How To Be A Local Character [What Park Slope Needs More Of]

In my opinion, one of Park Slope's *main* downfalls, is the severe lack of totally fucking crazy people here.

I mean, yeah, we've got loads'o undercover, pill poppin, neurotic, "I spend half my salary on therapy" "crazy" people like me here, but I mean REAL crazy. We need more characters like Prince Mongo above.

Prince Mongo lives in a mansion in Memphis, TN. He takes in homeless people and believes he's from the planet Zambodia. Also he has a collection of 50 toilets he keeps in his front yard and has run for political office.

Anyone in Park Slope like this that we're missing??

And in the meantime, don't you think its time you really help out your community? Please read this article in Mental Floss...there are some great tips on how to be a bigger/badder/more eccentric local character in there.

(via Buzzfeed)

PS Craigslisting: W/E 01.04.09

Each week we bring you the best of the worst in Park Slope related craigslist shenanigans:

*Absolutely Free Stress Management Workshop (Park Slope, Brooklyn) - Are you stressed? Need to manage it? Like free shit? Then K.I.T. with these peeps.

*Wanna get lost? Help train a Search & Rescue dog in Prospect Park (Park Slope) - Ok, so we love dogz around here. You got us. But this is soooo great. Pleez someone do it!

*1/15: Hottest Speed Dating Event! (Park Slope Brooklyn) - Get laid! FAST!

*Park Slope Moms - m4w - 30 (Park Slope) - This dude is on the prowl for some MILF muff (also he won't tell anyone once he gets it).

*WANTED: Private Hipster Lapdance/Massage? — Will Donate - m4w (Park Slope Area — Brooklyn) - The BEST part of this ad? If your guess was "private hipster lapdance," you would be wrong! It's the pic of the pretty BK sunset the guy includes.

FIPS ToDo's

*Tell us why we suck (or not): FiPS New Year's Resolutions (FIPS).

*Don't get divorced (at least right now) (Urbanite).

*Know how when you clean out your closet its a huge pain in the ass cause you can never figure out where the hell to donate your clothes? Well now you can take em to the Grand Army Plaza's Farmer's Market! Wearable Collections is going to have a collection bin every Saturday, from 8-4pm. Yay! (Wearable Collections).

*Relive the beautiful/craziness of the Polar Bear Club's New Year's Day swim (NewYorkology).

*Go shopping at one of NY's Top 10 new Stores of the Year (Racked).

*Recycle your Xmas tree! Curbside P/U starts tomorrow through Jan. 16th (OTBKB).

New Year's Resolutions: We Need Some

So, we need some New Year's resolutions....for our blawg.

Do you dig FIPS? What should we do more of? What do you think is meh? What makes you want to delete our RSS feed?

We're ready for it: the good, the bad and the ugly.

Bring it, motherfuckers.

FIPS ToDo's: A Polaroid A Day: Jamie Livingston

I read about Jamie Livingston months ago on Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, and (true confessions), I immediately started to cry.

I mean, I am a total fucking whimp, but there was something about his story that really pulled at my rusted/crumbling/decayed heartstrings.

As a senior in college at Bard Jamie acquired a Polaroid camera; he went on to take one polaroid photo (over 6,000 photos) every day of his life for the next 18 years until he died of cancer at the age of 41. The last photo in his collection is a self-portrait of the artist in his deathbed on the day he passed away.

Buzzfeed posted a bunch of great links about the project today, reminding me of its utter awesomeness.

I really think you should click on all of em immediately.