Archive for September, 2005



Eating out.

I had to split my Harlem adventuring in half, since I started late today, but I managed to make it to the Schomburg and pick up a few books. I’ve got some solid info to build on when I go back Thursday.
On the way back, I picked up dinner from Bayou.
Crawfish bisque and pecan-crusted chicken […]

I feel like the whore of Babylon.

This post was so unneccesary.
So I’ve removed all the text and left this cryptic message here instead, in hopes that people think it was much more scandalous and exciting than it actually was.

Dearest Harlemites:

Pretend, for a moment, that I am an intergalactic alien traveler (Mother. Not. A. Word.) and I am in your galaxy for, oh, eight hours. I am interested in seeing Harlem. That’s it, just Harlem. But in those eight hours, I want as much of the Harlem experience as I can possibly get. Some history, […]

Full-Time Sid/Part-Time Sid

Whee, new feature time, wheeeeeeee!
As we all know, Sid likes to make up features as though this blog were in fact some legitimate entertainment Internets destination. Bitch-in-Kitch, Haiku Tuesday, Fifty-Word, uh, Thursdays?*
In keeping with this great tradition, Sid would like to introduce “Full-Time Sid/Part-Time Sid,” a weekly look at how one siddity bitch with a […]

They got public education right.

This article was a bit of encouraging news in a rather depressing NYT weekend edition. Crisis! Evacuation! War! Dead Dogs! Busing that works! Whuzzat?
It sounds like the Raleigh plan really is working. Test results of minority children went from below half scoring at grade level to nearly all scoring at grade level. Students encounter economic […]