EasternPkwy writes: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is bringing his annual bash to our doorsteps! “Brooklyn Best,” formerly known as Welcome Back to Brooklyn, will be held in and around Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway. On Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5, our neighborhood will be packed with activity … A few highlights:

Saturday
8:45 PM: fireworks shot from Mount Prospect Park - tranquilize your pets!
9:00: ‘Star Wars’ (1977) will be shown in the Long Meadow - the original is still the best!

Sunday
Noon - 6:00 PM: Miniature Golf around the Bailey Fountain (at the GAP Arch)

PICTURED: RETURN OF THE DORKS. In what may be the funniest bit ever shown on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Triumph the Comic Insult Dog interviews Star Wars geeks outside a theater in Manhattan, waiting in line for the opening of Attack of the Clones. Triumph to Nerd Darth Vader: “Which one of these buttons calls your mother to come pick you up?” [VIDEO LINK, 17MB]

LINKS:
2005 Brooklyn Best [Complete Schedule]
Triumph Interviews Star Wars Geeks [Look at the Monkeys dot com]

PS. EasternPkwy continues: “We will set up tables on the Eastern Parkway Median Sunday afternoon … This is a fantastic opportunity for us to raise our profile in our quest to get the Eastern Parkway median renovated. So we are asking for volunteers to come out Sunday afternoon…”

Over on The Muk Report: “I love everything about Chowhound, from the clunky site itself, to the broader ethos of ‘Chowhounding.’ Well, almost everything … One of the site’s rules forbids mentioning establishments in their ‘ban list’ [eateries thought to have engaged in shilling on the Chowhound site, e.g. insiders posting fake reviews to get free publicity].”

“One of the restaurants on this list is Franny’s, a terrific brick oven pizzeria right near my home. … Now, people still do discuss Franny’s … but as soon the thread is discovered, the volunteer Chowhound cops take it down.”

“I was pretty surprised one day last year to find this in my inbox: ‘It’s especially out of bounds … to urge other participants to defy Chowhound policy … we urge you to find (or start) [a message board] run more to your liking by a team less deserving of your snide disrespect and vandalism. You’re no longer welcome at Chowhound.com.”

Read more…

LINKS:
How I Got Banned from Chowhound [The Muk Report]
Chowhound Outer Boroughs Message Boards[Chowhound.com]