FYI: The Week in Review comment link is broken.

@She Blinded Me With Omniscience: When they fix it someone should start a blog there, no ?

@scarcat: Too high-profile. It's best to fly under the radar, maybe on some obscure, innocuous comment thread like this one.

@She Blinded Me With Omniscience: Well played, Beautiful.

@She Blinded Me With Omniscience: That is awesome. I gots some catching up to do. But I did post a caption contest today.

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@IndianSlipper: I so admire your ballsy creativity (you are a guy, right?).

@IndianSlipper: @She Blinded Me With Omniscience: Ya know what's fun? Eating like a kid, drinking like an adult. A fluffernutter and coffee w/kahlua, mmmmm

I am a man, who has been emasculated, in certain ways.

@BalknChain: Aw shit, I gotta make me a fluffernutter and peanutbutter samwich to go with my vodka and koolaid for dinner now.

@BalknChain: Hey, with how often you are changing your avatar i may never need internet porn again!

@BalknChain: Cap'n Crunch and mango margaritas

@IndianSlipper: I know it's the best of both worlds. Tomorrow will be a sad day so tonight is for the living to ingest all kinds of goodies. I like to change Sandra to go with my moods. I do hear I look somewhat like her. When Speed first came out I literally heard it all the time everywhere.

@She Blinded Me With Omniscience: whoa, cool. Hmmm, I may hit up a Pina Colada and nachos and cheese next, wooo

I lived in Brooklyn for five years. Exiled after losing my UWS apartment. I hung out with a mad Israeli ex-army guy and drank wodka in the Russian nightclubs on Brighton Beach Ave. They were full of smoke so thick the stage was an island in the fog. Ever experience a Russian one-man band singing "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" in Russian? Or the Russian Supremes, beehive hair and all. No? Very amazing. Five years. Didn't write a goddam thing.

Many Brooklyn writers would be improved by moving to Queens, or out to the country in Staten Island.

What our distinguished friend Colson doesn't mention among his Brooklyn gripes is his Harvard education and his Macarthur 'genius' Grant at the age of 29. The no-strings-attached half-a-million-a-year-for-five-years must have made his hunt for cheap rent a little easier. Prior to that he was a Village Voice journalist.

Sadly he has yet to live up to the promise of his exquisite first novel, (a reworking of his Harvard thesis), as his subsequent novels have been distressingly similar.

When Brooklyn was a writer's world it was still a collection of ethnic neighborhoods with a collective consciousness. I'm not sure that's true anymore, or at the least is changing fast as more yups move in and condos replace the peculiar old buildings. Rents are going up, and low rent always facilited writing. Where do the writers move next to find low(er) rents , Glendale? I think that's the name of it? Along the Brooklyn/Queens border out toward the Cross-Island?

@famousauthor: And many more would benefit from a DeVry education and a job.

@Michael Jahn: That said, yeah I know someone who's looking in Staten Island. She doesn't write, though -- but probably will start knocking out paperback tragedies after this experience.

@Malarcus: That's giving up and is mental novocaine. There's gotta be a way of finding a cheap rental and doubling up with friends/lovers and having a job that's so patently a shit job that you're only doing to subsize the writing that it doesn't fuck your head. Overnight shift stocking shelves at the supermarket. I've thought of doing that. Put the laptop on a crate of Cheetos and write a chunk during breaks or when the boss's back is turned.

Obviously living in BK hasn't help Gran come up with any original metaphors.

Huh. But so is Jonathan Safron Foer related to Jonathan Safran Foer? Geez, that family...

file under "shut up, brooklyn". who are these people anyway?

turn me into who?

@traydon_barter: They are third cousins. "Safron" comes from the illiterate part of the family. He doesn't write books, but is a performance artist.

The reading material choices on the L train are much better, but I'm not so sure many of the people understand what they're reading.

@Kakapo: TV Guide can be cleverly concealed behind most hardback books.

According to Thomas Wolfe the First, only the dead know Brooklyn...