waiting

Our guests stayed over with us, and Huckleberry waited patiently for them to emerge from the guest room.  And that was my picture of the day.

(Lots of other stuff happened, but I didn't photograph it).

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pug kisses

Friends from Yurp came to visit yesterday, and we went to dinner.  When we came back, two of the pugs wanted to make out with me.  So, that's my picture of the day.

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yes, it's that very same ricky martin

I walked through Times Square last night on my way to meet friends for a Restaurant Week dinner, and passed by the Marquis Theater.  Though it hasn't opened, yet, the sign was up for the Broadway Revival of Evita, where Che will no doubt be shaking his 'bon bon' nightly.

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live oscar nominations--watch them here!

You can watch them beginning at 8:30 ET, right here!  On this blog!

One of the things on my 101 Things list this time was to see all of the Best Picture nominees.  I did just that last year, and I'm hoping to repeat it this year.

Last year, there were ten nominees.  This year, they've changed the method of voting, so it's not clear how many there will be.  There could be as many as ten, there could be many fewer.   Following the announcement, which streams below.



UPDATE:

The nominations for Best Picture, in no particular order.

The Artist
The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
Moneyball
Midnight in Paris
War Horse
The Tree of Life
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Of these, I've only seen Midnight in Paris.  So, I've got a project, here, if I'm going to get to the rest of these movies before the Oscars air.

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bread making redux

For our wedding, we got a bread machine.  I don't know that we really needed a bread maker, but then again, we really didn't need to register for anything, I suppose.  We've got enough stuff.

The bread machine has been sitting in my awfice for the past couple of months, while I worked my fingers to the nubbin', but yesterday, I finally brought the remaining gifts home from work.  I looked at the bread machine and thought...hm...maybe I'll make bread tonight!

Making bread was on this 101 Things list, and I've already completed that task.  But I did it again, last night.  So, that's my picture of the day.

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pug neck pillow

Yesterday was Sunday, but I had to work.  Uh-gain.  Before I left for work (and before I'd even bothered to shower), however, I was doing more and other kinds of work on my computer at home.  Howard the Pug has decided, recently, that he likes to crawl up onto the back of the sofa to either perch on my shoulder, or to rest behind me like a little neck pillow.  I used my computer's camera to take this shot.

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welcome back, snow

It snowed on Saturday for the first time this year (if you don't count October), and even though it was a slushy mess, I ventured out to go to meet up with the editors and contributors of Fucked in Park Slope, a blog that I contribute to on a pretty regular basis.  On the way back, I picked up the subway and had this really cool vantage point of the tracks where the subway comes above ground at 4th Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn.  I inadvertently found myself singing the theme song to 'Welcome Back, Kotter' and wondering exactly where the opening credits to that show were shot.




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white house view

Yesterday, I had a day trip to Washington DC, for work.  It wasn't very convenient, because I had a shitload of other work to do, and the internet connection on the Acela train is a total fuck-over.

On my way to my meeting, I passed the White House.  So, that's my pic of the day!

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happy birthday, spousey!

Yesterday was my spouse's birthday, and to celebrate, we had a schmancy dinner at Gramercy Tavern.  It was dimly lit, so the picture didn't turn out very well, but I wanted to put a picture of him as my picture of the day, rather than a picture of a glass of wine or a piece of halibut.  He blogged a pic of his dessert, though!

Happy birthday!

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metal bathroom

Last night, after work, I met Spousey at a party thrown by our real estate agent--kind of a 'customer appreciation thingy'.  It was at a relatively-new Australian place in Brooklyn, called The Sunburnt Calf.

The appetizers were really good, and the booze was flowing.  But the thing that struck me most about the place was the washroom.  It was completely metallic.  Sheet metal on the walls, metal toilet, metal sink.  Everything was chromey and reflectivey and kinda wild, but in a cool way.  So, I took a picture of the toilet.

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