August 2008
55 posts
Hi new (and old) followers. My tweets, of late, have been few and far between. The tumblog, http://bklyndad.com is a bit more active.
“Mommy, I don’t see any buildings anywhere! All I see are trees!”
– the boy
“Daddy, bicycles are funny. It’s a “bike” and a “cicle”
– the boy
“I put a camera in your tummy so I can see your bones”
– the boy
“I love you, snugglehead.”
– the boy
Rainer Maria Alums Plot a Brooklyn Takeover →
Fischer and De Marrais have gone on to help found a record label called End Up, which put out Fischer’s earnest, crushing debut, Black Milk, is scheduled to release My Magic City in October, and boasts the oversized, theatrical band they’re both affiliated with: Balthrop, Alabama.
Very VitaliVery beautiful, non-toxic, a little pricey and made carefully by hand in Georgia (country not state) — wooden animals, like this fox, available at Romp (formerly of Brooklyn, now only online). $20-32 each. Sculpted Wooden Animals: Romp Permalink | Leave a comment »
BabySteals.com: Woot for the diaper set
See those Stuff for Sprouts natural skincare products? Hit up the recently launched BabySteals.com, and you can snag ‘em for 50% off the retail price (for a final cost that works out to $7.50 for the Lemon Lotion and $9.99 for the Blueberry Cream). But you’d better move quickly: The site, which debuted in late April, offers one new baby or...
I’m Gonna Learn Gear/Diaper Jiu Jitsu? Amazon Registry/7th Gen $750/$250 MegadealAmazon is in the middle of their biggest Diapers-N-Kickbacks promotion ever. Only this time, instead of buying $100 of diapers and getting $30 back to spend on Amazon merchandise, they’ve completely flipped it around. Alright, you may need a pencil for this one. Start diagramming…. NOW: 1) If you...
Boulder in the Basement: Unusual Boerum Hill Discovery
… in Brooklyn, you might be able to own a boulder by digging up your basement. This is what happened to us on Bergen Street in Boerum Hill last week. …
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17) →
George Harrison
Bob Dylan and The Band
Led Zeppelin
Seu Jorge
The Rolling Stones
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Battle Over the Brooklyn Flea Goes to the Religion Place - New York Magazine
New York Magazine, USA - Jul 25, 2008 [Gowanus Lounge] Fort Greene: It got rowdy last night at the big meeting to discuss the pros and cons of the weekly Sunday Brooklyn Flea here, …
These Bikes Were Made in Queens
Last summer a rented garage on the outskirts of Queens, NY served as a workshop for a group of Trinidad teens living in the borough. They worked day and night on “enormous stereo systems jury rigged onto ordinary bmx bikes,” with Randall Stevens on hand to document the creations, from scraps to mobile dance parties. The group is touted as...
Brooklyn Heights Banana Stand: It’s Legal!Attention Brooklyn Heights: The rogue banana stand parked in front of the St. George Hotel is legal. Everybody pack up your weapons and go home! That’s right: after complaints by a variety of residents and the Brooklyn Heights Association, it turns out that the rogue stand is totally legal, says the Brooklyn Eagle. “There has been a mistaken...
Sharon Jones @ Summerstage this weekend
Central Park Summerstage is the place to be for free shows on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Getting there early helps guarantee admission. I imagine that will especially be true on Sunday since Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings recently played sold out shows at both the Beacon and the Apollo.
Flyer Remover on the Loose in Park Slope
It’s a known fact that there are quite a few flyer-removers in Park Slope. On Park Slope Parents this week members have been talking about one person in particular. But this has been going on for years by a number of different people.
It is my understanding that flyer-removers are sticklers for flyer-free lamp posts (a flyer-free Park Slope)....
the walkmen announce dallas + austin dates
The Walkmen just posted up a bunch of new tour dates on their website, including October dates the Pontiac Garage @ House of Blues (ugh) in Dallas and the Parish in Austin. Their new record officially comes out next week, but you can still get it now for a $5 donation to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and this little guy. You & Me really...
Pinataland at The Old Stone House
The Village Voice calls Pinataland “Brooklyn’s finest dark-old-world-weird-history orchestrette.” They will be at the Old Stone House this Saturday August 16th from 7pm-8:30pm The Old Stone House is in JJ Byrne Park in Park Slope Brooklyn. That’s on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets). The event is FREE.
In these troubled times,...
Meanwhile in Cobble Hill:
“Last night I was walking on Court Street near Union Street and there were two ladies walking in front of us wearing long, flowing, huge robes with hoods… They were carrying flashlights, and had an air of authority about them. Okay, what is that? Did Halloween come early? Does this have something to do with that Twilight book? Is there some sort of...
“Daddy, do boys do gymnapsticks?”
– the boy
Watchjoelaz:
Broadway Street View, by joelaz
When Google Maps launched their street view feature, I had this idea to create a time lapse video based on the images captured by the Googlemobile as it made it’s way down a famous street. Today, I finally got around to making the video. I’ve been missing New York a little lately, so I decided to use Broadway as the subject matter. This video is based...
hud:
Electrocute - Bikikin Bottom
From the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-10) →
The Kinks
The Walkmen
The Rolling Stones
My Morning Jacket
Van Morrison
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Strong Place Church Looking More Condo-y
The ceaseless work on Cobble Hill’s 156-year-old Strong Place Church, which is being converted by Baxt Inqui Architects into a condo complex, continues. But the mammoth Degraw Street undertaking has begun looking more like its condoized future and less less its ruined church past. Through the arched stone entrance on Degraw, stairwells are now...
Mazzola Bakery Carved in Stone
Hundreds of people patronize Mazzola’s Bakery on Union Street and Henry in Carroll Gardens, but no one seems to notice that near the top of the building there is an insignia that read “NM.” We have, and for some time now it has driven us nuts. We figured it probably stood for something-“Mazzola,” but could not confirm this. The times...
City Sees Bright Future for Space-Age Toilets
Seven months in and the Automated Public Toilet experiment in Madison Square Park has been little but a smashing success. The NY Times reports that the only problem has been just how badly people want to get into the toilet with traditional pounding on the door doing more to hurry people along than the APT’s acoustic alarm and red flashing...
“Mommy, you look like Captain Hook.”
– the boy
Walkie-Talkie Teaches About Drugs and Sex
Deborah Pancaro’s three-year-old son recently heard some weird stuff on his toy walkie-talkie. First he heard some guys saying “10-4.” Then he picked up some chatter about marijuana and plans to visit a strip club.
“They said we should go smoke some weed, and were talking about being in a strip bar, some really explicit things,”...
12 year old blogger covers the Olympics →
Kids-Eye View of Beijing
National Geographic KIDS has a 12-year-old correspondent in Beijing who’s blogging the Olympics. David is an American kid who’s been living in China since he…
Summer in Brooklyn 1969-1975 →
new book chronicles early ‘70’s teen years in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bed Bug Complaints Soar 1,900 Percent! →
All Points West festival →
map via BrooklynVegan
I got my hands on a map. Click HERE to see the whole thing.
Click HERE to see what the park looks like today.
“Sharing is boring”
– the boy
De Blasio speaks out on LICH's Closing of... →
Community Hospital in Brooklyn Is Closing Its... →
Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill will close its obstetrics and gynecology departments and sell two buildings in an effort to ward off bankruptcy.
The boy gave me his cold…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-3) →
Serge Gainsbourg
Billie Holiday
Sarah Vaughan
Thelonious Monk
John Lurie
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