kottke.org posts about 'brooklyn'

Novelist (and former "Jeopardy" champion?) Arthur Phillips talks to Robert Birnbaum:

RB: I haven't managed to read writers who I now see as cultish-Proust and Wodehouse.

AP: I have enjoyed him enormously. I don't know that I'd read all 95 or 150 or 300 books or whatever it is-

RB: There's an example of productivity or hypergraphia.

AP: There is a famous story-I'm going to get the details wrong, but he was in New York for a while and someone asked if he was hanging out at the Algonquin and he said, "I don't know how those guys get any work done." That's the problem with Brooklyn-you have to really try not to meet other writers.

 Jan 16, 2008  •  tags: writers brooklyn

Evolution shocker! The discovery of a dinosaur footprint on the wall of a contemporary Brooklyn school proves that the earth is less than 6000 years old (and, perhaps, that dinosaurs could walk vertically). No word on the Flying Spaghetti Monster's involvement.

 Aug 22, 2005  •  tags: flyingspaghettimonster creationism dinosaurs archeology nyc brooklyn

Slideshow of the making of Barcade, the bar/arcade in Brooklyn.

 Jul 10, 2005  •  tags: nyc brooklyn barcade games videogames bars beverages beer

A letter from Jane Jacobs to Mayor Bloomberg concerning the rezoning of the Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront.

 May 16, 2005  •  tags: michaelbloomberg janejacobs nyc brooklyn cities urbanplanning