My homey PaperChasr did a drop over at Obsessive Sneaker Disorder about my Brooklyn Flea exploits.
Next weekend is the LAST Saturday outdoors for the Flea and likely the last time this year ‘Deadstock Dallas’ will be available offline. Come thru and get some hot apple cider and chill with the big homey.
Is it time to pull out the holiday lifestyle already? I’m upset that RL hasn’t dropped another bear sweater on us or this holiday season. It’s been a minute since the bear meme has been on a sweater.
Even without my favorite knit graphic there are still some classic designs I want to put in my ‘LO archive.
The suede patches on this plaid button down are chuuuurch.
I’m not mad at this basic burgundy rugby especially when you flip the collar and see the details they put back there.
Here’s a crisp looking snowflake graphic henley I would fux with.
Sometimes all I need is a knit cap and I’m straighter than 6 o’clock.
I’ve got more comic books and action figures up for sale this coming weekend at the Brooklyn Flea.
I’m going to liquidate my entire collection of X-Men, Batman and whatever else I excavate from the lab.
You won’t wanna miss this fanboy festival.
The new Queens Public Library Children’s Discovery Center was formerly my nightclub discovery zone called the ‘Encore’. Think of the ‘Shadow’ nightclub without all the diversity. Just bamboo earring chicks from the Southside and Hollis doing the cabbage patch in velour Fila tracksuits. Polotron lived on Hillside and 168th St. so the Encore on Merrick Ave. directly across from the 164th Street bus terminal was like playing a home game.
The New York Times (where I swiped the image from) talks about the city’s direction in giving good design criteria a priority when constructing and retrofitting public buildings. I’m proud to say that I’ve been part of this effort for over a decade. In that time I’ve watched New York City be transformed into it’s modern metropolitan masterplan.
There’s still spots which need to be fixed, but everytime I go to a 1st Saturday event I think about how the museum entrance retrofit made the museum more accessible to people and transformed the Prospect Heights neighborhood to the point I see single white females standing on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Nostrand after midnight. Great architecture informs, educates and ultimately it gentrifies.
Carlos Santana – ‘Black Magic Woman’
For this weekend at the Brooklyn Flea I pulled out the Santana ‘Black Magic Woman’ Dunk Highs in the hopes of having some goodluck voodoo I call ‘Shoedoo’. Shit started out bricker than a muvv too. I felt a kinda way about Chocolate Snowflake not checking the weather beforehand.
I ended up having a good day because my homey @MikeyCCL came thru and spent a grip on Deadstock Dallas’ refinery. LOL
My other folks came thru like @DrewPreme. While the shorty @plotzpie and her husband @fineartslibrary almost copped some expensive SB joints, but I guided them to some of my more affordable #swag. Even Terrence came thru and shot some video. Deadstock Dallas isn’t done yet. There are two(2) more outdoor weeks left of the BK Flea and I’m gonna have to pull out some real heatrocks to keep my spot warm.
My favorite trade today was to this weirdo who jumped on my John Byrne ‘Phoenix’ saga X-Men for $15 by offering me $12. I accepted. LOL. I had the comics tucked away in the shoebox of the Steve Nash Air Max 90 Quickstrike ‘Phoenix’. I’m like Crazy Eddie out here making deals and practically giving this shit away. Come thru and check on me Internets.
This weekend also included a visit to the Brooklyn Museum of Art to catch Rich Medina hold it down on the decks as he repped the Jump-N’Funk sonic movement. Brooklyn Museum of Art is the POP LIFE when afrobeat is the vibe. The sound in the great ballroom is all over the place unless you get there early and find that speaker sweet spot.
I’m telling you to get there early since I already know how to play the room. The 1st Saturday party was a fitting end to the day’s activities. I’m going back to the lab to curate another two(2) weeks of Deadstock Dallas at the Brooklyn Flea. I’m pulling out heat from ALL my collections so I hope it doesn’t snow again. My heat will melt that snow and turn it into water. And we all know water no get enemy.
Fela Kuti – ‘Water No Get Enemy’