 Vacation is revitalizing for the soul but not very good for promoting one's artistic endeavors. So, with only one day's notice, here is the lineup for tomorrow's excellent Pant-Hoot Comedy show at Lincoln Park Tavern:
Leo Allen (Jon Benjamin Has a Van, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central Presents)--->
Tony Camin (Comedy Central's Premium Blend, The Marijuanalogues)
Adrienne Iapalucci (Last Comic Standing, Montreal Comedy Festival)
Rob Paravonian (Comedy Central's Premium Blend)
Emily Epstein (The White House podcast)
Hosted by Charles Star (Bridgetown Comedy Festival)
Pant-Hoot Comedy
Thursday, August 11 at 9PM
Lincoln Park Tavern
49 Lincoln Road between Flatbush and Bedford
FREE
 The fifth month of Pant-Hoot Comedy at Lincoln Park Tavern is booked and ready to go and it is quite a show. Seriously. Loaded.
Reese Waters (Late Show with David Letterman; Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson; Comedy Central's Live at Gotham; Montreal Comedy Festival)------------------------------------------->
Jesse Popp (Comedy Central's Premium Blend, newly-hired writer for Conan)
Claudia Cogan (Last Comic Standing, Bridgetown Comedy Festival)
Craig Baldo (Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Premium Blend)
Dan Goodman (Author of ghettomyspace.net)
Hosted by Charles Star (Bridgetown Comedy Festival, host of Adult Education)
No joke. This is going to be a great show. I hope you can make it.
 Pant-Hoot Comedy
Thursday, July 14 at 9PM
Lincoln Park Tavern
49 Lincoln Road between Flatbush and Ocean
FREE!
 It took a while but Hawthorne is now a fully tree-lined street. Thanks to the Million Trees Project, at least 8 new trees (I haven't completed my census) were planted on Friday morning. I didn't do a survey of the types of trees we got but I do know that the two on the north side of the street just off of Flatbush (seen here) are willow oaks.
I am happy that we have trees. My son is happy that there is mulch to get dirty in. And he was even happier that he got to watch the Dragonetti Brothers' front-end loader (see below) scoop and drop dirt for a few minutes.
Note: Anyone who references a certain novel by Betty Smith in the comments will be permanently banned for predictability.
PLOG spotted a new sign on the Ocean on the Park condos in the Ocean on the Park historic district. I won't swipe their traffic by swiping their image so head over there to check it out.
PLOG says that the old sign was in violation because they didn't get a permit to hang it, which makes me wonder... how is their new "sign" legal?
 This coming Thursday marks the return of Pant-Hoot Comedy to Lincoln Park Tavern. If you missed the last show, you don't want to make the same mistake twice (right, commenters?).
Going forward, the show will always be on the second Thursday of the month so you can put it in your calendars in pen. I'll continue to remind you here, but you should consider that a backup plan and stick with writing in your own calendars.
Matt McCarthy (Comedy Central's Live at Gotham and John Oliver's New York; Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival)
Lisa Delarios (Comedy Central's Live at Gotham; HBO Aspen Comedy Festival)
Ritch Duncan (Author of The Werewolf's Guide to Life: A Manual for the Newly Bitten)
Gilad Foss (Gotham Comedy Club)
George Gordon (Bridgetown Comedy Festival)
Hosted by Charles Star (Bridgetown Comedy Festival, host of Adult Education)
Pant-Hoot Comedy
Lincoln Park Tavern
49 Lincoln Road
8:30 PM
Free!
 Exciting news on the Rogers Avenue front: after months of activity behind closed blinds (and I'm sure tons of work on the part of the owners) Bow Wow Pet Boutique is set to open on Sunday March 27th. A "meet and greet" open house is scheduled for Saturday (check for updates on their website or call Bow Wow at 718-484-1585 for details)
Our quick peek revealed a festive front room and bright clean space in back. Bow Wow will offer not only grooming for both dogs and cats, but also boarding, doggie day care, training, dog walking and even routine vet services (vaccines, etc). In my opinion looks to be a huge improvement over this location's previous tenant, Kay-D Mailbox.
Bow Wow is located at 521 Rogers Ave (gmap) between Rutland and Midwood.
 As I've mentioned from time to time, I'm a stand-up comic. Though parenthood has taken a major bite out of my performing schedule, I've decided that the best way to get more stage time is to get the stage closer to my house. Lincoln Park Tavern has agreed to help me with this, and this Wednesday will be the first Pant-Hoot Comedy Show, a free monthly stand-up showcase.
The lineup for the first show will be:
Ted Alexandro (2 half-hour Comedy Central specials, Letterman, Conan, Kimmel...)
Joe Mande (Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, VH1's Best Week Ever, author of Look At This Fucking Hipster)
Brooke Van Poppelen (TLC's American Chopper, upcoming Comedy Central sketch show Jon Benjamin Has a Van)
Liam McEneaney (Showtime's Caroline Rhea and Friends, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Tell Your Friends: The Concert Film, debuting this week at SXSW)
Hosted by Charles Star (Bridgetown Comedy Festival, host of Adult Education)
Pant-Hoot Comedy
Lincoln Park Tavern
49 Lincoln Road
8:30 PM
Free!
In the future, the show will be on the second Thursday of the month, so mark your calendars now.
 Over the weekend two significant signs changed, and both signalled the arrival of a new player in the local real estate scene: ABBA Realty Associates.
The first sign was on the face of Patio Gardens. The old, shabby, sign had been neatly removed and a new, spiffy logo was in its place, possibly telegraphing a new dedication to style and comfort at Patio Gardens? I don't know much about the buildings, as I've never been inside the gates, but I am told that the apartments themselves are large and full of light, though the hallways are kind of run down.
I've never really been able to find out much about Patio Gardens because whoever the prior rental manager was was awful about getting information on the web or, according to friends that were looking to move to the neighborhood, returning calls. ABBA is doing a better job with information, at least. If you are curious, a studio is going for $1100 per month, a 2BR is $1850 ... and the pictures are very nice. A quick peek at the website reveals that they also have listings at the Ebbets Field houses, which I know even less about, where a 1BR is $1100 per month.
 As I walked down Flatbush, I noticed that the former Mike's International space at Lincoln and Flatbush also had a new sign. This one was sloppily bolted on top of the old Besen Realty banner. As Besen is a leasing company, it appears that the owner of the building has decided to have someone new take a crack at filling the space. What hasn't changed? The asking price: still $10,000 per month.
We now return you to your regular, not-real-estate-obsessed and rarely updated blog.
 We just got a tip from the garbage man that the recycling truck will be around (again) today. If you have any reycling you've been storing, now would be a good time to put it out.
 Delroy "Fatty Boo" Wilson was a fixture outside of his shop, the Unique Mini Mart at 65a Fenimore Street. Whenever the weather would allow it, he was in front of his market cooking jerk chicken on a small oil drum grill. Sadly, Mr. Wilson passed away over the New Years' weekend. His viewing and funeral will be held later this week (details below).
PLG resident Carmen posted her memories of Mr. Wilson - "Mr. D" as she called him - at her blog Talking Out Loud, and I'll excerpt from her eulogy here:
When we first moved to the neighborhood, Mr. D was one of the very first people we met. He owns a bodega on my block which at the time had two other mom & pop shops on either side. As gentrification took hold on the neighborhood, the two stores on either side of his were brought out and new, hip businesses emerged. Mr. D stayed put, and continued to cook his tongue-tingling BBQ-jerk spicy chicken just like he'd done for almost twenty years. From the very beginning, we hit it off with him. Kai grew very fond of Mr. D and even though she was only nine months old, she thoroughly enjoyed his cooking, particularly the spicy chicken. In fact, there have been times where Kai wouldn't eat any meat unless it came from Mr. D's grill. No matter what the weather, Mr. D's store was always open six days out of the week. His grill, located right outside his store, was in service from Memorial Day until it got too cold to cook outside. Each day that we left our block, we had to pass by Mr. D's store. We always said hello and he would always stop what he was doing to chat with Kai. Last summer he even offered to let her grill some chicken, but she declined, wanting instead to watch him work his cooking magic.
 A viewing of Mr. Wilson will be held on Friday, January 14th from 5pm - 8pm at the Home for Funerals (169 Empire Boulevard, east of Bedford (gmap)). The service will begin on on Saturday, January 15th at 8:30am at the Pilgrim Father Church (1338-44 Broadway in Bushwick (gmap)).
(If someone could send us a photo of Mr. Wilson, we'd love to add it to the post.)
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