What’s the only thing in town to get a boost by this week’s stock market plunge? Discussion about the stock market plunge, of course. Guvna and whynot_31 have reopened a two-week-old discussion to augur when and how we will start to feel the pain of our collapsing economy locally:

Per Guvna: “In light of today’s biggest stock market single day loss in history, I want to know ‘when’ (not if) we will officially begin to feel raped and pillaged?  Anyone?”

Perhaps a better question: when will people wake up? GOD writes: “NOT one reporter is asking people on the street (about) what is happening on Wall Street … How it’s going to impact them. The only thing being talked about is the “Lipstick” issue. No one cares. Guess we’ll have our bibles, guns and know how to field dress a moose to survive into the next century.”
Have you got the insight into where this increasingly dismal road is heading?  Do we move to Asia as whynot_31 has considered?  Bend over like Guvna advised?  Or perhaps you’ve got an even better suggestion.  Share it now at Prospect Heights Message Boards: Four Horsemen (Brooklynian.com)

joseph11 is nervous that a house fire on Classon and St. Marks is a sign of bad times to come.
“I hope that building owners aren’t starting fires because they cant sell them,” he writes.  Naturally this begets a discussion on other signs of what the failing economy will do to the neighborhood.  whynot_31 wonders “what will become of all these [WaMU] branches? You can only have so many bars called ‘The Vault’. Surely, we are going to have to be more creative.”
And a list of potential uses for former WaMu branches follows:

1. Meat lockers
2. Saunas
3. Opaque Fish Tanks
4. Rent-a-Jails
5. Day cares
6. places to cry alone in the event that McCain wins.
7. Places to make love if Obama wins.
8. Sets for magicians/escape artists to do their tricks.
9. Hardware stores? All the little drawers could hold bolts, screws and such.
10. places to hold a “free party” for Republicans from PA and OH on November 3.
11. places to announce that “due to the pending takeover of WaMu by
Chase, we have encountered a temporary lapse of service on our remote
lock release contract. We expect the doors to open at the stroke of
midnight, November 6th. Please enjoy Caahyoko’s fish and all the
vintage WaMu pens in the meantime.”

Add to the list at Prospect Heights Message Board: This Gets Me Nervous (Brooklynian.com)

pwaltman_1972 asks on the Prospect Heights board at Brooklynian.com: “Manhattan Drinking Liberally and the Young Democrats are sponsoring an event at The Tank in Chinatown, but I’d prefer something a little closer to home… Does anyone know of a place in PS or PH that’s planning on showing it? I just called The Commonwealth in PS, which normally will show political events, but since it’s a Friday the bartender wasn’t 100% sure…”

Here are a few ideas for starters:

• Check with David at Tavern on Nostrand in CH. Every time there’s been a debate (democratic) and I’ve been in there its been on,” (tip: homeowner)
• Plan B on Vanderbilt will probably show it. (tip: Old Time Brooklyn)
• If all else fails, rtraindweller is offering up his apartment for the event (famous last words).
• There’s an Obama watch party at Cafe Shane on Washington that night (apollonia666 will be there).

Get your politically correct drink on - over at the Prospect Heights Message Board: Where to Watch Friday’s Debate? (Brooklynian.com)