Happy St. Patrick's Day

Of course everyone knows about the St. Patrick's Day Parade and if you can't be here you can watch it on their web site: http://nyc-st-patrick-day-parade.org. I remember YEARS ago, when it was a drunken free-for-all. Ah, those were the days. ;-) Now, if you're caught with an open container you're toast! (Or, Irish Sodabread toasted?) But what else is there to do? Obviously most of the events revolve around drinking. Duh! So grab and Guinness and go!

Ah, St. Dymphna, the patron saint of those with mental illness. You can start off with a visit to St. Dymphna, a pub in the East Village with a grand Irish Breakfast (Sausage, black pudding, eggs)! http://st.dymphnas.com/

From 1 pm to 11 pm at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Queens it's $15 bucks for unlimited green beer. http://www.bohemianhall.com/

At Loreley (which is actually a German place) it's officially an "Alcoholiday" and $35 from 9pm to 4 pm for unlimited beer and whisky. Don't know if it's green or not.

http://www.loreleynyc.com/

Union Square Wines is having a free tasting of Irish whiskies like Bushmill's, Redbreast and Jameson's as well as cream liqueur makers Coole Swan and Ryan's Irish. http://www.unionsquarewines.com/events

New York Fucking City

Just saw these AWESOME NY City notecards with the message: Made in New York Fucking City. I love this town!! UrbanDaddy perks has a special price too, 28 bucks instead of 40 for these nifty note cards by Terrapin Stationers. Still expensivo, but hey, a city this fucking good comes at a hefty price!

http://perks.urbandaddy.com/national/promotions/terrapin-stationers.html

Valentine's Day Tour

There's a theme going on for Valentine's Day! You may have seen my post about the Bronx Zoo offering naming Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches after your loved (or hated) ones for Valentine's Day. Now you can take a tour of Newtwon Creek Wastewater Plant on this day for lover's and...sewage??

There are tours every month but for some bizarre reason there's also a special go-around on Valentine's Day. I guess if you want people to stare when you said you went to the digester eggs in Greenpoint on Valentine's Day, that's a reason to go. In case you're wondering what the heck digester eggs are, 'cause I didn't know... Eggs that digest??? Anyway, they're the sewage plants massive digesters which breaks down detrius into a lovely gas and sludge.

If you're still iffy about taking this tour with that special someone, you do end up at the top of the digester eggs which offers a grand view of the Manhattan skyline. Oh, and if you're still not sure, the plant is giving out Hershey kisses on Valentine's Day. Just hope they didn't take a trip through the digester eggs first!

329 Greenpoint Avenue
Greenpoint, Brooklyn NY, 11222
Enter at the intersection of Greenpoint Avenue and Humboldt Street.

The tour begins at 10 am.

Literary Upstart: The Search for Pocket Fiction

Gonna check out the L Magazine's Literary Upstart short story reading tonite at The Slipper Room. Thinking about submitting so I figure I should check out what kind of stuff they take. Note: There will be $1 Dogfish Head bottles. Not that $1 Dogfish Head bottles has anything to do with it. Just sayin'...

(Slipper Room / April 19th @ 7 pm / 167 Orchard Street on the corner of Stanton and Orchard. )

Design Your Own Chocolate!

Just found this awesome online chocolate shop, Chocrí, where you can design you own chocolate bar. I've hit the chocolate mutha load!! Gummy Bears, Licorice and Walnuts, Oh, my! (Not too thrilled about the chives, sea salt and bacon, but hey, go for it.) I'm gonna order my own very special chocolate bar made out of dark chocolate, ginger, cashew nuts (my fave!), shaved coconut and toffee. Although I am considering adding pop rocks for that extra wow and sizzle. ;-) Nah, I'm gonna leave that out. And I'm gonna call my lovely chocolate bar... mb in the chocolate city. Hmm, not too catchy. Gotta rethink that name. Give me a shout if you got a better one.

http://www.createmychocolate.com/

H&M Rules!

Got this cool scarf on sale for 3 bucks at H&M on 5th and 18th St. in an awesome grey/black. They got a mess of stuff in their sale racks. Awesome jackets for work about 10 bucks. Guy's sale stuff is upstairs.

Photo by Zack Hosie