FIPS Was There: Meat The Butcher Dinner

Park Slope's favorite butcher shop, Fleisher's, teamed up with Ditmas Park's favorite restaurant, The Farm on Adderley, to present a special Butcher's Dinner, with five meat-tastic courses of delicious and responsible delicious responsibility.  And FIPS was there!

I've been to other special dinners at The Farm, and I'm here to tell you--they're well worth the trip out of the Slope. The format is casual: good eatin'. And speaking of, well, uh...good eatin,' Joshua Applestone might have the name of a Revolutionary War veteran, but he's actually a former vegan-turned-butcher. He heads up Fleisher's Grass Fed and Organic Meats, and he was on-hand to walk us through the ins-and-outs of responsible meat-eating.

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Shock of the Century: Park Slope is Identified as Gentrification Poster Child.

image via slate.comSlate's economics blog, Moneybox, did a re-blog of a NYTimes piece, and in that re-blog, Slate asserted that Park Slope is the poster child for a new, heretofore unheard of trend--i.e., "People Being Priced Out of Neighborhoods."  Seriously.  This has never happened before, in the History of Real Estate.  It is officially a New Thing.  And, it's all about Park Slope.

Here are things that I would like to say about this article, in no particular order of importance: 

• Is this, or is this not all about white people buying into a neighborhood at exactly the right time? Because I used to work with some lady who bought a brownstone in the North Slope for two dollars and fifty cents cash money in 1970-whatever-it-was, and she's basically been taking equity out of that place for the past forty years. She's really happy that there are lots of restaurants nearby where she can get a sit-down meal, but she's not being priced out of the neighborhood.  She owns an awesome place that she can't afford to sell, because she'd never be able to buy a comparable place anywhere in New York City.  But, look, no one's telling her that if she doesn't move to Kensington next week, she'll be sent to prison.  So, the way I figure it, my former co-worker is doing just fine.  
• You've got a blog about economics, and you call it "Moneybox?"  That sounds to me like a word a hooker would use, when referring to her hoo-haw.  As in, "You wanna put it in my moneybox, it'll cost you."  I hate typing that, because it's sexist to even think such things. And yet, I'm not the real misogynist.  Slate is.

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Who's Your Daddy? DNA Truck on Fifth Avenue and Garfield Place

photo credit: Kristen UhrichIf you happen to be a deadbeat dad living in the Slope, you should avoid having brunch at AOC Bistro at all costs.  This photo of a mobile paternity testing lab was taken on 5th Avenue, recently.  So, if you're avoiding paying child support on all those babies that your lying, cheating ex-girlfriend says were because of you...well, you should just find some other place in Park Slope to eat quiche lorraine.

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Filmmakers Make Sad and Lonely Documentary about Sad and Lonely Building.

"At The Corner Of 3rd and 3rd" Trailer from Max Kutner on Vimeo.

Someone's made a short documentary about that sad, lonely building on the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue, which, as it happens, is the historically landmarked New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company building, first constructed in 1873.  How do we know that the building is sad and lonely?  We listen to the music in the trailer for the documentary, that's how!

The music in the trailer is Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No.1, and it is pretty much the go-to music for any filmmaker when he, she or it wants to create a sad and lonely mood.  Gymnopédie is a French word meaning, "I twisted my ankle on the dismount and that bitch from the Ukraine edged me out for the bronze medal."  That's why the song is so sad and lonely.  For what it's worth, "Coignet" is also a French word, which, if you translate it literally to English, means "Coignet," according to Google translate. 

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NRA President Calls Park Slope a Hellish Gun Prohibitionist's Utopia.

Photo Credit: AP/Alex BrandonWe reported earlier about the NRA's publication of it's "Enemies List," featuring a couple of Park Slope celebs. Well, the NRA's wingnuttery doesn't end there, at least as far as Brooklyn is concerned. NRA President Wayne "More Guns in Schools" LaPierre, writing for the Daily Caller, came up with this gem:

After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.

South Brooklyn, as you may know, is historically defined as encompassing areas of Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Gowanus, Boerum Hill, and, ahem, Park Slope.  So, I'll turn to you, dear, gentle FiPS reader, to ask the musical question: "What the fuck is he talking about?"  

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