CoCo caps

His show hasn't been filmed in New York for well over a year now, but Conan O'Brien will long be my favorite New York comedy talk-show host. I mean, really: think about all that pasty white skin. Does he look like he belongs in California?
Nevertheless, Conan's staff, Team CoCo, has been busy prepping his brand-new cable show, shot in the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. To promote the show, they set up a 24-hour live feed of the Team CoCo offices on Wednesday, complete with staged performances and cameo appearances by Conan himself and perennial sidekick Andy Richter. I watched a good six or seven hours of the total 24. If they were any indication, the show is going to be just as madcap and hilarious as any of Conan's previous shows, which is a very good thing. Here are my favorite screencaps:

La Bamba makes anything funny, even a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle.

What's better than a puppet show? Lots of things. But one of those things is a puppet show and Andy Richter.

By far my favorite part of the whole thing: a live mariachi band. And they played "Cielito Lindo"!

A dude eating animal crackers. Much like the rest of Conan's material, it's funny for an undefinable reason.

The dancing taco. That taco costume is phenomenal.

Conan makes an appearance. It is fairly common knowledge that his head really is that big in real life.

For the final hour, they brought out everyone.

Signs of Brooklyn

Self-explanatory (and boldly brand-less) sign for One Girl Cookies, on Dean Street at Smith Street.

Brooklyn By The Numbers

Noisier is Better

I wrote about how small my previous apartment was on my old blog. Thankfully, the new apartment in Brooklyn is twice as big — although if you've read about my old place, you'll deduce, as I have, that twice as big as "a shoe box" is just two shoe boxes.

So, yes, I still live in a small apartment. This means that my desk is in the same room as the TV, which can make things difficult when I'm trying to write a blog entry and my wife wants to watch Law & Order: SVU. The solution? I don a pair of headphones and turn to Simply Noise, the "best free white noise generator on the Internet." If you're looking for a white noise generator (and, really, who isn't?), I highly recommend it. Personally, I use the Brown Noise setting, which covers up background noise better and is waaay more masculine than the Pink Noise setting.

Postscript: Young parents out there may ask if I've tried using Simply Noise to help put the baby to sleep. The answer is yes, but not since she was three months old. And even then, we only tried it once or twice — it was much more convenient to use the Sleep Sheep. Consider that a recommendation.

Nets' Worth

When I lived in New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets were pretty great. They even went to the NBA Finals two years in a row (and lost both times, but still). And yet, I never attended a single home game. I still haven't, even though I'm only a Nets fan by default, having lived in the Garden State longer than in any other. The Nets suck now, but they're still my team.

But here's the thing: the Nets are moving to Brooklyn in 2013! In fact, the new Brooklyn Nets will play just down the street from my new apartment, at what is to be called the Barclays Center*.

An artist's rendering of the future home of the Brooklyn Nets. The future looks very... brown.

Which, for me, begs the question: how much are season tickets?

Because what would be greater than having season tickets to a pro sports team whose arena is virtually in your backyard? I know, it's the Nets. It's not the Yankees, or the Mets, or the Knicks. But perhaps that will mean less-expensive season tickets. So I went online, looked up current season ticket prices, and figured out that if I didn't buy any new clothes or toys for my only daughter in 2013, I might be able to afford to watch Brook Lopez and Jordan Farmar and Derrick Favors from section 20.

Also, my wife might possibly disown me.

*Really? A British bank has naming rights to a cathedral of probably the least-British professional sport?

Antic roadshow

Gothamist has some brief coverage on yesterday's Atlantic Antic, including photos of a behatted dog that I did not see! Plus, video of go-go dancers that I also did not see! Check out what I did see in my previous post.

Antics on Atlantic

Here are photos from this year's Atlantic Antic, a massive street fair on Atlantic Avenue (which happens to be the street I live on).

Did I mention the word "massive?"

Look at the drawings on the right: martini glass, cow, and... what it that? Looks like a man in a chicken suit to me.

Being sold to white people by black people.

Believe the hype.

Yes they were!

Old guys with guitars. Plus, girl drummer!

Imagine a flamenco guitarist, singing in Spanish, wearing a Ramones t-shirt and crazy shades. Or just look at the photo.

Candy apples are messy.

View from the roof of my building.