MARCYINCNY1's Mar 2008 CalorieKing Blog
The Office
Monday, March 24th 2008
The lease is signed but it will be a couple of months before the space is ready. There it is, in the old Bentley-Settle Building, right above our favorite micro brew pub, The Empire Brewing Co.
Fancy
Saturday, March 22nd 2008
Fancy & Groucho have been doing aerial displays for a couple of weeks and Fancy has been observed checking the nest box but it's still early so I was surprised to see her spending so much time in the box on this chilly morning.
"There Will Be Blood"
Friday, March 21st 2008
I can't believe he actually got an Oscar for this schlock. It was dreadful; we laughed through most of the last two thirds of the movie. The only mystery was why we sat through the whole thing. Just plain awful.I wish I'd read this by Stephanie Zacharek beforehand because it's spot on, especially the part about John Houston:
"...in playing Daniel Plainview, Day-Lewis doesn't so much give a performance as offer a character design, an all-American totem painstakingly whittled from...
Five Years of Death and Dismemberment
Thursday, March 20th 2008
"Dozens of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars gathered in Silver Spring, Maryland last weekend for the Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan Hearings, where they offered harrowing testimony about atrocities they had witnessed or participated in directly. The BBC predicted that the event, organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War, 'could be dominating the headlines around the world this week'. The hearings were covered as far afield as the U.K., Australia, Croatia and Iran. Yet there ...
Oh Happy Day
Monday, March 17th 2008
"Over the weekend, the Federal Reserve engineered a $30-billion dollar Saint Paddy's day present for the JP Morgan bank by handing them the corpse of Bear Stearns. The object is to prevent the "assets" of Bear Stearns from going to the auction block, on which they would be discovered to be nearly worthless, which would instantly render all similar assets held by the other big banks to be similarly worthless, and would result in a universal margin call that would pretty much unwind...« Previous