Was it just last year that Patti Smith performed an impromptu concert at the opening of the Brooklyn Museum’s Annie Lebowitz show?

Was that really just a year ago? Seems like ages ago.

Well OTBKB decided not to go to the opening (her loss big time). Luckily Brooklyn Beat was there and he wrote a nice piece about it. And then he started a blog called, Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn.

It was just a year ago that I attended a member’s opening at the
Brooklyn Museum and caught Patti Smith and band perform live. It was so
cool, bringing so much art and excitement together, that I had to do
something with it, which led me to write about the evening. I had
become familiar with Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn and on a whim, sent
the report there. Fortunately for me, Louise Crawford of Only the Blog
Knows Brooklyn. com immediately responded to my story and posted it. I
was hooked.

Blogging has the immediacy of electronic journalism but,
since it is essentially a literary, or at least largely word-based
medium, it demands some reflection. All of that works for me. I wrote a
number of posts for OTBKB, and had stuff picked up by other blogs as
well, which is a unique experience to see your stuff out there and
wonder how it got picked up. People have many reasons to blog. I see
that some folks bring a strong current of interest in neighborhoods and
commerce, with a particular focus on real estate and development issues
and the like. Others focus on aspects of their world, however minute,
and manage to impart meaning. Blogging seems like an open book, and the
bottom line is whatever works for you.