I just happened to be walking past the famous Brill Building the other night and I decided to snap a photo of it but despite my trying, I was unable to get one without someone passing right by me. It’s a single shot I must admit, but its one that still helps you reflect upon the amazing amount of music that came out of this building. For decades this was a veritable song factory that found legends such as Carole King and Neil Diamond working day in and day out to churn out the hits that Don Kirshner would ask them to provide.
To the best of my recollection I have never been inside the Brill Building so I don’t know if there are any other plaques or statuary to its history. Perhaps that is a mission I can undertake for the blog if I put my most charming self in front of me when walking past their doors. If I do that I promise to share it with you here for sure.
Official Wikipedia Entry HERE
Welcome To Bar Ridge Brooklyn!
I’ve mentioned a number of times how I am a resident of Bay Ridge Brooklyn, which is a nice little area not too far off the beaten path from the island of Manhattan and a space that is often referred to as “Bar Ridge” based on the sheer number of places that one can kick back a pint or three. I admit that this title always amused me as a resident because it really was true and some friends who moved out this way realized that they never needed to go far from home to have a nice time. With this being the case I was actually surprised that it took this long for a pub to open up and use that particular title but here we are in April of 2012 as I proudly broadcast an image of the “coming soon” establishment called BAR RIDGE.
The pub sits in the space formerly occupied by the likes of Antiquities, The Empty Mug and several other names that I have long forgotten. I lived right near there for some time and it seemed to change titles and owners on a regular basis. I will probably check it out to see if there is any worth in visiting when I need a watering hole or if they will be presenting live music since I have so many friends who play, but be aware that my posting this does not mean I have any personal stake in the place. I just was amused at there finally being a bar that played to this little bit of regional status. Its located on 5th Avenue just off 89th street (hence the 8910 in the photo)
As I close up on these thoughts, I have to wonder if the very clear usage of a trademarked image on their awning will cause them any grief going forward. Strangers to our zone probably don’t see it, but this is the exact same logo that is seen on our neighborhood “R” train line. That’s how you best get out this way if you plan on a visit anytime soon. To do that you would need to get this local train and get off at either the 86th Street or 95th Street stop. Mind you the first one is closest to the larger amount of shopping.
Optimus Prime Visits Bay Ridge Construction Site
This morning while on some errands in the immediate vicinity from my PiercingMetal HQ I was pleased to find the one and only Optimus Prime on point at a local construction site. This really left me with a sense of positivity and security knowing that the Autobot Commander was keeping the region safe from any Decepticon shenanigans.
I knew the leader of the Autobots (or one of the Transformers to you lay people) was in our Metropolis when I caught him at one of the Toys R Us chains a couple of years ago. Below is photographic proof for the skeptics.
Carry on people and know that we are being well looked after.
PiercingKen & Social Networking: Instagram
If you have been paying attention to my PiercingMetal Musings Blog and its continuing run of narratives on the various Social Networking mediums, you probably thought that you clicked into one of them by mistake since I copied the title premise for use over here on the PiercingKen Blog. You’ll have to forgive me this little bit of Internet sleight of hand and know that I only did this to let you readers know that I am using the Photo Networking application called “Instagram”.
I’m kind of excited because this application while used by so many iPhone users around me, has only been available to the Droid smartphone users for about two weeks. I installed it on my Droid “Incredible” but really need to get used to it before my upgrade time comes. I will be getting a new phone in a little over a month since my plan allows me to do that every two years. I’m leaning on the Droid RAZR Maxx and am NOT switching to an iPhone like many suggest that I do. Sorry. With that being the case, my Instagram account is “PiercingKen” just like this here blog but I don’t yet see a way to paste a direct URL link to my account so that interested parties may come and follow me. Hopefully the name will suffice and those who wish to keep up in that realm will have a little initiative and search me. My plan is to use this to showcase an image or two that will eventually be used in blogs and that lets those readers see them first. How exciting is that? I know right, it’s really super exciting. Well. At least to me so I do hope you will come along especially if you like what we are doing here on the side blog. It’s goal is always to entertain.
If you should want to enjoy the whole gamut of those Social Networking overviews and how I apply their use as a music journalist in today’s ever changing realm, just click HERE to bring up the list over on the PiercingMetal Musings Blog. Topical comments are always welcome on stuff like that especially if you are doing some similar adventuring.
UPDATE 8/13/2012: I discovered a way to find my Instagram and if you have any interest in what I am doing with that little side of the Internet you can easily click Follow from there. It seemed to work for me when I selected my friends account so have at it. I will try to keep you entertained and visually interested.
PiercingKen on Instagram = HERE
I Am The Egg Man – In A Sense I Guess
Or should I have said “I am an egg man”?
Since the PiercingKen blogsite is often about some of the kitchen skullduggery that I involve myself in, I decided to invite you all over for breakfast. Well, in a manner of speaking that is. It was Saturday and the day before Easter and I was not only hungrier than usual for this kind of morning but I also felt like putting a bunch of stuff together and work out a recipe for you all to potentially enjoy. Sadly, I had not thought of taking individual shots of each and every ingredient this time around because not only have I done that before, but how exciting are shots of chopped up stuffs anyway. My goal this morning was to fix up a great omelet and I just love the things in all honesty. Write this down for reference okay? This one used three medium sized eggs, some sliced pepperoni, chopped up mushrooms, pepper jack cheese and salsa (of the medium hotness). I will type out the steps I took after you enjoy the yummy photos. Here is the final result on the plate with a tasty onion Bialey. Looks good right?
Here’s a shot from the side of the plate. I could not wait to sink my fangs into this one and finish enjoying the non-pictured but massive cup of coffee I had made. This was clearly going to get me prepped for the evening’s Metal show. In order to learn about that you will have to monitor my Official PiercingMetal Musings Blog (which I think a lot of you are doing as well).
OK so now the steps. For this particular omelet I used three medium sized eggs as opposed to two jumbo ones, and once they were nicely blended together I toss them into the medium pan. A small pat of butter was added for good measure.
After about thirty seconds of this cooking in the pan I tossed the chopped pepperoni, mushrooms and the cheese right on top to cook a little deeper into the eggs. Then the tricky part of flipping it was done but as you can see in the image I did alright this time. Figures on a day without company it comes out perfect. The insides were nice and cooked and the cheese super gooey.
This was the perfect fuel for the later evening Metal show that I would be seeing. That’s all I have for you now though. Back to your day you go.