Brokelyn

Yes we can ... put crazy crap all over a shirt.

Hey, it’s politics Friday at Brokelyn! Beyonce, the honorary first lady of Brooklyn, has designed this shirt to raise money to help Barack Obama keep his job when he goes up against that guy who likes to fire people. The design is … interesting. It looks kind of like it was made by the kids who signed my shirt at 5th grade field day (“Good luck this summer! K.I.T. Barry!”) But, whatever, she’s had The Most Important Baby of Our Time to gestate! Would you ever wear this thing? What if it were a Beyonce designed sweater vest instead?

No one can find any plucking jobs these days [The Awl]
235,000 apartments you might sorta be able to afford [Curbed]
Ladies who will rip your arm off [FreeWilliamsburg]
Clean up after your horse [Gothamist]
Starbucks wuz robbed [Flavorpill]
Brooklynites yell at president [USA Today]
The idiot’s guide to Obamaployment [NY Mag]
Fred Flare is gone, but the warehouse sale lives on [Greenpointers]

Great Kills Park photo by Andy Cross.

Reason number 32,643 to love Barack Obama—one of his Recovery Act-funded jobs is a “community planner” for the Gateway National Recreation Area. That sounds like one of those plum gigs you can only get in, like, San Francisco. But through June 30, you can actually apply for a position paying up to $98,777 a year doing this (and presumably other things) for the National Park Service:

“Become a part of our mission to unite our past, our cultures and our special places, to establish important connections to the present and build a rich and lasting legacy for future generations… ” Read the rest of this entry »

From the Recovery Act jobs web site, which currently lists 127 stimulus-funded positions within NYC: Apply to become an “evidence technician” for the Drug Enforcement Agency, for up to $55,689 a year. The gig, which entails “administrative and technical duties associated with receiving, logging, storing, securing, and disposing of seized drug and non-drug evidence,” is accepting applications through Thursday. Interviewees are advised not to brag of of extensive prior knowledge of controlled substances.