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Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:32:00 -0400

Just because Mitt Romney can’t drink doesn’t mean...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:00:11 -0400

Just because Mitt Romney can’t drink doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. This fully playable game will keep you engaged and give you something to do besides scoffing out loud.

theawl: wearethe47percent: $20k in debt after associates’...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:05:22 -0400

theawl:

wearethe47percent:

$20k in debt after associates’ degree in holistic healing. Can barely afford to keep basics in fridge. Haven’t gotten new glasses in years. Where my government @?

WE ARE THE 47 PERCENT!

Would sex him.

Brooklyn’s 8-year-old DJ Kai Song rocks your party (until...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:57:54 -0400

Brooklyn’s 8-year-old DJ Kai Song rocks your party (until his bedtime). And he knows Skrillex.

Spotted in a Williamsburg crosswalk this morning. 11 years...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:54:00 -0400

Spotted in a Williamsburg crosswalk this morning. 11 years later, let’s never take being a New Yorker for granted.

Sign of the day, via Roberta’s. You laugh, but...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:56:57 -0400

Sign of the day, via Roberta’s. You laugh, but they’re locally-sourced napkins.

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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:04:33 -0400

Drunk Skeletor says: "These are the 18 best dive bars in Brooklyn"

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:41:00 -0400

Drunk Skeletor says: "These are the 18 best dive bars in Brooklyn":

A dive bar is a place that should have cheap beer, yes, but also decent service and some sense of being permanently etched into the landscape. If it’s baffling or intimidating to newcomers, all the better. If you walk into a bar, sit down with your beer and are suddenly being lectured on the terrible decision the Rangers made to trade for goddamn Phil Esposito 40 years ago, you know you’re in the right place. Or at least I know I am. A dive bar, more than any other kind of bar, is a place that acts as a bulwark against a world that is more often completely shitty than anything else.

Read the whole list here.

About last night.

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:57:19 -0400

About last night.:

WORD NERD FIGHT CLUB!!

jamiatt:

So I want to talk for a second about what happened last night at the Vol 1. Brooklyn reading at CultureFix, and the fight that ensued, an act shocking at the very least because we are all such sedentary creatures, we book people.

So CultureFix, a bar/gallery space I have never been to before and…

All hail the Cheapest Generation

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:18:00 -0400

Economic recovery is based on how many things we buy, big things too, like DVD box sets and cars and houses and second cars. And here we sit, us generation Y or millennials or whatever, shaking our heads and asking “who the hell cares?” We are, as The Atlantic dubs us in this September article posted today, The Cheapest Generation, those of us wandering through urban areas, whose Zip Car spacephone apps are more important than owning a car, those of us for whom the dream of home ownership seems about as attractive as owning a diabetic elephant, who have, essentially, given up on the idea of “stuff.” And, according to The Atlantic, that means our country’s economy is boned. But that also means our generation is going to be just fine in the long run, and that should be OK with you.

Read the rest in today’s Brokelyn.

Via WNYC: It’s a documented fact that in 1942, radio...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:41:41 -0400

Via WNYC:

It’s a documented fact that in 1942, radio stations, newspapers and magazines maligned the borough of Brooklyn no less than 2,623 times. And that’s not even counting movies. Fugheddaboudit!

According to Brooklynite Sidney Ascher, this marked a significant decrease from the 6,457 times it was maligned in 1941, which also happens to be the year he founded “The Society for the Prevention of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn.”

Prominent members included writers Damon Runyon and Walter Winchell, Borough President John Cashmore, U.S. President Harry Truman, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, at least 10 members of Congress, hundreds of soldiers and sailors, and Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

And they didn’t even know about mayonnaise shops yet.

Some helpful signs we wouldn’t mind seeing around...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:26:30 -0400

Some helpful signs we wouldn’t mind seeing around town.

tonyctourists:

Shop at local establishments.

Brokeland is becoming a real place, and it’s not this...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:48:01 -0400

Brokeland is becoming a real place, and it’s not this coffee shop or yoga studio. It’s in … Oakland.

Why aren’t you making money off your...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:01:38 -0400

Why aren’t you making money off your potatoes?

zmbabwe:

Turn your potatoes into CASH!!

Summer is for brokesters, in action

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:00:00 -0400

No. 25: Thirft store basketball jerseys never look - or feel - cooler. (Dave and soulmate via last weekend’s Tiki Disco)

bushwickblockparty: SATURDAY JULY 28th IT’S A PARTY IN THE...

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:38:20 -0400

bushwickblockparty:

SATURDAY JULY 28th IT’S A PARTY IN THE STREETS!!!

Vinnie’s not only has excellent pizza, they also have the...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:17:27 -0400

Vinnie’s not only has excellent pizza, they also have the best special boards. And they brought us the T. Hanks meme.

specialbored:

REST IN PIZZA, MCA.

Color Commentary

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:15:19 -0400

Color Commentary:

Coloring is infinitely more fun when you’re older and know how to make things look pretty. So of course it’s even better when you get to have adult humor thrown in. Coloring for Grown-Ups fills this void you didn’t know existed with a mixture of self-contained jokes and prompts for audience participation. They’re happy to post reader submissions of colored-in pictures, too, and these are probably way cooler to hang up on your refrigerator (“I love you mom” inscription not included)

Fun and educational

It’s a spaceship, right? I’m right, aren’t I?

One of many Season 5 Mad Men moments you can color in.

A reader submission. YIKES

make vs buy: juice

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:43:48 -0400

2 large beets: $2.00
1 lemon: $0.33 (use to taste at the end! I used 3/4 a lemon, peeled)
a small piece of ginger: $0.30
5 loose carrots: $1.37
3 large Rome apples: $3.26

TOTAL: $7.26

Have you made juice? I worked at this juice bar (not a strip club, no) with a giant industrial juicer and multiple blenders, but this was my first time doing it at home. It had almost as intense of a prep/cleanup as the dreaded/delicious eggplant parm I like making. Just less, you know, hot oil and oven stuff.

This $7.26 fruit/veggie haul made me about 32oz of juice. Considering the fact that this produce isn’t organic, and most organic juice places charge $6-9 for 16-24oz juice, my results aren’t that impressive. Regardless of the definitive “buy” as my conclusion (again), this was a really fun day-off morning activity that I’d highly recommend and plan to do again. Also, there is no where to buy fresh juice in my neighborhood so I’m working with what I got. And what I got is FOOD BAZAAR.

Note: In a larger, more time-consuming batch, I’m sure this would have more cost-effective results.

Also note: CARROT APPLE GINGER BEET IS THE ACTUAL BEST.

Don’t forget to read this classic “make vs buy” piece by Jen Holder and myself, in which we discuss orange juice and other things.

Scenes from the Brokelyn Summer Camp

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:16:00 -0400

Scenes from the Brokelyn Summer Camp:

Every good camp ends with lots of photos. From Thursday’s Summer Camp party at Crown Victoria:

broadist:

button down: thrifted at Crossroads

skirt: c/o Dusty Rose Vintage

NARS matte lips in ‘jungle red’

I started off the night looking like my normal campy self. Sarah (the party photographer) and I were both laying down the bangs and tied button downs and cuteness (above), and then 4 hours…