This Weekend in WTF...

Was it REALLY necessary to disturb my hard-fought beauty rest this morning with a pre-dawn reveille of "sonata for snow plow in reverse?" As far as I can tell, the two plus hours of snow schlepping did precisely nothing, nada, niente, BUPKUS to actually clear the block of its plentiful snow drifts.

Smart Ass: Whoever did this, WE LOVE YOU.

Yes, some crazy kid moved the psychic reader & advisor sign to the front
door of Temple Beth Elohim and we want to give you a big shout-out for comic relief. Runner up: whoever carved the naked, bodacious lady sculpture in Long Meado in Prospect Park (sorry...diidn't have the camera handy for that one).

Random Notes Around Town [Good Samaritans]

Not even totally sure WTF this actually means (saved my bacon? Like I guess she means her money?), but I think we can all agree that this is just one of the many, many, many reasons that Park Slope is so darn fabulous (and I mean that in a totally non-ironic way). (Yes, REALLY!).

(via @chrispetescia)

Anyone Wanna Start Taking Bets About When Bussaco Is Gonna Close?

photo: Brownstoner

R'uh R'oh. This in from Eater:

"Since her exit of three months, sales have plummeted to under a third when Katy [Sparks] was present. Now employees have received bouncing checks for the past four weeks. One waitress was held captive by a Park Slope Check Casher when trying to cash a paycheck last week. The check Casher was screaming that the restaurant owed him “much money”. The head chef and sous chef both walked out, understandably after not being paid for some time."

I mostly just walk by this place on my way to brunch at Scottadito ($14.99 for brunch AND unlimited mimosas!), but bouncing checks on your employees?! That shit is so not cool.

Snowicane! Snowpocalypse! SnOMG! [via Twitter]

"Partly snowy, with a chance of snow, followed by widely scattered snow." @MattSemel (pic mine)

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Fried Robicelli's Cupcakes...In Your MOUTHS [Cupcakegate 2K10: The Resolution]

photo: Brooklyn Paper

Remember a few weeks back when we all got excited as hell to go eat fried Robicelli cupcakes at the Chip Shop? And then we all went to the Chip Shop and they were like "huh??" And then we blogged about it, and instead of saying they were the sorry, the Chip Shop kinda lied and said "we have no idea what you are talking about, so this was probably some publicity stunt." And then we went back to hating the shit out of the "predatory" Chip Shop again, and suggesting you do the same?

Yeah, well none of that changes the fact that Park Slope STILL has not had their chance to try DELICIOUS, DEEP FRIED ROBICELLI CUPCAKES!

But on Friday, March 5, all that changes!

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