Bill Moyers addresses the Take Back America conference

Eating By #'s Top 5
Grand Sichuan Int Midtown 9 Times
wd~50 9 Times
66 5 Times
Wash Park 5 Times
The Minnow 5 Times

Steve, she also did Crumb.....

mmm, dumplings

Time passes; there are things that are timeless and will repeat over and over again. The Birches lawn was always perfect. Laura always met Dan at the driveway Claire got a Camaro Gene was a son of a bitch Penny smoked too much The kids did not know what was going on. There's a mouse in my living room

Doc report soon.......liver, prostate, colersteral (sp)........

salesman they say are only as good as thier last sale, so to me restaurants are only as good as thier last meal, so 66 gets downgraded to 3*, still loved but not on the level as WD or Kai anymore......rumor is I have been downgraded also.....tonight I had 3 meals between 6:00 and 11:00, the first was tasty Thai (1* stuff) and I got BYOB ok, biggest table is 10 (heres someone else's review... 56 PAM REAL THAI FOOD No one is quite sure why there are so many Siamese restaurants in Hell's Kitchen, but most agree that the majority have toned down Thai food for the American palate, throwing the bottle of fish sauce away. Not so at Pam's, where sharp sour, salty, and fishy flavors are promulgated. Noodle dishes and yum are particularly recommended, as is duck with chile sauce. 404 West 49th Street, Manhattan 333-7500)..second was 66, and some dishes were great again but it lost something....WD50 for 3 great app's (the soup is on the menu tonight w/ watercress) ended the night...

SD&Z (simmons dylan & zappa)

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Hangawi's new place was nothing special (Franchia 34/35 Park), we were not full so we went to another Korean for meat and nothing special (32nd St right off Bway, south side).....stick to Hangawi or WOOCHON (IMHO)

What happened to Word?

my cat has a big fat lip, she leap jumped a huge bee, went down to eat it (why do cats like bugs so much??), it stung her and flew off, she's now in the corner not in any pain it seems with one puffy side...

good street reports on the RFTT show @ maxwells last night. richard lloyd was the quiet television wannahe ?

Last night at Hangawi (possibly due to no Frank energy) the meal was not as good as the last time, still fab and one of the Fav NY Eats 2003......but now 2*.....going to thier new spot on Thursday, saw the menu looks yummy

The true cynic’s review of WD50, but without the compunctions of being an actual food critic. Cindy Adams serves up the borscht (belt).
(The print version had a big picture of Wylie offering a plate of food, instead of the shot of Rudi’s former aide-de-adultery.)

From the Washington Post

At least 19 people in three Midwestern states have contracted a disease related to smallpox, marking the first outbreak of the life-threatening illness in the United States, federal heath officials said yesterday....

The disease, known as monkeypox, usually only occurs in central and western Africa. It is caused by a virus known as an orthopox virus, which is the family of viruses that includes the smallpox virus, one of the most dangerous diseases known to man and a feared biological weapon....

While much about the monkeypox virus is unclear, it does not seem to be as deadly as smallpox. Authorities estimate that monkeypox has a mortality rate of between 1 percent and 10 percent, compared with a mortality rate of about 30 percent for smallpox.

The monkeypox virus is believed to spread through physical contact with a sick person or infected animal, or through infected body fluids, although health officials said it apparently is not as easily spread as smallpox, which is highly infectious.

Grand Sichuan Eastern .

id like to see this -- the weather underground. opened yesterday at film forum.

Earthy meal at Rosewater (4 course muchroom menu) in Brooklyn, 2*
Last nite's meal #6 at wd50 was Rocking again, my fav's keep tasting better to me, and WD sent up out a (nasturtium leaf i believe) gaspacho that went to the top of the charts for dish of the year.....

Marijuana guru freed after day in jail
I'm going to go have a state's rights celebration, and call it a day!

“how would lubitsch have done it?”

neil labute interview from bomb

The floating island: a moden adventure with pykrete:

In late 1942, Lord Louis Mountbatten - the British military's Chief of Combined Operations - paid a visit to Winston Churchill at his official country home, Chequers. Mountbatten had with him a small parcel of great importance. A member of Churchill's staff apologized that the Prime Minister was at that moment in his bath.

"Good," said Mountbatten as he bounded up the stairs. "That's exactly where I want him to be." Mountbatten entered the steaming bathroom to find Churchill in the tub. It was generally not a wise thing to interrupt Sir Winston in his bathtub.

"I have," Mountbatten explained, "a block of a new material that I would like to put in your bath."

Went to my local fish joint, The Minnow, he sent me out a slice of bluefish barely cooked, it was insane good, then hands me a photo of him with a captain on a boat holding the fish, caught 11 hours earlier, now thats fresh fish......he also had a yummy soup from this time last year, spring pea with wasabi cream:>)....

Steve DiBenedetto gets Bombed.

We ate at Ping's (all the way down Mott Street, just before Chatam Sq.) recently but I forgot to write. We used to love this place when it was at 25 E. B'way. Then he moved out to Queens where we never visited. And now he's back in Manhattan.

In any case, definitely worth a look. The menu seriously rewards the adventurous eater. Lots of very weird animal parts and organs. I know that's a half assed review, but since I don't eat that stuff I don't feel like I really can comment. It sure looked good though. And my fish and veggies were all great, although I don't think that is the point of this place.