by the increasingly repetitive groove in New York’s broken record: obscene real estate prices. Once Morellet vacates, the lease will jump from $6,000 to $50,000 per month; odds are the new tenant won’t be operating an idiosyncratic bistro.
Signed up for ZipCar on Monday night and rented a car (a Mini) for a couple hours yesterday. Very slick operation. Almost no friction. Seriously couldn't be easier. I really wonder about what percentage of cars / customers / transactions give them problems? Seems like a potential nightmare for them, but I hope it's not and I hope they make it. Highly recommended. I pay $50 a year, plus a $25 one time sign up fee. Then I can reserve cars at a specific location, for a specific number of hours, and it starts around $8/hour. I think the mini was $11. Gas, parking, and tolls included.
I might have posted this before, but in case not: rotating hypercube animated gif.
Newshoggers have a new address. Even though Dave had them in the sidebar already I just recently found them (note to self: check out Dave's links more thoroughly.) Can we update that one? They seem to have some really good Iraq insight.
fallen off my movie notes. thought The Ballad of Jack and Rose was worth a mention. not a great film but some quality acting as always from daniel day lewis, whose wife wrote and directed the film, and up and comer, camilla belle. and what indie film would be worth its salt without katherine keener?
