Jessica and her sister Stephanie hosts a meet our new dogs brunch. I’ve never had such a fancy apt brunch. I’ve never had a brunch that lasted 7 hours.
You guys make name suggestions for the gray puppy or new captions for my pics.
Christa and Jody invited me to the Umami brunch party of the Bushwick Department of Public Works. I thought it was a real govt dept the whole time. But just a fun dinner party at a big Bushwick loft filled with people from the art community. I can’t imagine opening up my bedroom to the public, but maybe I can now. $15 online tix included a 4-course brunch and a few cocktails. I was so stuffed after the first –croissant with a bunch of sauces and spreads. I had a cute awkward moment with a girl that was putting french toast in the oven while I was trying to take pictures. I saw her later kinda hanging near me so I started talking to her. After she left and I saw another girl walk by, I realized it was the wrong person.
…so I guess I learned that you don’t need an awkward moment to start to talking to someone?
Anyway, I don’t know how you get on their mailing list, but I just googled “Umami Bushwick” and found this. I guess there were other food bloggers there.
Once again, Graham Ave is bumpin. Checked out the new brick oven pizza spot …for brunch? There’s egg on my pizza. It works. Really works. It’s BYOB for now. So I ran to the corner liquor store for a $5 pint of Georgi to put into the virgin bloody marys. Rusty points out how you can get 10 Russian men drunk on $5.
Motorino – 319 Graham Ave (btw Ainslie & Devoe St) Brooklyn, NY 11211
Everyone was asleep and the buzzer rang. I thought I was dreaming it. I looked over and saw that it looked a little wet on the floor. Figured I spilled something. I touched it and it splattered. Then got up and I was standing in a puddle. At the door were four fighters come to save the day. The construction building next door flooded their whole basement and it seeped into our building. Our neighbors closer to the building got a foot and a half and we got a couple of inches. A lot of stuff got ruined and all the guitars got wet. Fortunately we had a house full of guests and Beth from the third floor and her boyfriend helped me move my stuff. I’m so grateful for my friends.
While we were all standing in the water moving things, Danny realized that there was a lot of stuff plugged in and we risked electrocution. That was pretty scary, but he successfully pulled out all the cords from the outlets. I was hoping that no one would find anything embarrassing in my room. At that moment, I saw a NYC condom (in its subway wrapper) floating around in the water. Everyone later admitted to seeing it.
Rusty made pizza while we watched the fire fighters pump out water from the building next door. I put Danny’s pineapples on it to make Hawaiian pizza – kinda fitting since my bed is like an island …LÄnaÊ»i (The Pineapple Isle).
I needed to get out of the house to get a bloody mary. We drove to this cool looking brunch place in Greenpoint advertising $3 bloody marys, bellinis and screwdrivers. Awesome! I’ll have 3.
Thinking how this could of happen since I now know the Secret, I remembered last week I was just thinking how cool it would be to clear out the junk and make my basement bedroom a palace. I sure have the space. So perhaps the universe is giving me a good kick in the butt. Now I do have to throw my stuff out. So I’m going to make this work. Maybe I’ll finally open that suitcase I haven’t opened since I moved to New York 6 years ago. Or maybe just throw it away. I’m not sure I want to find out what’s inside.
Lokal – 905 Lorimer St (btw Bedford & Driggs Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11222
They have a riddle at Life Cafe where you can win a bottle of champagne. I couldn’t figure out the one on the wall, but almost figured out the one on the reciept. It said “Remember… Life is Worth Loving.” I figured you can change the words around any which way and it will still make sense. “Worth is Life Loving” “Loving is Worth Life” “Is Life Worth Loving?” I’m still waiting for my bottle of champagne.
Life Cafe – 983 Flushing Ave. Bushwick Brooklyn 11206
We recovered at the Lodge for brunch, but I guess it was lunch. The 2 for 1 Bloody Marys did us well. We saw the Batmobile on the way home. Rusty ended up making another ham.
Lodge – 318 Grand St (@ Havemeyer St) Williamsburg Brooklyn 11211
we go to enids in greenpoint for popular hipster brunch. but does that not make me a hipster if i think i’m hipster? they have really good brunch and bloody marys. afterwards, rusty and i go to the local mobster bar where there are guys with their shirts off wearing chains and big rings. the walls are covered in photos of boxers and frank sinatra. when rusty and i walked in, the music literally stopped and the jukebox started playing enya. it felt like twin peaks. they probably never seen anyone like me in their bar …a chinese hipster or more likely they thought a hippy.
Enids – 560 Manhattan Ave (at Driggs Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11222 (rating: egg foo young)
Jr. and Son – 578 Lorimer St (at Metropolitan Ave) Williamsburg, Brooklyn (rating: beef and lobster sauce)
