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pretty good projo weblog. this post is about unclaimed money from a cd price fixing lawsuit.

real goods : being green starts at home

MB was asking about a protest scheduled at 26 Federal Plaza today. It's going on now, and seems to be tied in to immigrant/alien registration deadlines now looming. It's a small gathering, taking up the sidewalk for about half of the block in front of the building on Broadway. It's well behaved and closely, though not oppressively, policed. Traffic on Broadway continues as usual. Top prop is a multi-person parade snake labeled USA Patriot Act. I didn't catch the Islamic prayers that MB mentioned, and I can't really make out all the speeches, but they have the usual tone: too harsh, too much call and response for my taste. But it's not like they don't have legitimate complaints. The protest is dwarfed by the line of registrants & others with INS business who must wait in the cold before being allowed to enter the building. I've seen these people being treated like cattle for years, and I don't mean like Kobe beef cattle. The Voice has an article on the phenomenon of this line. Read the article, 'cause I doubt you'll see much news coverage of the event.

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field trip -- iron chef japanese in philly

vacation spot

BWEA

the stranglers

Rumor has it from a real in the know-er that this place ROCKS!!
Il Barilotto
1113 Main St
Fishkill , NY 12524
Phone: (845) 897-4300

"THE World's Most Decadent Hamburger" has come to New York. Served at the Old Homestead in - where else? - the Meatpacking District, the $41 sandwich is made of "hand-massaged, beer-fed" kobe beef, "lobster mushrooms" and micro greens on a parmesan twist roll. "It's the world's most incredible beef," boasts owner Marc Sherry. "Each cattle is hand-massaged and beer-fed, so when the meat is slaughtered the fat content and marbling is very high." The fatty feast is costlier than Manhattan's previous record-holders, the $29 dinnertime burger at '21' and the $27 DB Burger at DB Bistro Moderne. -nyp

Finally found a super Korean spot, I have tried many and this is it IMHO, and the company of Steve and Erin was special:>)....WOOCHON 10 W 36.....

WOOCHON 1*

I'm finding it difficult to hate Bob Barr these days.

New Years Dining Resolution's:
1) No more Lupa (I am tired of it)
2) Find a new Grand Sichuan restaurant to BYOB etc....

First meal of note for 2003 is Il Gattopardo (3rd trip) and loved it again, I wish it was less cash and more wine to pick (they are 2* NYTimes and chef was 1* Michelin in Italy I hear)......

My wish list for 2003 is Kurima Zushi (rated #1 in NY per all my sushi guru's...), Wallse and Annisa again due to Rachael reviews, 66 and WD50 (both for many meals), and Kai for the chef's meal, Tommasso's for more old Nebbiolo!!!!.....

To be more Virgo-ian I will rate all meals this year that I love 1* to 3*'s (the 3*'s will be listed in order of favorite's, the rest in no order)......

Il Gattopardo 1*

byebye balducci's

I saw The Adaptation last night. I've beein thinking about it all morning and suspect I will be for quite some time. Bio-collectors and fans of Robert Smithson and Vito Acconci might well enjoy this movie. Here's the rottentomatoes page. (some of the reviews give away much of the plot.)

Sperm Whale calf beached in Queens. Sad.

from saveur's 100 favorites issue (jan/feb), sautewednesday, bruce cole's online foodie site. looks good.

technorati 100 v blogstreet 100

Lonely Planet has led me fine most of the time but of course you loose something by using them 100%, I still buy them for almost every place I go and like to get other sourse of info but they just came out with World Food Guide's ....I just bought the Japan one and plan to buy Spain asap (as I leave soon)...I also bought at the Japanese book store some "Food Porno Mags:>)" in Japanese, wow I love this stuff....next is the Japanese grocery stores in Little Japan, I will see you soon...

Perhaps they could call it Poisonville National Park. Poisonville. That's the name Dashiell Hammett, America's hardboiled Dante, gave to Butte in Red Harvest, his strange nocturnal novel of corruption and corporate filth. "The city wasn't pretty," writes Hammett on the opening page of Red Harvest. "Most of its builders had gone in for gaudiness. Maybe they had been successful at first. Since then the smelters whose brick stacks struck up tall against a gloomy mountain to the south had yellow-smudge everything into uniform dinginess. The result was an ugly city of forty thousand people, set in an ugly notch between two ugly mountains that had been all dirtied up by mining. Spread over this was grimy sky that looked as if it had come out of the smelters' stacks."

"I went to see The Two Towers last night, and I enjoyed it immensely – although not quite as much as the first Lord of the Rings movie, for esthetic reasons I won’t bother with here."

"My real problem with the movie -- the one I do want to talk about -- is political, and it applies to the entire Lord of the Rings saga. As much as I love and admire Tolkien’s books, and Peter Jackson’s brilliant adaptations, I think it’s probably unfortunate these particular stories are being re-injected into the popular culture at this particular moment in history."

check out the comments thread too.

Times Headline today:

U.S. Is Completing Plan to Promote a Democratic Iraq

By DAVID E. SANGER and JAMES DAO

The plan calls for an 18-month occupation, trials of only the most senior Iraqi leaders and a quick takeover of oil fields.

I had been concerned that the Administration didn't have a plan, so this comes as some relief. It was nice of the Times to let us know about this. Also, that everything will be completed so quickly.

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