Month: March 2005

  • Friday Cat Blogging!

    Here are the cat-stars on their latest shoot… Billie is pretending not to notice that bud of catnip before her: Billie is not allowed on the dinner table, especially not when we’re eating. So, what she does is very clever, she hides behind this vase. See if you can spot her! Zachary doing some hunting!…

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  • Another sad day for NYC

    Bobby Short died this morning. Just two weeks ago I wrote a short list of things I needed to do right away; seeing Bobby Short play his gig at the Carlyle was number 1 on the list. Number 2 was to see Les Paul do his show at the Iridium; we’re hoping to do that…

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  • Sunday bobble-head blogging

    1) Rummy the lizard-man on Stefanopoulis. (Note, we only call him the lizard man because he has the heart, soul, and mind of a reptile. And he eats flies.) What does Rummy think of the ABC poll that shows 53% of Americans now think the war in Iraq wasn’t worth fighting, and that 41% think…

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  • Friday Cat Blogging!

    From the “brght,-bright-sunshiny-day” department: Da thoid week. It’s spring in NYC and the kitties are loving it… Zachary getting some window time: Billie doing some sun bathing: This is about as close as they can get before they start wailing on each other:

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  • Cascading Style Sheets: some web design evangelism

    From the “It’s-worth-the-drive-to-Acton” department: It’s been a long while since I’ve had religion about web design. But the project I’m undergoing to revamp the cyberkrunk main web site has made me see the light. For several years, my main web site had languished in a cypherpunk-esque anti design. The idea was simple: no graphics, just…

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  • New York: Thursday St. Paddy’s blogging

    NYC: Guinness, Jameson’s, fish ‘n chips, malt vinegar… Before: After:

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  • Last call at the Oak Bar

    From the “paging-George-Kaplan department.” My first trip to the Oak Bar was way back in the twentieth century, during a trip to New York, before I lived here. It was an evening of contrasts: stuffy old expensive midtown, followed by hip, cheap downtown. The three of us had two rounds of cocktails and the tab…

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  • Covert Propaganda

    There’s a substantial piece in today’s NY Times about the current Bush administration’s unprecedented efforts to sway public opinion by distributing fake news reports to the major televsion networks, and by putting pundits on the payroll. Fake TV news in particular seems to be a favorite ploy of this administration–remember the RNC last summer when…

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  • The Rice Filibuster

    Seeing Condi on MTP this morning reminds me of the method preferred by the current administration for dealing with the press, namely to avoid any direct answer to questions, but instead to filibuster them with long responses peppered with talking points. Condi is one of the true masters of this technique, owing to her ability…

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