New Brooklyn Literary Journal

The website says "The Brooklyn Literary Review is an online journal featuring new and established writers in Brooklyn. We prefer short and comical stories, often dirty, that can be read on your lunch break."

The journal doesn't list a staff and it's on a blogspot website, but the odd thing is that the story is actually funny and short enough to read online. I guess you just need good taste these days to make an online journal worth reading. I wonder what these people and these people think of it. It may not be the most important journal of our time, but it got a laugh out of me and the price is right.

Ultimate vs. Chicory

Ultimate Burgers and Dogs (243 Degraw St.) is now open in the space that Chicory used to inhabit. The tiny space has big shoes to fill from Chicory's much coveted fried chicken and meatloaf melts. Ultimate is more of a snack place though than a gourmet take-out place. Priced for the Great Recession, everything's under $8, only you'll need 2 dogs to make a meal, so you end up spending at least $10 anyway. The Chicago Dog with pickles, diced onions, tomato, peppers and relish ($4.50) is a surprisingly nice twist on the familiar, but the cost is all for the toppings. The Italian sausage with onions, peppers and spicy mustard is more filling, but at $5.75 is approaching Shea Stadium prices.

All burgers and dogs are served with slaw and chips, which can be substituted for tater tots for $1. The tater tot portions could be bulked up, but can anyone ever get enough tater tots? The burgers are junior sized ($5.25), although big eaters will want to double them for $2 more.

Ultimate will be serving breakfast, much-needed for the area, beginning in a few weeks, and are just serving lunch and dinner till they get the kinks out. So far, it's not quite on par with Chicory, but surpasses the declining Cobble Grill.

Now You Can Get a Flu Vaccination and a Sensible Blouse in One Trip

A doctor made 120k selling clothes on ebay during her spare time. Bravo for her and her workoholic genes, but one wonders about the impact on cashiers at local clothing stores who were laid off due to declining revenue and will not have health insurance this winter when H1N1 strikes.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/10/07/mainstreet.ebay.doctor/index.html