Til April...

The last outdoor flea of 2010. The indoor one at One Hanson can't compare.
I ate brisket, elotes, had a sinful bittersweet chocolate shake & modeled eyewear at every single booth with Angel & Ying.

The last great Caturday in the sun

Pickled cauliflower from Brooklyn Cured, brisket sandwich from HNH BBQ

Fall in CH

Diplo at Heineken's Inspire party

Aliens

Dres from Black Sheep

Zero Filmfest Opening Night at Nutroaster Studios

An empty lot in Bushwick

The crowd at Nutroaster

Sherlock's Daughter

Asobi Seksu

Caturday on bikes

Yesterday was a really beautiful fall day. So we got on our bikes...


Dumb asses at the Flea. Literally.

The Chrysler Building from the outside...

...and the inside

The Park Ave Armory Carnival...






It's getting better for me to bike in Manhattan now but it is getting more and more hectic. More dumb bikers, more dumb pedestrians and more crazy drivers. Can't tell you how many people I yelled at yesterday. Cabs pull in and out of the bike lanes to pick up and drop off passengers, people step right out into the street to hail cabs. And then you have dumb ass kids and delivery guys biking the wrong way down one way streets. I yelled at all of them. Dummies!

Flea day Saturday

Trying plaid shirts on at Koichi's booth - really great stuff, overlooked on most visits

Awesome record digging at Eral Battistea's booth. Seriously - the best selection overall of all the Flea record vendors. That Stryper record doesn't do him justice.

We scored all this stuff! I forgot to include my little drawstring bag with gerbil screenprint from Foxy & Winston. She has a lot of great prints on totes, baby clothing and stationary.

WHY DOES IT ALWAYS END IN BEER?

Seanpatrick is in town - he met us at the Flea where we stuffed our faces with Mile End's bagels + the works, Mama Mancini's meatballs, Milk Truck's grilled cheese sammys. Then Alex and I biked out to Canarsie with Cinco where we hopped on the bike path along the water. I got a flat so we ended up walking trough Sheepshead Bay to catch the Q train home, making a pit stop at Der Schwarze Kollner for some brats and beer. I did everything I wanted to do today.

A Rollerskating Jam

Saturday was a really full, beautiful day. We started pretty early, heading to the Flea at 11am to eat some delicious TX BBQ from HNH. The brisket did not disappoint - they gave us a few pieces from each end, lean and moist. The creamed corn was a little sweet but went well with the cheddar-jalapeno Elgin sausage, and the potato salad was delicious and mustard-y. LinYee was manning the booth, I've known her marginally for years and she always remembers everyone. She's a doll.

We hung out at home for a bit (I finished a knitting project that I will post later) and then rode down to Four & Twenty Blackbirds for pie with Cinco. This time I had peach-blueberry and he and Alex had salted-caramel-apple.

There is only about a month left to use the Key to the City so we hit a couple of BK locations. The first was Cabinet Magazine in Gowanus. There is a box in the alley...

...And when you look up, there is a little black box rigged to make bubbles when the door is opened. We tried to check out Proteus but it was closed so we headed to our next spot. I had brought a baggie of little green army men to leave in all the spots but some of them specifically said to not leave anything.

The next spot was in DUMBO at Gleason's Gym. I'd never been to a boxing gym before but it looked just like the movies. We unlocked the locker and played with some of the things in there - jumpropes, boxing gloves. I left little green army man in there.

We continued to explore, heading down to BK Bridge Park where there were crew races, a wedding photoshoot, tons of kids and a young student sketching the bridge.

Also Dewey's Candy for expensive ass penny candy. Seriously, we got a little bag of gummies and the shit was almost $7! I can get an entire tub of sour watermelon gummies for $5 from Staples. THANKS.

After beer and snacks at Pedro's we headed up to Williamsburg to The Levee, then hit The Cove for a free comedy show. Sad to say, the funniest part of the night was when the last comedian, who was being heckled by some fat douchebags in the audience, asked them why they had done it. Really??

This coming weekend, not sure which stops we will hit but this is a great way to explore the city for people who normally are a) too lazy b) too scared c) not motivated to leave Manhattan. It's a borough, kids. Not THE city.

Afternoon date, do or die

Make it Fit at Brooklynite Gallery


Beautiful buildings


Sunny side lot


DO OR DIE


Biohazard


At Saraghina


The bad angle


A laundromat was on fire