During the 1970s Bruno was the star in two remarkable Werner Herzog films, “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser” and “Stroszek,” in which he occupied the roles of damaged characters so completely and genuinely, so uncannily, that it was never quite clear how much he actually understood about what use was being made of him by the director. His performances were riveting, but he was obviously not well mentally, and even as he came across in his own way as knowing, he was at the same time simply being himself, and the question hovered: How much was fiction, how much reality?

Then he dropped down the memory chute.

Vice President Dick [GO FUCKY YOURSELF] Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.

Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer.

Cheney denied to the investigators, however, that he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. But the investigators came away from their interview with Cheney believing that he had not given them a plausible explanation as to how he could focus attention on Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s trip without her CIA status also possibly publicly exposed. At the time, Plame was a covert CIA officer involved in preventing Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and Cheney’s office played a central role in exposing her and nullifying much of her work.

2009 To Eat List
NEW 2 ME
Devi
Del' Amina (and thier new spot)
Corton
Momofuku Milk Bar
Kuruma Zushi (was on the 2004 To Eat List:<()
MISSED IN 08
Insieme
Ushi Wakamura
Vatan
Bellavitae

Top Eats NYC 2008 (in no particular order)....

As usual its many repeats but here it goes....

Bar Boulud....best pate in NYC!!
Trestle on Tenth....great value, awesome wine list
wd~50.....a hero
Locanda Vini Olii....#1 Italian in NY
Bar Masa.....one can eat vegan here, and than one can not, either way rocks!!
Gramercy Tavern.....love the new chef, prefer tavern imho
Marlow & Sons......overall rocking, chilled red wine
Yakitori Totto.....chicken palace, go early to not miss the special parts
Sushi Yasuda.....first time for me, very pure, best sushi rice in my life
Sripriphai.....drunken noodles!!! best thai i know, there may be better, 09 I will look!!

I am sure i have forgotten some but thats it for now....

Liver Flush #10 just completed this morning....

Yup still at it, this finishes the 2nd year of Project Get Skinny, and while I have not lost much more weight this year, I feel much more healthy.

I eat apox 20% animal (meat/dairy) this year and in 09 I am moving toward 10%, I will be Vegan at home, and only eat animal when out, so apox 10 meals a month, 10 out of 80 meals (and not every one will be 100% meat, but some will be:>)

no pepsi, coke.

i like the way this recipe site can be browsed or searched, by level of difficulty, number of ingredients, occasion, etc.

Patton assassinated?

peanut butter

riddled with doubt

Grey's anatomy

-steve

We found this game in a closet at the bighouse.
We brought it down here. Dave was good at it.

Music industry to abandon mass law suits.

nichols and may

Was lucky to score a holiday dinner at Corton last night. Overall I thought it was very good. Love the room. Wine list is insane of course (with a huge reserve list where the bottles need to be ordered 24 hours in advance so they can be brought from an off site cellar,) but also includes some decent sub $40 bottles. For instance we started with a Aubuisières Vouvray Sec ‘Cuvée de Silex,’ Loire 2007 which was great and very reasonable. I hate when there's nothing on a list under $60, it's just obnoxious, especially these days - so they got points there. The food highlight for me was some barely cooked nantucket bay scallops with ama ebi (baby sweet shrimp,) marcona almonds, radish, and some spicy microgreen surrounding a small pool of uni creme. Yum!

palate cleanser

flight of the conchords season premiere

henny peggy classic

“Okay Danny, now say ‘she’s my cum dumpster,’”says Green, with a focused smirk, his moderately tired eyes hidden beneath a pair of Ray Bans. “She’s my cum dumpster,” delivers McBride with deadpan redneck aplomb, referring to his date, the local floozie who’s standing nearby and currently flirting with a large, black male. “I put a lot of shit into her.” I’m standing a few feet away, hearing this ribald improv through a headset, surrounded by the cast and crew of East Bound and Down. Nobody is laughing—professionalism aside—because everyone knows these lines are funny as shit, the funniest shit you can imagine. Airing in February on HBO, this new original series from the all-star creative team behind The Foot Fist Way, which also includes Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, looks to do for Southern stereotypes what Larry David did for rich neurotics burdened with follically-challenged cul-de-sacs.

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