BEFORE

Post-poo flinging season finale money shot

AFTER

Lobo, the current occupant

Last night I ate a yummy Mexican meal at Lobo after winning a t-shirt in the Velvetpark Magazine issue 10 launch party raffle at Cattyshack. Aside from all the warm-fuzzy lezzie memories of the space formerly occupied by The Rising Cafe, it felt odd to chow down in the stand-in for The D Word's venerable Women's Anarchist Collective Theater (WACT). This was the place on which we blew half the budget in a nearly 24-hour overnight shoot of the season finale's money shot: flinging fake dog sh*t at actors and building in one hopeful take. Once you throw poo, there's no second chances with costumes and location. And we got it, thank G*d! When we took the space over for a fateful day, it was gutted and forlorn on a corner in Park Slope, and today it's a shining example of the continual gentrification of Brooklyn. A delicious but slightly wistful pang of a neighborhood in transition.

Current Mood: calm