Sunday, April 1, 2012

SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH: The Saloon Stigmata Edition

On Saturday night, The Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling celebrated (and skewered) Easter and Passover with SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH: The Saloon Stigmata Edition at the Double Down Saloon on Avenue A... Among those present for this sports satire: Our Lady of Perpetual PMS, Referee Mike SOS (SOS, Seizure Crypt), Shesus Christ, Challah Back Girl, The Angel of Death and The Gorgeous LADS of Bloodwrestling ...

Stacie Joy was there to capture the good times ... and fake blood...













CUT!


A film crew in Tompkins Square Park today didn't appreciate photographers standing around this public space...

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Earlier today on East Third Street


Perhaps part of the Easter egg hunt/pub crawl?

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Week in Grieview

[10th Street at Fourth Avenue]

New owners for Joe's Bar (Thursday)

316 E. Third St. has been demolished (Wednesday)

The Life Cafe trademark is for sale (Tuesday)

Former East Village resident releases new record (Monday)

Another message for the landlord at 35 Cooper Square (Tuesday)

A spring 2011-2012 now and then (Tuesday)

More about renting the Patricia Field boutique on the Bowery (Monday)

A new phone for the World Famous Pee Phone (Friday)

At the Coney Island USA Spring Gala at Webster Hall (Monday)

A Bleecker Bob's Update (Wednesday)

[Updated] Not an April Fool's gag: 'The Carrie Diaries' filming on the Bowery and Bond today

So... "Sex and the City" prequel "The Carrie Diaries" follows Carrie Bradshaw during her senior year of high school during the early 1980s and subsequent move to New York... And it will be a series on the CW... and today, crews are on the Bowery and Bond Street to film scenes for the show... [Updated: Crews are also on Astor Place and Lafayette]



...and the crew brought in some early 80s classics for the shoot...



And did Ian Schrager OK these clunkers to be parked so close to 40 Bond?


Updated 3:01 p.m.

Cars aren't the only retro parts of the shoot... here are extras on Lafayette that Organizing the Soup spotted...


At least we think they're extras.

Noted


Comedian Jim Gaffigan does the "My New York" feature in today's Post.

And here's his comment on Tompkins Square Park:

“Taking your kid to Tompkins Square Park is hysterical, because you’re trying to explain to your 5-year-old why the heroin addict is sleeping on the bench in such a precise manner. My son will be like, ‘Why is that guy sleeping?’ And I’ll be like, ‘He was tired.’”


Hysterical?

Saturday, March 31, 2012

'Imagine you're a deer...'


Tompkins Square Park.

Headline: C-

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Lake Mars



Second Avenue and First Street this morning.

Leftover from the water used yesterday for the bendy thing working at 11-17 Second Ave.?



Bottom photos by Bobby Williams.

Breaking: EV Grieve did not win the Mega Millions

Of course, we never even bought any tickets. Still, you never know. The winning tickets for the $640-million jackpot were from Maryland, Kansas and Illinois. (Just think: $640 million is roughly 3 percent of Mayor Bloomberg's $22 billion net worth!)

In any event, we did enjoy some of the homemade signs with updates during the Mega-Millions frenzy


And, here on Second Street and Avenue A, the Penistrator, or a clever imitator, did this last week...

[Via Matt LES_Miserable]

And, to telegraph it...


No Powerball jokes, please.

Does your son have what it takes to play Kristen Wiig's son?

[Click to enlarge]

As we noted yesterday, Ben Stiller's remake of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is filming around here next week. The movie co-stars Kristen Wiig. There are flyers up in Tompkins Square Parks seeking boys. (These signs always seem creepy.)

Per the sign, Wiig's character's son Rich "is good-natured, a native New Yorker and loves to skate."

"Must be able to skateboard. Tricks like Ollies and kickflips a plus."