skinnys skin last nite loved the hen of the woods mushrooms (sauted in butter oil onion chicken stock and beef/veal demi-glaze), the response was "yum" in his native garbled tongue as he went back and forth from mommy to daddy for bites.........he loves middle eastern food (lots of "yum yum's" , and a sirlion burger / 99 conterno barolo combo got the highly coverted "yum yum yum" response (for the wine), hearby know as the 3 yum award..........lets hope he stays on this path, (skinny)
the office bbc tonight
serious about snacks
NYC to Fort Lauderdale Update:

We now have 50+ folks flying to Ft. Lauderdale to work for ACT at election time.

Flights are $129 R/T and hotel rooms are $99.

Anyone who's interested in joining, email us at

nyc2fla2004@excite.com

Broward County, baby!!!!
William Gibson started blogging again. He's mad about Bush and the war.
anybody try google desktop? pretty cool search tool for your harddrive. welcome, google overlords!
im sending this out to all my digmedtre friends. respek
Here's the clip of Bush "freaking on Charlie Gibson," as trios puts it. It's Windows Media Player, unfortunately. It's pretty unbelievable--the Dems should run it over and over. Oh, well, it looks like the site is overrun. trios is the kiss of death.
Billmon returned from the dead and posted something in the wee hours about how the Dems should make more of Bush's anger issues. Now he's pulled the post. I know he's well liked around here, but he's such a sulking primadonna. "How dare you love me?"
not nearly as funny as rodney but just as dead.
if anyone's interested in going to florida for the election (to bring elderly kerry voters to the polls in Ft. lauderdale), i'm organizing a trip. email me. we're having an event monday night, the details of which are below:

NYC to FLA Mon Oct 11, 6:30PM 274 W. 12th St, #5 (w4th)

nbutterworth - at - mac.com
I'm sorry, I have to post this:
XXX
(it is dedicated to Kirk Varnedoe - not that I have seen a copy:-)
give the man some respect.
on the outside chance anyone missed : NYT How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence By DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD and JEFF GERTH
2nd annual black label bike kill
6 lb 1040 page cookbook
"The Director's Director" Wong Kar-wai. I thought "In the Mood for Love" was beautiful. I look forward to 2046.
Interesting (and random?) list of MacArthur 'Genius' Award recipients announced today.
Plans for a draft-dodger monument in Canada.
It's Banned Books Week.
notice the back spin
The most common scripted line in all Hollywood productions (it was used at least once 84% of the time) from the late 30s to the mid 70s, was:

"Let's get outta here!"