Day Two: MatisyaWHO?

For you, on day two: a Hanukkah miracle.

I heard a live acoustic version of the insta-classic heeb holiday song, Miracle, last night on NPR and fell in love with hassid reggae/hip hop/beatbox singer Matisyahu. And that was before I got a load of this acid trip of a video. 

Gettin Gassy Wit It

Allen McCullough fixes gas lamps in Park Slope. He's done it for the past 20 years...and he doesn't know anyone else who does it. But note to all aspiring gas lamp repairmen: you won't get rich from it.

Still...pretty friggin cool.

(via WSJ)

THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH

There are a million things I could say, but lordy lordy, I think an "AMEN" is just sufficient enough.

Via Gawker TV

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Park Slope and the Thin Blue Line

Um, will someone please let me into this family?  A story from yesterday's Brooklyn paper reports on a father and son from the Slope who sent a camera twenty miles up into the stratosphere.  Skip the story and watch the vid; this thing is so well-planned out and full of yuppie hubris, I am beaming with 'hood pride.

I may have done rocketry with all the boys at Gifted Summer Camp in Westchester (caps for emphasis, obvs) but this beats the bloody shit out of that. 

Luke Geissbuhler: Dude. Adopt me.  I want to send shit into space with you.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT: #BKTORNADO VID

I'm not sure which is more riveting: the footage of the MOTEHRFUCKCING TORNADO that hit BK last night, or the guys screaming like little girls in this vid. Either way, I just watched this 11 times.