Whassup: Sunny Days Edition

 Sunny's Returns (via kickstarter)

Amidst the recent closures of old Slope-area bars Jackie's 5th and Bar 4, we got some good news this week: Sandy-savaged Red Hook institution Sunny's will return Aug. 29! This is a valiant story of online crowdfunding campaigns and the people's love of inebriation. The kind of things that made this country great. Give a big, old, happy "Fuck You, Hurricane Sandy!" and head on over to Red Hook at the end of the month. Until then, say fuck you to whatever else is bringing you down. Welcome to Whassup: Sunny Days Edition:

 * Thursday, Aug. 22: LAST 'Drinks to Die For,' Green-Wood Cemetery: Everything dies, that's a fact: including Green-Wood Cemetary's summer happy hours. Catch the last one of the season today, with beers from Brooklyn Brewery, alongside live music, all amidst the final resting places of Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed and other super fun (but super dead) party guests. 6pm-8pm, FREE (but drink tix are $5). 

* Friday, Aug. 23-Saturday, Aug. 24: Dick Pic Art, Morgan Studios (Bushwick): Officially, this is part of "EXPLICIT," a "two-day engagement [that] will explore the boundaries of pornography, voyeurism, sexual predation and intimacy." But forget all that artist's-statement-ese; as Brooklyn Mag writes, the most important part of this show is clearly "Show Me More: A Collection of Dick Pix." So yeah, good job, Bushwick: You've managed to make the entire Carlos Weiner thing even more ridiculous. Because it is now art. Also, the whole EXPLICIT opening party will apparently be "pants optional." In other words, Bushwick is hosting a real-life version of what your innocent old grandmother fears you're doing in New York. An epistolary novel of sexts should hit the bookshelves any day now. Opens Friday at 8 pm.

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[What You Should Order At...] Michael & Ping's

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

- Woody Allen in Annie Hall 

Well, that's essentially how I feel about Chinese food. I don't like it. Every place tastes the same to me. It usually gives me a terrible headache -- from the MSG or salt, I don't know. And it leaves me hungry. If I'm going to fall over and die from a stroke after eating something, I want to be full. 

So I don't usually eat it. If I'm out with people and they order it, I'll get an egg roll to be polite. Courtesy egg roll. One day I was bored in my apartment and I wanted to try something different for delivery. So out of a mix of self-loathing and curiosity I tried a new (to me) Chinese place in the neighborhood. Michael and Ping's.

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Hey NY Post: Don't Blame Us For the Stroller Pimp!

Yesterday, the NY Post had an article about "two accused hookers working out of a brothel run by so-called “stroller pimp” William Thomas, a Brooklyn father of four." The article says that Thomas is from Fort Greene, and was running four brothels in Manhattan. Nowhere does it mention anything about Park Slope. So, why did my Google Alert about it call it the "Park Slope Pimp Daddy Case??? Listen, we may be at fault for a lot of things, but as far as I can tell, this is one is not on us. 

FIPS CARES: Help One Story Make it through August

FIPS CARES! (really...we do).

Ok everyone, listen up! We have another FIPS CARES community assignment. Why the fuck should you care? Cause maybe we'll be helping your ass next.

Did you know that the super-cool literary magazine One Story is based right next door in Parkwanus? About eleven years ago, co-founders Maribeth Batcha* and Hannah Tinti** came up with the simple, brilliant idea for a literary magazine that brought readers just one great story every few weeks. Genius, right? Park Slope literati like John Hodgman, Elissa Schappell, Darin Strauss, Ben Greenman, and Joanna Hershon have all published in One Story, and every year they hold a "Literary Debutante Ball" to support previous One Story contributors whose first novels have just been published.

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CAPTION This Park Slope Photo!

This latest and greatest photo came to us from a FOF* who happened on the doggie basket backpack while visitng Fez salon over the weekend. Got great photos from the Slope? Send them to us! In the meantime, give us your FIPSiest photo caption in the comments -- what is this dog thinking? 

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