Triscribe

Fell behind on things, including blogging. Ah well. As we head towards April, that McDonald’s Fish-o-Filet promotion’s coming to an end, and that might explain why there’s less of THAT commercial; nonetheless, I’ll link to this: Channel 11′s Kaity Tong commenting on that McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish commercial; yeah, THAT commercial. The commercial actually makes me sing [...]

The sad sudden passing of actress Natasha Richardson. Fascinating story about the Anne Brown, soprano – who had been George Gershwin’s Bess when he composed “Porgy and Bess.” Brooklyn Dine-In, March 24-31 – help the economy; eat something tasty.

The passing of actor Ron Silver, a New Yorker who was an activist and artist. Some local items of note: Montague Street needs some new businesses; although, Marty Markowitz might want to be careful about attracting big firms to downtown Brooklyn or going too legal-related in the neighborhood. Big Firms are laying off lawyers and [...]

This was a fascinating article in this Wednesday’s NY Times Dining section — except for the part where it referred to David Leong, the man who made cashew chicken as a Chinese-American cuisine of Missouri, reading a “Cantonese language newspaper.” Umm, NY Times: there’s no such thing as “Cantonese language newspaper”; there is only one [...]

I’m taking my second swimming lesson today at the Brooklyn YMCA. As I succeeded in 1. actually getting into the pool, 2. not actually drowning, and 3. fatefully achieving self-propelled forward motion albeit with the assistance of a boogie board and two of those noodle flotation devices wrapped around my gut, I’m going to call [...]

Like last year, I miss my lost hour. I think losing the hour before spring actually is official isn’t that great an idea; it feels too soon. Fascinating 1 hour conversation between Robert Wright and Slate’s David Plotz on Plotz’s new book, “Good Book,” which is a book version of his blogging his reading of [...]

Snow in NYC stopped the schools; but not the rest of us city workers from going to work. Dartmouth selects its new president, Jim Young Kim, M.D./Phd., previously an administrator of Harvard. He’ll be the first Asian-American to head an Ivy League institution. My Alma Mater names a new dean, Michelle M. Moody-Adams, a philosopher [...]

I can’t believe it’s March. Fell behind on stuff… An item that I saw back in early February: someone out there tried to rob a store with a batt’leth, the Klingon weapon. A Trekker gone wacko, apparently. Are we bringing germs to Mars? February reading: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Pluto Files” was a good read, as [...]