Our home team, Pirates of the High Cs, race a shopping cart in the NYC Idiotarod, tomorrow (Saturday,
January 29) at 2 pm. Starts at Fulton Ferry Pier in Brooklyn, and
finishes at Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan: "The rolling pageant and
grueling endurance race will happen rain or shine, blizzard or breeze." Apparently they discourage "just filming" but hopefully someone will document it (hint, hint). See precisionaccidents.com for more info.

In case you never made it past the jump in that Brooklyn Papers article …

Forest City Ratner executive positively gushes: “We like working with
ACORN. They have that radical feeling, they really fight for what they believe
in. We just love their history, how they started, and feel it really
represents what we’re working to do here." [PR tip-of-the-day: don’t say “trying to do.” Say “working to
do.” It makes you sound like a go-getter!]

“Forest City Ratner has been working in conjunction with the
New York City chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now (ACORN), to establish an affordable housing scheme for Atlantic Yards.”

“Talk is cheap,’” [ACORN’s] Lewis said of the Ratner
executive’s announcement …" Read the whole thing… (DIAL-UP WARNING:
3.24MB PDF of the entire paper)

Caution: Graphic Images. Also, Bundt cake is served. PHOTO: former ProHo resident DJM recoils in horror after touching dead squirrel.

Fort Greene Sports has spaces available in its 12 &14 year old basketball program. Contact Bob Byer or sign up in person at the Brooklyn School For Career
Development gymnasium (510 Clermont Avenue, btw Atlantic & Fulton) Timeslot for the 14-year-old division is 3-4 pm Saturdays. Fee for the remaining 8 weeks of games and coaching is $90.   Players who show "tremendous skill" will play for a travel team.

In New York Press, Lionel Beehner writes on the Brooklyn Comedy Company (BcCo), a weekly stand-up at the Ripple Bar, on Washington Ave. between St. John’s Pl. and Lincoln Pl.: "A comedy scene grows in Brooklyn … the brainchild of a 26-year-old Bed-Stuy native, Elon James White … Since (November), he’s hosted a weekly stand-up show at the Ripple Bar in Prospect Heights … recent shows have been standing-room only."

"… larger comedy clubs in Manhattan operate on the bring-your-own-crowd
rule. ‘Here’s there’re no weird policies … [We’re
just] here to do comedy for comedy’s sake.’"

"The audience at the Ripple Bar is mostly young and African-American
(when I entered, one of the comedians pointed at me and said, ‘Don’t worry, no one’s gonna…’
then made his hand into a gun and pointed it at his head)."