Brighton

If you're English and you say Brighton, you mean a resort in the Southwest. If you're from NYC you mean Brighton Beach, known as Little Odessa. Nothing but Russians - old Russians, young Russians, Russian mafia, Russian mamas, papas, grandpas and grandmas. Russian stores under the B-Train overpass, and one block away: the beautiful beach.

You sit at a table, order Chicken Pozharsky and Polish Beer, and sit and watch the waves, the barges, the people on the beach, the sand, the old boardwalk, the boat house.

The people.

It's only 25 minutes from Clinton Hill and a completely different world. Plot and Duck are asking themselves why in the world they'd never come down here before?

Then, last night, The Great PD and The Great FiveHead got home from Curacao. Guess who got herself a new dress?