The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

(Tracy, sorry)

Hank's and Freddy's are ground level with windows. Lit has 2 levels of door people and a basement.

freddy's is also scheduled to be demolished and is fighting it - the ground level with windows wasn't an issue a couple years ago for them.

I need to flee Sh4rlene's like Cinderella once trivia is over tonight, w ehave a 9am training session tom'w. :p

Cinema scholar and Robert Ashley fan donna rouge may try to join us.

Well we're gonna need two teams then! What are we at so far?

I don't know. me, you, Ian sounds like a maybe, JRedd, Dave, donna. mook no.

lol 'cinema scholar'. is there typically a movie portion?

yes, one of six rounds (This Is Spinal Tap tonight).

well if there are six, we will just break into 2 teams of 3, which means I will not reveal my guesses on the likely Tap questions.

Ha, I was going to say they were going to ask about the works of someone whom Paul Schrader described as one of the "auteurs of today."

Morbius, in that case I think I'll be on the other team but please give me somebody who knows something about sports.

no sports in the quiz

don't know why but that's part of the posted rules

usually (I've only been twice) there is a movie round all on one movie, an audio round (1970s TV show themes, #1 hits of the 2000s), current events & news ... the rest has been pretty random (Xmas toys, fast food, 100 best novels of the 20th century)

#1 hits? Cool. Of the 2000s? Oh no.

The bartender who designed that round said he was never doing anything from the 2000's again.

#1 hits of 2000s is where i'd definitely come in handy

(/whippersnapper)

well, your moment has come and gone. :)

Thing say sign up at 8:30 play at 9. What happens if somebody shows up at 8:45?

They still have time for a cigarette or two before the quiz starts?

Haha very funny, Laurel. So what time I'm 'posed to be there? Upthread you guys were meeting at 8.

Oh, whenever we all get there? I'll shoot for 8.15 or 8.30.

OK, sounds good.

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/victory.jpg

Can't see it.

Oh, I get it.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4V9V-i5WMwI/RrSlf9T95II/AAAAAAAAAGI/rVnfd4glkhg/s320/victory.jpg

haha yeah it's working sporadically. not as emphatic as i hoped

fun times

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Mighty-Morphin-Power-Rangers-the-90s-367891_400_300.jpg

(nice meeting yall!)

yeah, that was fun.

hey Laurel have you been to the new soccer bar Woodwork at Vanderbilt and Dean

looks pretty cool. opened last Sunday. gonna be open for breakfast starting at 8am and stay open til 2am with constant futbol on three flat-screens.

Just in time for World Cup.

Well a few months in advance.

Wow WOW no, now I will never go anywhere else again, if they're open for ALL games and not just the convenient ones. I've been biking or busing to far away places but in the crappy weather I just can't bear it.

Too bad I can't try it out today, Liverpool plays Wolves at 3pm.

http://www.chefross.com/4.html
We show football seven days a week from 7am to 4am on five 50" High Definition Televisions.

I can't imagine them maintaining this schedule.

or maybe they have already made the slight downgrade to what dmr posted. either way, good luck to them, i will be there for the world cup.

menu said 8am to 2am but they're not opening at 8 right now. just normal bar hours. soft open, they don't have taps yet or a full food menu.

also when I was in there they only had two TVs so far, lol

place still seems cool

i will test-drive them during the olympics

Damn, I was going to go for an 11am game on Saturday. Fuck a sof-- never mind.

11am they might be open! I don't know their exact hours. pretty sure they said no breakfast yet though. which was weird because a big portion of the food menu was waffles.

trivia? If anybody sees the film posted on FB, holla.

I'm not really living in Bklyn these days, more's the pity. Eventually I'll be able to get out more, but for right now I'm off the radar. ;_;

feelin like shit so im out morbs

No can do, but definitely maybe next week.

well next week is (yet again) the night before I start a brand-new job, so not a good idea for me.

i'm out tonight & next week--gotta see a show tonight & a movie next week.
also i got the hangover gang over.

so looks like I can do the laundry tonight?

Go ahead.

tonight was no good for me either. could do next week

movie round at Sh4rlenes tnite is Blazing Saddles! but I cannot drink 4-6 beers night before the new job.

Am under weather so can't really do something like that either.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a place wherein one could drink something and read late at night? Like at least til midnight but perhaps even til 2? I'd prefer a coffeeshop, but I'd take a quiet bar.