Ten Sustenance Food Awards 2003

#1 NYC Meal and Best New Restaurant.....wd~50
#1 Meal for 2003....Passadis Del Pep
#1 Lunch Spot and Place Most Likely to get a
Free Glass of Coche Dury.....Washington Park
#1 Japanese.....Kai
#1 Italian.....Al Di La
#1 Fried Food......Uglesich's
#1 Chinese....TIE (GSIM and 66)
#1 Viet Food NYC.....Bao Noodles
#1 Viet Food Outside of Vietnam....Slanted Door
#1 Place to get badly talked about behind my back
by the chef but still keep going back.....Wallse

Globe All
Passadis Del Pep (Barcelona) 4*
Varoulko (Athens) 4*
Slanted Door (SF) 3*
Carballeira (Lleida, Spain) 3*
Uglesich's (New Orleans) 3*
#9 Park (Boston) 3*
El Torreone (Torrisellas, Spain) 2*
Asados Nazareno (Roa, Spain) 2*
Frankie & Johnny's (New Orleans) 2*
O Loutros Fish Taverna (Thessaloniki, Greece) 2*
Botafumeiro (Barcelona) 2*

Loc All Top 12
wd50 4*
Kai 4*
Wallse 4*
Jean George 4*
Al Di La 3*
Locanda Vini Olii 3*
Fleur de Sel 3*
66 3*
Grand Sichuan Int Midtown 3*
Gramercy Tavern 3*
Bao Noodles 3*
Tasting Room 2*

66 for Sunday lunch, no crowds, no slinky models so I could focus on the food, and they could focus on me, yahoo again!!

Are male humans doomed to extinction? (via boing boing)

I haven't been talking about this one. I guess because it's just too big and scary for me to even think about. But if you haven't at least heard of what is happening with Diebold, and the *serious* problems with their electronic voting machine systems, you should probably be aware.

The story is that the machines are severely compromised from a security perspective. And the company is run by a very right wing republican who has vowed to deliver his home state to Bush in 2004. And the company is going law suit crazy to shut up anyone who publicizes anything about the security flaws in their machines.

Here's a good metafilter round up of the issue.

FWIW (not much probably) I think this is for real. I think democracy, if we still have it post election 2000, is in actual danger. Of course, like I said, I'm not doing anything about it because I am too scared to really think about what's happening. But maybe you should do something about it.

Save me! Thanks.

Wm. T. Vollmann

Posted to treehouse by bill 9-28-2003 6:10 am [link] [6 comments]

call number art. it's a good thing the wesleyan library doesn't use the dewey decimal system

thanks maud, i really enjoyed this story. and i don't even like football.

so happy the end is near, for i was near the end....

NYTimes 3* tonight and it was my #1 dis(h)apointment for 2003,
service the pits, i cant even say how much i am unhappy with the food....

diet begin's at the end of a 66 lunch, sunday 9/28....

SFA Wards Soon....

has anyone ever seen careful? steve, you must see this. we caught part of it the other night and unfortunately weren't able to finish watching, but i'm hoping it comes on again. from imdb:

Best described as a combination of "The Wizard of Oz" and "Eraserhead," "Careful" is a wacked-out tale of repression and unnatural desires, set in an alpine village where no one can speak too loudly for fear of starting an avalanche. Hilarious and sinister, "Careful" is also one of the most visually arresting films I've ever seen, with impossibly rosy-cheeked characters inhabiting a hallucinatory dream world of intentionally fake sets and intense easter-egg pastels. Watching it you will feel like you've stepped into the middle of a Ricola ad gone horribly, horribly wrong.

failure...

I saw the new Richard Sera installation at Gagosian Gallery yesterday. This probably sounds like hyperbole, but it is the greatest thing I have ever seen. I'd love to check it out again if anyone wants to go.

Here's the Gagosian Gallery site. Annoying use of flash makes it impossible for me to link directly to the Sera page, but if you click on Artists / Exhibitions and then Current you can then select Serra. Up through October 25th. 555 West 24th Street.

It'll have to compete with The Lord of the Rings, Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, and Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach for oversize shelf space in young scientists' libraries, but the Baroque Cycle has the potential to be the next literary Nerdapalooza.

360 in redhook

excelent to see the recent minority opinion posts by bj. (and the responses)

Bao Noodles on 391 2nd Ave was fantastic, tried 12 dishes inc a free fresh shrimp dish, all very authentic, all clean, best Viet food NYC has ever had IMHO....3*.....cold has won but strangly its not effecting my taste, just my energy....

flugtag?

this is supposed to me my last week pre diet. tonight at Kai was super again, the crew left with huge smiles, i fought the cold till the end, but I bet it wins tommorow.....action packed week may have to be cut back....

"'Right now, the question has to be asked, does American film have even a remote bearing on the amazing and troubling realities of American life?' says Thomson. ' Is there someone out there who could make an ambitious and extraordinary film about the end of the American empire? I think that someone is either Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. Thomas Anderson hinted at that epic scope with Magnolia, but so far Tarantino has only been epic in style. He certainly has that [Howard] Hawksian ability to tie narratives together, no question. I really think he could make the big film we all want him to, but, in order to do that, he would have to apply his sensibility and his extraordinary narrative command to truly serious social subject matter.' "

Cross posted from artifax page: Baghdad journal.

MB found this: Baghdad journal.

Some exploit. Norton flagged two emails in my inbox this morning. One from "MS Corporation Internet Security Division" Subject "Critical Security Upgrade" (complete with virus-bearing attachment), the second a "bounce-back" from Microsoft Email Server. The bounce-back is a spoof which doesn't actually come from the Beast of Redmond, but piques the recipient's curiosity just enough to open another virus-bearing attachment. (same or different?)

Didn't open the attachments, don't yetr know what the virus(es) is/are, but quite a clever one-two punch for those who do open them.

remember me?

the gift of giving.

Should we have a political page, or are these posts okay here?