Caine Blog

On Wednesdays and Fridays I wake up twice; first at 6 am to compile links for Curbed, Eater and Racked, and again at 10:30ish to get to the office.  Today, my second wake up call came courtesy of a massive roach on my shoulder.  On my birthday.
Antonio the landlord. be forewarned: I want only the [...]

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-Rock Star Bar (South 5th and Kent, Williamsburg)
This is your standard empty Williamsburg dive, with no customers, plastic cups, some signs that the bar was a little more vital, say, 5 or 10 years ago (take your pick depending on when you moved here and how much you want to assert your “local” status), and, [...]

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The Home Depot in Bed-Stuy is similar to a particularly inaccessible art gallery. You are welcome to look - go ahead, gaze at this new one, it’s by a very hot Chinese artist, etc. - but actually buying the painting is a different story altogether. It’s never just an exchange of funds, like [...]

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I’ve been running around a lot today, taking pictures for Racked of various iPhone lines.  It’s also 350 degrees outside.  Here are just some of the idiots outside of the Apple Store in the Meatpacking District:

As one can surmise from the location of this Apple Store, there is an additional layer of tackiness at work here.  While [...]

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A new feature, now that I live in a neighborhood where going to bars doesn’t also mean driving home.
1) Huckleberry, Grand @ Lorimer, Williamsburg.  Excellent place with solid draughts.  Had a pint of Ommegang for six bucks, sat outside on the pretty patio.  Wasn’t too full on a Tuesday night - is this place a [...]

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Into a new place. Soon I’ll have internet. Everything is changing. I am excited. Sent from my mobile device. Who is Biodun?

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This is a story about an apartment called the Hole. Perhaps I will live in the Hole, perhaps not. It’s certainly cheap, though, and its location is pretty good for the money — a couple blocks from the Lorimer stop, real walkable to everywhere I need to go in Brooklyn, and so on. [...]

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Tasks:
-Move from Queens to Brooklyn ASAP
-Do it for cheap
-Have fun on July 4
Possible goals
-get an apartment by next week
-get an additional job (because what else do i have to do?)
Hard to accomplish goals
-get an apartment tomorrow
-not spend so much money
I’m at Curbed HQ right now, and it’s pretty cool.

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