As far as I know from reading what Jen had to say, he wasn't diabetic. The kidney problems were a complication of the original heart valve surgery.
Never met the man, admired him, don't want to see false info disseminated. If someone closer to the situation can confirm or negate what I'm saying, I will happily defer to them.
I'm verifying that Turkish statement in my Elementary Turkish textbook. (I had a roommate from Izmir at MIT, so my interest is not completely idle.) I can still count from one to ten in Turkish from memory; I know four is dört (the ö pronounced much like the German equivalent), and eight is sekiz, so I trust Wikipedia is correct, but the best thing Ronald Reagan ever said is "Trust but verify," (and he didn't even make that up!) so verify I shall.
I'm having the second permanent crown this year put in tomorrow. The dental insurance and the flex spending won't cover everything, but they are very good things indeed.
I'm allergic to long novels.
Kimiko (#94) mentioned Ivanhoe earlier; I had to read that for school (social studies, believe it or not) one summer, and it took me a good 200 pages to get into it. The last 300 pages were involving, but boy did it take a long time to get off the ground.
The last really long novel I was able to really get into was probably Richard Price's Freedomland, whose pacing can best be described as stately. It helped that it was a sequel, of sorts, to Clockers, which I greatly enjoyed, and that it's set in an urban environment reminiscent of my East New York childhood, so I felt somewhat at home there.
Emily H (#91) brings up (misspelled) Kavalier and Clay; I read the first section, found it complete in itself, and have felt no urge to read further. I'm sure I would enjoy the rest of it if I picked it up again, but...
But I have read almost no fiction at all for the last couple of years, she confessed. Reality is just too hard to look away from, in a trainwreck sort of way.
Albatross, #34: Forget about Cindy Sheehan and Seymour Hersh's medication, what about Arlen Specter's and John McCain's?
I'd never seen any of these. So, Avi, does this mean you're working on your stuff now? Huh, huh, huh?
Dave Bell, #16: You know, Sin City is for me a perfect exemplar of why comic book art effects don't work in the movies. That sort of look is not what I go to movies for; it's massively annoying. Then again, that may be just me; Renaissance and 300 failed to work for similar reasons, though Renaissance is excessively dark-hued animation (much like Sin City) while 300 is a bad Frank Miller adaptation (much like Sin City).
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#17: There's a filk of "God lives on Terra" in this, I'm sure.
Apparently even the Dead People Server gave up on the blink tag: Schrödinger's Cat is now listed as "Not Alive".
That dinosaur comic you have in Particles is ripping off (or riffing on) both The Electric Company and 1776. I never thought I'd put them in the same sentence, but there you go.
Utopian Turtletop is analyzing Beatles bootlegs, which might be of interest.
And I'm early enough to provide an answer.
A cursory Google survey confirmed my recollection that "know from" is a Yiddishism. I think of it as a New Yorkish idiom, which often implies a Yiddish origin. Many of these Yiddishisms have been circulated via show business, so don't be surprised by your hearing it more on TV and movies than in your everyday life.
Jim, #64: Dammit, I'm getting those last episode of Dinosaurs flashbacks again....
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Teresa at #102: The one on Montague Street, IIRC.
That Linhares animation sounds like it was done to one of Stalling's adaptations of the central section of Powerhouse, for some Looney Tune or other. Just noting that there's more to it than that, and that the other main section is probably as familiar but not as well-known (it tends to show up in Roadrunner-type chase scenes; I can hum it for you if you're within shouting distance...)
I've seen Buddha's hands in NYC recently somewhere; Garden of Eden? I think so, the other gourmet place I went to last Saturday that's not Fairway doesn't do fruit.
For New York City residents reluctant to register at Nancy's link, you can call (212) VOTE-NYC (868-3692) and find out by entering your zip code, date of birth, and last name, and get your voter serial number, polling place address, election district, and assembly district to boot.
How awful.
My thoughts are with you.
Re: "ropa vieja": I've made it with brisket. Lots of Latino restaurants in NYC serve it, but it's not hard to make. Here's one recipe I just Googled for. The one I tried and found worthy is from Puerto Rican Cuisine in America, by Oswald Rivera, a book worth having for other reasons too.
And a shout-out to Canarsie Larry from my childhood home, East New York, at the very end of the B6 line. I'd forgotten about the Ices Queen, but I waited on that street corner en route to and from Kings Plaza many times as a kid.
Being an open thread, here's an item from the Religious Kitsch dept.:
Seen at breakfast in a diner at the beach in Wildwood, NJ: Guy walks in wearing a white T-shirt with a waist-up shot of Christ crucified, with the slogan, "HE DIED FOR ME/I LIVE FOR HIM."
It was Sunday morning, so I'm thinking the guy said to himself, "Let's see, I could go to church, or wear this tacky T-shirt. Same thing."
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