Yoga Thursday Nights 8pm

Thursday nights in October - Yoga
8:00pm to 9:00pm

i only had one

Saturday evening September 24th, Diane Tomasi curates the event "i only had one"
Colleen Culley, Gorgas, Susan Quinn, Becky Radway, Sara Roer, Suiso Ogawa and others join Diane in this night of art and performance.

starts at 8:00 pm

There will likely be much drinking, random improv and noise making following the performance. (There always is)

John Stein - Recent works and The Adventures of Grampa

Meet John Stein.

In his mind lives an alternate world that spans three major epochs of power struggles and change.

Join us Saturday, August 6th, for his opening reception. 3pm til closing.

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who's yer daddy?

highest score ever

Why is this man such a Happy Camper?

He just scored 6609 in "Bonus Lane" rules on our United Coronado Bowling Alley

and won a vintage gold-tone Ronson butane lighter for his effort.



the girl with him got a 4225 score... which is a great score too - she also won something.

but 6609. That's an all time Store Best record.

Last Minute Holiday Shopping??

Santa on a budget this year? Belated Hanukkah Shopping? Searching for that perfect Kwanzaa gift?

In the words of Bob Barker himself, "Come on dowwwwwwwwwwwn!" ....to the Everbrite Mercantile store here in Red Hook, Brooklyn (totally improv'd that last bit)!


These one-of-a-kind Kreepy Dolls are great picks for the kids... Although Richard Balls (the little pink guy to the right with the... um... "chestnuts," if you will), might be a little more appropriate for the grown-ups with a great sense of humor.


Fish Mick Chicken here is a personal fav. Half chicken, half fish! Admired by many--snatch him up before he's gone!

The following items make great gifts and/or stocking-stuffers.


OutScent by Jao is a scented oil that both Buffalo Bill & the Brawny paper towel guy would sport while flexing for the ladies. It holds a natural, earthy scent reminiscent of the great outdoors. It also has the added bonus of repelling those pesky insects when outside in the summer. It's perfect for a special guy--boyfriend, Dad, bro, the boss (if you're working on that promotion... wink), and also works for the ladies!


The rabbit shot glass is one of our most popular items... these things have pretty much been flying off the shelves with their innovative inversive design that allows the glass to rest upside down. Other styles of the shot glass include a black moose, deer, and white rhino! C'mon... who wouldn't want a shot of Jack from a moose?


The Jao Lip Balm is made with 34% Shea butter and is petro-free. It's a great gift to soften up the lips!


The QUEUE Stick Lighter by Japan's Tsubota Pearl is a sleek piece roughly the size of a cigarette. It's available here in gold, silver, and black. You'll get a double take from the guy who just lit his cig with a zippo the size of a horse, while you look like you just made fire with your fingertips alone.

So stop on by! Check out the store, do a little shopping (or a butt-ton), and at the very least, shoot the breeze with a few hysterical crazies!

Dicken Around Friday Night

A new "Event" at our Red Hook store:

In which we hang out after normal store hours talking, drinking, listening to music, snacking, playing board games and video games, watch Popeye cartoons on the movie projector... burning away the time.

efforts to quell my obnoxiousness have had mixed results

Bobby's little tree

A dude came into the store a few weeks back. When he said he was the Executive Chef at Fort Defiance, I was pleased to finally meet the man responsible for what I'd been blabbing about for weeks as the "best hamburger on earth". (Plus all their other stuff rocks too.)

Anyway, he carted off his newly acquired merch but left behind a truss planter... I promised to stuff a plant into it.

Just before my Mom returned home a few days ago, she helped me pick out a suitable plant from Liberty Sunset Garden Center. Mom raised her first garden with her sister Paula when they were 3 and 4 years old during World War 2. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the family was relocated from Navy housing that was too close to the coast and considered too dangerous. In the temporary housing tract they took it upon themselves to start a garden, and both Mom and auntie Paula have been tending to plants ever since then.

So naturally I consulted her while she was here in Brooklyn about the proper method of choosing and re-potting plants.

This is the result: little "Tree-ey".

Let's join Tree-ey now as he bids a solemn farewell to all his little friends at Everbrite Mercantile Company.


He'll forever remember the after hours drinking with the wood table crowd. Their rambunctious hijinks and semi-homoerotic roughhousing will be sorely missed. Squirrel patch and the playing card twins are the ones who usually get in trouble, but deer paper clips is the real instigator. He's a rascal, that one.




Although often cliquish and mean, the girly jewelry and tchotchke gang who hang out on the big dresser could sometimes surprise you with expressions of deep empathy and compassion. Tree-ey never did like to hang out with them too much - for some reason he found their loud gum-chewing to be a bit off-putting. Despite their differences, the farewell party was filled with many tears and some inappropriate groping.




Mimmo Plane and Eames Blocks were over by themselves as usual, people-watching and making ironic observations... obviously the youngest siblings in their respective families. They're always good for a laugh. In fact, that's all they're good for.




There was a little bit of awkwardness with Eclipse Bottle Opener who had brought her boyfriend cottage incense burner to the party. That damned drunken idiot Moose shot glass opened his big fat mouth about the "incident in the bathroom". Crow bottle opener tried to cover it up with a loud story about a bad case of inner thigh chafing while wearing corduroy shorts in summer camp, but the boyfriend could sense that there was something fishy.

soooo anyways... Tree-ey makes a new home tomorrow at Bobby D's place.

Good luck Tree-ey.

Yoga is Baaaaa-a-aaaaaack!

Happy December!! Now that most of us are stuffed with goods from Turkey Day, join us once again here at Everbrite Mercantile Co. (351 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY) for yoga by donation with Felecia Maria! The class is from 7:30-8:30 pm.

The first night was a hit, so we'll be doing a one hour class every Wednesday in December starting tonight!

Come one! Come ALL! Don't forget to bring your yoga mat or equivalent! See you tonight!