Cool or Not Cool: Using Your Kid's Class List to Promote Your...Whatever

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Woo-hoo! As of today, the NYC public school kids are back in their classrooms. Did you hear that 'whoosh' sound as you headed for the subway this morning? That was the collective sigh of relief of parents across the city. Those first few days of school are filled with excitement over seeing old friends, making new ones, meeting new teachers, sharpening new pencils...and for the parents, the distribution of the new class list. 

But, there is a recent and ongoing problem with class lists. Perhaps I'm alone in this, but I have a serious gripe with people who take their kid's class list(s), and take ALL of the parents' emails and put them on the distribution list for their band, blog, reading, spoken word events, etc. Unless I asked you to sign me up for your mailing list, please do not put me on it. 

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Could You Live in a Windowless Apartment?

A friend o'FIPS wrote in with a heads up that in the Approval Matrix of the August 11-24th issue of New York Magazine, one of the LOWBROW/DESPICABLE items was a studio apartment of Sackett Street, going for $1250 per month, but there's a catch -- it has no windows. 

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Local Outfitter is Taking You Hiking & Skinny Dipping

In a move that’s so natural and organic it’s sure to make the Coop green (even greener?) with envy, Gear to Go Outfitters, is organizing a skinny dipping hike. The local outdoorsy-stuff shop, a staple of the ‘hood for crunchies far and wide since 2011, is already known for organizing hikes. This is just taking it to the next level. The next naked level.

Hikers will leave from the store on Garfield Street and enjoy an easy hike to a secluded swimming hole in the Catskills. At that point, hikers will shed their clothes and go for a refreshing swim. There is no requirement to swim naked, but, at $100 per person, it seems rather silly to do it if you’re not gonna go the Full Monty. And, lest you think otherwise, this is not about sexy-time or swinging, so please leave your dirty thoughts at home. Especially the guys. No one wants to see that.

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Chloe Sevigny is in the 'hood!

Last October, we learned that former-Sassy-intern-turned-Kids-star-turned-indie-darling-turned-Big-Love-sister-wife and all-around cool girl, Chloe Sevigny, had ditched her long-time East Village digs and bought a classic six overlooking Prospect Park. At the time, it seemed like maybe she had just grown up and decided to settle down like the rest of us schmucks, but according to this quote from a recent Daily Beast interview, it was actually a real estate version of embracing normcore:

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