<p>The one in the West Village is the best! </p>
<p>I think I’m falling in love with SBmom</p>
<p>Also, the Crackling Pork Shank at Maloney & Porcelli desreves mention as a great dish.</p>
<p>I confess. I like Balthazar, shameless “buzz” addict that I am. Despite my current suburban incarnation.</p>
<p>Alu-- Wow, me too! More separated at birth! I had a steak tartare at Balthazar on my first night in NY. (I am hopelessly addicted to steak tartare.) BTW, the guy at the door at Balthazar is BEAUTIFUL. </p>
<p>Have any of you by any chance eaten at the Brasserie Stella in Paris? That’s my favorite place to eat in the whole world, and now it will be even better with the smoking ban in place. Steak tartare or foie de veau both delicieux a mourir. </p>
<p>LFWB, that’s the best compliment I’ve had in months!! <3</p>
<p>More laughs from Academy land</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.stripamatic.com/~codered/FalconLove_TheMovie.swf[/url]”>http://www.stripamatic.com/~codered/FalconLove_TheMovie.swf</a></p>
<p>cando, I had noooo idea. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.</p>
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<p>sybbie, there’s no way the Man Thread will turn into anything remotely anti-female if I have breath left in my body. It is, as most of my threads are, just for fun. No hidden meanings or agendas. It was at the time a parody of the “alpha” woman thread. All females are more than welcome to come and harass their favorite male targets. If driver were here, kluge would be toast. ;)</p>
<p>btw - just installed a new faucet today - a Kohler. I may start up a new plumbing thread, but right now she who must be obeyed is insisting I dress up like a pool boy and massage her neck. Is feminism dead?? </p>
<p>(btw - no pizza tonight. We had home made gazpacho - a light, but delicious meal :D)</p>
<p>stumbling into SA – the lurker that I am – just back from 10 days in Italy. (Thanks so much to those who offered travel suggestions – we are amateurs at this and needed all the help we could get.) Lots to catch up on here at CC – though I’m not sure I want to. Nothing like returning from a different world to find a pile of bad news waiting at the door. As always, the perspective here is invaluable. I say those Europeans have it down – a 1/2 litre for breakfast? No problem! Your preteen want alcohol with that meal? Bring it on! Does SA have a house wine? It can be as bad as Mateus – I’ve learned – if you just serve it in a cute-enough piece of crockery! Lord, let this year be over.</p>
<p>Cyber “Yea!” for the fun and vino in Italy and cyber “boo” for whatever soiled your fun when you got home, Ivoryk. Love to hear more about the trip to Italy when you get a chance…</p>
<p>New here…
My son had to do an assignment for 5th grade. It was supposed to be a fill in the blank of what you are like in the future. It starts out “I am 27 years old, my life is ___<strong><em>. I graduated from</em></strong><strong><em>. I live in</em></strong>_______.” etc. etc. You get the idea. </p>
<p>This assignment was up on the board at the parent open house. I was so proud of my son, who said he had “graduated from Yale”. Wow, I bragged to my mom and husband, “see, that is his mom’s influence” (I work with several Ivy League graduates). We read down further and it then said that “on the weekends I ____<strong><em>". He wrote in “brew beer”. And "my life long goal is </em></strong>” to which he put “get my beer into restaurants”. We all started laughing, and I said, “well, I guess that is dad’s influence”. My husband is a home brewer and is always talking about how great it would be to produce beer for some local restaurants.</p>
<p>As parents we have more influence than we think or even know about. At least we all got a good laugh–and hey, who cares if his life goal is brewing beer–at least he will have the education to back it up!</p>
<p>How cool is that!?</p>
<p>He can have his beer on tap here right now!!</p>
<p>Which reminds me of the story about the preacher who’s son just turned 16 and he wanted to get an idea what he might be when he grew up. So, while he was at school he went into his room and put a bible, a dollar, a bottle of whiskey, and a Playboy on his desk to see which he would choose.</p>
<p>The preacher figured if he picked up the bible, he would be a preacher like him. If he picked up the dollar he would be a business man – still a noble calling. If he picked up the whiskey, he would turn out to be a drunk and if he picked up the Playboy, he would end up being a womanizing no good.</p>
<p>So the boy gets home from school and goes to his room and dumps his books on his bed and is getting ready to go out an play when he sees the stuff on his desk. His father is watching from the other room and sees his boy pick up the bible, open it and read a little, then puts the dollar in his pocket, takes a swig of the whiskey and puts the Playboy under his arm and heads out.</p>
<p>And the preach thinks to himself, Oh Lord, he’s going to be a Marine!</p>
<p>Well, they’re not marmots, but Holy Cow – are they CUTE or what?! Watch the whole thing – it’s totally worth it.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno</a></p>
<p>Awwww, slugg, thanks, that was adorable - especially at the end!</p>
<p>p2n, i’m just messing with ya but I must admit I had a lot of fun reading it and was waiting for slugg to slide on in there with her big roll of duct tape. </p>
<p>It’s okay if you want to escape us for a little while and hang with the boyz but now I see that you are deep in the boonies right about now (are you hiding out from us??)</p>
<p>giving big awwww to the otters</p>
<p>Otters are cute but meerkats are cuter:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1FV7dND0NY[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1FV7dND0NY</a></p>
<p>Performing page 2 rescue.</p>
<p>& I’m buying everyone a round from the top shelf. :)</p>
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<p>OK!!! Now you’re just messin’ with me! ;)</p>
<p>Top shelf? Did someone call me? Pinch on the rocks, please… :)</p>
<p>Ahhhh drinking with the guys. Such fun! I’ll have a Baker’s bourbon. This week has been quite a week for me. TGIF… </p>
<p>Oh, whoops-- it’s only Wednesday…</p>
<p>We like to think of it as drinking with the babes! :D</p>
<p>babes, chicks, peeps; we’re not picky.</p>