a friend said i must try this japanese spot

and here , both sound yummy exp this dish here Kakuni Puff slow cooked pork tonsoku served in a baked puff pastry $8
GM to Build Compact Cars in US; UAW OKs Contract- AP
The reformation of GM is in high gear. The automaker said Friday that it plans to reopen a shuttered U.S. factory to build subcompact cars that will be the smallest vehicles GM has ever produced here. An element of the company's shift from hulking SUVs to more gas-sipping microcars, the move comes as GM's prepares to announce the fate of the poster child for gas guzzlers, the Hummer brand

wow, they are brilliant!!
Sound like a vitamin-P person we know?
i forget where your post was jim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jquXcwooV6A

New visitor to pond. Alex, little help?

duck
not sold on the goode family which premiered last night on abc. its another mike judge animated family, this one sort of the polar opposite of king of the hill. will suffer from the comparison, iyam.
2009 STORM NAMES
Ana | Bill | Claudette | Danny | Erika | Fred
Grace | Henri | Ida | Joaquin | Kate | Larry
Mindy | Nicholas | Odette | Peter | Rose
Sam | Teresa | Victor | Wanda
Good luck Bill, I will be rooting for you.
LiverFlush#3/09
DMT10 Prep

1/2 way through, deep dreams on this tour every nite, in the right foot bones its like a gout attack but its the reverse (toxins leaving not toxin overload), lots of beet on this tour for the cleansing they do + many raw asian greens chewed to pulp for maximum green power....

4 weeks 1 strong
What a maroon.

During my brief visits, no one in France spelled my first name correctly or pronounced my last name correctly. I neither lived there, nor was I on their highest court.

Cue idiot legislator from Texas.
green day
howie klein
down with tyranny
one twisted dude
Secession Shutters; Bouley Won’t Abandon Tribeca (will be come a Japanese spot).....this was from NYMag.....glad I am not one of his investors if he has any
party down, people. on starz, but available streaming via netflix. best new comedy this past year.
tomorrow 225pm champions league finals on espn. manchester united v. barcelona.
bike lane for torontos jarvis st
dont know how I missed this guy before but now he's closer

Gelato maestro moves onto the savory stuff
BY BEN MUESSIG
The Brooklyn Paper

Self-described “gelato maestro” Gino Cammarata has closed his Bensonhurst ice cream shop Oro Verde Gelati — which was located within a tanning salon, oddly enough — to open a small plates restaurant and “vino bar” boasting a full menu of classical Mediterranean dishes on Fourth Avenue at 99th Street.

The new eatery, Piattini, will offer classic Sicilian entrees alongside less-known Italian dishes prepared by Cammarata, who is famous for masterfully making traditional gelato flavors like fig, ricotta cream, and pistachio, and serving them boldly — like his acclaimed brioche gelato sandwich.

“It’s a light menu with a very fresh ingredients,” said Cammarata.

“The food quality is going to be high.”

Thankfully, Cammarata won’t abandon his bread and butter — gelato.

“There will be a gelato machine,” the chef promised. “That’s my signature.”

Piattini [9824 Fourth Avenue at 99th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 759-0009)], will have a soft opening this week.
not completely bonkers for brit com saxondale but steve coogan is quite good. he also wrote and developed the comedy.


the joys of twitter
Maybe LeBron really is worth all that money. Wow. Wish I had been watching.
nedm
thars gold in them thar toilets.
boxer rebellion
trip to flushing??
Marea
I went and it was super dupper.
It made me think, you know money would not be bad to have lots of cause I would eat here whenever I wanted and take my friends, its not that it was more money than any top spot nor was it not worth every penny, its just that at $200 PP with nice wine it add's up quick if I went once a month, exp since I have lots of friends:>)

$21 mixed crudo, some oysters $12, grand cru pasta's inc a first for me tuna belly ravioli (in a tomate caper etc sauce) $20+ and for me one pasta aint enough so figure $80 for food

I saw a $36 wine I could guzzle, had a Spanish rose w/ oysters that was a brilliant match, and there are plenty of $40-60 wines worthy of creating happyness. So add $70 wine at 1.25 bottles PP + $80 = $150 = $200PP

Great great great meal, hope to afford to go back soon, but most of all I am happy I have lots of friends first and that they like Grand Sichuan BYOB too.....

Saw a short documentary last night on the quilters of Gee's Bend.
Gee’s Bend is a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama. Founded in antebellum times, it was the site of cotton plantations.... During the Great Depression, the federal government stepped in to purchase land and homes for the community, bringing strange renown — as an "Alabama Africa" — to this sleepy hamlet.

The town’s women developed a distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting style based on traditional American (and African American) quilts, but with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The women of Gee’s Bend passed their skills and aesthetic down through at least six generations to the present. In 2002, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in partnership with the nonprofit Tinwood Alliance, of Atlanta, presented an exhibition of seventy quilt masterpieces from the Bend. The exhibition, entitled "The Quilts of Gee’s Bend," is accompanied by two companion books, The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, and the larger Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, both published by Tinwood Media, as well as a documentary video on the Gee’s Bend quilters and a double-CD of Gee’s Bend gospel music from 1941 and 2002.

The "Quilts of Gee’s Bend" exhibition has received tremendous international acclaim, beginning at its showing in Houston, then at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the other museums on its twelve-city American tour.
Really cool stuff although unfortunately, there are only a few images on their website, and they don't even seem to be the really nice ones. Google image search turns up some more though.