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The big black cube sculpture on Astor Place is finally back! It's totally velvety clean, without a scrap of graffiti. (We'll see how long that lasts.) Finally, a return to normalcy! Yay!

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Vice President Dick Cheney's office was responsible for directives which led to US soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former top State Department official charged ( Read more... )

The great oyster beds of Long Island and the Chesapeake produced mammoth mollusks up to a foot in length. On a visit to our shores, William Makepeace Thackeray, the English author of Vanity Fair, commented, rather vividly, that eating one was like "swallowing a baby."

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It's been a week and a half since I got sick, and I'm only finally starting to feel normal again. If my immune system handles the avian flu this well, I'm in trouble.

I went out to dinner last night with Conn and my parents at a nice little Italian restaurant we know in the East Village (Cremcaffe). The service may have been a little sluggish, ( Read more... )

Find people in your area to game with through FindPlay: http://findplay.anvilwerks.com/

Unfortunately, it shows people within a 35 mile radius. This is, like, light-years in terms of NYC.

So, Conn's sister and brother-in-law came out to visit last weekend. We had a fun time, with lots of good food -- a bunch of people went to our friend Tami's steakhouse on Friday, and we had brunch on Sunday, followed by Peking duck. Unfortunately, those were my only two meals on Sunday. We spent most of the day wandering through Central Park ( Read more... )

Made pancakes twice this weekend. They rank pretty high up on the chain of comfort food. Fresh and fluffy out of the pan, good pancakes don't need butter or syrup. And for extra pancake goodness, replace some of the milk in the recipe with heavy whipping cream, then thin out the batter with extra milk until it's the proper consistency. Yum!