Archive for 'Brooklyn'
Super Bowl! NY Giants!
OMG. NY Giants win! (against New England Patriots; again!!). Yay, Giants! I had actually called the score, days ago, when I put in my picks. Man, I should have put money on this. Still: the Giants win! Regarding the commercials: the Coke polar bears commercials were sweet, as was the MetLife commercial that brought Peanuts [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2012 under Brooklyn.
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Lunar New Year 2012 Events
Happy Year of the Dragon… May it be auspicious for all of us! In the NY Daily News: an article on the question of why NYC Chinatown still doesn’t have its own arch. I posit that inertia, money, and lack of actual analysis (of where to put it and how to drive the tourists to [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2012 under Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens.
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Happy birthday, Alexander Hamilton, Wherever You Are
Happy birthday, Alexander Hamilton, Wherever You Are! Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam: (8 of (by whitehouse) I’m sharing this video, in honor of Alexander Hamilton’s birthday. I remembered watching this on PBS awhile ago; this was so awesome… Lin-Manuel Miranda is ridiculously amazing for the extent of his creativity and his [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2012 under Brooklyn, Manhattan.
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Happy New Year!
OMG, it’s 2012! Have a Happy and Healthy New Year to all!
Posted: January 1st, 2012 under Brooklyn.
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Reading/Literary Highlights of 2011
I posted my Year in Reading of 2011 highlights over at tumblr. Feel free to check it out. May reading in 2012 be fruitful, entertaining, enriching, and enlightening!
Posted: December 31st, 2011 under Brooklyn, Links, Manhattan.
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TV Highlights of 2011
Like I noted last year (see here if you’re so inclined to see my 2010 list), my notable tv highlights of 2011 are likely much different than others since, for various reasons, I again drastically cut back on tv viewing and much like other people, my tv viewing seems to be more online these days [...]
Posted: December 31st, 2011 under Brooklyn.
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Merry Christmas 2011!
A Bensonhurst Christmas, in Brooklyn, NY, brought to you by a reindeer and Frosty. Merry Christmas to you all! (cross-posted over at sswslitinmotion.tumblr.com)
Posted: December 24th, 2011 under Brooklyn.
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Countdown to Christmas (2011)
It’s not quite feeling like winter the past couple of days. Oh well. From Time.com: “8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker” – good tips, actually. Funny thing about this time of year: people can get a little crazy about the religion thing; yes, it is a Christmas tree, not a “holiday tree” and, sure, [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2011 under Brooklyn.
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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas (2011)
This cold spell is making it feel a lot like Christmas in the city. I am also in incredible denial that 2011 is about to end. Jimmy Fallon hosted “Saturday Night Live” last night. His appearance was (a) kind of funny, but there were a couple of pointless and not good sketches, and I didn’t [...]
Posted: December 18th, 2011 under Brooklyn.
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Pearl Harbor Day
Don’t forget: Pearl Harbor Day, a day that has lived in infamy. I thought that the NY Times’ editorial about the need to remember Pearl Harbor expressed notable thoughts. Remembering it will be harder, when the first generation that was there is passing away. The passing of Harry Morgan, actor who was on “Dragnet,” and [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2011 under Brooklyn, Honolulu.
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