Holy Stolen Plutonium! There Was A DeLorean on 5th Avenue Last Night

Guys, I was picking up some laundry last night when I noticed there was a fucking Delorean sitting on 5th Ave at 20th street. As in, the car from Back to the Future. As in, “if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?” As in, “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” As in, I just lived out a childhood dream on a Sunday night in Park Slope. 

Why was there a Delorean in the Slope? Valerie Randazzo, owner of Leathernecks Tattoo, is having a fundraiser to raise money for Huntington's Disease by having people stop by to take photos with it (and yes, it was one of the actual cars from the movies). The money will go to the Terrence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center's HD unit. 

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The librarians at the Brooklyn Public Library have entered the digital age.

Image via Brooklyn Public Library email blastAll right, they’ve probably been there for a while considering librarians are usually pretty badass and also that the BPL tweets way more than I do. They’ve come up with a way to combine one of their tried and true services – giving personal book recommendations – with the fact that sometimes we’re too damn lazy to leave our apartments and go talk to a librarian about books.

BookMatch launched a couple weeks ago, and it’s a little form on the BPL website that you fill out to give the librarians an idea of your reading preferences. They aim to get back to you with a personal recommendation list in about a week. Since a ton of people are excited about it, it may take longer. You’ve been warned. If you are at a loss of what to read in the meantime, I’m worried for you , but then again I’m one of those people who will read the back of the cereal box in a pinch so I probably shouldn’t talk.

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Will the real made-in-Brooklyns please stand up?

It can get tough out there, separating the chaff from the wheat. Or in this case, the products actually made in Brooklyn from the tchotchke just trying to cash in on our borough’s good name. People apparently love the cachet that “Made in Brooklyn” gives a product (I guess it does have better connotations than “Made in China”), and so the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce wants to make sure that no one is making money off our rising popularity unless they actually have some tie to Brooklyn.

I guess it makes sense. If you tell me that something’s made in Brooklyn, that I’m buying locally, that should be true… right? If you’re making a claim about your product, it shouldn’t be a lie, should it be? Aren’t there already laws against false advertising? I guess I’m naïve, expecting products to be advertised truthfully without the Chamber of Commerce needing to give them a bronze, silver, or gold stamp of approval, but it seems like this is a problem that shouldn’t exist.

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U-G-L-Y You Ain't Got No Alibi, Park Slope Ladies

Last week someone on an anonymous mom forum called You Be Mom had something to say about the women of Park Slope. She called us unattractive.

My first reaction was to get defensive.  I mean, I live in Park Slope. A bunch of my friends and coworkers live or have lived in Park Slope. We are all pretty damn attractive, thank you very much. And let’s be clear, everyone is attractive, regardless of whether they conform to society’s idea of “attractive,” because attraction is relative. But then I kept reading, and the poster’s meaning became clearer: she cares about what she looks like when she walks down the street, and the rest of us women in Park Slope don’t, and therefore are frumps. So it’s not about our inherent beauty, it’s about grooming and presentation.

Now, it seems as if she is not judging these women when she’s out at a fancy restaurant for dinner, or at a bar watching people hit on each other, or, God forbid, at these women’s jobs, all places where women (and, you know, people in general) usually endeavor to look nice and on some occasions, attractive. No, she is judging them out on the streets of Park Slope.

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Cool or Not Cool: Gotcha Ad For "The World's Toughest Job"

Image via rehtom.netThere’s a video that went viral this week called “The World’s Toughest Job”. If you haven’t seen it, watch it now so you know what I’m talking about. If you get bored, just skip to 2:45 (aka the punch line).  

All right, so we all know that FIPSters are a mix of breeders and ballers. How do the breeders out there feel about this? Warm fuzzies and tears, or eye rolls and gagging? 

I think it's sickeningly sweet, but as a baller who just spent an awesome weekend hanging out with her mom, there WAS a part of me that went awwww. Then I wondered why this isn’t also a tribute to dads. American Greetings, why the sexism? I know this is a Mother’s Day ad, but you could’ve made it about parents and then used it for Father’s Day, too. I’m just looking out for you guys, you really need to manage your marketing budget better.

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