This is what always happens when we allow our cat, Zoltan, to go out for a few drinks with the boys.
Photo: Alex Escobar
Tag Archives: Recreation
Elephant Hoofing at Dumbo
Dancing elephants — along with clowns and unicyclists — paid a visit to [DUMBO] Brooklyn Wednesday.
See more photos here: http://bit.ly/YrSoTL
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Like Bumping Your Ass Off, Man
Also revving up for Coney Island‘s Opening Day: Eldorado Auto Skooter now operated by our friend Gordon Lee. In the Coney Island History Project‘s Oral History Archive, you can listen to an interview with Sheila Buxbaum Fitlin, whose family started the Eldorado and first came to Coney in the 1930′s: http://goo.gl/ypW2B
This video from last season is by amusement park “cygnus122″
Coney Island Project
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Resourcefully Contained
After spending years fighting gentrification in Williamsburg a couple decided to make their own house instead of paying inflated housing rates.
The catch? The three-story house is made of shipping containers.
read more: DNAinfo–photo gallery
You have to admire the resourcefulness of some people. Nowadays, when the going gets tough they invariably come up with quite creative responses to their difficulties. Just when I thought that abandoned warehouses were the ultimate in new age domiciles, shipping containers are now in vogue. What’s next? Perhaps clever residences strewn along abandoned shipyards.
via Facebook.
Edda-fied Pursuits
Top 10 Policies That The United States Could Learn From Iceland
I always loved those old Nordic legends…apparently, even the new ones are good.
Scratch Up a Cat’s Meow
The Cat Scratch from SUCK UK is a cardboard turntable scratching pad. It even comes with stickers, a spinning deck and a posable tone arm. via Cat Scratch – The Awesomer
A sure-fire gift for the cat in one’s life who has everything. In fact, it looks so adorably peculiar that my wife is thinking of getting me one.
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The Once and Future Upwardly Mobile
Ah, Manhattan in the good old days; an anxious time of crowded mobility that has ascended down to the present time. Always good to see that our forbearers never failed to appreciate a good joke; laughing at the progressive aspects of living in the fast lane.
Nevertheless, my world-weary but fast Ford Mustang would absolutely refuse to get into a contraption like that. My motorized pony would go Christine on me; causing death, havoc, and similar inconvenience to everyone and everything in her path.
Photo: Global Informer.
The Brew That Is True
You’re invited to join us tomorrow evening for “Brews at the NYAQ” at the Brooklyn Brewery. Hear about how our staff stayed strong during Sandy, with all proceeds going to the Aquarium Recovery Fund: http://bit.ly/UorTyv
But I understood that the pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! and…well, never mind.
