May 8, 2010

Rainy morning at the Greenmarket.



Still pretty crowded.



Rhubarb was everywhere.



Live Blue Crabs $1 each. Hmmm, maybe next time, a little Crab Soup. Seatuck Fish Company. Their regular fish prices are higher than P.E. and D.D. Seafood, which had Bluefish for $6.50 a pound, and here it was $7.99 a pound, a big difference.



Brother Jimmy's BBQ now at 16th street between Irving Place and Park Avenue South. I know it's a chain, but if you order right, you can do well. A fun place.



The new Doors Documentary When You're Strange will be on PBS this coming week on American Masters. Check your local listings. The movie was just released.



Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Number Two: Sea Bass.
Dr. Evil: [pause] Right.
Number Two: They're mutated sea bass.
Dr. Evil: Are they ill tempered?
Number Two: Absolutely.
Dr. Evil: Oh well, that's a start.



Silly stuff, but it is funny.



Last line in book as provocative as the first line:
"Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until the appointed day when their hearts were to be carved from their chests, journalistic subjects know all too well what awaits them when the days of wine and roses--the days of the interviews--are over. And still they say yes when a journalist calls, and still they are astonished when they see the flash of the knife."