Brooklyn Cyclones tickets: I’m giving away two pairs of tickets instead of the single pair that I promised last week. And the numbers that came up in the Random.org draw were “5″ and “4.” So congratulations to readers Bruce Handy and BrooklynQ. Each get two tickets to the Cyclones home opener this Saturday.

• The NYC Transit service cuts go into effect two weeks from now – here’s a first look at the impact in Bay Ridge. (Bay Ridge Blog)
• Impact of the BP oil spill on New York, Part 1. (Sheepshead Bites)
• The Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire Department may be getting $50,000 in the form of an Assembly member item. (GerritsenBeach.net)
• Sheepshead Bay Road CVS does NOT, I repeat NOT, have a drive-through. (Sheepshead Bites)
• I got a little motion-sick just watching the YouTube video of the Luna Park Air Race. (Kinetic Carnival)
• Confession: I really cannot f*cking stand publications like New York Magazine or Time Out New York. I feel like the people who write for them fancy themselves as being part of the Carrie Bradshaw social circuit, and therefore think it’s perfectly acceptable “journalism” (gollum, gollum) to write about themselves and their friends as trendsetters and social leaders, when the truth is 99% of the people in this city couldn’t give a flying rat’s ass about them as either. So it is with some sense of skepticism I read about today’s generation of “Global Russians.” (Sheepshead Bites)
• Luna Park is holding a pageant this week to determine its representative in Saturday’s Mermaid Parade. “Please refrain from any talents or swimwear that is explicit and/or not appropriate for the viewership of all park guests.” Um, have they actually BEEN to a Mermaid Parade before (NSFW)? (Amusing The Zillion, Google)
• Why does the Parks Department hate things that grow weeds? (GerritsenBeach.net)