I’ve briefly mentioned Tandem, but so far, I haven’t given them too much lovin’. Continue Reading

Wyckoff, home to the Jefferson stop, is finally going to offer a rival to Morgantown. Continue Reading

Me, brakin my friggin back.

I been living in Brooklyn my whole life and dis winter’z been one uh da weedest. I gotta dell ya man, I dunno if it’s da global worming er what, but between it bein da hottest summer eva, and now wit a storm every week, it’z makin me think. I ain’t even gonna tawk about springtime yet cuz I know we’re probly gonna have another montha blizzardz.

Snow’s been on da ground for a month now. Shure it’s been cold enough, and there’s tawk of the Arctic fence being melted away, so we get all their cold air, and they got our warm air, but I rememba when it was colda. Wit da wind, ya know?

So I wuz shuvelin my stoop dis mornin and I sweah I nearly trew my back out. And So far Bloomberg’z being doin’ a shitty job a clearnin’ da streets, but I ain’t gona hold it against ‘im. Fact is dough, dat trew dis Janyary’s snow season, we seen 49.4 inchez a snow, more than any udda New Yowrk winta season in istory. Secon most?  Janyary uh 1948, 44.9 inchez.

My wife’s callin’ me so I gotta go. But I’ll keep ya postid on ow my backz doin.

For those singles out there, you may be well aware that the dating game has changed. These days it’s not about meeting someone in a cafe (come on, how often does that work out?) but rather answering questions about yourself  and filtering through online compatibility results to find someone who also likes both Norman Rockwell and Jeff Koons (or either one, if it comes down to it).

The result is that you constantly check your digital profile for new messages, winks, or the equivalent form of communication that may portend an actual tete-a-tete. How will this evolve I wonder? Like eventually, if you see some cute girl sitting on the opposite side of a cafe, you should be able to do a Foursquare search to see people who are checked into the cafe. If she’s cool, she will have alerted the online community of her whereabouts and you can notify her or give her some hint that you noticed her both digitally and in real-life. If she’s not checked in, she’s probably not that cool, and even if she is, you can’t risk doing anything as creepy as actually approaching her and breaching silence without knowing her.

I can’t wait.

His forefather, on strike, in 1911.

Oh, Brooklyn! With thy thunderous steamy shores, where the gulls squawk, and the taupe sands flourish into vaulted rock; where the downtown rises and looks on smugly at Manhattan’s Financial District because she could envelop that phallic island four times over, this grand borough that shares a line with Queens, that houses the city’s industry and ethnic enclaves, and the staccato accents rubbed with “ois” and “vuts,” “ayes” and “ehs.”

Last week at about four o’clock on Friday, biking home, I saw a garbage truck traffic jam on my corner, because I live across from a garbage truck garage, yes, and two quintessentially Brooklyn guys, big janitorial workers, six feet tall, well over two hundred pounds, were speaking to each other, their gloved hands fisted, their green overalls stained and smudged with a day’s worth of collective garbage juices. And what did the one say to the other? Well dear reader, this blue eyed man with a stubbly face, gray spiked hair, and eyebrows knotted in fury said, “I god shit to do! I wanna get the FUck outta here!” laying the emphasis on the first part of the word, the way any good swearer knows how to emphasize his meaning.

And I biked past before I could hear the other’s response, but I tell you my friends, after a long week at work, the passion in that man’s voice  – his decided need to get the fuck home and sit on the couch with a Budweiser in hand while his wife cooked him dinner, the honest brutality of his words, and hard, clear cut handsomeness of his features – was enough to bring tears to my eyes.

On my commute I’m always wary of cops. Continue Reading

The Wiz is the black Wizard of Oz. Continue Reading

Natalie Portman’s performance was good. She will win the Oscar for her role. Continue Reading

These are some of my favorite videos of the week:

God I wish I could come across some Four Loko:

This guy’s smart. Continue Reading