[LINKED] Christmas Haters; & Voting For Robicelli's Cupcakes

+ How you know you live in Park Slope (Neurotic Girl).

+ If you've always dreamed of going to see a flute rock band, you should check out Bike Lane...you know, named after the PPW bike lane controversh. And if you think I'm kidding, you really don't know me at ALL (Brooklyn Paper).

+ There's a dude who hates Christmas and guess what: he lived in Park Slope! (City Room).

+ Great roundup of movies shot in Park Slope (What You Don't Know Because You're Not Me).

+ I'm loving these Brooklyn-centric tshirts (BQT).

+ Robicelli's Cupcakes are up for Best Cupcake Shop in NYC...even though they don't have a shop. You should vote for them (Serious Eats).

+ Speaking of fancy cakes, if you want to make em, apparently Brooklyn is the place to be (NYT).

+ Dispose of your Xmas trees humanely...trees have feelings too (Youtube).

+ Ok, that tragedy on the G Train last week was all sorts of horrendous, however, this blogger has got it pretty right on: How the hell did the guy manage to get hit by a G train!? "It’s like jumping out a plane over the middle of the North Atlantic, and being impaled on the tusk of a narwhal...it runs with the frequency it takes Neptune to circle the sun, and the predictability of Zelda Fitzgerald" (Ink Lake).