While flying to San Francisco on Virgin America (my new favorite airline, btw) I stopped to watch this show on Current.TV about Brooklyn graffiti artists in New Orleans called Your Neighbor’s Steps:
A New Orleans art collective works to establish installations in areas hardest hit by Katrina, attracting people to see the art and thus see [...]

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This past weekend was one of those amazing weekends in which you are productive from beginning to end. Almost to the end I guess. Ending at the Dram Shop after the 5th avenue street fair probably wasn’t super productive for a Sunday afternoon, but we did get to catch up with some friends and watch [...]

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Phew!
I just had a minor freak out when I saw my friend Donny’s flickr stream that he posted photos of his visit to the Wafels and Dinges truck in Brooklyn last week (note: not the first Saturday of the month as today is, as when I was anticipating that the waffles would be back in [...]

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Sasha loves to eat snow from Karen Bonna on Vimeo.

Tags: brooklyn, prospect park, sasha, snow

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… and its only a few blocks away from our apartment! Pacific Standard has also concocted some interesting prizes for your loyalty. My favorite is the “all-expenses-paid trip to Williamsburg”. If that’s not enough to get you excited, maybe a word with the drinking robot they’re building will convince you.

Tags: brooklyn

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TOAD: Nov. 26th, 2007: Caught this on Union near the Gowanus Canal.

Tags: brooklyn, street art, take one a day

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TOAD: Nov. 13th, 2007: A street photo/art collage that someone put up right near our apartment. See it in closer detail here. Neat.

TOAD: Nov. 14th, 2007: On Wednesday mornings, two women sell freshly made doughnuts to the many people from Park Slope who make their way to/from Flatbush Avenue. You can find them [...]

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It has been an exceptionally hectic time at work so I’m falling behind more than I ever have with the blog + photos. Here’s a quick run through the past few weeks. Once things calm down a bit, we’ll get together a post on our experience running the Marathon (we finished in 4 hours and [...]

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Last weekend was my 31st birthday and Karen and I started off the celebrations by running 14 miles (longest run ever!). After a little afternoon recovery nap, we headed down to the old neighborhood for some food and drinks at Sidecar.

(TOAD: Sept. 22nd, 2007) After a slew of drinks and some really delicious food (I [...]

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This past Saturday, Karen and I went out to Long Island to celebrate Kota’s First Birthday and then came back to meet Micah and others at the Gowanus Yacht Club for Micah’s 29th birthday.
We showed up around 7:30 with Matt and Freya. After sitting down, we tried our best to order some beer but were [...]

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