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RT @SkeeterNYC: Matt from my ScratchBREAD video is looking to HIRE bread specialists to learn his trade. Info on his website: http://ow.ly/F1bP #brooklyn
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Thirteen-Year-Old Runaway with Asperger's Spent 11 Days in Subways
Someone on the HikiCulture FaceBook group shared a link to this New York Times article about a thirteen-year-old boy from Brooklyn, New York who spent a total of 11 days in a subway station. The boy happened to have Asperger's Syndrome (like myself), which can lead some people to become highly reclusive and anti-social.
I thought I'd share this article since it's not very often that Asperger's is mentioned in major newspapers such as the New York Times. PS. Thanks for the link Theo.
Old Brooklyn Dodgers Field (Not Ebbets)
Along 3rd Avenue near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY sits this low, unassuming building. The blandness of the structure certainly does not draw the attention of passersby, myself included, having walked by it dozens of times without thinking twice about it. But as I learned from a nice older Brooklynite who was having brunch next to me one day at the Station Cafe in Park Slope, the building (or what's left of it) is in fact the original home of the Brooklyn Dodgers (at the time known as the Brooklyn Superbas).
The building was called Washington Park, and was first used by the team a loooong time ago, 1898 to be exact, and remained the team's home park until 1912 when they moved to the famous Ebbets Field. It's currently owned and used by Con Edison, and although little remains of the structure, what does remain is the "oldest section of any former major league ballpark still standing in the country," according to Forgotten New York.
Would you be an outlaw for my love?
In my (and many others - The Replacements, Elliott Smith, R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, etc.) music universe, Big Star are a massive force, and tonight they are playing at the Masonic Hall in Brooklyn, just 7 blocks from my house.
I've never seen them live and I lucked out on a guest list spot via Rhino/Warner Bros.
Big ups to Cyndi for that.
Though it's not the original line-up, this is a show that I am looking forward to the most
in many, many years (aside from Dylan, who I am seeing tomorrow night).
Can't wait.
Thirteen by Big Star
