Pussy Claims To Be “The Queen Of Park Slope!”

There are some cool ass bodega cats making the rounds on Facebook and the like, thanks to WNYC. Seems like at least one of the CABCs (cool ass bodega cats) is from Park Slope. Sheba, the black and white twelve year old cat-in-residence declares herself The Queen of Park Slope in the sweet and funny Bodega Cats in Their Own Words

I hate aggressive dogs. Some dogs have that animosity towards me.  Maybe it’s because I’m the Queen of Park Slope but I will never settle for anything less and I’m holding that title forever.

Any of the cats in the video marked their territory on your pant leg or coughed up a hairball on your clog? Can you make out any of the voices? They are voiced by the actual bodega owners! Do you know which Park Slope establishment Sheba resides in?

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Get Veducated With A New Park Slope Centered Vegan TV Show

Image via Our Hen HouseOur Hen House is a new Brooklyn-based TV show for animal lovers….real animal lovers, not just you folks who eat Dinosaur Bar-B-Que delivery while sitting on your bear skin rug watching back-to-back episodes of Animal Planet’s Too Cute. Isn’t the one where the baby sloth gets potty trained just way too cute?!

The show is on a new 24/7 television channel that’s all Brooklyn, all the time. The hosts are Park Slope residents Jasmine Singer and Mariann Sullivan. Jasmin is a writer and activist and the funny, tattooed hen of the house. Mariann Sullivan is a law professor who keeps the show on topic, and that topic is always animal rights. The two aren’t particularly the stereotype vegan — pale and angry — but rather funny, entertaining and informative. Well, maybe a little pale but who isn’t after this winter!?

The main focus is on the vegan and animal rights happenings right here in Park Slope. They’ll certainly have a lot of sloped ground to cover with the:

• Park Slope dogs that are forced to wear canine Cosby sweaters and tiny booties
• Roaches that enter little cardboard hotels in neighborhood apartments…they check in, but they don’t check out.
• Rats that are tricked into ingesting pellets that make them infertile in a recent $1,000,000 contract the MTA has with ContraPest (this would be sure to upset the ProLifers as well).
• Ants that I finger flick when they dare to crawl near my organic salad greens at Celebrate Brooklyn concerts.

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BROOKLYN’S SENIOR INVASION

Photo credit: Linda Dajana Kruger/lostateminor.comThere is a new invasion of seniors to the Borough of Kings. It’s called SRITS (Screw Retiring In The Suburbs). Yes, there have always been old people in Brooklyn, but now there are more new old folks. It seems many seniors are forgoing the sprawling boring comforts of suburbia and moving to BKLYN. I don't blame them. Sounds like a good retirement plan to me…no driveway to shovel in the winter, no leaves to rake in the fall and 1,492 restaurants that will deliver your dinner. Um, is anyone else weirded out that 1492 is also the same year Christopher Columbus used Apple Maps to sail across the Atlantic Ocean? Just sayin’.

Yeah, some of the recent geriatric influx into the borough is due to grandparents wanting to live close to their spawn’s spawns. I get that. Who wouldn’t want the person that caught you smoking American Spirits in the garden shed a few decades ago to catch your kids doing the same thing on your building’s roof. It’s the beautiful circle of life.

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[My Favorite Park Slope...] Business Name -- The Cake Ambience

What I LOVE about the Flatbush and Dean Street bakery, The Cake Ambiance, is the name. I’ve been told by several bed partners that I often giggle and smile in my sleep while repeating it over and over, those two surprisingly brought together words: cake and ambiance. 

I’m sure The Cake Ambiance’s confections are delectable. The bible psalm 90:12 cake looks delicious, as does the mint green and gold beaded matching pumps and purse cake. Also, I’m fan of an “A” sanitary inspection grade (Wahoo! give it up for Cake Ambiance’s “A”!). However, it’s the artistry of the name itself that makes me giggle like a cartoon kitty. The craft of taking two words that don’t go together and bravely putting them where no two words have gone before, that, my friend, takes guts and imagination. 

Cake is, well…it’s cake. Ambiance is the character and atmosphere of a place. The two together blow my mind. Not as much as anything that badass Neil deGrasse Tyson says or the fact that I recently met a little girl named Persephone, but my grey matter is, nonetheless, blown by the word pairing.

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COOL OR NOT COOL: MARCHING BANDS PLAYING AC/ DC?

The 39^th Annual Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Day parade had all the usual shit with one refreshingly dirty deed. Read on. There were school groups, organizations and individuals wearing green and marching down 7^th Avenue to Garfield Place, and then up Prospect Park West. Some played the bagpipes and wore fetching kilts that showed off their hairy limbs. Some parade marchers shivered from the cold while others waved like they were a Windsor Terrace residing Miss America. The school marching bands were numerous, as usual, some playing Irish inspired tunes like the 1927 Mort Dixon “I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover.” The Fort Hamilton High School (FHHS) Marching Band marched to a different drummer and had the genteel Park Slope crowd either head banging or scratching their heads.  

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