This is graphic artist and P.H. resident Jon Keegan’s first book cover. It’s for “The Lambkins” by Eve Bunting and you can pre-order it now: “Good for young teens, shrinking children and crazy old ladies with dollhouses,” Jon says.

LINK: “Lambkins” on Amazon / New illo [INVISIBLEMAN]

Muk, who is obsessed with Chowhound, just found this kernel on CH’s impossible-to-follow, 1996-retro CH Outer Boroughs Message Board: The former City Lighting on Flatbush is going to be “Mexican, according to the new owner of the locksmith shop across the street … He’s had a lot of business from the owners as they are doing construction/ renovations.” Muk will be holding a seminar entitled “It’s Coherent, Really: How to Read Chowhound Theads” this Sunday at the Brooklyn Public Library.

LINKS
City Lighting - Prospect Heights [Chowhound Outer Boroughs]
Chowhound Not Quite the Unleavened Experience [The Muk Report]

“Maybe”?? (May be?) What kind of weak fortune is that? When you give a fortune, are you supposed to vacillate and hedge your bets–or pronounce the future authoritatively? Or at least “see” something happening in the future: “I see craters - a colony of people … do you know somebody with the first initial J?” “Ohmigod! That’s my uncle Jimmy! We’re going to be living on the moon!”

More to come.

These fortunes came from Mr. Wonton in Park Slope. You can reach Mr. Wonton at … wait. Forget it. Am I your frickin’ entertainment directory? Go use Google.

Go read EmilyM’s rant on quitting the Park Slope Sports Club, which opened in April 2000 and is bursting at the seams:

“I’ve got to face facts: this gym sucks. As the neighborhood has grown, they’ve recruited more and more members without much expanding their facilities. They keep buying more treadmills even though everyone wants the elliptical machines. The weight room and stretching area are too small, but they put in a juice bar for some reason. They play their canned soundtrack too loud for people to comfortably listen to their iPods, even though 85% of members are using them. Most annoying of all, there aren’t enough lockers…” Read the rest…

EmilyM also started this thread in the Daily Heights forum:

LINK: Park Slope Sport Club