Erica | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 7:55AM 
Since everyone's getting trashed anyway, may as well catch yourselves up on the best places in BK to do it: Brooklyn's Beer Boom
(via Metromix)
Erica | Friday, January 9, 2009 at 12:17PM 
*Awkward*
The most hotly anticipated event in recent BK memory and I've got my recap up 2 days late. Feel free to tell me how much I fucking suck in the comments...I totally deserve it.
Anyway.
Welcome to Red Hook, Real World bitches!
Erica | Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 12:33AM 
Doncha just love when other people write kick ass reviews that you can then link to and avoid doing your damn self?
Yeah, me too.
Check out what Eat Me Daily has to say about Roots Cafe (hint: "This is hands-down, the most insanely awesome, mind-blowing coffee that has ever graced our caffeine-stained lips").
Erica | Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 12:07AM 
Fine. You all win.
I've received four separate emails from pleading Park Slopers about how Bagel Hole is actually the hands down, real deal, no joke best bagel in da Slope (NOT La Bagel Delight). And now Jewssip is so fired up she's posting about this shit too.
I care A LOT about you bitches, so here's what I'm gonna do: This weekend, I will go to Bagel Hole. Jewssip and I will have a bagel off.
I will eat bagels...and cream cheese...and get fattr.
And report back on Monday.
Erica | Monday, December 8, 2008 at 12:05AM 
(photo: Gowanus Lounge)
Overall, I'd give it a strong meh.
I'd say that this is def a place you should check out if you are in the market for one of the following items:
*socks
*underwear
*toys
*tights/leggings
*Christmas wrap
Otherwise, its pretty missable.
Having said that, we went with a v. specific purpose: finding Chanukah and Bday gifts for our 5 nieces and nephews. We needed Chanukah pressies for all 5 kids and Bday presents for the oldest (6 yr old boy) and the youngest (1 yr old triplets).
On that front, we totally reached mission accomplished: found crap toys for everyone with the most expensive item (a fake electronic cell phone) ringing in at $13.99.
We bought: Elmo's, Cookie Monsters, Big Birds, Kidz Card Games, a Diego helicopter, books, puzzles, Baby rattle-y stuff, 2 backpacks, a gone fishin set, some weird ninja game, stackable trucks, these cool dolls that you're *supposed* to draw on, a few packs of socks, scotch tape, and a hat all for $126.23.
Here it is (excuse the crappy iphone pic):
They didn't have much in the way of toiletries (though they did have some stuff) and their candy/food dept. was also pretty small. There were clothes sections for both Men and Women and each had one or two interesting items amidst a sea of crap (for women they had these pretty cool dancer tight-like leggings and for guys lined Woolrich sweatshirts). The linens all looked scary scratchy, though I guess if you are looking for some sheets for your air mattress, it might be an option.
They had a metric ton of Christmas crap, which does a Jew like me no good but might be worth checking out if you need wrapping paper or other Christmas supplies. The store was so Christ-mafied, in fact, I could not find a single solitary roll of non Jesus loving wrapping paper in the whole place (*slightly frustrating).
All the cashiers were pretty darn chipper, esp. considering all of the annoying shoppers like me who were milling around.
Ok, so I guess on a scale of 1 - 10 I'd give DII a: 5.5
If you need socks, def check it out.
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