In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started up our Twitter feed. Please follow us. Our posts are there and as time goes on there going to be more off-the-cuff and personal stuff. In other words, we’re going to be using it to communicate with you off the blog. Tweet. Tweet.

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Just in case you can’t get enough GL here, we’ve started up our Twitter feed. Please follow us. Our posts are there and as time goes on there going to be more off-the-cuff and personal stuff. In other words, we’re going to be using it to communicate with you off the blog. We’re very, very […]

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We’re thrilled to introduce you to our new GL Music Editor who’s going to be serving up a wide variety of musical content on GL, which is something we’ve been wanting to do for a loooooong time, because we know that Robert Scarano and Hot Karl Fischer don’t float everyone’s boat. His name is Eliot […]

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Just in case you can’t get enough GL here, we’ve started up our Twitter feed. Please follow us. Our posts are there and as time goes on there going to be more off-the-cuff and personal stuff. In other words, we’re going to be using it to communicate with you off the blog. We’re very, very […]

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Given that it’s President’s Day and most of us have the day off and we all know that most people do most of their blog reading at work, we’ll be doing a semi-regular day today that will have more of a weekend feel. There will be some news items, some pics, some vids and probably […]

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We were lucky enough to gain access to the grounds of Astroland yesterday on its very last day, January 31, 2009, when Carol Hill Albert’s crew was vacating the premises forever by 7PM. A kind soul who had his first paid job at Astroland, named Ray Seargant, who is now with the Department of Sanitation, […]

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Tips, photos and information from readers are the lifeblood of GL, just like other blogs. So, send us your tips. We always love hearing from our readers when they see or hear something interesting of get an interesting photo of something going on in their neighborhood. We like to span Brooklyn so all neighborhoods are […]

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There is no way to end what has been a very tumultuous year for us except to thank our hundreds of thousands of dedicated readers, our supporters and, especially, all of our contributors. Some of those who send us superb material prefer to remain anonymous, and we respect their wishes. You all know who you […]

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Tips, photos and information from readers are the lifeblood of GL, just like other blogs. So, send us your tips. We always love hearing from our readers when they see or hear something interesting of get an interesting photo of something going on in their neighborhood. We like to span Brooklyn so all neighborhoods are […]

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Tips, photos and information from readers are the lifeblood of GL, just like other blogs. So, send us your tips. We always love hearing from our readers when they see or hear something interesting of get an interesting photo of something going on in their neighborhood. We like to span Brooklyn so all neighborhoods are […]

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Tips, photos and information from readers are the lifeblood of GL, just like other blogs. So, send us your tips. We always love hearing from our readers when they see or hear something interesting of get an interesting photo of something going on in their neighborhood. We like to span Brooklyn so all neighborhoods are […]

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We want to give special thanks to our contributors today, without whom there wouldn’t be much of a Gowanus Lounge today. We were occupied with some most unpleasant logistical issues most of last night and they stepped up to the plate and helped us fill in a lot of slots. Special thanks to E.C. Stephens, […]

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It’s always nice to say thank you, and today is as good a day as any to acknowledge our wonderful contributors. Huge thanks for your wonderful posts, assistance and moral support to: Dan Bennis, Miss Heather, E.C. Stephens, Max Casey, Marie Viljoen, Jean Kahler, Lauren Fairbanks, JP Pagán, F. Jasmin Adams, Vaduz Uvunt, Vanessa Raymond, […]

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Just so you know what’s coming today: there’s more political content than usual on GL today. Then, again, an historic Presidential election is almost upon us and, yesterday, the City Council rolled back the clock on democracy in New York City. Hence, politics in many different shapes and forms. The irony is we normally avoid […]

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We’ve long had faithful contributors like Miss Heather and F. Jasmin Adams, but we’d like to particularly thank some new ones whose names many of you have been seeing for the first time here on GL in recent days. We put out a call for help and they answered: E.C. Stevens (who’s provided so much […]

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Putting out a blog like Gowanus Lounge–and trying to do it right–requires an extraordinary commitment of time. To that end, we’re looking for contributors who’d be interested in posting about their neighborhoods, from Bay Ridge to Bed-Stuy and Sheesphead Bay to Sunset Park (and anyplace else in Brooklyn). If you’d like the join the GL […]

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GL is returning. Thanks from the bottom of my heart for the hundreds of emails and comments that I’ve gotten since I suspending posting last month. I had to hit the reset button on my plans for GL in the future. Your kind words and warm thoughts have touched my heart and reminded me of […]

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Thanks from the bottom of our hearts to the dozens of people that have emailed or left a comment since yesterday morning. GL is still suspended indefinitely. It is a personal decision that we’ve made. We hope to reverse it at some point, but we don’t know if that means 24 hours, three days, a […]

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Our apologies up front: GL will not be publishing today, having lost a very big supporter and source of inspiration and intellectual kinship, except for possibly posting some items submitted by our faithful contributors. We are very, very sorry. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for reading these last 2 1/2 years.

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We’re sorry to note that GL continues to suffer some technical difficulties via our cruddy webhost Lunarpages, which is the webhosting equivalent of the Ninth Circle of Hell. Yesterday, they took us down from 10:30AM until 5:30PM. Other days we’ve been taken down for 3-4 hours at a time. We apologize if you’ve come around […]

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We continue to have problems with our webhost, which continues to provide us with an astounding amount of down time, usually in the morning and usually for several hours. We were hit again yesterday starting around 9:30AM. We apologize if you’ve been tuning in to GL and finding nothing and hope that you come back […]

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We’ve been combating dual technical difficulties. Problem No. 1 is an intermittent internet connectivity issue. Life is more fun when you have an internet connection that cuts out every couple of minutes. Problem No. 2 are major downtime issues with our webhost, which has been knocking us off the air for up to six hours […]

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In case you missed our Friday-Saturday drama, GL was mightily screwed by our really bad webhost, Lunarpages, on Friday. Some readers may still, in fact, be being redirected and think we’re still down. If you see this on your RSS feed, but can’t see GL when you type in gowanuslounge.com, try clearing your cache. You […]

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You may have noticed that GL was down for about 18 hours on Friday into Saturday morning and that when we came back online some of our posts were missing, comments were gone and some photos had disappeared. This is because our (reprehensible, incompetent, and just-plain-crappy webhost, lunarpages) deleted our database before a switch to […]

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As many of you have noticed, GL has been down since about noon yesterday, and we’re currently showing posts only through Tuesday. (This will change as we rebuild things.) This is because our illustrious webshosting service, lunarpages, deleted our database as we were in the processing of transferring to another lunarpages server. We will be […]

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