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You can always pick up a copy of this newish quarterly mag at the hair salon / nail joint / bar / coffee shop, but today you can get a normally $9.99-a-year subscription for free and feel good about supporting a nascent local literary endeavor. You see, actual subscribers help magazines sell ads, which help you buy things, which makes you broker, which makes you love the always-free Brokelyn that much more. So you can see that we’re selfishly motivated here. Plus Brooklyn Magazine does very funny flow charts.
Here’s the link for a free subscription to Brooklyn Magazine.
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Sorry, I didn’t put a deadline on the contest. So how about Thursday (8/18) at noon? This is where you tell us your favorite Brooklyn book and maybe you win a copy of a new book about the Brooklyn literary scene. Read the original post to see what it’s all about.
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You’ve read everything by Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead (you call him “Cole”) and the Jonathans, and you’re even Facebook friends with Jonathan Ames. If you secretly believe you’re the +1 in n +1, we’ve got the next read for your McCarren Park beach towel. Literary Brooklyn is Evan Hughes’ new chronicle of the borough’s bookish icons, from rapscallions like Walt Whitman (the borough’s “first literary hipster”) and Henry Miller to Jhumpa Lahiri and her contemporaries. Unlike dutiful history books that guilt you from the shelf, this one really zips along. And we have three copies to give away to randomly chosen commenters on this post. 
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Enter WorkExchangeTeam. They arrange volunteers for a bunch of festivals — like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Dave Matthews’ Band Caravan on Governers Island later this month. You fill out the application and commit to 15-18 hours’ work. They give you a ticket and free camping. Oh, and a T-shirt (beats an old Applebee’s work shirt).
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Photos by Faye Penn
“This is so much more fun than selling DVDs on Amazon,” said Josh Mueller, movie buff, Brokelyn reader and blissful attendee of Brokelyn’s NOTflix DVD Swap last night. As Mueller (proud new owner of The Notebook, Nashville and Hellboy) can attest, last night’s flickfest was an orgy of movie love and a feast of “swapcorn.” So much fun, we’re going to do it again; join our Facebook group so you’ll never have to go without your own copy of Nacho Libre. Here’s what you missed last night at Mission Dolores, quite possibly the perfect summer bar:
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Sunset Park/ Greenwood Heights
It’s now dead-hot beautiful summer and the only ones thinking about the cruel fall are those teacher types embracing their few months of sanity. If you’re a new graduate preparing for your first year in front of the classroom this September, one outgoing Sunset Park teacher may make your life a little easier. The class act is giving away a whole starting teacher kit for grades 2-5 including things like pocket charts, stickers, incentive charts, calculators, math books and “LOTS” of children’s books. You have to take the whole large suitcase of stuff at once. Betcha that teacher will be happy to see them go.
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Give blood. If not for the needy, at least for your own apartment decorating.
At one lowpoint or another, you’ve surely considered giving of yourself in truly personal ways: selling your eggs, trafficking your sperm, being a guinea pig, putting your dirty crotchwear up for sale, or, if you’re like some of our more enterprising female friends, participating in the seemingly always-casting foot fetish parties in the city.
Let us instead make a pitch for something slightly more socially rewarding than letting your sperm set up franchises all across the country: did you know that every donation you make with the NY Blood Center earns you points for prizes from their Amazon-like selection of electronics, gift cards, sporting equipment, DVDs and more? Since you could be donating almost nine PBRs worth of blood throughout the year, you could earn something as swank as an air-hockey table, a guitar or a even a rack of lamb in just a few months? And you get a free STD test out of it too. It’s true!
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Free Beach sand!
If you’re still a few rupees short of the zip car rental you need to make it out to the beach this summer, have you considered bringing the beach to you? A Brooklyn artist is giving away 8 yards of beach sand for free on Craigslist today, and they’re even willing to deliver locally in Brooklyn. The sand was used in a gallery installation but needs to get out today, so don’t dawdle. All you need is a kiddie pool full of murky salt water and a hairy guy in a speedo to complete your own Jersey beach experience! As always with Craigslist, like going to Jersey, proceed with caution.
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Theater costumes and more for free
If you have a big DIY projects in the works — and we mean anything, from crafting to opening a bar to building a fire escape puppet theater — we’ve got a sweet tip for you. While it’s sad to hear the Manhattan Children’s Theatre is losing the lease on its TriBeCa space in two weeks, they’re turning it into a positive for brokesters by giving away a ton of stuff, including lumber, paint, props, costumes, chairs and tables, plus plenty of household items: toilet paper, soap, cleaning supplies, suitcases full of “regular people clothes” and even the cool seating units. “Honestly, if I owned a dive bar I’d be all over those things,” managing director Chris Alonzo says. ”A perfect substitute for the played out ‘backseat of a car’ bench seating thing.” And they’re setting up a special open house for Brokelyn readers on Sunday.
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Hey kids, it’s tax day. And technically, Monday is tax day, too. We hope you’ve already tackled the challenge: Maybe you used a guy, maybe you used your brain, so long as you’re not sitting in front of your computer right now cursing at Turbotax’s back button. The upside of this time of year is that a lot of companies feel your pain, and they would like to give you free stuff over the next week. Want to wake up with some coffee? Get it for free! Maybe your financial-paper-carrying tote bag busted? You can get one for free, too! A comprehensive list of tax time 2011 freebies, below.
You can always pick up a copy of this newish quarterly mag at the hair salon / nail joint / bar / coffee shop, but today you can get a normally $9.99-a-year subscription for free and feel good about supporting a nascent local literary endeavor. You see, actual subscribers help magazines sell ads, which help you buy things, which makes you broker, which makes you love the always-free Brokelyn that much more. So you can see that we’re selfishly motivated here. Plus Brooklyn Magazine does very funny flow charts.
