United Methodist Church Book Sale...and Bedbugs?

So, one of my fave events of the year is coming up: The United Methodist Church Book Sale.

On Saturday February 26th and Sunday February 27th, the UMC, located on 6th Ave and 8th street will hold their annual killer book sale. And trust me: this thing is PHENOMENAL. It's crowded, and people are pushy, and you will be counting the moments until you get out of there; but also it's one of the most amazing book sales my ass has ever been to.

Here's what I got last year...and here's the year before.

They replenish the supplies all day, and there are mountains of high quality, interesting, CHEAP ASS books.

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TERROR ON SEVENTH AVENUE

Dear Dipshit who left a MOTHERFUCKING BEDBUG RIDDEN MATTRESS just chillin upside down out on 7th Ave and 3rd Street this morn,

Uhm, thanks for the note, but the fact that you left this vile, infested, disease missile sitting there without first wrapping it in a hazmat suit, inside of plastic, inside a layer of of bedbug killing film (has anyone invented this yet??), makes me want to murder you and your family with a rusty, dipped in AIDS germs ax.

Love,
Erica (and I'm guessing also your Park Slope neighbors)

LINKED: junkslope

Further proof that there is now a Tumblr for EVERY-FUCKING-THING, behold: Junk Slope. A visual record of all the shit that people leave out on the streets and stoops of Park Slope.

Of course, ALL I can think as I scroll through the photos is: how many bedbugs are crawling around all that shit??

IN-FIPS-TIGATION: Why The Pavilion Movie Theatre is a Dump

image via nycsoleICYMI, there were some lively discussions in the comments of our Pavilion theater post last week. 

The co-managers of that craptastical theater were offering their apologies for the broken seats and lack of heat, and trying to share the current state of affairs over there. Basically they claimed that: their hands are tied unless their budget requests for making repairs/upgrades are approved by their "holding company."

A few of you btchz got curious about this "holding company" sitch, and that's where the research began. FIPS reader Brad, in fact,  is a regular Sherlock Holmes apparently, and so he managed to bang out a pretty detail rich account of what *seems* to be going on over there. He attempted to get quotes from both the Pavilion managers and someone at the holding company, but no one called him back. Here's the scoop as best as Brad can piece it together:

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Bedbugs At The Pavilion: An Official Statement

I got emailed yesterday by about a dozen concerned BREEDERS, all of whom were nice enough to pass along this juicy official statement (that appeared on PSP) from the managers of, what has quickly become, the worst movie theater in Brooklyn: The Pavilion.

This shit is actually kinda juicy: they talk bedbugs, they talk spooge covered purple seats, and they even allude to "proposed improvements." But yeah: in case you're wondering, they *do* seem to realize how hard the place sucks:

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