Month: June 2010
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UPDATE: Continuing Coverage Of The Hood In Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Welcome to SomethingBurning’s continuing coverage of something burnt. Basing his analysis on his”Mugging Map” of my neighborhood, Hollywood executive Courtney Holt first identified Prospect Heights, Brooklyn as “the hood” in 2008. Evidence that Prospect Heights is a “hood” surfaced this Monday night, when thugs busted into a Denali, stripped it, then set it ablaze on…
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UPDATE: Courtney Holt Was Right, Prospect Heights Is Officially A Hood
Thanks to SomethingBurning reader Aaron Seigler, who just sent us a photo of the car that blew up on our street last night, further proof that Courtney Holt was right, I live in the hood:
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Prospect Heights, Brooklyn: Street Cred & The Car Fire To Prove It
Recently, Fucked In Park Slope published this beautiful photo that was taken a few years ago by someone who looked out their window in Park Slope and saw flames. When they looked closer, they saw it was an Access-A-Ride, on fire. Crazy thing is that my wife just called to tell me that last night,…
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Warren The Ape, The Hard Times Of RJ Berger: MTV’s New Scripted Shows Launching This Week
From The Wall Street Journal… MTV is betting tens of millions of dollars on a cache of new scripted comedies and dramas, as it looks to sustain a recent uptick in its audience after two years of quarterly declines. This week, the Viacom Inc. network is unveiling the first products of that pipeline. High-school comedy…
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Wish Our Tenant, Jordan Mallah, Happy Birthday!
Meet Jordan. He lives downstairs…
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Why Is This Guy From Utah Such A Dick?
(Hint: Because he’s psyched to be on a real firing squad.)
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Guillaume Nery Base Jumping At Dean’s Blue Hole, Filmed In One Breath By Julie Gautier
Thanks to Christine Warner for sending me this today…
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The Adult Swim B2B Ad From Cynopsis, This Morning
And I quote from Cynthia Turner‘s email newsletter this morning: ____________________________________________________________________ “adult swim – Coming Soon to 9pm eastern (the best time zone) Starting January 2011, the ratings-crushing, late-night comedy network, will begin late night an hour earlier. Laughter will occur. Tears will flow. And money will be made. Lots and lots and lots of…
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Jordana Munk Martin Rocks The Mic
Major props to Jordana, who had the crowd at Steve Schutzman’s wedding eating out of her hand, Friday night, while I was her powerpoint DJ in the background…
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Beckham, Snoop Dogg & Adidas Star Wars Originals: A Reminder Today Of Why I’m Glad The Gang & I Got Into All This Brand Stuff