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I don't do comics, or any of those other Geek specialties.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Would you have known at least 4 out of 6 of the original cities that made up now-Brooklyn?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Heh, I never knew that was even the case!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Bushwyk?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't even paying attention when they gave the answer! But Jody might remember.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Um, Flatbush, Flatlands, Bushwick, New Utrecht...Gravesend? and uh Brooklyn.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Laurel probably remembers.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I just looked it up. For Bushwick substitute New Lots. Otherwise very good.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brooklynonline.com/history/short.brooklyn.xhtml

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

is this every Wednesday? Unfortunately I usually work wednesday nights. Maybe I can try to switch with someone in a few weeks, when back from LA (Los Angeles, not Louisiana.) I will gladly be your RPG/noize/comics dork.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

p.s. weed delivery in the area? send me on e-mail.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Awesome. Quiz is every other week, next to be on 7/21, presumably.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

I want to move to brooklyn and take part in quality pub quiz action.

The local trivia night in Arlington VA is absolute shit.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

TOM, move the fuck back and bring the little woman with you, I could use a little help raising hell.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Ian, I already told you everything you need to know!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Did we get any of the geek questions at all? Well, I remember we got one- "breadboard."

They have live band karaoke tonight.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 September 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

bushwick is correct actually.

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Of course the ladies are right- those are the original six towns. With the New Lots substitution, you get the last six towns that where subsumed into one.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

where

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Tonight--my team schooled at Magnetic Fields, suckas

― Keith C (lync0), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

i won't be able to do this anymore for a while. :-(

― 100% WJE (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

1st round: major asshat trivia nerd bullshit, e.g. "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"

2nd round: simpsons & questions about Chuck Biscuits = we pwned

― Keith C (lync0), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't consider til baseball is over, but then I don't know what Chuck Biscuits is.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

I seem to remember more than two rounds. In fact, I think I missed at least the first two.

In other news, Bensonhurst Marty is closing his video store and selling his inventory. So, if you want to pay 15 bucks for a VCR copy of Ashes Of Time, run don't walk to Henry and Cranberry.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Nuh-uh. I saw that movie and it wasn't worth 15 bucks.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

I like it, but I don't want to buy any VCR tapes anymore, especially when somebody is charging more than 5 dollars.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Ken there were actually 4 rounds--I broke it up by the break they gave us. Were you there last week?

― Keith C (lync0), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

No, I was there at the beginning of September, with Jody and Laurel. See upthread.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Tuesdays, 4-8 pm, Family Night at Burger King on Fulton Mall featuring the $1 Whopper.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

that burger king is INSANE.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

i've never been to that burger king. i've been to the cracked out white castle nearby though!!

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

One time I got off the F train and was walking in that direction when I heard one guy say to another "Burger King's bugging out. That's they garbage." Which I verified for myself when I was forced to squeeze past the giant pile of plastic bags full of grease and greasy paper.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

They wear special $1 Whopper shirts when they hand me my $1 Whopper.

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I almost stepped in some puke on Fulton and Joralemon but some kind lady told me to watch out.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Today that is. I'm going to have to spread the word about the $1 Whoppers.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Steve Buscemi reading from Burroughs' "Queer" this Sunday night at Magnetic Field (he's trying to make a film of it). Along with a "criminally underknown" '70s novelist, David Ohle, who's unknown to me. (I may go if there's no Series game.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

There's the return of trivia on Wed 1/4:

http://magneticbrooklyn.com/calendar.php

I'd float next Friday's live-band karaoke, but I'd need more time to rehearse "Dead Flowers."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I might be up for the trivia night on 1/4!

Hey, so, it looks like my Carroll Gardens sublet is going to end in March and I'll get to move for the 7th time in three years (it might be a new world record!). So, looking for a new place, I ask my brethren how they feel about Fort Greene? It's still only a 20 minute walk away from school and I think the prices are pretty good. Downside is no easy access to subways in the city, but I could deal with that. But, I've never been there, and have no idea how livable the area is.... Should I bother exploring?

Of course, a nice studio in Brooklyn Heights or Cobble Hill would be nice too.... Maybe I'll go move in with Heath Ledger and Michelle WIlliams.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 26 December 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

i'm down for karaoke or trivia! or both!

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

ft. greene is swell. enjoy it while you can, before they build that gross stadium.

― inger lynde (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 December 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

You're never that far from the Atlantic Ave hub station in Ft Greene, are ya? Parts of Clinton Hill seem relatively affordable, as well.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 December 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I'm thinking Clinton Hill as well. I don't really need much at the moment, just enough room for a bed and whatnot.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 26 December 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

ART BRUT coming to Southpaw in April! if yer not too cool for that (God knows I'm not).

http://www.ohmyrockness.com/BandBio.cfm?BandID=5434

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

J. Blount will not be in attendance.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I might be too cool for that :(

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh Ken, don't break my heart!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

I see there is Karaoke next Thurs at Magnetic Field.

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

oh there is, is there?

I caught about 10 secs of that NYC-TV show "Cool in Your Code" (blech) where they were profiling MF's karaoke. It must be uberpacked, yes? (and the band doesn't even do "TV Eye"!)

I might be seeing Prairie Home Companion that night, but I'll see.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, dudes, but I HATE karaoke. I'd go to pub quiz one of these days, though!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:01 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I anticipate going to see the restored print of Antonioni's Red Desert at BAM this Sunday at either 7 or 9:30, depending on whether I stay for all of Feist in Central Park.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

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