It kind of reminded me of that Seinfeld episode when we find out that Kramer's been swimming in the East River.

Yesterday, for the first time ever, I walked over the Gowanus Canal.

Bighead and I had to go to the broker’s office to sign our lease and Bighead figured out that it was just a quick walk from our current apartment (now to be know as: “the tiny and cluttered room-that-could in a building that’s falling into a big gaping hole” or maybe that’s too long. Maybe I’ll just refer to it now, as we referred to it two years ago when we moved in, “our startment” as in “starter apartment.” Anyhoods) so we took that walk.

I’ve been living within walking distance of the canal for 5 years now and I’d never been there. It’s… uhm… green.
And it smells.
Quite bad. It smells quite bad and it's green and Head said that on her way to the broker's she saw a family canoeing on it with their small child.

Hippies... please don't expose your children to the Gowanus Canal. Sometimes Mother Earth is prone to Munchausen by proxy.

But it’s a really interesting juxtaposition between Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill and Park Slope. It’s like “A River Runs Through It” if that river were a smelly green creek.