Today at Whole Foods, I bought a kind of beer I’d never heard of before – depicted above. At the time, I was puzzled about why I’d chosen this beer. After all, Whole Foods has an infinite variety of beer, much of foreign, organic and gluten free, and and yet, I was drawn to Brooklyn Beer.
When we got home, I stuck the bottles in our small fridge in the garage where we keep bottled water, extra butter and veggies, and forgot about it. This afternoon, my agent called to ask if I would be interested in a ghostwriting project, and spelled out the terms. Yes, it interested me, I told him, and he said he would have the woman’s agent call me later today or tomorrow some time.
The agent called this evening, spelled out the details, and the project sounds intriguing. I downloaded the author’s two earlier books and was captivated by her voice, that of a young woman growing up in a Mafia neighborhood in NY borough. After Rob and I got home from the gym this evening, where I’d started reading the woman’s book, I went out to the garage fridge and brought out two bottles of the beers we’d bought today.And that was when the connection hit me. I burst out laughing and hurried over to the kitchen table, where Rob was sitting.
“Synchro. Look at the name of this beer and NY borough where this woman’s book takes place: Brooklyn. It’s where she was born and raised.”
“Wow. Good one!”
Two Brooklyns. Not quite a cluster….but interesting nonetheless.
UPDATE:
Now it’s a cluster. Two years ago, Rob and I were approached by a company that develops apps. We were asked to write content for an astrology app. The project was cancelled by the Japanese owners, but we were paid our full fee.
About 24 hours after my conversation with the Brooklyn author, I received an email from the astrology app guy. He and his brother left the Japanese company more than a year ago and were now ready to move forward with an astrology app and were Rob and I available for it? And guess where he lives: Brooklyn.
For me, 3 constitutes a cluster.
I like this- “Brooklyn Brewery will donate one dollar from every case of Pennant sold to the funding of the statue of Brooklyn Dodgers greats Jackie Robinson and Pee-Wee Reese planned for the Cyclones ballpark in Coney Island.”
https://brooklynbrewery.com/brooklyn-beers/perennial-brews/brooklyn-pennant-ale
Jackie Robinson whore the number 42 and a major Hollywood film was released this year titled “42” starring Harrison Ford.
Also the SYNC Book guys earlier this year recorded this synchy pod-cast –
04.21.13 Episode Zero: Opening Day
In this issue:
Jackie Robinson Day Ka-Base-Ballah by Andras Jones
Alan Abbadessa-Green interviews Alex Robinson from TooLongInThisPlace.wordpress.com
Alex Robinson plays Radio8Ball
Jason Barrera on recent events as they sync to his work at TheMaskOfGod.blogspot.com
Jake Kotze (@seallion) reviews the movie “42”
Watch Jake’s new film: Syncjack
“April 19th” by Andras Jones on Bandcamp.com whore the number 42,which was made into a major Hollywood movie about
https://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-127978/TS-740012.mp3
The brewery’s factory isn’t far from us. Husband loves it. Not my fave but still want to go check it out.
I’d be curious!
You headed south for Christmas? Hope we see you both!
Lots of fun synchros today. But also – there’s no ads showing up on your site for me. This may pertain more to Gypsy’s network connection than yours.
Thanks for letting us know!
what a neat one w/brooklyn!
and congratulations on the projects!
oh, and just fyi – still again, when i opened your page here, another advertisement box popped up in the right bottom corner – this time it was “onetwowatch” the tontours on my space – then a walmart ad and then a commercial for cadillac – i finally found a corner to highlight an “x” to make it go away – wonder by whom and how that’s being done on your site –
Thanks for letting me know, Gypsy. I don’t know what the deal it with the ads. I need to figure this out. It doesn’t show up when I go to the site.
There are no ads when I visit your blog.
Thanks for the letting us know!
I don’t get any ads either when visiting your site.
Thanks for letting us know. I think Terri is probably right, that it comes with gypsy’s server.
That was a good one!
🙂
I see the Brooklyn beer is said to be ‘ Pre-Prohibition’ on the box. Does this tie in with the app? It was ‘forbidden’ but is now possible again.
Wow, I hadn’t thought of that, Mike. Maybe it does pertain to the app.