McDonald's is using us to sell their shitty burgers...again

Image via burgerbusiness.comLet’s talk burgers. McDonald’s burgers. In the past, one of McDonalds’ usual appeals in keeping their customers addicted to eating garbage was consistency. No matter where you went, it was the same. This was important because people don’t like change. That’s why, when visiting a very foodcentric city such as New York, tourists be flockin’ to Times Square to get their Mickey D’s comfort food. Apparently, this comforting consistency is no longer the case. According to a recent article in Gothamist, McDonald’s is/has been “testing new foods” in different parts of the nation:

VIA Gothamist:

McDonald's also has some built-in things it just does differently across the nation. For example? If you order a plain burger at McDonald's in Chicago you'll get a "beef" patty with ketchup, pickle, onions and mustard. But if you order one here in New York City you'll just get ketchup, pickle and onion on your meat product.

Now, if you ask me, I would lean more towards this being a case of McDonald’s employees not giving a shit and messing up your order, rather than an intentional, demographically targeted strategy. But hey, what the hell do I know? I only eat McDonald’s when I’m drunk at 4 a.m. so it all just tastes like a mistake that I’m going to regret the next morning. I digress.

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Maurice Sendak is alive! Just kidding, but they are naming a school after him.

Image via librarygc.blogspot.comAccording to DNAinfo.com, “The wild things are coming to Park Slope.”

What the hell does that mean, you ask? A whole slew of Charlie Sheen circa 1989 look-alikes with absurd, zig-zag hair cuts are going to be gallivanting around the neighborhood all of a sudden? Of course not; don’t be ridiculously stupid.

What it means is P.S. 118, the new school opening to relieve overcrowding at P.S. 321 and P.S. 107, will be named after the late Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are.”

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Cool Or Not Cool: Canceling Potentially Upsetting Movie Screenings in the Wake of Tragedy?

For the sake of this post, I’m going to assume that everyone is aware of the recent, incredibly horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary, and just get right down to the nitty gritty of this thing.

We recently received an email from an irate BAM member, who was upset that the organization cancelled recent screenings of John Waters' Female Trouble and Silent Night Bloody Night out of respect for the victims of Newtown, Connecticut. When this particular BAM member asked why the screenings were cancelled during a film series meant to depict “dark visions of the holiday season,” this was the reply that he received:

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A FiPS Round-Up of The Best Thing-a-ma-jigs To Haul Your Baby Around In

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Given the task to find and present the top 5 strollers for you baby wheeling bastards (Damn it, Kerri!), I have learned several things:

1. Baby stroller names are ridiculously long and complicated
2. These things are pretty damn expensive
3. I could totally be a Professional Baby Stroller Namer

Here’s the thing, guys. I know virtually nothing about strollers. I did, however, read a shit ton of stroller reviews that were presumably written by people who own both babies and things with which to carry them around in. Based on my research, here are Amazon's top 5 most popular baby street haulers (in no particular order):

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Slope Residents Hold Anti-Chicken Meeting: Are you clucking serious?!

If you’ve recently questioned your sanity after thinking you may OR MAY NOT have seen “chicken meeting” flyers and other anti-chicken/rat propaganda posted around the hood, stop rubbing your eyes in disbelief. You are not hallucinating. 

A community garden in the Slope recently brought 8 new chickens into their urban coop, and some peeps are pretty pissed about it -- 160 to be exact. This is the number of people who signed a petition citing concern about noise and the attraction of rats to the garden, which was the magic number for a rep from the local city council to hold a Chicken Meeting to resolve the issue.

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