Dave Mandl

According to this article, "Hangar B at Floyd Bennett Field is open to visitors on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm." Location is all the way at the end of Flatbush Avenue just before the Marine Parkway Bridge. metroairportnews.com/h-a-r-p-the-...

I've been to Floyd Bennett Field many times, but I never knew about the H.A.R.P. (Historic Aircraft Restoration Project) in Hangar B. Lots of reconstructed old airplanes and helicopters, and we were even able to climb inside some of them. Thanks Paul Lukas for enlightening me.

I think McCartney's output was way more solid in the '70s. IMO Lennon had just a handful of good songs and a few great ones. I'm a huge Lennon fan. I just think he lost his Mojo post-Beatles (though we can debate about exactly when that happened).

No need to be so serious. She was making a little joke. Though there is the concept of "fair value" on Wall St., and it is often clear when something really has no value, or is wildly overvalued. It's not necessarily true that the value of something is what some sucker is willing to pay for it.

I don't know about it being custom for that sign (though obviously many signs were made for a particular place). Wouldn't all the letters have been connected?

Right, totally looks like Florida to me!

Yeah. I think it's of a particular period.

She was saying the fair value of bitcoin is $0.

I love those. L.A. is known for having a lot of them. This Brooklyn building doesn't have the outdoor garage, though.

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Nostrand Ave.

That's exactly it. That Robert Klein routine is a classic.

This reminds me of the old Robert Klein routine where he describes Borscht Belt comedians who tell jokes with a punch line in Yiddish (the point being that the joke is ruined for you if you don't know the Yiddish expression).

I've always been intrigued by this building on Ave. T. I don't know of any other buildings in Brooklyn with lettering like this. Kind of a Miami vibe IMO.

I wondered about that (it would make more sense), but those letter pairs really look connected. If they were manufactured in such a way that they could be pushed together like that it's a really brilliant job. I should go back and take a closer look.

@katie0martin.ft.com This is good.

"I can't imagine what I ever did to deserve her. Did I rescue a bunch of orphans from a burning building in a previous life?"

The interesting thing about the plastic sign letters used here is that there are ligatures for "is," "co," and "un." How typical is that? And how many other ligatures are there in this set?

There is a huge difference between RnR and a Park Slope restaurant no matter where you live!

I used to eat at Roll 'n' Roaster several times a week when I was a teenager. Never went to Brennan and Carr's growing up, and then I became a vegetarian so there was never any reason to go there.

Funny you should mention Lundy's. Just this week I took a friend for a walk in Red Hook and saw a seafood place there called Lundy's (likely related), and I was telling her about the Sheepshead Bay original.

Hmmmm.

...Thinking back to the French film "The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob" I'm pretty sure they spoke French with those exaggerated Jewish inflections, which would suggest they go back to Yiddish.

Talking to someone in her 60s, Jewish, b. USSR, she made a remark with a clear Yiddish/Jewish inflection. Is that specifically a Jewish-English thing she picked up from Jews in NY, or do those inflections exist even in her native Russian, meaning they date back to earlier Jewish roots? #linguistics

V.F.W. Post 107 & Auxiliary, Gerritsen Beach.

No, Rotosounds are as round as can be, the roundest of roundwounds. They're the antithesis of flatwounds.

Stereotypical Rickenbacker sound. Many prog bassists played Rics. He also used Rotosound strings, which were equally important to that sound. And of course the rattling frets.

The rich and powerful have accepted the country going full Nazi because the market is skyrocketing and profits are way up. When the inevitable market crash* comes, the profits will be gone and all they'll have is the Nazism. Womp womp.

*I'm not hoping for this. Poor people will be hurt most of all.

Totally agree. Getting it exactly right is the trick. I wish I could trust guitar shops to do this, but good as they are at other things this is something they never get quite right (for me).

...Like him or not, this is the sign of an artistic revolutionary: someone who makes art out of something that up to that point was considered "broken." Think of guitar distortion, or the extreme tape violence committed by Adrian Sherwood.