Brooklyn Mutt Show

05/16/2025

The Brooklyn Lyceum’s procedural due process fight rages on! FOUR Appellate Division judges lied to foreclose a cultural heart—home to 31 Bond (*NYTIMES* writeup) and *moby dick:the sermon* (*New Yorker* cartoon), and performances by the likes of Fiona Apple, Amanda Palmer, Brooklyn Rider and the Knights Orchestra. Eric Richmond is battling to void this theft, and he’s at the Fabulous 5th Avenue Fair this Sunday, May 18, 5th Ave between 1st and 2nd St, at his Swaslu.com coffee booth. Swing by to chat, grab a coffee, maybe an espresso shake, and join the fight to save the LYCEUM stage. Visit Art-Ocracy.org to learn more and scream this B---SH*T with us!

04/27/2025

Mutt Show home up off the mat to take a puncher's chance.

Long time, no post. NewsFlash: If 19< 26, the Lyceum has a puncher's chance to unwind a quagmire of an appellate decision with multiple flat out lies by 4 judges w/ more than a century of combined legal experience. Stay tuned. Get some popcorn. We tried to do this quiet like... got the bums rush from clerk of the court, an MIT grad who knew darn well that 19 is not MORE THAN 26!

12/12/2021

Another year and another round of Holiday shopping. Get your Gowanus Swim Team gear ... and other Gowanus related gift merch today : Sun, Dec. 12: FAD Market @ St. Paul’s Church, 11 am to 6 pm (190 Court Street - Brooklyn) - https://www.facebook.com/gowanussouvenir/

06/05/2020

The more things change (Colin Kaepernick’s take-a-knee that cost him dearly) the more they stay the same (Jackie Robinson’s defiant lament, ”I cannot stand and sing the anthem” ).
Every few decades the racial discrimination issue bubbles up to the front of public consciousness and then that inconvenient truth is soon reburied.

Maybe we’d be reflecting more on his lament, “I cannot stand and sing the anthem.”

10/09/2019

Help the Brooklyn Lyceum get DUE PROCESS from two judges up for re-election on Nov 5, 2019 who have not acted smarter than a 5th grader by signing a couple of affidavits that show you are smarter than a 5th grader, something those two judges have, as yet, failed to show. Judge Reinaldo Rivera, in shades of Indiana circa. 1897 attempting to legislate pi as 3.2, found that October 19 comes after October 26. Judge Donald Scott Kurtz granted a motion in 2011 when the Notice of Motion said the hearing was in 2001. Pretty stupid, and, if all the legal prof's we have consulted are right, this type of dumber than a 5th grader-isms lead to the inevitable unwinding of the sale of the Brooklyn Lyceum. The smoking legal guns (Documents) - https://brooklynlyceum.com/

09/10/2019

--The Brooklyn Lyceum will soon be heading ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH in search of due process by turning Judicial Lemons into Lyceum Lemonade. Help us make it happen quicker. Throw down some time and an affidavit or two about what you see. In return you get Lyceum Curatorial votes when we get back in business.
--Then you can help program a venue that has seen the likes of Fiona Apple, Amanda Palmer, Vernon Reid, Yo La Tengo, Marc Ribot, Jose Gonzalez, and scores of others.
--Click https://brooklynlyceum.com/wip/10078 to see how. If you are pressed for time, read the RED tabs.
--Review some simple docket items: two Notices of Motions, one Proof of Service, one Decision (two para), 2 simple statutes, two attorney affirmations, and a 142 page Decision and supporting papers (a PDF) to find any affirmation dated one of two dates (they don’t exist).
--Then you are ready to speed up the Return of the Brooklyn Lyceum because the unavoidable issue is that the courts (lower and appellate), in an ill advised attempt to short circuit due process for the Brooklyn Lyceum (made up facts, altered docket for plaintiff, partial quoting of caselaw), created a winnable battle.

08/18/2019

Catch-22 and Kobayashi Maru ….

Alternative phrases for no good answer for the situation.

—Catch-22, from the book of the same name by Brooklyn (Coney Island ) native Joseph Heller, describing the wartime problem of any choice you make having a bad result, and

—Kobayashi Maru from Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan, an extreme where one choice results in the death of hundreds of people you don’t know and the only other choice kills you and all those with you.

With regards to the Brooklyn Lyceum, the courts are to be soon presented with such a choice:
--rule one way and the sale of the Brooklyn Lyceum must be unwound and smack the Plaintiff with a dozen whacks from a clue stick, or,
--rule the only other possible way and the sale of the Brooklyn Lyceum must be unwound and smack the Plaintiff half a dozen times with the clue stick.

To that end we are intrigued as to how many ways you can describe a no-win situation.

Post yours here and maybe we will use it in the hunt for Brooklyn Lyceum Due Process.

https://brooklynlyceum.com/wip/10094

09/05/2018

Finally, after 2.5 years, Oral Argument for the Lyceum. Was the foreclosure abandoned, and, by abandonment, did the court lose any right to rule? https://brooklynlyceum.com
September 6, 2018. 10 AM. LiveStream (http://wowza.nycourts.gov/ad2/ad2.php ) or Memorex (http://www.courts.state.ny.us/…/oral_argument_archives.shtml)

05/15/2018

Why would the New York Mets be stupid enough to get involved with the Brooklyn Lyceum given the documented perjury and fraud as well as the Temporary Restraining Order and lis pendens in place? This should be veeerry interesting: https://therealdeal.com/2018/05/14/heres-what-the-10m-20m-nyc-investment-sales-market-looked-like-last-week-141/ .

01/26/2018

Recent events have jump-started the discussion about the future of the Brooklyn Lyceum and the building next door.
Tell us what you think should fill the almost 80,000 square feet of new/renovated space.
Should a gym other than Blink be there?
A restaurant? A coffee shop other than the planned Starbucks? (tell us your favorite roasts so we can investigate while it all plays out.) An art gallery? A stage theater? A movie theater? A market? A school?
https://brooklynlyceum.com
If you can't make it or are too shy, email us your thoughts at [email protected].
Time and place of meeting :
Friday, January 26, 2018: 4:00PM-5:30PM
Brooklyn Central Public Library at Grand Army Plaza
10 Grand Army Plaza - Brooklyn, NY 11238
Information Commons (Central Library) - ROOM #5

10/31/2017

Socks V. Hawkes II : The Lyceum Strikes Back
Will Avery "Socks" Mehlman be truthful about the Brooklyn Lyceum case tomorrow in court? If past actions are predictors of future action, not likely.
https://thegrowler.org/wip/10018

10/22/2017

Well, the Yankees blew it. Looks like we need to live through the eyes of those expats, the Dodgers.
See them through the eyes of www.RoxysTeeParlour.com. Or catch her live at City Point today from 11AM-6PM (www.fadmarket.co)