Open Thread

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Or a video game parlor in Chinatown?
(from the Times) (cheap date)
Accidentally throw your Wii wand at the television screen? The Chinatown Fair Video Arcade offers an excellent substitute for gamers, with the best of classics like Street Fighter and Dance Dance Revolution. Open every day, noon to midnight, with prices from 25 cents to $1.50, this arcade is one of the most economical options for getting your game on in the city. (8 Mott Street, at Chatham Square; 212-964-1542.)

omg, WHY did i not know about this place!??!?! i now know how i will be spending my lunch hour from work everyday!!! thanks!!

*rob*

Well, speaking of Coney Island, I just got back from there. I am off from work and wanted to see how the new rides/improvements look. I guess some kids are out of school already since there seemed to be a fair amount of them there. The new rides look nice (and I like the pinwheels though I haven’t seen them lit up yet). The vendors seem sort of upbeat/perky, charging 2 dollars for a can of soda (and 8 dollars for a itty bitty tube of sunscreen which I should have bought somewhere else).

Lechacal, you might like to take your wife to Coney Island at night–maybe not her birthday (or maybe she would have fun). Ok, it is a funky vibe, but there is something charming about the scene with the Cyclone (even though it will realign your entire skeletal system) and the rough around the edges crowd. You can go to Cha-Chas for a beer (and dancing???), have a couple of Nathan’s hot dogs, etc.
I don’t know about her birthday, but it is a silly kind of thing to do.

Today, I wasn’t looking at it with those glasses though. I was really thinking about it as a neighborhood and the fact that it is going through a transition. They are redoing parts of the boardwalk (with strips, but made from engineered cement “boards”. It surprised me, I think it will be very nice. It’s a pretty poor neighborhood, but I am glad that the beach is being recognized for the resource it is and some money is being spent there.

tripping of course. I’m a child of the 60’s

“OK, back from lunch. it was rather long today.”

But at least you bought the Magnums

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Does anyone else have any ideas that I can rip off and pass off as my own?

I do!!

tripping at madama toussad’s wax museum

a picnic in the emergency waiting room at beth israel

dress up as a pimp and his ho and go out to dinner at a family friend restaurant and have a faux argument.

see a horror movie or a comedy movie at the magic johnson theatre in harlem for a true urban ghetto experience.

*rob*