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So many changes! Is anything the same? Yes. Stacey and her husband are still Mad Hot.
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One entry for the entire month! An oils and fats workshop in Crown Heights. Is our neighborhood really that boring? (Oops, not trying to imply that an “oils and fats workshop” is boring… Let’s rephrase that: Is that the only exciting event happening in our neighborhood?)
UPDATE! New entry in the calendar! Depending on how late the oils and fats workshop goes, you may have time to squeeze in the semi-official Daily Heights Air Hockey/Ping Pong Grudge Match at Brownstone Billiards. It’s in the calendar, but see here for discussion and late developments.
I’ve heard rumors. What do you think? Hit the message boards.
TECHNICAL OUTAGE RESOLVED! While the message boards were up without interruption, Daily Heights experienced a technical blackout for nearly 13 hours due to attempted introduction of new Internet technology (Lucas, I will have a word with you later).
PICTURED: Many readers are surprised to learn that it takes ONLY 3 COMPUTERS to generate Daily Heights.
I give up. The comment spammers win. The trackback spammers win. I’m tired of playing janitor and cleaning up behind this garbage. CIALIS XANAX TEXAS-HOLDEM VIAGRAGAAHAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAA
UPDATE: On the advice of Michael, Daily Heights is now loaded with an ingenious spam shield that checks whether or not a human is typing the message. Fingers crossed!
Tonight at SODA. 6:30ish till whenever.
In the backroom, in the corner nearest the door, or possibly the lower patio. For the shy, A DH representative will be wearing a “Where’s The Beef?” pin with a picture of Clara Peller shouting into a telephone. If all else fails, look for the tiny blonde. [Thanks to noisefootprint for the SODA photo.]
Link: TONIGHT - Happy Hour at Soda Bar [message boards]
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So where is the action in Prospect Heights now?
It’s on the Daily Heights message boards, which are completely out of hand lately. In a good way.
The action is also in the Flickr Photo Pool for Prospect Heights.
Just don’t expect much new stuff on this page for the next two weeks. Keep checking back, though - maybe you’ll see a random post or two appearing on this page (hint, hint).
Mike writes: “Hello from San Francisco. Just wanted to let you know that I really like what you’ve done with your neighborhood blog. I just started one up for my neighborhood in San Francisco, Potrero Hill, and will probably borrow some of the ideas from your site.”
Borrow away! I’ve taken a look at PHSF… Mike “gets it,” as they say, and it’s based in San Francisco, so naturally, it will take off like wildfire. Go, go, “citizen journalists”! (And BONUS POINTS if you offend a Potrero Hill beat reporter by using that term.)
whocares@boring.com checks in from New Zealand to write: “This citizen journalism site [Daily Heights] was mentioned on the BBC WORLD NEWS web site in the Magazine section as being so good that the New York times often reports on the same issues a few days later. Awesome. You guys rock! Good luck.”
[Update: Uh… “whocares” got it a bit confused. BBC didn’t specifically mention us — they linked to an article in Poynter Online that mentions Daily Heights.]
I didn’t know about the New York Times… but I do have a growing list of articles based on tips reporters got on Daily Heights, that as far as I know, have never mentioned DH as the source.
Example. I just found a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article about some unspecific “uproar” in the community over the New York Times misreporting the height of the planned Union Temple parking lot condo as 30 stories. I suppose it’s theoretically possible that the reporter stumbled upon an uproar somewhere in the neighborhood (be careful where you uproar–you never know when there might be a reporter lurking around, ready to report on you!). But from my admittedly myopic view, the only uproar I’m aware of was right here on Daily Heights and on Curbed and Curbed again via Daily Heights. (OK… there were also some updates on the PHNDC Yahoo! Group, and I think ProspectHeightsParents, but I don’t recall the discourse being uproarious.)
Don’t get me wrong… I am totally cool with this practice, and I totally encourage journalists to hang out here and contact DH users (say hello to … Private Messaging in the message boards!!!)
…But is it TOO MUCH TROUBLE to give us credit somehow? Some sort of “secret nod” that only we will get and say, “hey, that’s us!!” Maybe some old-fashioned attribution?
Come on, already. Make my weekend.
Recently, the phrase “my bad” was used unironically in the Daily Heights Forums, prompting an emergency investigation to identify other potentially-typeable phrases that are clearly outside the limits of good taste and proper online expression. To date, phrases banned on Daily Heights include, but are not limited to:
-“Don’t go there” (Obvious!)
-“I am so ____” as in, “I am so loving this discussion about Home Heating Oil!!”
-“Yeah!” said in three syllables, with the accent on the first, so as to suggest “no duh” in response to an obvious statement by another party (admittedly, it would be difficult to type this… if you were to defy the ban, it would probably look something like this: “YEah-uh!”)
-Referring to anyone as “dog” or “dawg”
More forbidden phrases will be posted as they come to our attention. Thank you for your patience during this difficult time of transition!
Special note: Daily Heights is seeking an injunction to enforce Internet-wide bans on the phrases “A ______ grows in Brooklyn” and “If you ______ it, they will come.” To shield your publication from future liability, please discontinue use of these phrases, effective today. Thank you!
LINK: Post #259, FORBIDDEN PHRASES (Was: Pic of Spalding bldg on Pacific?) [Daily Heights Forums]
DH is in JEOPARDY! And we do not need money, especially after an unthinkably generous donation that will keep us in the black for months, from an anonymous patron we will refer to as Near Underhill Bill: “I just think you guys do a great job… I enjoy the site, and thought I’d do my small part to help. The site really kind of epitomizes to me how good the internet can be.”
In fact, DAILY HEIGHTS has reached a critical inflection point (what is this? Get Lucas to translate). Real-life responsibilities have become so great that the ridiculously tiny core group of Daily Heights regulars have little time for anything else other than childrearing, recreating cookbooks that the hard drive ate, copyediting every Conde Nast magazine in existence, and planning for the toughest Rock, Paper, Scissors competition that this borough has ever seen, THIS THURSDAY at Freddy’s.
What we need now is more of what you see below, in the post from EmilyM, who reports on the latest knife sharpener on the block: News and minutiae, reported by you… impossibly local, potentially absurdly banal, yet with an impact that could ripple entire blocks beyond what we consider Prospect Heights. Are you up to the challenge?
And, are you are “leet” enough to handle HTML? If so, DH will set you up with your very own Guest Author account. Otherwise, you can do it the usual way: just keep posting in the message boards, or e-mail your stuff to whatsnew@dailyheights.com (the penguin post is coming, we promise)!
IMAGE SOURCE: Systems Furniture Contract Enhanced to Address Broader Range of Agency Needs (West
Virginia Department of Administration, Purchasing Division)
Get your Rock, Paper, Scissors chops up to speed! There will be a RPS PRACTICE CLINIC at SODA, tomorrow night (Thursday) at 6:30 pm. See the announcement here.
SMACKDOWN takes place as scheduled, at Freddy’s, next Thursday, May 26th. Check-in starts at 8, and the first Round of 32 gets underway at 8:30!
Also: There will be an announcement on ATLANTIC YARDS SMACKDOWN in the New Yorker. There was an brief telephone interview in which a member of the NYRPS was asked to comment on state of the game. There was also a follow-up call in which facts were checked.
Pre-register now, before the word gets out! Send an e-mail to info@nyrps.org with the words “SIGN ME UP!” in the subject line.
1. We’ve got a tremendous backlog of material and no time to post. Want to help? E-mail whatsnew@dailyheights.com.
2. Where is the action today? The real action is in the Prospect Heights message boards. Go ask questions, show off your knowledge, randomly insult people, or simply watch the firefight between third-generation Brooklynites and the marauding Yuppie hordes.
3. The two biggest questions in the wake of last week’s super fun DAILY HEIGHTS Happy Hour are, (a) why am I so shy that I showed up and didn’t introduce myself? and (b) when’s the next event?
Answer to B:
DailyHeights.com | Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, USA presents:
Rock, Paper, Scissors Eastern Seaboard Pro-Am Series 2005
DAILYHEIGHTS.COM Invitational: Atlantic Yards Smackdown
(Now: An official competition of the World RPS Society (www.worldrps.com)!
Brooklyn’s Toughest Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) Players Go Hand-to-Hand in the Footprint of Bruce Ratner’s Proposed Megastadium
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — On Thursday, May 26, at 8 p.m., Freddy’s Bar & Backroom (www.freddysbackroom.com; 485 Dean St., 718-622-7035) hosts the New York Rock Paper Scissors (NYRPS) Association’s Atlantic Yards Smackdown*, part of the 2005 Eastern Seaboard Pro-Am Invitational Series.
You can pre-register by sending $6 per competitor by Paypal (paypal@dailyheights.com). If you are not familiar with Paypal, just contact us at whatsnew@dailyheights.com to make other arrangements.
Seems we had a little problem with not one, not two, but THREE parties showing up at Soda Bar and being too mortified to introduce themselves. I didn’t realize we were such an intimidating crowd. Take a look at these photos (thanks, Heather) and maybe next time someone will look familiar.
Flickr Set: Daily Heights Real-Life Happy Hour [Flickr.com]
What you missed last night at the DAILY HEIGHTS Real-Life Happy Hour:
This is Douglas. This photo shows that Douglas is not good with the money. According to a Chinese woman I used to work with, people who have spaces between their fingers are not good with the money. What does this have to do with the happy hour? Not much, but I had to post it, because it’s the only photo I took last night.
What else did you miss last night? … In a stroke of coincidence, One of the Joses and one of the Joshes, taking a smoke break in front of Soda Bar, got panhandled by the bulgy-eyes guy who is out of insulin and has an orange prescription medicine bottle and needs to get to Staten Island yada yada yada. Jose gave him 30 cents.
Tamara the Friendly Bartender totally confirmed the existence of the mail-stealing Prospect Heights Identity Thief (see the DAILY HEIGHTS message boards for all the sordid detail).
11238 Showed up to collect her $25 bounty for allegedly catching the alleged Prospect Heights Gaffler in the middle of an alleged con job. She brought the actual phone she used to capture the actual phonecam picture. She elected to take her $25 payout in raffle tickets. Sucka!! … No, actually the gambit paid off, because she and Mr. 11238 walked away with a Round of Drinks for 3 at Brooklyn Comedy Company at Ripple Bar. Congrats!
I asked 11238 to do an informal head count. In all, we had about 40-50 people in our little corner, or probably about 10% of the site’s regular visitors. Not bad! And great big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the raffle: The event grossed Two Hundred and Twenty-Four Dollars, or about enough to buy one-third of a square foot in a Newswalk condo! (All that money is going to support another special event in May. More details later.)
Speaking of raffle prizes: LauraB, you won the embroidered “ProHo Ho” T-Shirt from RedLipstick Boutique! Get in touch with DH to claim it. Quig picked up the companion piece: a “ProHo” Male Edition duck-hunter camouflage T-Shirt with a “ProHo” logo (death-metal motif) embroidered above the breast pocket area.
What else? So much more.
Josh Reynolds totally blew off the happy hour, but despite that, managed to win the Grand Prize: Dinner for 4 at the Islands on Washington Ave. I really could have used Josh’s emcee skills. After all this buildup to the Grand Prize Giveaway, about three people clapped, very slowly, as if to break the uncomfortable silence. I think it helps to have the actual winner in the room.
Alina and Dave walked away with the $25 Soda Bar gift certificate. In a happy coincidence, piscatarian vegetarian Chris Hrones (Rones?) (friend of Carnivore) won the DVD of Post Punk Kitchen, the vegan cooking show produced right here in the PH. “Emo” Emily won the giant Spanish chocolate bar from Delicacies, and last but not least, Captain Marvelous, you no-show, you won the Soda Bar T-Shirt! Stop by and pick it up.
What else? I found out that nearly everyone living in Prospect Heights is somehow involved in publishing, design, entertainment, communications or immigration law.
I can’t think of anything else right now. Help me out in the comments below.
UPDATE: Who won the Elamenotees? Sorry. Forgot to mention that ISA, in absentia, won an Elamenotees T-Shirt. The other shirt was won by none other than the administrator of this website. (FIXED! FIXED!)
Check out the avalanche of swag you can bid on right now or tonight (Thurs., Apr. 28) at the DAILY HEIGHTS happy hour, 6 pm ’til whenever, at Soda Bar (629 Vanderbilt Ave.; 718-230-8393). If I had to guess, I would say that the drawing will take place around 8:15 PM. ish.
MANY THANKS to all the generous supporters! This is a huge validation of the many, many hours we (the collective we) have frittered away on DAILY HEIGHTS when we could have been doing something more productive. To show your gratitude, from here on out you should never buy anything, ever, unless it comes from one of the incredibly intelligent and attractive businesses below!
Can I bid now? You heard right! You can either e-mail an “IOU” to raffle@dailyheights.com, or better yet, click here:
THE LIST
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What do we do now - block IP addresses? Upgrade to the latest version of Movable Type (3.16), which includes the a new version of the ‘nofollow’ plugin?
Guess what you can win if you come to the first-ever DAILY HEIGHTS Real-Life Happy Hour/Raffle next Thursday, April 28, from 6 p.m. ’til whenever at Soda Bar (629 Vanderbilt Ave.; 718-230-8393)?
Shawn and Marilyn, operators of The Islands restaurant, have made an astoundingly generous offer of Dinner for Four (”reservations recommended”) to one lucky raffle participant. Location: 803 Washington Ave (Eastern Parkway and Lincoln). Phone: (718) 398-3575.
BONUS! Jon Friedman, producer of The Rejection Show (and host/director of the Mermaid Ball 2005) is donating two t-shirts from www.elamenotees.com (pronounced “LMNO Tees”).
If that’s not enough, Isa Chandra, co-host of The Post Punk Kitchen, America’s only anarcho-vegan cooking show, is donating a DVD.
And of course, as noted in last week’s happy hour/raffle announcement, you can also win a hand-embroidered “ProHo Ho” (or “ProHo” Male Edition) t-shirt courtesy of RedLipstick Boutique.
If Emeril were here, he would say, “BAM.”
Photo: Simposio Cafe Bar, Cyprus. [gilest.org]
As a social experiment, everyone should start using the term “ProHo” in front of people who aren’t familiar with DAILY HEIGHTS, just to see how far the usage gets. When people question you about what it means, just shrug and say, “Prospect Heights, duh,” as if it’s the most normal thing in the world to say, and why would you even be asking me such a question.
Does the use of ProHo induce nausea and inspire gentrification? Here is a lively discussion on these questions, which you may want to check out if you’re bored at work and wondering when the hell today’s DH updates are coming.
I guess it was woefully naive to expect that Daily Heights could ever be a family-friendly forum. And now, look what Google, with lightning speed, has listed as the #2 search result for the phrase “Shaya Boymelgreen”. Please, try to think a little bit before you post comments like that, K?
BLAME “THE MEDIA”: I can’t help but thinking this is partly the fault of the New York Times, who reported that Shaya Boymelgreen “vowed to block (Ratner’s) plans” to follow through with the Atlantic Yards project. Oh, did he? Has anyone seen evidence, outside of alleged off-the-record comments, that Boymelgreen “vowed” to do anything with anything?
[UPDATE] IS THIS A PROFANITY BAN? No. See comments.
Reference: Boymelgreen Flips “Hotel” Properties
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