Entries in Around BK (126)
Cliches & Brooklyn
Erica | Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 7:57AM 
This Recording, a blog which I know (and love deeply), posted this piece by former Gawker editor Emily Gould: In Which Emily Gould is Bored to Death With Brooklyn Cliches.
UGH.
Seriously, gag me, people.
Hey, Brooklyn: My Podcast Debut
Erica | Monday, October 5, 2009 at 2:08PM 
I was recently interviewed by the lovely Amber (from The Amber Show) for her rad podcast, Hey, Brooklyn. Each week she interviews creative peeps who are living and working in the BK, and this week that peep she interviewed was me.
Wow, podcasting is TOTALLY FUCKING FUN, y'all. I had no idea. Kinda makes me want to do a podcast of my own, except: oh yeah...I'm totally fucking lazy.
Anyway, listen up right here.
Around BK, Erica Rulez YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
Effed in Park Slope | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 1:09AM 
Hey FIPS,
Like most New Yorkers, I'm generally pissed off during my morning subway commute. I'm not really sure if it's because I'm not much of a morning person (who is, really?), or if it's because 90% of other
people irritate the fuck out of me, but either way, I'm pretty pissy during the 30 minute daily R/N am transfer trip. And lately, it's gotten to the point where I'm worried I'm going to lose it on a complete stranger.
It's not the usual subway crazies that I can't handle: Homeless guy defecating in the corner? Sure. Masturbating perv? Put it away, but feel free to stay. Fat people taking up two seats? Breeders taking up
the whole aisle with their strollers? Running kids with seemingly no adult supervision? Young people who don't get up for pregnant women or old people? Rude morons who don't move in from the doors and then yell at you for asking them to? People who smell? People who blast their iPods too loud? Hip-hop dance crews? That one asshole who needs to push his/her way to the door 5 minutes before you're even at the
station? Thank you all for being here. You keep things interesting. Heck, I'll even take the fingernail clipper! It's disgusting, but at least it's something to see when I'm not busy eavesdropping on the conversation next to me of the angry couple fighting, or reading your Star magazine over your shoulder.
No, the subway ride itself isn't riling me up. It's walking into the subway. Going down those stairs and pushing past the lazy people who don't seem to understand the urgency of having to catch that train
that's pulling in the station is one thing. But at the Park Slope 4th/9th Street Station (and I'm sure a ton of other neighborhood stations), there's a whole new obstacle: The political candidate.
Around BK, guest post, ongoing beefs Amy Sohn Controversh, Part Deux: 'Don't Hate the Player, Smartmom, Hate The Game'
Erica | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 12:37AM 
Just to recap: Park Slope rez and former sex columnist Amy Sohn wrote a book called Prospect Park West that satirizes the stroller mafia, SAHM lifestyle that's so prevalent in our neighborhood. The whole book takes place in Park Slope, and all of the typical Park Slope stereotypes (helicopter moms, sexless marriages, crazies at the Coop, etc) are served up on a silver platter like a warm plate of homemade chocolate chip cookies. And yes people, it really is that delicious. I loved the shit out of this book, but others (like Smartmom, Louise Crawford) seem to hate the living crap out of it.
In fact, Smartmom hates the book so much, she recently wrote a scathing review published in the Brooklyn Paper: "Another Slope Swipe From Amy Sohn." Mind you, this was after she published a lengthy takedown of the novel on her own blog, written in a bizarre Q&A style that made it seem like she was being interviewed for the post...only she was interviewing herself. I guess she forgot that one usually tends to get interviewed after WRITING a book...not simply reading one.
Anyway.
Amy Sohn, Around BK, blognigger, blogs, celebs 
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