Erica | Monday, November 23, 2009 at 12:35AM 
True confessions: I always really dig books in which the main characters are even more neurotic and fucked up than I am--and yeah, I don't really come across many. And so for that reason (plus a shitload of others), I seriously dug David Zweig's new book: Swimming Inside the Sun.
Erica | Monday, November 16, 2009 at 12:47AM 
Have you ever been eating a hot, delicious $0.40 chicken wing on "Wing Tuesday" at Buffalo Wild Wings and thought to yourself: "this is so fucking good I could seriously stab or shoot someone right now!"
Oh wait...
(via Gothamist)
Erica | Friday, November 13, 2009 at 12:33AM 
Buckle your seatbelts, bitches...its that time of year again.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn is putting together their yearly Park Slope 100 list and is looking for suggestions.
In case you're wondering what the fuck the Park Slope 100 is, voila:
"The Park Slope 100 is 100 stories, 100 ways of looking at the world, 100 inspiring people, places and things in and around Park Slope. It can be a person, a place, a thing, even an event. Let me know who, what and where was notable and powerful and 2009. One tip: I especially like people who direct their energies outward towards the better good of others in some way."
Wow, that last line TOTALLY sounds like FIPS, riiiight?
Erica | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 7:51AM 
No. 25 Amazing Baby (photo courtesy of the band for NY Mag)
So yeah: in addition to being the bloggiest borough, the best place to raise kids, the best place to be a celebrity, the best place to write a book lampooning your nabe, the best place to bring your bebe to a bar, and the best place to get laid, Brooklyn also has the best bands.
NY Mag says so.
And here are their picks for the 40 best ones.
Erica | Monday, November 2, 2009 at 6:20AM 
photo: Michael Nagle for the NYT
Wanting to participate in the marathon hooopla, with no actual desire to run, this NYT reporter dude decided to walk around his Park Slope block 75 times, covering 26.2 miles--you know, just like the NYC marathon!
I wasn't really able to pull out too many interesting tidbits from the journey he made (construction crew worked on building! 10-year-old walked her dog while reading a wizard book! A fat guy stood at his gate!), except for the fact that the reporter attempted to make this journey with his dog--a Basset Hound mix named Barnaby. And, needless to say, you know how we feel about Basset Hounds round here.
YO, Barnaby! Welcome to the Basset Hound crew of Park Slope! So far we've got: Oliver (duh), Oliver's neighborhood Basset BFF Bill, our down the street bud Rudy, a new recruit--Clementine, the marvelous little Maggie, a Basset I recently ran into at the farmer's market--Freddie, and I think Greg met a new sista recently named Precious. *If you have a Basset Hound and I've left you out, please email us immediately so that we can officially add you to the BH Park Slope Crew.
Thankfully, Barnaby was not required to walk all 75 laps around the block, because then Barnaby would be probably be dead (a 5k would be pretty frigin challenging for a Basset).
Anyway.
So this fake all-day marathon happened in Park Slope last week with a NYT reporter and his dog, and then the *real* NYC marathon happened yesterday.
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