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From the AP:
"The site, www.youtube.com/vaticanit, was launched the same day the pontiff praised as a “gift to humanity” the benefits of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace (ed. note- he didn't mention brownstoner) in forging friendships and understanding."
"But Benedict also warned that virtual socializing had its risks, saying “obsessive” online networking could isolate people from real social interaction and broaden the digital divide by further marginalizing people."
You've been warned. You all know who you are.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 9:50 AM
i have a very serious thing to think about today. i just got this on facebook and i have no idea what to do. a little background.. i have a half brother and half sister that my mom gave up for adoption a long time ago. i never met them. i havent heard or seen my mom since i was 17 or 18. anyway...
Today at 2:44am
You don't know me, but i know your half sister Dina. I'm assuming you know that you have a half brother and sister. (Dina and Michael)
Today she told me about you and showed me a photo of you with something that your mother wrote to you on the back. She was wondering about you, but she didn't know anything about you or where you lived, so i thought i'd do a facebook search for her.
My name is monica and i'm her neighbor. I've sort of been mentoring her and being a kind of big sister to her this past yr. She and I are very close and i help her with school work and the average teenage angst. She is 17 now and will be turning 18 in August. I don't know if you ever met her, but to her recollection, she said she never met you. She knows about you, but no one in her family has given her any information about you.
I don't know how you feel about having any contact with her, but in case you did I'd be happy to put you in contact with her. If you have any questions about her feel free to ask me since she has given me permission to do so. If you don't want any contact with her or are not ready or something, i will just tell her i did not find you because i wouldn't want her to feel rejected since she's already had it kind of rough growing up. I hope you don't find my message too intrusive, she was just curious about you and had tried to do a search for you online once some time ago.
Sincerely yours,
monica
has anyone ever dealt with something like this before? im totally at a loss. i dont really have any relations with my family except for my grandmother who gave up on my mom anyway. would this be a bad thing to persue?
*r*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 28, 2009 10:03 AM
Pope's a dope. But Andy was pope of pop.
Posted by: cb6 at January 28, 2009 10:04 AM
WOW, rob. It's a difficult decision, I know. Sounds like there's no harm in communicating more with Monica and getting a little more information on your half sister. It sounds like Monica will respect your decision. You should at least start by finding out where in the country she lives.
This is the stuff that movies are made of.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 10:10 AM
apparently they live in north jersey (jersey city area) which is where im from.
*r*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 28, 2009 10:15 AM
I think you should, rob. Family is an iffy proposition, true, but on the upside, nothing beats a great family. Mine is great but there were times when I had to walk away form them. It was awful- and i will never do it again- but your half sister seems to want to meet you. A little sister can be ownderful (as can big brothers). give it a try- at best you'll meet pepole who will add something to your life, at worst you can walk away if you're uncomfortable. Take it at your own pace.
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 10:30 AM
I have a half sister who is about 10 or so years older than me. I met her once when I was very young. A couple of years ago she contacted my mother in order to find me. I was suspicious only because of what she was saying - 'it would be nice to have a little sister' etc. What the hell took her so long to decide she wanted to know me? She had planned a trip to NYC and wouldn't you know it the friend she was staying with happens to live just a few blocks away from me. I declined to meet her or allow my mother to give her my phone number. I also had fears that she wanted to have conversations about our father and possibly compare horror stories and the like. That's a conversation I wasn't ready for then and still not willing to have now. I can't tell you not to see this girl, her motives don't seem to be ill intentioned. If you decide to see or speak with her, just be clear about what YOU expect to get out of it and how it may impact your life.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 11:05 AM
thanks for the advice guys.. im sure she had a rough life. i didnt have a terrible life because my grandparents adopted me. if i told my grandmother about this i bet she wouldnt want me to see her.
*r*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 28, 2009 11:22 AM
This is one of the main reason I wage war with you MOFO because Covert Class?Race warfare if uncheck can lead to some bad things. Jon you fit into the same mode as the Assheads and I wish I can see him on the street! I think his business gets slammed for this!
Shame, Shame, Shame:
Racist Cookies in
'Honor' of Barack Obama
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/090122_Racist_Cookies_in_Honor_of_Barack_Obama
MYFOXNY.COM - "Shocking," "appalling," and "racist": These are just some of the words used to describe what's for sale at a well-known bakery in Greenwich Village. While much of America celebrated Barack Obama's inauguration, Fox 5's Arnold Diaz found that this bakery marked the occasion with a controversial cookie that the owner calls a "drunken negro face." Watch Arnold's report, read his blog, and then comment on the story.
This is why The What exists...
The What
Someday this war is gonna end...
Posted by: Return of The What at January 28, 2009 11:56 AM
Rob, that's quite a story. Do you think your grandmother could handle it if you were to talk to her about this unexpected turn of events and ask her advice?
Whatever you eventually decide to do, right now you should take some time to think about it and talk it over with people you trust. I would advise against making any fast decision about contact. Take your time. It does sound like this intermediary will be respectful of your needs. Maybe contact her to say you are thinking it over? It also sounds like your half sister would benefit from the even just the psychological support of contact with you, but that shouldn't necessarily influence your decision. You have to do what you think is best for you.
Posted by: dylanfan at January 28, 2009 11:59 AM
You brought it up, What, you asshole, not brownstoner.
Who's the guilty one???
Get off the racist crap or take it to curbed or somewhere else.
Everyone's tired of it.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:03 PM
Why is everybody so paranoid? I'd be happy to meet a long-lost relative of mine. I would never assume (s)he's a stalker, wanting to sell me a Ponzi scheme or terminally needy.
Do, it Rob. You'll almost surely be glad unless you're an anti-social type, which I don't think you are.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 12:06 PM
Agree with what that racist cookies are bad.
Curious to understand how a bigoted baker in Manhattan was compelled (or even influenced) to create this peculiar confection by the commenters on this site. But I'm glad what is fighting the good fight on Brownstoner to prevent more racist cookies. Now that I understand the real purpose behind his posts, I will be more charitable in my responses.
Posted by: slopefarm at January 28, 2009 12:06 PM
Is it me or did the thread about the Brooklyn Heights Kitchen just disappear? Is my computer connection freaking or is it Brownstoner?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 12:08 PM
WTF Mr. B????
The Remodelista Kitchen thread is gone?!?!?!?
It is a gorgeous kitchen!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 12:08 PM
i just noticed it disappeared. the psychic part of my brain says the owner of the kitchen saw the thread and heaven's to betsy can't take critisism of her perfect life and had it deleted. newsflash. this is a blog about brooklyn! not an episode of lifestyles of the rich and famous.
*r*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 28, 2009 12:09 PM
Yes Snappy, it's gone.
A discussion about kitchen design that could be pertinent to townhouse living and it's gone :-(
I leave now to go design a kitchen...too bad it's traditional, ho-hum!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 12:11 PM
The kitchen post was deleted because that's where the racist cookies were baked. Mr. B is doing his part, too, to end bigotry.
Posted by: slopefarm at January 28, 2009 12:12 PM
Yes, what happened to my favorite kitchen? Mr. B's getting slapped with a cease and desist?
My supposedly previous post:
"Well, there you go RAR/Remodelista! Great attention and conversation today for your outfit - very clever. Scrolling down your website one can see that Francesca's house is beautiful and regardless of what everyone says, if you're a designer and does a great job, the attention is well deserved. Awesome. Congrats!"
Posted by: cb6 at January 28, 2009 12:13 PM
What, at the risk of engaging you in an argument, (And, I apologize to you other posters if this in fact does happen) I feel the need to ask the following:
If you are so convinced that Mr. B is racist and/or engaging in race baiting tactics on this blog, why do you continue to read the blog and post here? I'm not going to ask you to leave, that is Mr. B's decision. I just don't get why you feel the need to come here everyday and bash him. When I don't like the practices of a store, I vote with my wallet by no longer patronizing them. When I don't care for the reporting style of a website, I vote with my fingers and no longer give them the clicks.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 12:13 PM
For whatever reason it disappeared, I hope it's not because the owner requested it. If that is the case, that's wrong on so many levels.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 12:14 PM
Snappy, WHAT????
What the heck are you talking about?
Did I miss something?
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 12:16 PM
Before the plug was pulled on the kitchen thread, did anyone notice if the range was gas or electric?
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 12:17 PM
probs deleted because i posted a link to their "10 things to know about" and it was....well you decide.
Posted by: bowl of dicks at January 28, 2009 12:18 PM
Thw What at 11:56, BRG
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:18 PM
maybe it was deleted by the feds cuz of the frozen blood heads in the clear door fridge?
*r*
Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 28, 2009 12:18 PM
gas sub zero monstrosity, I believe
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 12:19 PM
brownstoner caved into the What...that whole house, kitchen especially, was TOO WHITE.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:19 PM
cmu, you say monstrosity, I, denton and others say "nice."
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:22 PM
aaah, sorry, subzero, wolf, what's the difference?
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 12:23 PM
Francesca had a few of her Italian relatives stop by the brownstoner offices.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:23 PM
that's perfectly ok dibs, just speaking to our different sensibilities...
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 12:25 PM
wait, so the townhouse kitchen thread was pulled because What ranted about the owners probably baking racist cookies in the all white kitchen?
Posted by: bowl of dicks at January 28, 2009 12:25 PM
"the brownstoner offices."
Aka, the cubicle in DUMBO, according to the recent NY Times article :-)
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 12:25 PM
LOL dibs.
Posted by: bowl of dicks at January 28, 2009 12:25 PM
No, it was pulled because it was too white bread.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 12:27 PM
That about sums it up, BOD
Francesca, In the Kitchen, With the Cookie.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:28 PM
I have black soapstone. I'm sooooo open minded.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:29 PM
Some of the comments on the kitchen were kind of mean. My comment certainly was. But I stand by it, if you spend a quarter-million dollars on a new Art-Kitchen, you probably should not flaunt it at a time when thousands are losing their jobs and the entire nation is facing financial hardship.
I'm not in the mood to ooh and ahh at the kitchen of a wall streeter.
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 12:30 PM
Isn't selling racist cookies in Greenwich Village the equivalent of trying to sell ham sandwiches at Temple Emanu-El during a Yom Kippur service?
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 12:30 PM
bo'd, I was making that up. The racist cookies were baked in a Greenwich Village bakery, not in the kitchen from the fortress of solitude.
Posted by: slopefarm at January 28, 2009 12:31 PM
"Some of the comments on the kitchen were kind of mean."
If we eliminated threads with mean comments, what the hell would we be left with here? wasder and Montrose Morris talking about the weather?
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 12:32 PM
Careful, DIBS, what will accuse your kitchen of minstrelsy.
Posted by: slopefarm at January 28, 2009 12:33 PM
good to know I shouldn't panic and toss the laptop (my last computer- GASP!!) I'm sure its just a techie issue. I mean, its not like anyone said anything so bad, and they posted it in the first place.
The guy with the cookies should be driven out of business as far as I'm concerned. i saw this a few days ago and the man is a total, complete moron. Not only did he come up with the idea, but he was too stupid to understand what was so wrong about it. And plenty of people told him so- including a lot of white people. I hope he loses his business and gets charged with hate crimes. You could go picket him, What.
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 12:33 PM
wasder and Montrose Morris talking about the weather?
Boy would that be exciting. But Biff you might have missed the news but I am considering changing my name to redsaw and becoming a total acerbic bastard.
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 12:34 PM
Well yes, Biff. But what if you were selling them at half price???
Let's all have a black and white cookie this afternoon and ponder the meaning of racism in a gastronomical context.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:34 PM
if you're not in the mood to ooh and ah, you shouldn't go to that site (which is all about oohing and ahhing). she didn't ask for it to be posted here.
Posted by: Ringo at January 28, 2009 12:34 PM
"I'm glad what is fighting the good fight on Brownstoner to prevent more racist cookies." ME too slopefarm. Someday this racist cookie war is gonna end.
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 12:36 PM
I am all for black and white cookies.
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 12:36 PM
I don't think anyone disagrees with you, bxgrl. This whole thing is just so utterly ridiculous that its only worthy of snark.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 12:37 PM
Man, I didn't get a chance to comment
Posted by: dittoburg at January 28, 2009 12:37 PM
Things that make you go hmmm...I'm a black woman who hates chocolate! Can I just have the 'white' part of the cookie and still be included in this racial harmony moment? :)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 12:39 PM
Ebony and Ivory,
All together in perfect harmony......
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 12:39 PM
DIBS prefers fortune cookies.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 12:41 PM
wasder- you'll need to take classes in acerbic bastardy. I understand the Redrun School gives specialist classes in redsaw theory.
Montrose took it last year but failed the finals :-)
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 12:41 PM
redrum...redrum....
When I was a kid I looked a lot like that kid in the Shining...
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 12:42 PM
So, wasder, or should I call you Redrum? Oops, wrong name. How about that messy sleet and frozen rain out there? I was supposed to go to a trade show today, but I decided not too. How's your business going? Do you need office help, I need a part time job. Access to Brownstoner a pre-requisite, of course. How's the little one? How's Mrs Wasder and your other Wasderling? Have we bored everyone silly yet? Biff, this is your fault!
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 12:44 PM
Of course you can snappy- just as soon as you get treatment for your obvious cuisine illness (hates chocolate???!!!)
MM- SNAP OUT OF IT!
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 12:44 PM
oops- crap typing again. Redrum. (Makes a bloody good cocktail too!)
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 12:46 PM
Theory, and my conjecture only: B'stoner hoped that featuring the BH kitchen would drum up some ad business. Doesn't Remodelista already have a banner on this site? Owner Francesca's privacy is at issue here. I'd prob feel the same. So be careful what you wish for.
Posted by: cb6 at January 28, 2009 12:46 PM
I am sitting here in my parlor office right now MM, typing away at TV treatments and scanning pictures for my website. Soon I will put up my Brooklyn in the 90's series and link you guys to it. Family is good, baby is gorgeous, business as it is everywhere is slow, and I am dreaming of better days and new horizons. And you MM?
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 12:47 PM
> "This whole thing is just so utterly ridiculous that its only worthy of snark."
And some high quality snark on this thread indeed. Carry on.
Posted by: SnarkSlope at January 28, 2009 12:47 PM
biff- I thought DIBS preferred Marines and Mexicans (or so he says)
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 12:47 PM
cookies are inanimate objects, thus cant be racist. and we all know negro cookies can only be reverse-racist at most, but really are not in power so probably cant even be that.
the kitchen is still boring. it sure took a lot of cash to achieve Boring.
Posted by: goldie at January 28, 2009 12:47 PM
MM, speaking of the weather, please be safe on your steps and walk. I hope you have some poor schlub out there clearing the path for you!
Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
- Mark Twain
Don't knock the weather; nine tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- Kin Hubbard
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 12:50 PM
cb6- what privacy? She posted the pictures on the internet. Browbstoner didn't go into her, snap pictures and then squirrel out the information. What are you talking about?
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 12:50 PM
That kithen has never seen a black and white cookie. In fact, other than minimalist-correct food (three or four photogenic pieces of fruit) I am sure no food is allowed in.
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 12:50 PM
Snappy, honey....
Things that make you go hmmm.....I'm a white woman who looves chocolate!
Yes, you can have the 'white' part of the cookie and still be included in this racial harmony moment? :)
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 12:51 PM
"biff- I thought DIBS preferred Marines and Mexicans (or so he says)"
Enter Major Menendez, stage left.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 12:51 PM
Enter Major Menendez carrying a bag of black and white cookies. A DIBS fantasy come true.
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 12:54 PM
Is it me or was goldie's post incomprehensible? Probably just me.
Hi, Mr. Snark!! I offer wasder 5 meows out of a possible 6 for his 12:36 comment. A classic. Oh...and anything c'hiller says today should get at least 4.5 (see c'hiller..I do care).
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 12:55 PM
Why isn't brownstoner clearing up the issue of the disappearing kitchen????
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 12:56 PM
Not that, sam, is a true kumbaya moment.
wasder- this is your chance to practice acerbic barstardy. You won't earn your new name without some work :-)
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 12:57 PM
cmu, can we please refer to it as the "case" of the disappearing kitchen? That would add more of an air of mystery to it, like a Hardy Boys novel.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 12:58 PM
Cookies are also not very good murder weapons, DIBS.
I bet her new Gray baby alpaca throw from Abitare in Brooklyn would deliver a suffocation quite nicely.
Posted by: bowl of dicks at January 28, 2009 12:58 PM
acerbic bastardy? According to Ringo we are only supposed to ooh and aah on this site.
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 1:00 PM
bxgrl, then maybe Mr B should explain why.
Posted by: cb6 at January 28, 2009 1:00 PM
Biff, I'm the schlub who is going out there after lunch. I'm putting it off for as long as possible, hoping the rain washes the snow away. I also hate wasting the snow melt, that stuff is expensive. I'll put some down as I know this mess will turn to ice after it stops. The sainted tenant bought some ice melt, as did I, so we are good for this storm, anyway.
Wasder, business is very slow. I'm trying to use this time to clean and organize my workspace, as well as make some samples and work on the website, but I find myself wasting a lot of time on a certain blog. Prying myself from the computer soon, and doing some work. I spent some time at the Gift Show at the Javits yesterday. There were more people there than I thought there would be, and people were writing orders, although probably smaller ones than usual. Vendors were offering deals, and I'm sure only selling COD or credit card orders, none of this net 60 stuff anymore, except to large, established clients.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 1:01 PM
"You won't earn your new name without some work :-)" Point me in the right direction and I will rip any and everybody a new one.
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 1:02 PM
It's becoming: The 'Case' of the Silent Mr. B.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 1:03 PM
"Point me in the right direction and I will rip any and everybody a new one."
Really? Call me wasder, I have a list.
Posted by: cobblehiller at January 28, 2009 1:04 PM
cookies are excellent murder weapons.
especially hand-made cookies.
several english murder stories have been written around that plot premise.
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 1:05 PM
Mr. B inquiring minds want to know. What happened with the kitchen?
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 1:06 PM
wasder, why don't you call yourself "dewars" and take on the role of a drunken acerbic bastard?
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 1:06 PM
Cobble best friend, pal...can I see that list, there's a name I need to scratch off.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 1:07 PM
You people all suck, what with your racist cookies, depressed lighting, the way you take every kitchen counter for granite, and your general obsession with all things poo mist. I don't know why I even bother..
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 1:09 PM
I can fashion a pretty mean shank out of biscotti.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 1:09 PM
clearly the kitchen was pulled because we were being acerbic bastards. Why torture Mr B further?
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 1:09 PM
Maybe, they needed that 'cold' marble kitchen counter for the autopsy of the victim that died from 'cookie' poisoning.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 1:10 PM
All this talk about cookies and killing just prompted me to set up a new business.
http://www.unclebiffskillercookies.com/
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 1:10 PM
Nice try wasder, but try it again, and put your back into it this time!
Posted by: cobblehiller at January 28, 2009 1:10 PM
Nice try wasder, but try it again, and put your back into it this time! sigh...
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 1:11 PM
Wasder, please stop!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 1:11 PM
"wasder, why don't you call yourself "dewars" and take on the role of a drunken acerbic bastard?" This I fucking LOVE. Will be a great excuse for me to get loaded in the middle of the day.
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 1:12 PM
Biff, your cookies look delicious!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 1:13 PM
"Wasder, please stop!!"
You know you are right. With my great, quaking fear of the drop in the Case Shiller index I just can't bring myself to be an acerbic bastard. If only BHO were here to help me.
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 1:14 PM
remember the "Mystery Theater" where Diana Rigg played a homicidal maniac and poisoned people -young and old- with her homemade cookies? It was soooo creepy. A cookie as a deeply malevolent object.
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 1:15 PM
Wow, wasder said 'fucking'. I think he must be drinking already!
"Cobble best friend, pal...can I see that list, there's a name I need to scratch off."
Don't start with me on this today BRG. Trust me, you do not want to go there.
Posted by: cobblehiller at January 28, 2009 1:15 PM
cb6- where did the contract you signed to post here say Mr. B owes you an explanation. I'd like to know also- but I don't think he owes it to me.
wasder- great start but a bit too derivative. find your own true path, your inner redsaw.
"scuse for now- the EVLL has requested my presence at the lunch table (because I have the milk and bagels :-)
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 1:16 PM
"Biff, your cookies look delicious!"
Thanks. Did you try my Unc's Chunk? The Golden Oatie was developed right after I referenced the Hardy Boys above and realized I'm not as young as I used to was.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 1:16 PM
Did I tell you about the fight I had this morning?
I picked up a one-dollar umbrella this morning instead of my compact fancy one. The handle popped out automatically and whacked someone on the station platform. After getting it under control and boarding the train it kerfwumped completely open on the when we were all packed like sardines and pissed everyone off – they probably though I did it on purpose. Then it behaved well until I was getting off at Rockefeller Center and the handle shot out again and grabbed someone’s bag as I exited the train. After one last attempt to explode and spill my coffee I strangled it and threw it in the trash can.
Posted by: dittoburg at January 28, 2009 1:17 PM
"I can fashion a pretty mean shank out of biscotti."
THL, that was priceless.
Sounds like a great business, Biff. No acerbic acid in your batter, though.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 1:17 PM
MM, no acerbic acid in my batter. I put only the finest ingredients: the saltiest salt, the creamiest milk and the chololatiest chocolate.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 1:20 PM
we should send an order of biff's killer DOUBLE FUDGE cookies to the What.
Posted by: bowl of dicks at January 28, 2009 1:23 PM
hyperbolic bxgrl, your words not mine.
Posted by: cb6 at January 28, 2009 1:25 PM
Biff, no nuts in your recipes?
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 1:25 PM
I think the What would prefer the LOON PIES (marshmellow filled)...
Posted by: wasder at January 28, 2009 1:26 PM
chololatiest?
*shaking head* That's a totally racist ingredient Biff!
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 1:26 PM
Cholo:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cholo
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 1:28 PM
dittoburg, that was a great story, I picture a Steve Carrell type person struggling with a malevolent cheap umbrella. My sympathies.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 1:28 PM
'no acerbic acid in my batter'
Aaarrgghhh, why can't I say what I really want to say!!
....the batter.
I hold my tongue.
[sigh]
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 1:30 PM
Ditto...that made me laugh out loud...for that I thank you!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 1:30 PM
unfortunately I was more Mr. Bean than Steve Carrell
Posted by: dittoburg at January 28, 2009 1:33 PM
That was truly hilarious ditto! I'm pretty sure I've met that umbrella.
MM, Steve Carrell would be prefect!
Posted by: cobblehiller at January 28, 2009 1:33 PM
D'OH, I meant "chocolatiest".
Please accept my deepest apologies.
Biff Champion
Someday this disclaimer will end...
*My opinion expressed above does not necessarily represent the opinions of other posters or the directors, officers and employees or advertisers of this blog.*
BRG, of course you can get it with nuts. Did you not notice the White Chocolate Macadamia cookie bursting with white pockets of flavor?
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 1:40 PM
We just had Chinese New year lunch here at the office of the Mutant Hedge Fund. Lots of racist discussion about Chinese and then we all had fortune cookies.
I have a video at home called "Fortune Nookie"
I like Mexican desserts as well and I've had my share of shoo fly and sweet potato pie...
>Enter Marine stage left.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 1:45 PM
Obviously we're going to get no explanation. For those who missed the kitchen, here's the original in all its frostiness and grandiosity; maybe the comments will continue.
http://www.remodelista.com/2009/01/27/steal-this-look-brooklyn-heights-kitchen/#comments
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 1:47 PM
"I picked up a one-dollar umbrella"
ONE dollar???? ONE???? And you're SURPRISED it flew apart within minutes?? You couldn't part with four additional measly bucks for the (equally cheap, but longer-life) $5 version?? At least the $5 umbrella will get through most of a week before falling to pieces. You got what you paid for!
Posted by: East New York at January 28, 2009 1:47 PM
I think I got more than I bargained for
Posted by: dittoburg at January 28, 2009 1:49 PM
Made in China, no doubt.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 1:50 PM
MR.B..........HEEEELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO??
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WHITE KITCHEN???????????
Mrs. Limestone...post another pic off yours so we have something to comment about. Everyone will love it.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 1:52 PM
cent, five cent, ten cent, dolla...
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 1:55 PM
Can anyone explain to me why higher end restaurants don't take reservations?
I mean, if you are superhip and somewhere with massive foot traffick, then, sure... I can see not taking reservations.
But if you are on the corner of st. marks and flatbush (yes, I'm talking about you Flatbush Farm) would it kill you to let me reserve a table for dinner so I don't have to worry about wandering around in the cold on a Wednesday night looking for a place to eat.
In other news, I'm open to suggestions for a nice restaurant on 7th or 5th btwn flatbush and 1st street that DOES take reservations. I believe Rosewater and Stone Park do take reservations. I know al di la and flatbush farm don't.
Bonus question: what the hell inspires people in coffee shops to respond to my request for a "medium coffee with just a little sugar" to put about 6 spoonfuls of sugar in 12 ounces of coffee. Most good chocolate is less sweet than this.
Posted by: northsloperenter at January 28, 2009 1:56 PM
northsloperenter.....where do I begin? Most high end restaurants throughout the world take reservations. Flatbush???
On the coffee thing, don't ever ask anyone younger than 40 or anyone in a metal cart on the street to put milk or sugar into your coffee. You'll argue with them over it and it'll ruin your day.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 2:00 PM
Keep pressing for the return of a kitchen redo...I need something nicer than my own kitchen to look at. I'm off for my afternoon nap (oh, the pleasures of unemployed!) Maybe when I return there will be some subzero, granite and zebra wood to salivate over :)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 2:02 PM
You need reservations to get into FLATBUSH FARM?
Posted by: East New York at January 28, 2009 2:04 PM
Snappy...I didn't know you were what you alluded to above.. Would you be interested in meeting my friend from the neighborhood?
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 2:04 PM
MR.B..........HEEEELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO??
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WHITE KITCHEN???????????
It turned pitch black.
Posted by: cb6 at January 28, 2009 2:05 PM
Mrs. Limestone's Kitchen is in the reno. section (as is the rest of her stunning home).
http://www.brownstoner.com/windsor_terrace_reno/archives/2008/02/nearly_finished_kitchen_minus_one_lightb.html
I'm not sure I should say this but I also happened to spy it (along with her office) in the rate my space section of HGTV.
Mrs. Limestone your taste is impeccable.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 2:05 PM
And a nice mixture of black & white I might add. Very politically correct.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 2:08 PM
You actually need to call first at the non-descript La Maison d' Morocco in Bayridge. Go figure.
Posted by: cb6 at January 28, 2009 2:09 PM
oooooh, I want some cookies right now!
If you give BRG a cookie, she going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give her the milk, she'll probably ask for a straw....she'll probably ask you to tell her a story. So you'll tell her a story one from....
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 2:09 PM
"You need reservations to get into FLATBUSH FARM? "
No, but without reservations you might have to wait for a table for a length of time that might make you regret having gone there in the first place.
If you have the time to waste or there are 5 nice restaurants right next door that you can go to if the first one is full then it isn't such a big deal (hint: I have no time to waste and there are not 5 nice restaurants next to flatbush farm).
Posted by: northsloperenter at January 28, 2009 2:11 PM
Northsloperenter;
Tempo takes reservations (very, very good, but pricey). Also, the new place that opened on 5th and 3rd St (Alta Voce) takes reservations. I wouldn't call it high end, however. Run of the mill Italian.
Posted by: benson at January 28, 2009 2:13 PM
"don't ever ask anyone younger than 40 or anyone in a metal cart on the street to put milk or sugar into your coffee. You'll argue with them over it and it'll ruin your day."
This is quite possibly the best advice anyone has ever given me.
Even better than my father's "When in doubt, wear a jacket. You can always take it off later if you get hot, but you can't put it on when it gets cold if you don't have it with you."
Posted by: northsloperenter at January 28, 2009 2:15 PM
"If you give BRG a cookie, she going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give her the milk, she'll probably ask for a straw..."
I was SO looking forward to what followed, and only got the disappointing "ask you to tell her a story". STORY?
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 2:15 PM
THEN CALL AND MAKE A RESERVATION. IF THEY CAN"T GIVE YOU ONE THEN YOU WILL KNOW THEY ARE FULL AND YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT.
GOOD GOD.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 2:15 PM
"THEN CALL AND MAKE A RESERVATION. IF THEY CAN"T GIVE YOU ONE THEN YOU WILL KNOW THEY ARE FULL AND YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT."
Um... I must have expressed myself badly.
Flatbush Farm does not accept reservations for a party of less than 6 people.
So, if you want a table for 2 (which I do), you can only get it on a "first come, first served" basis.
Flatbush Farm strikes me as an expensive enough place that they could do me the courtesy of reserving a table for me, but they see things differently, so I will eat elsewhere.
I just don't get the whole "we don't take reservations" thing for a restaurant that isn't likely to get a lot of people walking in off the street.
Posted by: northsloperenter at January 28, 2009 2:21 PM
OK..that's better. I agree with you on eating elsewhere if they won't take reservations.
I think any restaurant that serves alcohol and has a wine list should take reservations or they are just lazy or understaffed. It usually winds up being a bad dining experience for one of many reasons.
If you're a BYOB, it might be different. Most BYOBs in Philly take reservations. Philly is so much more civilized.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 2:25 PM
I think Mr. B is being extremely pompous today in not explaining the removal of the ULTRA WHITE Kitchen. Sort of like when you ask your parents why? It's because I said so.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 2:28 PM
CMU...I'm SO sorry if my 2:09 post disappointed you.
But it is as it stands. No re-write required.
And if I do say so myself (patting myself on the back) it is up there with one of my best ones.
Of course no one here will understand it ;-), and it was specifically crafted for a special someone.
Hubby are you reading this?
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 2:37 PM
BRG, did he propose to you over milk and cookies?
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 2:39 PM
Was it a black & white cookie?? All this talk of them makes me want to run out and get one.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 2:44 PM
whomever owns that kitchen I'm sure wishes each and every one of us eat a poison black and white cookie today.
Posted by: sam at January 28, 2009 2:47 PM
Maybe Mr. B hasn't responded to our "oh where, oh where has the white kitchen gone, oh where oh where could it be?" gripes because he's doing everything solo now. He's too busy to have even noticed it slipped off the screen let alone read our requests for an answer as to why it's gone.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 2:47 PM
Yes, it was the 'chololatiest' cookie and the biggest glass of milk.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 2:49 PM
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Domino magazine is folding. Now I have nothing to read.
It also does not bode well for those of us, um, employed in the media. Perhaps someone could endow it, as was suggested of the New York Times today in a NYT editorial.
Posted by: mopar at January 28, 2009 2:49 PM
northsloper, thats some excellent advice. Any others from your father?
Posted by: dittoburg at January 28, 2009 2:50 PM
THL, things just don't "slip off the screen" And I'm sure that hot Asian guy on Law and Order can retrieve it from the hard drive.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 2:50 PM
Seriously? That's very romantic!
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 2:51 PM
Just consider yourself lucky that FF actually has a listed phone number. Most of the really high end places like that don't.
Posted by: jawbreaker at January 28, 2009 2:56 PM
"Domino magazine is folding."
Pun intended?
"Perhaps someone could endow it"
I heard Ebony Magazine was also in trouble despite it being well-endowed.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 2:56 PM
THL...NO!
I didn't have the official on your knee, rose petals everywhere proposal. It was more 'hey, we've been dating long enough and I'm done with school, wanna get married'
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 2:59 PM
BRG, so neither you nor your hubby got down on your knees?
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 3:00 PM
Dave,
First,in the immortal words of Liz Lemmon- No Doi!
Second- B.D. Wong is SO HOT
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 3:01 PM
you people are really making me LOL at the office today. thanks!
Posted by: bowl of dicks at January 28, 2009 3:01 PM
I'm not ready to touch that one yet. Let me get a cup of coffee and think about it.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:02 PM
Biff...zzzzzzzz
What goes through that head of yours? Really! I'm sure so many here would like to try to understand.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:02 PM
THL...it's not BD Wong..its Archie someone. BD Wong is the psychiatrist, not the tech guy.
There's some pics of Archie on www.asianhunks.blogspot.com
BD Wong is gay.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:05 PM
my 3:02 was a response to Biff's well-endowed comment.
Now about his 3:00pm post. You're using past tense in the sentence. Is that really the question?
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:07 PM
"thats some excellent advice. Any others from your father?"
A lot of good automotive and fishing advice which I haven't benefited from recently (although every time he hears something about people catching stripers in the east river or hudson he tells me about it and asks if I want my old surf rod).
The only other life advice I remember was "don't get some girl pregnant and drop out of college", which I suppose wasn't bad advice, but it wasn't as good as the jacket thing.
Posted by: northsloperenter at January 28, 2009 3:09 PM
Biff!!!!! You didn't.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 3:09 PM
Montrose, of course I didn't. That must have been my evil twin Biff_Champion!
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 3:12 PM
Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone
I hear you call my name
And it feels like home
When you call my name its like a little prayer
Im down on my knees, I wanna take you there
In the midnight hour I can feel your power
Just like a prayer you know Ill take you there
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:12 PM
MM..what are you surprised at???
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:13 PM
And, I can rest my beer can on your head.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:14 PM
Hmmm, don't know him.
Re: BD, I know he's gay but he's still hot.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 3:14 PM
We all are, THL. It's the gay man's curse. :)
The beer can line was in response to BRG's song about down on her knees and power in the midnight hour.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:16 PM
"Just consider yourself lucky that FF actually has a listed phone number. Most of the really high end places like that don't."
I like Flatbush Farm. It's a good restaurant. It isn't in the league that you are envisioning.
Also, the "no reservation" thing has always struck me as something very small and very trendy places do -- the places that want to be a "scene" and always have a crowd waiting around.
The REALLY high end restaurants generally only seat people by reservation and the trick is getting them.
I remember speed dialing Nobu a few years ago when you had to call exactly 1 month before you wanted your reservation and they usually booked up the place by 30 minutes after they started taking reservations. I actually got through the first day I tried and got a reasonable time (6:30, I think). Had a fantastic dinner too.
Which reminds me, I was going to Chicago once and wanted to go to Topolobampo, but I called too late to get reservations. My friend suggested we go to Frontera Grill (which is the slighly downscale version of Topolobampo right next door). Frontera Grill didn't accept reservations, but we were prepared to hang out and wait for a table.
We got there and they said it would be 2 hours for a table. That was a big more than we felt like waiting and we were discussing other restaurant options when the hostess chimes in with "We just had a cancellation next door at Topolobampo. If you want, I could seat your there right now." Had a fantastic dinner.
Posted by: northsloperenter at January 28, 2009 3:17 PM
Wait Dave...did you mean Archie Kao from CSI not Law & Order?
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 3:18 PM
Biff did you miss the whole high-end EXTREMELY WHITE KITCHEN/racist cookie imbroglio this morning?
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:19 PM
Yeeeessssss.....sorry THL. He is on CSI.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:20 PM
That was truly a gorgeous kitchen!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:20 PM
And for people that don't think I post serious content on there (I'm not saying your name), I was on that thread and would have continued to do so, but it got taken down.
I miss that kitchen!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:22 PM
Archie Kao ad in China...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKC7lr5eVS4
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:29 PM
His Snarkiness is apparently playing favorites with ditto.
It looks he's getting the SOTD...AGAIN. [No, I'm not bitter]
Posted by: cobblehiller at January 28, 2009 3:29 PM
I KNOW WHAT WE NEED....
http://www.millbasininfo.com/homepage.htm?in_listing=5515799&ref=Trulia
Enjoy!!
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 3:31 PM
THL...that's exactly what we needed. What's with the staging of the balloons and matching walls?? That bar area with the curtains awaits the requisite belly dancer coming into the room.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:37 PM
"No, but without reservations you might have to wait for a table for a length of time that might make you regret having gone there in the first place."
You have to WAIT to get a table at FLATBUSH FARM????
"Most of the really high end places like that don't."
HIGH END???? Are we talking abou the same place????
Posted by: East New York at January 28, 2009 3:38 PM
...So I was down at the shop getting the lights installed under my Camaro and I says to the guy hey, hows about you put these things up under the tray ceiling in my living room? Looks friggin' sweet right?
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 3:40 PM
Oh POO...THL.
I was just going to link a photo of a nice kitchen in the NY Times. Now my limelight will be gone....hmpf!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:40 PM
just go ahead and do it BRG. THL doesn't own this site.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:43 PM
THL...how is J-Kun doing???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:44 PM
"You have to WAIT to get a table at FLATBUSH FARM???? "
It really doesn't matter to me if they have tables available most nights or not. If I'm planning a night out and have to arrange babysitting, etc., and I'm willing to pay over $50 per person for dinner, then I want a reservation.
And the place we are talking about is: http://www.flatbushfarm.com/
Anyway, I made my reservation at Rosewater. Thanks to benson for the Tempo suggestion. I may check them out another time.
Posted by: northsloperenter at January 28, 2009 3:45 PM
Damn you, THL. I just got a stiff neck and cracked my computer screen when I flipped it to look at the snazzy sideways bathroom shot. But I do like the Three Little Bears-esque bathroom towels by the jacuzzi.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 3:46 PM
When staging a house to be photographed for sale, buy balloons the same color as the walls and place them artistically on the floor.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:47 PM
If that bed can talk!!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:49 PM
BRG, I know you got brownstoner to take down the kitchen because you like it and I hated it and said so. How petty can you be? And then you repeat your love for the kitchen on this thread!
Well, I still hate it.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 3:49 PM
cmu.....Check out the kitchen in the mill basin house that THL linked, you might like that!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:52 PM
That's just mean spirited, BRG.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 3:54 PM
Can't...my monitor blew up. Couln't handle the expanse of puke green wall.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 3:56 PM
I've already linked this before, for Miss Chiff in reference to 'her' kitchen.
Here you go, for all you traditional kitchen lovers who like to clutter your counters with stuff. Check this out. Does this make you all feel better, a white on white kitchen, but yet humanized.
On the plan, the kitchen counter seems loooong. Wonder if it's one piece of slab or two....hhhmmmm.
The interior designer is not named on this project, just the architect that she worked with. Why do they insist on doing that??
Check out the floor plans, the before and after. What a difference! That's a great floor plan, the designer must be a genius.
I don't like the furniture and I'm sure it's the clients....but look at that woodwork.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/garden/22women.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 3:56 PM
BRG: "yet humanized"
Aha! So you admit the Vanished Kitchen is inhumane?
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 3:59 PM
Whoa, that kitchen is whiter than the Osmond's house at Christmas time.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:00 PM
I'll spare your the details except to say in all aspects except appetite he's fighting pretty hard and is trying his darnedest to act like he's fine. Problem is, he only wants to eat yogurt (The yogurt things not new, he's always been strange that way you offer him steak or chicken he turns up his nose. You crack open a yogurt he will sit in front of you staring you down whilst smacking his chops till you give him the container to clean out). So we're watching him for a sign that he's tired of fighting. I want to do the right thing I just don't want to push him into it before he's ready.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 4:01 PM
What happened with Rob's new-found relative? He's been awfully mum about it since this morning.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 4:02 PM
If he's still eating then he's probably OK. It's only when they stop eating that you really need to worry.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:02 PM
THL, give him a kiss and scratch behind the ear.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:04 PM
'Whoa, that kitchen is whiter than the Osmond's house at Christmas time.'
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:06 PM
What happened with Rob's new-found relative? He's been awfully mum about it since this morning.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 4:02 PM
If he's still eating then he's probably OK. It's only when they stop eating that you really need to worry.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:02 PM
I love the open thread.
P.S. No offense to J-Kun, THL. Wish our cats merely stared at the people food they desparately wanted. One is a terrible scavenger. Got into some homemade lasagna last night and will steal chicken bones if you turn your head.
Posted by: slopefarm at January 28, 2009 4:08 PM
We can't all be as witty as you, BRG.
You know those QOTDs aren't like those minutes they advertise on that cellphone commercial. After a certain time they expire and you don't still have them to claim anymore.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:08 PM
Shoot, the lines are getting really bad. I better stop writing. It's too bad, I had lots of catching up to do at work today. I guess it will have to wait!
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:09 PM
DIBS, why did you say QOTDs, as in plural? I thought BRG only got it once.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:11 PM
Biff...WAKE UP!!!
TWICE, BABY.
That's right, 2x
Suffer ye!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:14 PM
If Rob's relative is hanging out in that missing kitchen, he won't be eating much. Only white foods allowed there.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 4:14 PM
Actually i can't remember, Biff. So many of them are just unmemorable.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:14 PM
DIBS, Should I remind you!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:15 PM
"Only white foods allowed there."
Mmmm, marshmallows, truffles and milk for everyone!
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:15 PM
Nope, I only saw one, and it wasn't memorable at all. It doesn't count if I didn't see it.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:16 PM
Yogurt for J_Kun. But he won't be allowed in to eat it.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 4:18 PM
White chocolate & white truffles....sooooooooo
PWA
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:19 PM
"Snappy...I didn't know you were what you alluded to above.. Would you be interested in meeting my friend from the neighborhood?"
Dibs, whatcha got for me?
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 4:19 PM
Am I looking at it wrong, or do you have to climb over the faucet and other hardware to get in the Jacuzzi in the Mill Basin house? And what's up with the rope lighting? As we say so often, money can't buy taste.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 4:19 PM
Biff, you were around that day when I got the second QOTD, I think you just chose to ignore it. Were you upset with me?
It was about your neighborhood as a matter of fact....and hookers!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:20 PM
A very nice LBF....about 50 years old. You might know her if you've ever been at Solomon's Porch. Not sure what your "type" is or your age parameters. I know I'm very specific on my type, although it would encompass 75% or more of the world's population.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:22 PM
Huh, I don't recall seeing anything of the sort (I'm referring to both a second QOTD for BRG and hookers in BH).
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:22 PM
Oftentimes one only sees what one wants to see.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:24 PM
I don't know about 50...I'm 34 so.... (whoa, did I just admit my age?) I've never even heard of Solomon's Porch, hermit that I am.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 4:25 PM
Please, Biff....please, please, please drop it lest we are subjected to them being posted again...and then again on the actual QOTD today.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:25 PM
"I know I'm very specific on my type, although it would encompass 75% or more of the world's population."
DIBS, do you want to re-write that as "it would encompass 75% or more of the world's MALE population."
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:25 PM
DIBS, there is no way that even BRG would be so crass as to post her QOTD yet again! Absolutely no way.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:27 PM
Somehow I have a feeling Mr. B's going to post a "lecture" today having to do with the WHITE KITCHEN IMBROGLIO.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:27 PM
Here Biff:
My second QOTD
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2009/01/quote_of_the_da.php
Here's the original post where my prose where picked from:
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2009/01/no_takers_43_lo.php
You were around that day!
Don't be be upset with me.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:27 PM
DIBS, maybe you can introduce your LBF to Snappy at the next gathering. Tentatively planned for Floyd NYC on March 19.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:27 PM
Thanks for thinking about us :)
That's part of the quandary. He won't touch regular (wet) food. We have to supplement the yogurt by squirting this high calorie food from the vet into his mouth which is not fun for any of us. So we're in a holding pattern.
Slopefarm that's the kitten! The other two know they aren't even allowed to cross the threshold of the kitchen while I'm cooking. They'll line their toes up against the tiles edge. The kitten, different story, she's a thieving little dirt bag. You look away for one second and she will swipe your food right from under you. We attribute that to her probably having to eat whatever she could find from where ever she could find it for the first 4 months of her life. Me and the hubby were sitting on the sofa watching TV. We each had a plate with sandwiches and potato chips and I had chip in my hand and started talking and pointed at the TV with the chip in my hand and she jump/reached up from the floor grabbed my hand and stole the chip right out of it and ran off upstairs with it. Another time she jumped onto the arm of the chair behind me, thread herself under my armpit and grabbed meat something off my plate. I'm working closely with her on bettering her table manners.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 4:28 PM
Biff...that just goes without saying (the 75% thing).
On your 4:27 post, never underestimate the crassnes of anyone from Bay Ridge.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:28 PM
Oh, no, Biff, good lord, no. I'm setting the over/under at 4:31.
Posted by: slopefarm at January 28, 2009 4:28 PM
I guess I was wrong! Oh well, the links were cut off. I can't view them.
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:29 PM
My cut and paste software has crashed. Sorry, BRG.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:29 PM
I was four minutes off. She posted as I typed.
Posted by: slopefarm at January 28, 2009 4:30 PM
Hey, as long as you wanna hook me up, I may as well throw out my three loves: Lips, Hips, and Thighs! Yummy!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 4:30 PM
'there is no way that even BRG would be so crass'
You have no idea then, do you.
I posted them, both of them, in yesterday's QOTD!!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:30 PM
Some of us also have better things to do that cut and paste urls from some blog.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:31 PM
sorry slopefarm, I thought there might be at least an ounce of modesty. and she beat your prediction by four minutes, unsurprisingly. She is not very "sutle"
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:31 PM
"My cut and paste software has crashed"
That's my pick for SOTD.
Literally laughed out loud, hysterical.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 4:33 PM
I think you'd like her, then.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:34 PM
Here you go, Biff:
You need to study my style so you too can one day be awarded this honor.
BRG's 2nd QOTD:
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/
archives/2009/01/quote_of_the_da.php
Where it came from:
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/
archives/2009/01/no_takers_43_lo.php
Now, why didn't you comment that day.
Are you getting upset with me...now!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:36 PM
BRG, I enjoyed that article you posted. It reminded me of the sainted tenant and myself. When you are by yourself, relationship wise, it's great to have a good friend nearby, but not in the same space. We both have very separate lives, but can always choose to share dinner or watch a movie, and then the other person goes home. Not bad.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 4:40 PM
Rob, in case you see this, of course you should contact your family. Never hold the sins of the parents against the children.
I second Tempo. My fave in the Slope.
Nobody mentioned Oreos!
Posted by: denton at January 28, 2009 4:41 PM
"You need to study my style so you too can one day be awarded this honor."
You mean the style of throwing out 400 posts per day and hoping one of them sticks as QOTD every 6 months? It's the law of averages. You have to win sometime!
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 4:41 PM
THL, forget teaching the cat manners. It won't work. My cat Angus, aka Piranha Boy, snatches food like a starved alley cat. It must be a racial memory, because he's been overfed in my house his entire life. We call him P Boy for a reason. He is relentless.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at January 28, 2009 4:45 PM
BRG, you're wanted up on the Wednesday Blogwrap. Someone needs to know where to rent a hotel room for an hour.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:47 PM
Speaking of teaching a cat manners, any suggestions on how to get my cat to stop sleeping on my head? Nothing like waking up in the morning with cat ass in your face!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 4:48 PM
Just finished the NYT article BRG. Agree with yoiu that the floorplan is genius. It's great that these ladies found each other and were able to share this great space.
Sure beats the heck out of having to have a roommate or settling for a tiny space where they couldn't work on their craft as easily.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 4:49 PM
MM, it is a great story and they seem like the nicest people. They have two apartments, completely seperate. There is a door joining the two spaces however and I 'assume' it's because of the fire stair in the back of the builidng.
I love that white kitchen, but I love the other space more. The woodwork and that glass divider.
I wonder what the bathrooms look like? :-)
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:51 PM
Snappy, I thought you girls liked the little pussies in your face. Sorry, that was just too easy.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 4:51 PM
Not when they are hairy...
That was too easy!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 4:56 PM
um, Snappy...
Sphinx here.
Can I come over.
This is easist!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 4:59 PM
snappy- when you find out how to stop them, let me know too.
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 4:59 PM
Sorry to interrupt...just came across this regarding one of the cast members of Real World Brooklyn.
Thought some of you might be interested...I know I was...
http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/
urbanite/blog/2009/01/real_world_brooklyn_roomie_str.html
Posted by: 11217 at January 28, 2009 4:59 PM
Oooooh, here come the spelling nazis!!!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 5:02 PM
11217...where's the Latin guy???????
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 28, 2009 5:02 PM
Oh, boys and there persistence in posing in their undies....somehow I knew that Real World boy was a . . . oh never mind.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:03 PM
BRG, you naughty girl!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:04 PM
I know Dave. I'd have preferred to see him in that shot also, but I'll take what I can get.
He does have nice abs...I'll give him that.
But I'd rather see what's around in back, personally. Looks like a jockstrap to me he's got on there.
Mmmmm
Posted by: 11217 at January 28, 2009 5:05 PM
Montrose, I kept meaning to tell you how much I enjoyed the pics of your boys! I cut out earlier that day before you had posted them. So beautiful. I can tell just by the expressions that they are characters. J-kun loved the sink in our old apartment. It was a giant really deep, round porcelain pedestal sink he used to lay in there all day and stare out the bathroom window. He particullarly liked the sunset (awww what a romantic boy). I tried in vain to convince my husband steal that sink (landlord was going to gut reno the building for a condo conversion anyways) and bring it to the house when we moved.
Snappy, Ah yes, cat ass. They do love to share that with you as though it's a prize! It's really hard if they've been doing it for a while. I just usually grab them by the scruff with a stern NO! and toss them (gently) from the room, door closed behind them. Repeat as necessary until they realize that sleeping on the bed at all is privilege enough. Cookie tried to pull that with me when I joined the family. She has a double coat and the soft downy undercoat always got into my eyes, torture!
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 5:06 PM
THL- cats can be very finicky when they aren't feeling great, but its good he wants yogurt. it's when they stop drinking it's the end.
Piranha boy is a monster- having protected my dinner from him many a time I know. I had a red tabby named ketchup who once snagged an enormous piece of broccoli of my plate. He panicked- it was way to big for his mouth but it got stuck on his fang. I had to chase him all over the house whiole he kept bouncing off of furniture trying to get rid of the broccoli. I could not stop laughing-
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 5:08 PM
A tisket a tasket Scott's package in a Baskit!
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 5:10 PM
When I first got my cat I tried to prevent her from sleeping with me, but she would just cry all night when I excluded her. I felt bad and gave in and gave her half the queen sized bed. Now, she lays wherever she wants, including on my head. My favorite is when she crawls up the back of my shirt, pokes her head through the neck hole and rests her head on my neck and sleeps there. I think she loves me just a bit too much!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:10 PM
Ooohh...you purr too? I may have to give you my address...
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:12 PM
I missed the cat conversation yesterday, but it's good to hear there are so many cat lovers out there (sometimes i feel like i'm the only one)
The cat i grew up with just turned 10. He's been 25 lbs most of his life (the vet said as he is massive, 20 lbs would be his ideal weight) Well, carrying around all that extra weight has taken it's toll and now he has joint problems - he has to take a little kitty glucosamine (sp?) pill every morning with my father, and needs steps to get up on the bed. Other then that he's in good health, but it's still sad to watch :(
Posted by: dirty_hipster at January 28, 2009 5:12 PM
My last cat slept above my head on the pillow. I liked it a lot and miss it now. Current cat is one we let in after he'd been abandoned by a neighbor down the block, and I'm trying to get him to sleep on the bed.
Posted by: cmu at January 28, 2009 5:17 PM
OMG Bxgrl, I can totally picture it and I'm laughing as I type!!
You HAVE to check out this dog. Look how desparately he's trying to do the right thing and not take the cupcake. Bless his heart!!
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b80504__lt_i_gt_Soup_lt__i_gt__s_On___lt_i_gt_It_s_Me_or_the_Dog_lt__i_gt_.html
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 5:17 PM
"Tentatively planned for Floyd NYC on March 19."
Gee, I hope everyone can come, although I suspect some may not make it.
Posted by: cobblehiller at January 28, 2009 5:19 PM
cobblehiller, whom do you suspect won't attend?
Posted by: Biff Champion at January 28, 2009 5:20 PM
Sorry that didn't work.
Go to this page and the video is on the right hand side of the page. Seriously the dog is to die for.
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_soup/index.html
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 5:21 PM
OMG! That poor dog looks like he's gonna lose it if he doesn't get a cupcake stat!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:21 PM
Awww Snappy, I think it's nice your cat lets you sleep on her bed with her. She sure sounds like a sweet girl.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 5:26 PM
That's exactly right THL, she lets me sleep with her! We have the conversation once in a while where I explain to her that I pay the rent here and that I am the one who bought the bed, but she kindly lets me know that it doesn't mean anything in terms of true ownership. She's a Russian Blue and I'm told that they can be possessive about such things.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:29 PM
'cobblehiller, whom do you suspect won't attend?'
probably, me.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 5:30 PM
Hipster, is he just a big breed? We saw a Himalayan while we were at the vet's office and I swear his paws were at least 2 inches across. Gorgeous.
CMU, seen as they cared so deeply for him that they abandoned him perhaps he was never allowed to cuddle on the bed and just doesn't get it. Poor kitty. I'm sure he appreciates your being so loving.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 5:31 PM
"Go to this page and the video is on the right hand side of the page. Seriously the dog is to die for."
I guess it's funnny and all, but really, they're taunting that dog for their own amusement. Not cool in my book.
Posted by: East New York at January 28, 2009 5:32 PM
ENY, they were training the dog to not attack trays of sweets, not torturing him for amusement purposes.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:36 PM
THL - he was just a rescued cat from an animal shelter near us. When we got him he was only 2 weeks old (taken away from his mother too young) my mother had to feed him like a baby and teach him the stuff his mother should have.
Re: breed - not sure. He's just a big gray cat. The vet said he must be a mix of some large breed, because he has never seen a basic american shorthair with a frame that large and muscle mass.
Definitely a weird cat - he is more like a dog - he used to go for walks on leashes and LOVES taking showers. He will actually jump in the shower if someone leaves teh bathroom door open.
Posted by: dirty_hipster at January 28, 2009 5:37 PM
Snappy, I'm sure what she's thinking as you're explaining that it's yours because you paid for it is blah, blah, blah, next time you decide to go and pay for something I'd appreciate the courtesy of your consulting me first. You just assumed that I'd like these sheets on my bed! Jeez, it's a wonder I love you so much.
I'm also picturing the slow blink and the looking away off into the distance as though staring at a blank wall is more interesting than the current conversation.
How can we resist them?
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 5:38 PM
OK, if you say so, Snappy. Nevertyheless, I'd be willing to bet Caesar Milan wouldn't employ quite the same technique (i.e., hold a tray of sweets inches from adog's face and then order him not to touch them). To me, it just looks painful for that poor dog.
Posted by: East New York at January 28, 2009 5:41 PM
NO more kittie talk please. You're torturing me.
Damn you Hubby for not liking animals!
MM, when the stray in your yard delivers the litter, invite us over and slip two into my purse.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 5:41 PM
Ah, yes,the slow blink and look away. She gives me that all too often. Of course, it is usually preceded by the "B*tch, does it look like I care?" stare!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:42 PM
BRG, feel free to come over and pet my kitty....
Ooooh, that was dirty!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:43 PM
O.k....have a good night all. I'm off to check in on my guy and go make dinner as the better half will be getting home soon.
Posted by: TownhouseLady at January 28, 2009 5:45 PM
ENY, I'm not a dog person so I can't speak to the proper ways to train one. You might be right that a less painful way exists for the pooch.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:45 PM
No biggie. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: East New York at January 28, 2009 5:46 PM
I bet as soon as that camera went off that poor tormented dog jumped up and got her by the throat :-). But what an amazing expression on that poor pup's face.
I find that my cats have very defined areas of terrority when it comes to the bed. I have sliced into various territories and some mornings I wake up and I can't move there is so much cat meat on the blanket. Still, I wouldn't give them up for anything. In fact I once told a boyfriend who wanted me to choose, that he would have to leave because the cat wasn't.
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 5:46 PM
Snappy, you naughty girl!
prrrrrrrrrr
Cobble, I have to see how's gonna be there and then decide if I'm coming.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 5:50 PM
snappy- I haven't seen a russian Blue in many years- they seem to be one of the lesser known breeds- they are gorgeous.
dirty hipster- your big guy sounds like MM's Batasaurus Rex. He is massive- its not fat either. It's bone structure. My girl Bella, on the other hand is a mass of hair. There must be some Maine Coon in there, or Persian but when she's wet she looks more like Chucky Cheeze than a beautiful feline.
Posted by: bxgrl at January 28, 2009 5:51 PM
I can't imagine being asked to choose. My kitty and I are a package deal. Besides, I've gotta live up to the 'spinster lesbian with a cat' stereotype :)
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:52 PM
Wet cats are funny - not fun, but funny!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 5:54 PM
'Cobble, I have to see how's gonna be there and then decide if I'm coming.'
oh, me spelling.
I have to see who's gonna be there and then decide if I'm coming.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 5:55 PM
BRG you gutter girl! I'm gonna be all hot and bothered with no lips, hips and thighs to caress! You tease!
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at January 28, 2009 6:01 PM
"I have to see who's gonna be there and then decide if I'm coming."
Oh, I assumed you would be there. I'm just fairly certain a good number of others won't be.
Posted by: cobblehiller at January 28, 2009 6:07 PM
How are you fairly certain about others.
Like I said, I HAVE TO SEE who's going and then I'll decide. I did put the date in my calendar and won't schedule anything else.
Snappy, I'd prefer you with lips, hips and thighs to caress.
I think you meant to write: You tease?
But of course, and can be for a very long time.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at January 28, 2009 6:12 PM
You're right I should be more specific, and I would love to be. But it's a little hard to tell when there are so many imaginary characters here. Bubble and Chiff and 11233 are pretty unlikely to show up, wouldn't you say.
Jesus, this is psychotic.
Posted by: cobblehiller at January 28, 2009 6:28 PM
OMG, that kitchen is freakin beautiful. Can't accuse it of being any more sterile than the all-white, anti-germ kitchens of 1890-1920. I especially love that the stove and fridge sit separately by themselves, just as in an old kitchen. Also like the floating effect of the counter. And no, I wouldn't tear out an original kitchen to put this in, but it is a beautiful modern one. The window makes the whole thing.
Unfortunatlely, I missed all the snark whilst negotiating the contract to buy a house. And working, even.
Posted by: mopar at January 29, 2009 12:03 AM
So Case-Schiller presents a downright dismal report - "Prices for homes in the New York area declined at a faster rate in November than in any other month on record"
Now I present to you THE DIBS DUMB QUOTE OF THE DAY.
For 1/28/09 we get this doozy from the one and only ghetto cheerleader. So stupid you just can't make this stuff up!:
"Off 8.6% year-over-year. That's less than the typical "10% off of ask" that would be normal for a buyer to offer a seller; in normal times I might add!!
No problem here folks"
Hahahhahaha, I love this idiot.
Posted by: cornerbodega at January 29, 2009 1:34 AM
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