Archive for 'The Offical Record' Category
LAST CALL.
21 January 2003I went to a taping of Last Call with Carson Daly this evening. I’m not a huge fan of the show, but the guest was Horatio Sanz, who was hysterical, and the show is taped in Studio 8-H of 30 Rockefeller Center, which is the studio where Saturday Night Live is broadcast. So, it was […]
MOVIE REVIEW: ADAPTATION (2002) * * * 1/2 (3 and a half stars out of 4).
20 January 2003I loved this movie. It’s by Charlie Kaufman, the writer of Being John Malkovich, and it’s about his struggle to write an adaptation of the book, The Orchid Thief (which I’m currently reading). At the same time he’s plagued by resentment and jealousy of his identical twin brother Donald who also wants to be a […]
BOOK REVIEW: NO WAY TO TREAT A FIRST LADY * * 1/2 (2 and a half stars out of 4).
20 January 2003I love Christopher Buckley, but his latest novel is definitely not his best. It attempts to satirize both Bill Clinton’s infidelity and the O. J. Simpson trial by combining both into the ultimate “trial of the millenium,” in which the first lady is on trial for murdering the President. The result, though, is a bit […]
BOOK REVIEW: WHEN YOU RIDE ALONE, YOU RIDE WITH BIN LADEN * * 1/2 (2 and a half stars out of 4).
20 January 2003Bill Maher’s newest book, When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism, is mostly trite, and not very funny. It talks only briefly and superficially about Maher’s brush with censorship shortly after 9/11, when he said that we shouldn’t call […]
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
18 January 2003When I first listed myself on geoURL, my furthest neighbor on my neighbor screen was 187 miles away. Now, there’s only room for neighbors within 57 miles. It takes exponential growth to keep that number shrinking at a constant rate, since the area covered is directly proportional to the square of that radius. Despite this, […]
SO, HOW MUCH FOR A CHEESEBURGER?
16 January 2003Welcome to New York, home of the $50 hamburger.
BLACKPEOPLELOVEUS.COM.
15 January 2003You’ve got to check out blackpeopleloveus.com! It is so funny! It was made by my friend Jessica D.‘s friend Chelsea.
NEW FORMULA, SAME GREAT CONVERSION.
14 January 2003If you’re like me, you find the formula of F = 9/5 C + 32 for converting Fahrenheit (F) temperatures to Celsius (C), to be totally unworkable. Even if I could remember that formula, I can’t multiply a 2 digit number by 9 in my head, and then divide that three digit number by 5 […]
SHUT UP.
14 January 2003The links to my comments were sporadically down yesterday and last night. No comments have been lost, though! Enetation.co.uk, the provider of my comment software, has this to say: “We are experiencing very high server loads at peak times during the day which may prevent some comment links from appearing. Thanks to very generous donations […]
YOU’RE INVITED.
14 January 2003Who: You, Your Friends, Lovers and Confidantes When: February 7, 2003, 6:00pm EST Where: Zanzibar, 645 9th Avenue (at 45th Street) Why: Because we all need make some new friends in this cool, cool town … and an excuse to maybe casually bump into the blog-crush of your choice. RSVP to Jane at nerve_wracking@hotmail.com. I’ll […]
I GOT A NEW CELL PHONE.
14 January 2003I finally bought a new cell phone. I got the LG 5350, and continued my Sprint membership. I’d had an old Motorola phone. I absolutely love my new phone. It’s got a full graphics color display that fits nine lines of text. My last phone had a four line, black and white (grey and green, […]
NYC RESTAURANT REVIEW: NONG * * * 1/2 (3 and a half stars out of 4).
14 January 2003This pan-asian restaurant on Park Avenue South at 18th Street has something for everyone. The food is delicately spiced and fresh and delicious. I did find it to be more than a little overpriced, with lunch entrees ranging from $12 for a salad to $19 for a steak.
I STRAIN, YOU STRAIN, WE ALL STRAIN FOR EYE-STRAIN.
12 January 2003Thanks to Sean S. for his selfless assistance in making the little round corner thingie graphic into a new color for me, and for giving me some tips on helping people avoid eye-strain.
I LIVE AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING.
11 January 2003As I mentioned, The geoURL server is my second nearest neighbor, according to the geoURL server. It’s about a four minute walk to the south. Well, my sixth nearest neighbor, about a mile north of me on the Upper West side, is Dan Egnor, the winner of the 2002 Google programming contest, for his geocoder, […]
COLOUR MY WORLD.
11 January 2003For the first time, I saw another blog that used my same template, and it totally creeped me out. So, I messed around with the colors a little. Here’s an example of what it used to look like. As you can see, the changes are pretty subtle. Unfortunately, there is a little graphic where that […]
MOVIE REVIEW: HABLE CON ELLA (TALK TO HER) (2002) * * * (3 stars out of 4).
11 January 2003This movie, about two women trapped in hopeless comas and the men who love them, was good and smart and hauntingly funny. But I didn’t think it quite lived up to the incredible reviews it’s gotten.
COMMENTS, ANYONE?
11 January 2003I just added a commenting feature to my blog. It is powered by enetation.co.uk, a free service.
GEOURL.
10 January 2003Here’s another way to surf the Web– by geographic location! Thanks, Dav, for the tip. Take a look at some of my nearby neighbors by clicking this button: . Interestingly, and presumably by coincidence, my second nearest neighbor is the GeoURL Server.
MORE NOTICE FOR MY REVIEW OF SLANDER.
8 January 2003I found yet another link on the Internet to my review of the horrible book, Slander.
RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY?
8 January 2003Here in New York City, It has rained every day this year so far. And there’s supposed to be freezing drizzle early tomorrow morning, and snow flurries on Friday. Also, it rained on December 30 and 31, last year!
THEATER REVIEW: DEBBIE DOES DALLAS * * * (3 stars out of 4).
8 January 2003I really wanted to give this new hit Off-Broadway musical 2 and 3/4 stars, but I decided a long time ago not to give out quarter stars. Anyway, I can certainly see why this campy, sexually provocative play is so popular, but I had trouble seeing why it is such a critical success. The story, […]
THEATER REVIEW: THE MERCY SEAT * (1 star out of 4).
6 January 2003This new play, starring Sigourney Weaver and Liev Schreiber takes place in downtown Manhattan on September 12, 2001. Unfortunately, it’s a very mediocre play, with very un-clever and unrealistic dialogue, that would never have been produced, if it weren’t for this little gimmick being shoe-horned in about the World Trade Center attack. Basically, here’s what’s […]
NYC RESTAURANT REVIEW: JOHN’S PIZZA * * * (3 stars out of 4).
4 January 2003I ate at the 44th street John’s last night with Manny F. his cousin Helen and some of her friends, and I’ve previously eaten at their Bleecker street location. While it is very good pizza, and is better than the best pizza in your town (if you don’t live here in New York), it is, […]
MOVIE REVIEW: STAR TREK NEMESIS (2002) * 1/2 (1 and a half stars out of 4).
4 January 2003The tenth Star Trek movie, definitely defies the superstition that the even numbered films are the good ones. While the film benefited from my diminished expectations, after seeing some terrible reviews, it still was managed to disappoint. Here’s the thing: if they would just have taken the most minor, common sense precautions, that anybody would, […]
BOOK REVIEW: BUSH AT WAR (2002) * * * (3 stars out of 4).
4 January 2003Bob Woodward’s latest was good, but a little dry compared to his recent books about Clinton and the Supreme Court. I was impressed with how much decisive leadership Bush seemed to display, according to the book. I always picture him as bossed around by his advisors, and I always think of his supporters’ harping on […]