Odometer: 13,666 Road Trip Day 0: Brooklyn, NY to Swedesboro, NJ – 107 miles / 173 kms After a flurry of packing, Brooklyn Freecycling, cleaning, landlord negotiating, and two nights on two deflated air mattresses made only marginally more comfortable by the smelly old duvet taken from Shyhound’s dog bed, we were ready to set [...]
~ A Wordless Wednesday Sneaky Cheat Special ~
Brooklyn Snowstorm | December 2010
Snapshots and Rhyming Captions…
- Are you available tomorrow for a Gowanus adventure/ food walk? K-Pants and I are looking for trouble. One of my favourite free things to do in Brooklyn is grab my camera and go for a walk around Gowanus. So, when I read this text message from my fellow foodie friend and blogger, Momsicle, I [...]
Holy snap! I just witnessed what weather folks and Gothamist are calling a tornado in Brooklyn! I was talking to my brother in London on Skype and marvelling at the fierce storm brewing outside. Suddenly, the sky grew dark and very bright, and thunder began dragging across the sky in a weird metallic rumble. Then [...]
This is a review that I wrote for PAPER magazine back in May 2006. Sadly, K&M bar has since closed, but it was a cheerful shabby-chic spot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. K&M There once was a pierogi place called Krystyna and Margaret, which was itself probably once a 1920s Williamsburg barbershop. Now it’s a bar named [...]
