OTBKB apologizes for the tardiness of today's Greetings from Scott Turner. As you know, Scott is a writer/designer and Rocky Sullivan's pub quiz maven extraordinaire. This post is sponsored MissWit Tees. Owner Deb Goldstein, is as Brooklyn firecracker as they come — in terms of sass and community. She sells online (www.misswit.net) and at all … Continue reading Greetings from Scott Turner: Stupid Was Only Part of It
Once again we are thrilled to have this missive from Rocky Sullivan quiz master, Scott Turner. And this week he even sends us a picture of himself. Nice to put a face to a name, eh? Greetings, Pub Quiz Alamo Memory Merchants… Brooklyn is Brooklyn. It's unlike anywhere else. To be unlike anywhere else, a … Continue reading Greetings From Scott Turner: Brooklyn is Brooklyn. It’s unlike anywhere else.
Greetings, Pub Quiz Adopt-A-Quiz Advocates There's a lot of heavy stuff in the world. I talk with you about it sometimes. There's a lot of local political stuff in this city. I talk with you about it sometimes. There's oddball, eccentric, wonderful, confounding stuff coursing through all of lives. I talk with you about it … Continue reading Greetings From Scott Turner: Bo is Me
Scott Turner, the writer, graphic designer and OTBKB contributor, who organizes the pub quiz at Rocky Sullivan's in Red Hook has really outdone himself this time.A list of his favorite music complete with album covers. Cool Greetings Pub Quiz Right And Wrong Reconfigurers… It's springtime, a really fine time of the year. The thermies and … Continue reading Greetings From Scott Turner: Hope-Springs-Eternal-Hype
The latest lavishly illustrated missive from writer/graphic designer Scott Turner, who runs Rocky Sullivan's pub quiz on Thursday nights. There's so much going on in the world these days. So much that even the kind of perfunctory three-item descriptive you'd normally find in the previous sentence ("wars, recession, Britney Spears shagging her backup dancer") can … Continue reading Greetings From Scott Turner: The Voice of the Brevity-Enhanced People
Lucky we to once again have the talents of writer/designer/pub quizzer Scott Turner on this page. Greetings, Pub Quiz Bonus Returners… A few things this week I just can't figure out: AIG got $170 or 180 billion in federal bailout money. The controversial bonuses were $165 million — less than one percent. Rather than all … Continue reading Greetings from Scott Turner: Solidly Rhetorical
Once again a wild and crazy missive from our friend writer/designer Scott Turner who runs the pub quiz at Rocky Sullivan's every Thursday night (there's one tonight!). Greetings, Pub Quiz Superlucky Charmers… Happy day after St. Patrick's Day. This e-mail is late — could be the week's worth of St. Pat's revelry. It might be … Continue reading Greetings from Scott Turner: What a Frakkin’ Show!
Once again, we are blessed with Scott Turner's always stimulating missive. A graphic designer and writer, Scott runs the Pub Quiz at Rocky Sullivan's in Red Hook. Greetings Falls Road Ramblers and Bogside Brigands… It's the Green Season, for better and worse. This is the better: And this is the worse: There's pride, history, culture, … Continue reading Greetings from Scott Turner: Bonfire of Vile Machinations
Once again, Scott Tuner, a graphic desinger and writer, who runs the Pub Quiz at Rocky Sullivan's honors us with one of his magical missives. Greetings, Pub Quiz Snowdrift Searchers… The two most magic works in children's ears rang through New York City yesterday. No, not "Pub Quiz!" It was "SNOW DAY!" A simple two-word … Continue reading Greetings From Scott Turner: Two Magic Words
Once again we are graced with the wit and wisdom of Scott Turner of Rocky Sullivan's in Red Hook. Greetings, Pub Quiz Eloquence Peddlers… We live in a vibrant, exciting, pulse-increasing, edge-of-oblivion era. War, recession, globalization, an actual apology from Rupert Murdoch. Astonishing things cross our field-of-vision so fast we've had to make full use … Continue reading Greetings From Scott Turner: A Vibrant, Exciting, Pulse-Increasing, Edge-of-Oblivion Era.
Two in one week from Scott Turner of Red Hook's Rocky's Sullivan's. This week I feel like OTBKB has a cool sports reporter: A-Rod yesterday, Shea today. Love it. Greetings Pub Quiz Movie Snack Concealers… Today went out to Shea Stadium to see her last remaining structure come down — the ramps leading up to … Continue reading Greetings From Scott Turner: Shea Stadium Demolition
As always we are are pleased to present the latest virtuosic email from Scott Turner of Red Hook's Rocky Sullivans. And don't forget the pub quiz is every Thursday night! Greetings Pub Quiz Cinematistas… How perfect is Alex Rodriguez for Mike Bloomberg's New York City? Today's press conference at the New York Yankees' spring training … Continue reading Greetings from Scott Turner: A-Rod Edition
Always great to hear from Scott Turner of Rocky Sullivan's in Red Hook Greetings, Pub Quiz Moment in Historians… Big, big day. The anticipation is rife. A new era is beginning. Hope springs eternal. A moment in history. An assemblage of the masses. People jostling for a good spot up front. A clarion bell in … Continue reading Greetings from Scott Turner: Inaugural Edition
Brooklyn is losing a great one. And so is OTBKB. Scott Turner, the writer/designer/thinker behind the weekly Greetings from Scott Turner post, is moving to Seattle. The fight against the Atlantic Yards is losing one of its most passionate activists and Rocky Sullivan’s is losing its talented pub quiz host. And OTBKB… …OTBKB is saddened … Continue reading Scott Turner is Moving to Seattle
Louise Crawford (OTBKB Founder and Publisher) started a new company in March 2012 called Brooklyn Social Media providing PR and social media to authors and entrepreneurs. She was born in the French Hospital in NYC and grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where she attended Walden High School. After college at SUNY-Binghamton now called Binghamton … Continue reading Contributors
Those are the new categories of OTBKB. Every post will fit into one of these categories. This should make it easier for you to search for content on my blog and find something that interests you. This won’t change your daily or weekly OTBKB reading habits. It’s just where these posts will be archived. Civics … Continue reading What Are Those Tabs Below The Masthead?
Here it is: The 2009 Park Slope 100 (which also has its own mini blog here). This is the fourth annual list of 100 people, places and things that make Park Slope Park Slope. 100 Stories, 100 ways of looking at the world. There are no repeats from the last three years so if … Continue reading The 2009 Park Slope 100
Scott Turner, whose weekly Greetings From Scott Turner missives are a favorite on OTBKB, is playing a solo show, under the banner of RebelMart, at Freddy's (corner of Dean Street and 6th Avenue) this Friday at 9 p.m. The music is one-person/one-guitar punk folk reggae Irish songs about the surety of love and the lack-of-surety … Continue reading This Friday: Don’t Miss Scott Turner at Freddy’s
In celebration of our 5th anniversary OTBKB is having a makeover. The full spa treatment: A new look A new logo Improved functionality Great new advertising capabilities New writers New contentAnd lots of the same old great stuff like No Words Daily Pix, Postcard from the Slope, Smartmom, Breakfast-of-Candidates, OTBKB Music by Eliot Wagner, Tom … Continue reading OTBKB is Having a Makeover
Here are the latest greetings from Scott Turner of Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook!! Greetings Pub Quiz Midnight Revelers… One of the wonderful and maddening things in this world are the parallel happenings that re-define irony. Sometimes, we giggle. Others, we turn away in horror. Occasionally, it’s both. Diane, the dogs and I were returning … Continue reading Greetings from Scott at Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook