DELICACIES, proud sponsor of the Daily Heights happy hour last week, is going to be featured in a New York Times article. Check it out here. Any word on when the article will be published?

The annual cherry blossom festival, or Sakura Matsuri, took place last Sunday at the esplanade in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Dope on the Slope was there with camera in hand, and even wrote a haiku about a beer line.

NOTE: The magically updating CherryWatch Blossom Status Map shows that the trees along the Japanese pond garden are pretty much past bloom, but the Cherry Esplanade and Cherry Walk are in peak bloom:

Torie writes: “There’s a free green sofabed in good condition sitting on the curb of Sterling Place right near Underhill Avenue.”

“I’m not saying ALL Chinese people look alike. I’m just saying, like, the ones that all got long hair… and… you know, stuff like that.” -Black teenage girl in Hood Hing Chinese takeaway on Underhill Ave.

sje writes: “Why should I knock myself out, when for a lousy $200 and a week of my time, I can be pulling in fat commission checks for selling million dollar condos?”

Shot on the corner of Pacific and Vanderbilt.

This is one of several books FOUND in a blue plastic tub sitting front of 414 Sterling Pl. (btw Washington and Underhill) the other day.

The mysterious 1907 tome “Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by LEVI,” 1972 printing, was purchased in 1974 from Flying Saucer News on 359 West 54th St. in Manhattan. The book is a record of “the intimate details of Christ’s life” from the “‘lost’ eighteen years so strangely silent in the New Testament … written from the original authentic ‘Akashic Records’ by a student who devoted forty years to preparation for the task.”

Apparently at one point in this book, Jesus is actually refuting Darwinism, about 19 centuries too soon (I guess he could have been foretelling the Theory of Darwin). Follow the link for an excerpt and debate on this.

Link Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ [Amazon.com]