SING FOR YOUR DISCOUNT AT GUVNOR'S

Forget coupons. 

A new discount promotion is being pioneered over at Guvnor's Vintage Thrift (178 Fifth Ave between DeGraw and Sackett), called "Discount Karaoke." Basically, you bust out into song in order to get a 10% to 25% discount on select Winter merchandise. 

If you're concerned that the whole shop has turned into an American Idol casting call, don't worry.  This sing-a-long promotion is only good for Sundays, from 4-7pm.    

Potential public humiliation aside, if anyone was stupid enough to approve me for a loan to open up my own store/bar/restaurant/Planned Parenthood off-shoot, this is the kind of crap that I would be up to ALL THE TIME.

You want a 50% discount?  Tell me the worst thing you've ever done to someone you love.  I could play this game forrrrrrrrever.

But really, do you want 15% off of a gently-used sweater?  Head on over to Guvnor's and make a fool of yourself.  If anyone has the guts to go there and sing something ridiculous (I'm thinking "Don't Take it Personal" by Monica or "A Whole New World" from the Aladdin Soundtrack) and film it with your Flipcam, we will post it here.  And laugh.  And laugh.  And laugh.

Don't take it personal.

Walmart vs. Brooklyn: Joe Holtz Votes for Shop Rite

Wow, I can't believe I actually just watched the live webcast of the City Council Walmart hearing concerning whehter or not they should be allowed to come to  and it was RIVETING. I mean it. It was some really entertaining reality TV. Way better than Erica's beloved Real Housewives.

There was the rabid republican 9/11 union construction worker who played both the 9/11 *and* the Muslim cards in his efforts to sing the praises of Walmart. There were the dudes from the hood who had gone on a Walmart-paid fact-finding mission in Arkansas, and came home saying Walmart is promising to hire all the ex-cons in Brownsville AND send them all to college. And if they don't, TROUBLE, big trouble, "25 to life" kind of trouble. You feelin' me? There was the awesome husband/wife team of city councilman and assembly woman who both spoke eloquently,smartly and specifically against Walmart. And also they called each other "sweetheart" and "love of my life" and shit. 

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Curb Alert: Used Toilet on 8th Ave

Yes, this gently used toilet can be yours for the asking. Just mosey on down (mind the black ice and two weeks worth of garbage) to 8th Avenue bw Garfield and First. First come, first served.

And, if you commuters find yourselves in a pinch on the long walk home, feel free to avail yourself.

This fucking toilet may be here 'til spring if recent garbage pick up trends are any indication!

FYI, Adrien Grenier Discovered Williamsburg

Just thought y'all should know.

BREAKING: BREEDERS Are Moving To Williamsburg En Masse

Robert Caplin for the NYTOh gawd, pls let this news be true: The NYT is reporting that all of the newest/coolest/hippest parents are packing up their shit and just moving straight the hell over to Billyburg: Williamsburg, Toddlertown.

“You can go out in the neighborhood on a Friday night and feel sexy and single-ish,” Ms. Liebman says with a laugh. “And then wake up next morning with the kid and take him to the farmers’ market and the play center.”

O, Rly!?

"Mr. Signer says that he is glad not every restaurant is child-oriented. He goes out to eat for the quality of the food, he said, not to take a census of how many highchairs a restaurant owns."

You don't say?? Take that, Fornino!

I gotta say, BREEDERS, sounds like this Williamsburg shit is worth checking out! That is, if you don't wanna be L-A-M-E.