Thanksmas

900 POSTS!!!!!!  THIS IS THE 900TH POST ON THIS HERE BLOG.  due to work and life I've been behind on posting so thanksgiving and the christmas season blurred into one, and it does these days anyway with christmas being visible even before thanksgiving.  I feel like an old man saying that.

Went to DC for thanksgiving with Jen's sistas.  Eric has a turkey deep fryer, it was good stuff.  No fireballs shot up 2 stories high

Barking Irons holiday party

they had a doo wop group and it was sweet

FIT MFA show in williamsburg

bob came over for a night of mulled wine, trimming the tree, xmas music, cooking, and the horrible xmas movie Krampus.

gettin' bob ready for a party he was going to, he looks thrilled

first time using liquid mask

stay tuned for this year's year of the rooster art.

and sickly again

this craft beer thing is going too far.  this is $70 in beer from the other half on one of their saturday can releases.  this isn't for me, these are future gifts for beer lovers, too expensive for me to be drinking them.

Steven saw this in his neighborhood earlier in the day and we met up for coffee then there it was in Carroll Gardens.  Photo stolen from stevie's intagram.

You Win Some You Lose Some

You win some, you lose some.  Jen's birthday yay, Donald Trump wins the election, oh no

Austin Texas' famous Alamo Drafthouse Cinema opened up a location in downtown brooklyn and we went to see "The Handmaiden" Park Chan Wook's latest.  They still have a few kinks to work out but I'm looking forward to soaking in a lot of not you average films here.

their bar is a house of wax

Jen's Birthday at Mission Chinese and their Twin Peaks Laura Palmer hallway downstairs playing the creepy Laura Palmer theme with a photo of her at the end.

The famous Phil Khallins drink with coconut milk and gin

the piano and fishtank are cool but Mission Chinese has been ultra hyped and maybe that effects my judgement, overall I'd say it's "OK" and expensive for what it is.  Other friends defend this place and have been multiple times though.

Jen's birthday celebration day coincided with election day 2016, Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton.  Clinton was a sure win and someone even got a permit to hold a gathering at the intersection of President Street and Clinton Street near our house.  

We went to check out the scene but at that point things were going down hill and Trump was projected to win, everyone was gone and seconds later this food truck left as well.  The party that was supposed to happen at the intersection of president and clinton was not to be.

Back at Abeline the reality is setting in, the mood in the bar is dreary, people start going home.  Me Jen and Micela went to our house and stayed up past midnight watching the numbers come in.  The next day the world was blindsided and Trump won the election.  Now in December he has one the electoral college as well.  I hate politics but this one is significant because I'm not white and Trump has been a very bad example for bigotry towards many groups of peeps including minorities.  I could give a sh!t about politics, basically I just don't want to be the victim of a hate crime or slander or prejudice or other injustices that are now running amok in Trump's America.  Because I have in pre trump's america and can see it happening more in the future.  I seriously fear for this new America emboldened by Trump out in the open.  Sad to think this has been festering all this time.  I'm not a trump basher or someone that feels superior making snarky comments and talking down to trump, I just don't want to get ching chong'd more than I already am.

what do they need this huge mobile boiler for in Red Hook?

Steven tries the Bull Penis at Kenka.  It's gross.  After many drinks I wake up the next day with a fever and full blown sick (Yoon was visiting and I knew I was almost there and this was the death blow).  From here on out i've been of middling health with another full blown sick outbreak even!  Is this how winter will be for me now?

The Other Half on a saturday to buy beer for thanksgiving, this Fully Frothed was delicious.

arty commentary on America photo.

tried the new fancy pizza place in red hook, pizza moto, good stuff.

halloween happened we gave out candy at our house and watch a scary movie but that's it.  No one wants to get into halloween now, I offered the motivation but no one took it.  I had the perfect costume too.  3 diglets and when we stand together we would form dugtrio (pokemon)  It's brilliant and no better year to do it thanks to the pokemon go popularity.  You guys suck.

Citibike has made it to brooklyn and now these new stations take up 3 parking spaces all over the place and add more bikers and tourist bikers to the streets.  sure bikes are great but are the trade offs worth is?  This one is at the end of our block.

Breakneck Ridge

tried to do a pot roast, need to learn and try again, maybe there is such a thing as too long.

a drink with a shiso leaf in it at Long Island bar kind of near our house.

Carroll Gardens gets into Halloween

at this point the summer was over and it was into fall and me bob and jen held down a poke gym in Canisteo for like 2 weeks.  This is amazing to us because in NYC you can't hold down a gym for even part of a day but I guess the rural players have is so bad that they can't get to even our middling level or no one cares anymore.  Our reward was poke coins

One Friday night we said let's do the Breakneck Ridge hike tomorrow and Steven said ok.  I've seen it rated a 10 out of 10 difficulty hike on some websites but I don't know if its more than a 6, I mean we all made it without incident.  There is a significant portion that is really steep like this and require scrambling but nothing that you can't do if you take your time, or if you're younger you can not take your time.  It got hairy a couple times but that was my own doing trying to make the scrambling fun.  It's pegged as a 4 hour hike, 3.7 miles, total ascent 1,442 feet, highest elevation 1,207 feet.

sugarloaf I think

the hudson river.  Steven and I were talking about taking the Metro North up to some town, blowing up the kayak and kayaking all the way down to somewhere, Fort Tryon park at the top of Harlem would be ideal but that is really far.  Lots of peeps on forums for kayaks say this is an insane idea

There's even a Metro North train stop weekends only for breakneck ridge so you could totally take the train here, hike and train back to NYC and your hipster trappings in 1 day.

what's up with these dudes?  Where they waiting to tag some beautiful rocks and landscape with spray paint "DAP CREW"?  That's a long way to go to tag something, besides being an @sshole 

There was even a pokestop in the middle of the hike!

once we made it past the dangerous part we drank from the flask filled with vodka and caught some pokemon and looped back around to the car with more than a few other people along the way.  In the summer time I bet it's annoying how many people there are here, in late fall it was fine.  I'd definitely do this again.

on the way back we hit peekskill brewery and the craft brewery phenomenon that is getting to be a little too much I think.  A 4 pack of these cans were $20