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Firsts and Seconds
Today I did some things for the first time. And some for the second time. I found Grimaldi’s famous pizza restaurant for the first time…and will definitely have to return for a second time (and a third, and a fourth!) I started a fight with some shadowy figures… For the first time! If they start…
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First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum
Consider this the exciting conclusion of my King’s County Trio of posts: the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Flea, and finally, Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. After 5:00 on the first Saturday of every month, our beloved Target hosts a fabulous free event at the museum. And much like actual Target on a Saturday,…
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A Peek At…Brooklyn Flea
Brooklyn Flea is smart. When the weather gets cold, they move indoors! And I’ve been waiting to visit until I could see their gorgeous indoor location. See what I mean? Almost anything you can imagine, you can find here. Quirky dice, vintage clothes, records, vintage glasses, and tons and tons of these weird letter blocks. …
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Winter Garden
I have never been to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden until today! And what better time to visit an outdoor plants exhibit than February? Next door to the Brooklyn Museum, in my new favourite neighborhood PARK SLOPE (I think), the botanic garden must surely be a sight to see in the spring. But it had a…
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Downtown to Chinatown
So once a week, my friend Connie and I get together under the noble banner of seeing more of this great city we are so fortunate to live in. When in reality, we just take tons and tons of Instagram photos. The plan was to walk downtown, to visit Park Here, on the advice of…
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Snow Day!
Today we had our first *real* snow! That one before Halloween was a fluke and everyone knows snow before November is NOT SNOW! We woke up to a veritable winter wonderland! Fluffy flakes falling so dense and fast they obscured the bridge and the view of New Jersey: And it was fun to watch the…
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Brooklyn, You’re OK
“I like the island Manhattan Smoke in your pipe and put that in!” – Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story (cut him some slack, there’s not a lot that rhymes with Manhattan, okay?) If you know me at all, you know the disdain I have for Brooklyn. Not PEOPLE FROM Brooklyn. Remember, I was a bridge-and-tunnel…
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A Peek At…the American Museum of Natural History
Sometimes, surrounded by tall buildings and crazy people, it’s hard to even remember that nature EXISTS, beyond Central Park. Luckily, right along the park is the American Museum of Natural History! I had no idea, but Eli LOVES planetarium shows. Oh, that was amazing! Makes you feel so small, and yet so important. Blows your…
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Remember the time I got hit on by a cop?
You may think it ironic, seeing as how i love Law & Order so much, but i have a deep fear and loathing of cops. It’s not personal, i’ve just never had a good conversation with a cop before! Also, my somewhat anarchist tendencies leave me with mistrust for authority. So there I am with…
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A Peek At…Alice’s Tea Cup
Telling the masses about Alice’s Tea Cup causes me consternation. Do I really want more crowds fighting against me for the scones? Ah, I suppose I will allow it. Alice’s has THREE locations!!! I’ve been to two, and two out of three ain’t bad. One just blocks from the Natural History Museum (and The Dakota,…
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New Year’s Fail
Everyone around me is talking about resolutions, these inspiring ways they plan to change their lives for the better, amazing goals to turning their lives around in 2012. I’m not going to do that. Listen, I know myself pretty well (all my life, in fact) and I cannot keep long term goals. I mean, I…
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Saving the Soup
This is totally a metaphor. You know how sometimes, at the grocery store, when they don’t have your normal soup, you’ll see a different soup, and think, hey, maybe I should try that soup! Your excitement mounts, you see this soup being every soup you dreamed of and more. This could be my new favourite…
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I Remember…
…when you made me a mix tape in high school. I thought it was a nice gesture, perhaps even a romantic one, until I listened to the Weird Al track. It was a parody of the Aqua song “Barbie Girl” all about an “Ugly Girl” who, unfortunately, sounded a lot like me. And from that…
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Remember the Times
Ever wake up at 11am on a Saturday, you don’t have to work, it’s nice and cold outside, and just… go through old facebook photos of yourself? Maybe you should try to be a little more narcissistic, because it is AWESOME. Case in point: I found these old photos of me from YEARS back and…