I’m in Brooklyn NYC for a couple of nights, leads on somethin cool for a pair of dolls to check out on a weeknight? games/loud music/queer shit/good fooddrink etc.
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go to winnie’s bar in chinatown
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As a NYer of 8 years now, these are my recommendations:
Museums - Transit museum (Brooklyn), Tenement museum (Manhattan), and Brooklyn Museum; MoMA and/or MoMA PS1 if you’ve got the time, but the first three are the most interesting imo. Natural History Museum is if you’ve done everything else
Parks - Washington Square (good connection to Greenwich village), Central (super touristy, I’m more partial to Corona Park, which you’d be at to see the Mets stadium anyways, see the 64 world fairgrounds), Fort Greene (historical, close to Center for Fiction/nice book store), Domino Park (to see the spectacle that is Williamsburg bourgeoise decadence), Sunset Park (beautiful view of lower Manhattan without going to Brooklyn Heights, also near Brooklyn’s Chinatown on 7/8th Aves)
Food - too hard to condense without knowing taste, but since I’ve lived in Queens that’s what I know best (Astoria for Greek/Balkan/Egyptian, Woodside for Filipino, Jackson Heights for Bangla/Nepalese/Tibetan, Flushing for Queens Chinatown, but also LIC nowadays). For Brooklyn I’d check out Greenpoint (specifically Pierozek, WenWen, Kinoko, Falu House) to see the new rich playground. Use Hellgate’s 20 dollar dinner section for ideas if you need, they’re usually spot on. Bushwick has a lot of good thai places (mao mao is really cool, klom klorm too; vietnamese go for Lucy’s or Money cat or Nha Minh - technically ridgewood, Win Son bakery for Taiwanese). Manhattan there’s Chinatown, but I’m partial to Spicy Moon (vegan szechuan) or raku (for udon, Ivan Ramen if you’d prefer ramen)
Videogames - Wonderville is the best free barcade I’ve ever been to (games are free, just have to buy drinks) and a natural IC meeting place. Check out Videogamesny just to see it if you like, prices are high so not really worth buying anything, but you’ll be near St Marks place which has some good food
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All Night Skate is a great queer bar, for music there’s a ton of venues (TV eye, Trans Pecos, elsewhere, Purgatory, The Broadway, Brooklyn Steel, Market Hotel, etc.)
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On my way to Cleveland OH. And then Virginia tomorrow
I am home. I saw over a thousand dolls. Many very rare. Some alpacas in a front yard and what looked like a teletubby smashed into a semi truck grill (put there purposely) on the drive home. Also some cool mountains a tunnel and what looked like an oil refinery which always frightens and amazes me and maybe an old coal mining operation 5 states before that.
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I’m fleeing the snow and headed to Melbourne!
I’m going mainly to see the Australian Open but I would love recommendations for places to eat and for other things to do while I’m there
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Have you considered putting a shrimp on the barbie?
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What sort of stuff, and how long are you in town?
You can’t go wrong wandering the top end of Little Bourke St (between Swanston and Spring), which is Melbourne’s “China Town”. Also all the laneways coming off from there.
If you want to go for a nice walk, a lap around the Botanical Gardens is always nice.
We’re huge coffee snobs here, so wander the laneways and stop at pretty much any non-franchises cafe and it is likely to be good.
Check out the NGV (National Gallery of Victoria)! Actually, I am not sure what’s on right now, oops.
If you want bar recommendations, my favourite bar in Melbourne is Hats & Tatts – but I’m biased because I’m friends with the owner and staff heh. They have one of the best whisky shelves (scotch / japanese / bourbon / rye) in town, if that’s your thing. Deliberately made to look like a dive bar to drive away pretentious people that try to show off by bringing Work People to a whisky bar to show off what they know.
Caretaker’s Cottage is good for a cocktail. It’s a bit out of the CBD but Carwyn Cellars is good for craft beers.
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We don’t even say shrimp in Australia!
As for Melbourne it’s been a long since I drank in Melbourne but Curtin House used to be a staple, particularly Cookie and Rooftop Bar https://curtinhouse.com/
To backup Rejj you can’t really go wrong with the NGV. Even if there isn’t a particular exhibit on they have a pretty decent catalogue of Renaissance art and you can see that stuff for free.
And yeah please don’t come here and drink Starbucks.
should probably cross-post this on the Confession thread but I’ve never had a cup of coffee 
No, it’s not for that reason (religion) or that other reason (sobriety). Just don’t like the taste of coffee-flavored things 
. Oh and at this point I would never drink a cup of coffee because I don’t want to ruin my perfect ice breaker/fun fact/two truths and a lie 
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I’m going to Denver
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Im going home!
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I’m seeing a lot of Portland on the forum. My partner and I will be there in August. Any recs?
We’ve been before and loved Powell’s City of Books, Fried Egg I’m In love, a Japanese import stationery store I don’t remember the name of, and an ice cream place she was dying to try. I think it’s famous?
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The ice cream is probably salt n’ straw or something?
It’s been a few years but i liked it!
There also the lesser known(maybe?) Lan Su Chinese Garden.
Very cute!
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Japanese garden is a must see if you haven’t been there before. Floating world comics, too.
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Awesome, I’ll tuck these away for when the time comes. Thanks folks. I might ask again when it’s closer to the date.
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We have salt n straw in Venice. It’s good but gentrification af in my opinion. It’s like for when Ben n Jerry’s or cold stone isnt bougie enough for you. This is just my bias as someone who witnessed my community become gentrified by said storefronts.
anyways I’m ready to stop waiting and start living my PNW dreams to the fullest. I have friends in portland that aren’t from the gaming scene at all, but from freak bike/tallbike / crank mob type stuff from back in the day / high school friends who work at bicycle repair shops n stuff. gonna be wild if I can build a better van to camp out there more. I want to explore seattle, tacoma, vancouver olympia, more of norcal, southwest oregon, etc too. When it comes to the country I’m really good at exploring. It’s the city that overwhelms me usually. Since I’ll be in LA less though, I’ll probably be more in the mood for city shenanigans again.
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I’ll be in NOLA for Mardi Gras 2/15 - 3/1. Our housing situation may be sketch (TBD), but very affordable.
This was after we made a reservation for a private Selina Hostel room in August because it was cheap. Then they went out of business in October and issued a refund but failed to inform us! So pre-christmas we just happened to check out our reservation before we looked into flights and were very confused at what we were looking at. But it’s all good now, and I’m hype as hell for Mardi Gras. Best time of the year