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P– and I went to too many Brooklyn Restaurant Week restaurants. Marty’s restaurant week was an astounding success!
Worth another visit: Cocotte (French bistro cooking): excellent coconut-hinted bouillabaisse. Totally tolerant of having one latecomer to our party. Prix Fixe was a worthwhile value.
Worth waiting a few hours on the cell phone: Blue Ribbon Sushi (5th Av): [...]

This is the worst time of the year for me health-wise. The usual MO: two weeks of spring tree pollen and 20 degree fluctuations turns into itchy, stuffy, sneezing hay fever. The hay fever turns into a scratchy throat, then a full-blown cold. This year it hasn’t helped that I’ve spent the last 12 days [...]

“Angel” on the other night - I taped it, to watch with pleasure. But, the ending freaked me out. Did Connor remember Angel was his biological dad? If so, what did his final words really mean - “I learned it from my father…”? He has had way too many father figures…
This [...]

Comic strip “Doonesbury” shocker - the character B.D., whom cartoonist Trudeau sent to Iraq as an army reservist, was gravely injured during the Iraq insurgency. Trudeau pulled off quite an imagery - not only has B.D. lost a leg, he’s gone helmet-less (this is a character who has never been without his helmet in [...]

Hmm. This whole Bob Woodward new book thing in the news just seems so puzzling.
Hmm. I kept channel-changing on Sunday, and saw parts of that odd piece of Star Trek canon - “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” I’ve seen it once and thought it was the strangest thing. Of [...]