[ONE MORE DAY! WHERE YOU AT BK??] 209 Reasons Brooklyn is So Very Badass

So, we were totally inspired by NY Mag's recent "Reasons to Love NY" piece here at FIPS HQ. We've also been jonesing to do a yearly wrap up type piece that gives mad props to our fave nyc borough, BK, and reflects all of the diff reasons its the bad-assest .

So, we came up with an idea and now we need your help (like REALLY need ur help b/c we only have one day left!!).

In honor of 2009, we're putting together a list of 209 reasons Brooklyn is totally and completely badass.

We're looking for specific reasons such as: "The volcano roll at JPan brings me more satisfaction than my vibrator," and also more general stuff like: "more hipsters per square foot than anywhere else on Earth" (ed note: except for Echo Park).

Why do you think Brooklyn is so badass? Pretty please, tell us?

We're gonna gather together everyone's entries and pub them all on January 1, 2009.

Email us at effedinparkslope at gmail dot com or leave a comment. If you have a blog/tumblr/et al and want a shoutout back, make sure to include your info (and feel free to reblog-n-spread the word!...we'd love to hear from as many BK peeple as we can).

Curbed Comments Section Turns Into Big Gay Battle Royale

I get bored very easily.

Among the shit that bores me most is Park Slope-brand political correctness, or as my man Blognigger coined it, McCarthyism 2.0.

That's what I loved about Curbed readers' reactions to the site's coverage of yesterday's FIPS article on the Tea Lounge:

No one really wanted to focus their energy on the same old boring topic of Breeder vs. Baller - barely anyone wanted to chime in on how retarded and corny FIPS is for making the same old hackneyed observations about the Tea Lounge - instead, everyone decided to just start calling each other faggots.

I'm a big supporter of this group decision: First of all, it makes for a compelling and extremely humorous thread. Second, it proves that political correctness is one big lie, motivated and maintained exclusively by fear: As soon as humans are given a little anonymity, they start lashing right out and calling each other gay.

Gay people were hating on straights, straights were hating on gays - and you know what? It looks to me like they all had a good time. I wish that the Tea Lounge itself was this honest:

I said a LITTLE milk, ya dumb dyke.

Pour it yourself then, breeder bugaboo whore.

Maybe one day our community will be set free, and everyone will speak as they truly feel. For now, how lucky we are to have a laboratory for this enlightening sociological experiment.

It's awesome.

Rosie Perez is a Real Brooklynite. We're Not [You Might Not Be Either]

Rosie gets into the nitty gritty of who is and isn't a REAL Brooklnite with Brian Lehrer of WNYC.

Our fave comment on the debate comes from Robert from NYC: What makes a real Brooklynite? The ability to turn people off quickly by talking about Brooklyn.

[Lulz!]

[Also, Noah brought our attensh to the hilarious SNL vid above, which also explores this very same issue].

(via Brooklyn Hall of Fame).

Apparently We Gotta Throw Down With Fort Greene Now

According to this handy lil chart, apparently peeps wanna live there just as much as they wanna live here. Ideal Properties Group claims "for the first time in 2008, an almost equal number of tenants considered Fort Greene as did Park Slope."

Fuck that fuckin bullshit. Yo! Fort Greene: meet us at 4pm tomorrow in front of Juniors and we'll settle up this shit like real men.

(NYO via Curbed).

HOLY SHIT! Now I Gotta Worry About My Dog Getting 'Dognapped!?'

The current issue of The New Yorker offers up deets on a ridiculously frightening crime wave taking shape on the UWS: dognapping.

Sonofabitch.

Here's why I *think* me-n-Oliver are probs gonna be ok:
1. I NEVEREVERNEVEREVEREVEREVER leave him tied up alone outside.
2. I NEVEREVERNEVEREVEREVEREVER leave him tied up alone outside.
3. I NEVEREVERNEVEREVEREVEREVER leave him tied up alone outside.

Also I'm a black belt in Karate...and I carry a rape whistle...and mace...and a gun...and Oliver is very, very vicious and will bite you and make you bleed...so DON'T steal him, pleez (and be careful with your own pups!).

(City File via The New Yorker).