Caine Blog

Lots of people talk about Lindsay Lohan, but few mention her writing style.  Maybe ’style’ is the wrong word; what I’m talking about is more of an assault, a full on em-dash ambush.  Let’s take a peek at her most recent post, in which she assails her father:
If you have something to say to me, [...]

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Boring: Jobs, commutes on the subway, waiting to fall asleep at night but being unable to do so because of the trucks driving by at all hours, waiting for friends at bars
Not Boring But Sucky: Taking a massive spill on a bike because an idiot driver couldn’t bear to slow down at a stop sign, [...]

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[Pictures coming soon, possibly by Sunday.  Whenever I can head down to Lee Avenue and discreetly snap some photos.
The first thing I noticed last Sunday as I walked around Lee Avenue?  The children’s footwear.  Crocs of all colors, green and teal and black and white, strapped to the feet of young pais-bearing boys and ankle-dressed [...]

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One of the coolest parts of the Lee Avenue rise is Hasidic fashion, which is way different from average, white-bread fashion we all deal with in this boring, fashion-backwards sticksville known as New York City.  When I talk about the Lee Avenue rise, I’m making up a term; here’s what I’m actually talking about:

I often head down [...]

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I recently saw the bill from my visit to Hawaiian Tropic Zone sitting in a file folder, getting ready to be expensed.  That made me happy, as did my visit to the perplexing, exceedingly tacky, and surreal place that is the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, “The Hottest Place on Earth.”

Indeed.  Hawaiian Tropic Zone melds two completely [...]

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epic review of the century: Hawaiian Tropic Zone restaurant.

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Tacobite (South 4th and Rodney, Wburg) - This was a dark horse, but it’s quickly become one of my favorites.  The burrito itself was pretty good - I forget what I got, but I remember thinking it was tasty - but more importantly it came with free chips and a delicious, spicy salsa.  (By the [...]

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I went to a Community Board 1 Executive Committee tonight to check up on little old Studio B, the Greenpoint club that all the neighbors hate.  In looking up one of the members - Joseph Weber, a Hasidic rabbi who is also the first vice chair of CB1 - I came across “Welfare Neighborhood,” a [...]

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Damn straight.  Right here in Williamsburg.  That’s cheap as hell.  I grilled one up for dinner, and who knows, maybe I’ll have the other one for breakfast.
P.S. Grilling is the only form of transferring heat to food I currently possess, which is sort of a mixed bag.

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