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While I was doing the dishes, listening to podcasts, I had to stop and turn off the water as I heard a chilling poem being read. It was reco...

This piece of found detritus has all sorts of weird wonderfulness to enjoy. First of all, the great philosophical question: "Celebrate ...

Check out this article in Sunday's New York Times , listing some of the new and interesting "buzzwords" from the past year. O...

Click here for a Hawaiian holiday greeting card, referred to me by my Mom, who was sent the link by a friend of hers who works for the Comp...

Q Train (Brooklyn-bound): Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen The Onion . Headline: " 2007: What the Hell Happened? " A 2008 Calen...

Happy Holidays to all! To warm your heart this holiday season, and to see why blogging can be so fulfilling, refresh your memory with this p...

Shayna's indoor soccer season got under way on Sunday and the Gold Team played the Green to a 3-3 tie. Shayna, the only girl on her team...

First, I've always been skeeved out by people who clip their finger nails on the train. Maybe 2 or 3 times a year, it happens. And I am ...

Eight six seven five three oh ni-ine. That's on the BilliPod shuffle this morning. On the 6:19 R out of 95th Street . This Sunday broug...

After a month or two hiatus (yes, I periodically checked), the Loneliest Lamp Post in Bay Ridge decided to once again begin expressing itsel...

New York Sports Club is opening a location on 86th Street in our neighborhood. Last month, union members were picketing the site, as the N...

At 10:58 EST on December 7, 2007, BillyBlog registered its 35,000th hit. The visit cam from the United Technologies Research Center in Hartf...

So, since I've been "back" from my November hiatus, I've been taking it relatively easy. I've decided that I will do a...

A new store opened up on 86th Street in Bay Ridge last month, replacing our beloved Tasti-D-Lite . Great! Just what we needed!! Another perf...

A little past and present..... first the present, from yesterday's Today Show And then the original from A Taste of Honey:

I saw this on the New York Times Papercuts blog. Dwight Garner, the blog author, saw it somewhere else. And so it goes.

Well , it's officially December....we had our first snow this morning in Brooklyn. Happy Twelfth Month! Photo by Jolee Cohen.

In the month of November, I posted three times at BillyBlog. Three times. There had been days in the past when I posted thrice in a single ...

Happy Thanksgiving from BillyBlog, live from the bike on the 68th Street Pier in Bay Ridge. May your Thanksgiving weather be as lovely as th...