Tweets of the week: Lena Dunham’s ‘Real Housewives’ pitch, plus Dyker Heights on ‘shrooms!
Also, James Cameron gets a little too revealing about the Spider-Man movie he never got to, uh, shoot on the Brooklyn Bridge
Every week we here at Brooklyn Magazine read the entire internet in order to curate (some of) our favorite tweets from the previous seven days. These are locally sourced, hand-crafted, organically grown, free range nuggets of wisdom and jest.
This week the annual over-the-top Dyker Heights Christmas light display is back, and we learn there are wholesome ways to enjoy them—and less-than-wholesome ways.
Also, we meet Bushwick’s “final boss,” learn the rules of the road in Bay Ridge, pick up a little local Christmas music trivia and witness some very Cobble Hill graffiti. Best of all? VIP tweeter Lena Dunham serves up a brilliant pitch for a Brooklyn-based reality show. And James Cameron reveals the … sticky … Brooklyn Bridge sex scene he never got to film. For which we are grateful.
If you see something, tweet something. Be sure to alert us to any Brooklyn-based tweets and we might include them in next week’s roundup. We also might not. Have a great weekend! (Here are 14 things to check out in Brooklyn this weekend.)
Just a pitch- Real Housewives of Cobble Hill. I want that co-op grocery store, Montessori preschool, clogs with wide legged linen pants DRAMA @BravoTV
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) December 3, 2021
started snowing while i was lookin at christmas lights in dyker heights my life turning into a hallmark christmas movie pic.twitter.com/RaPApwFo4L
— anime nicole smith (for legal purposes only) (@Basedclaud) December 9, 2021
who in nyc tryna eat shrewms & go look at christmas lights in dyker heights
— jingle nells🎄🔜 elrow NYC (@nnnellz_) December 8, 2021
When the Kosciuszko bridge lights up that one patch of sky rainbow on a cloudy night…………that’s the Bushwick Aurora Borealis
— judy narins (@cutestsmallest) December 9, 2021
the final boss in the simulation called “bushwick” pic.twitter.com/tOUwdQOf9V
— fate/they night (@islandthyal) December 8, 2021
bushwick is so wild because you meet someone smelly and then find out they’re a microinfluencer with a cult following
— choya (@mayonsounds) December 8, 2021
I hear a protest in the distance in Park Slope and they sound like they’re chanting “Let’s Go Brandon” but that can not be right.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) December 7, 2021
Powerfully intimate silence driving from park slope to bay ridge in passenger seat of a tow truck the air is thick with things unsaid
— Rachel Kahn (@RachelKahn9) December 6, 2021
Cobble Hill graffiti pic.twitter.com/IodGB46Mzb
— Colin Lecher (@colinlecher) December 8, 2021
In Bay Ridge, all traffic controls are suggestions, except bike lanes, which legally are free parking spaces.
— Jessie Singer (@jessiesingernyc) December 8, 2021
that’s what you think but my bay ridge tweets keep blowin em away pic.twitter.com/8bvnsmTOTX
— ember loves bay ridge (@embernic) December 8, 2021
wore compression shorts on my run today and got roasted for having a small dick by some dude in a naruto hoodie in bay ridge
— come for the egg stay for the nog (@_rippy_bits) December 3, 2021
does he make you feel held? does he web you to the brooklyn bridge? https://t.co/m1qRenYckv
— syd (@sydbricks) December 9, 2021
Composer Leroy Anderson finished his timeless classic ‘Sleigh Ride’ in February, 1948, not in snowy New England but at a Brooklyn apartment at 19 Parade Place, across from Prospect Park pic.twitter.com/sd5sZo3oQH
— Thomas J. Campanella (@builtbrooklyn) December 6, 2021
Last but certainly not least, is this quite possibly the very most Brooklyn tweet of all time of the week?
The kratom bar in Greenpoint now has a members only Crypto Night
— al bedazzle (@_YOUNGBABY_) December 6, 2021
