Park Slope Resident Writes Book On The Shit Show That Is Modern Day Bed Bugs

Photo by Elizabeth Graham / Via the Brooklyn Paper

Did you guys know that bed bugs were almost completely obliterated after World War II when new, strong insecticides became available? Yet like cockroaches after any Apocalypse, the little fuckers only emerged stronger, which is the indestructible species that New Yorkers seem to be battling today.

Science journalist, Slope resident and 2-time bed bug survivor Brooke Borel is writing a book on the return of New York City's #1 enemy. And if you can brave the "B word" mention, she's giving a lecture at Brooklyn Brainery in Red Hook on June 27, where hopefully she'll fill us in on any Bed Bug support groups that may exist.

[Via The Brooklyn Paper]

C is for Cookiepedia: A Q&A with Brooklyn's Resident Cookie Monster, Stacy Adimando

Let me ask you this: is there a better way to eat the negative feelings you have about your stupid job and your stupid life than via a bag full of cookies to the face? 

Yes, there is: eating your feelings via a batch of delicious HOMEMADE cookies to the face.   

Luckily for you, Brooklyn writer Stacy Adimando breaks it all down in her newly-released book, The Cookiepedia.  We're talking 50 delicious recipes and enough food porn to put the Keebler Elves out of business forever. 

Read on for a ridiculous Q&A where Adimando humors my asinine questions and lets me Photoshop her very professional headshot in with the Cookie Monster.  If you make it all the way to the end without going to the store to buy a bag of Oreos, you'll have a chance to win a copy of The Cookiepedia for free.

Your feelings?  Eaten.  Your waistline?  Let's not talk about it.

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Another Little Piece of Gary Shteyngart, Now, Baby

I'm among the throngs who've just cracked open Gary Shteyngart's newest, Super Sad True Love Story.  (On a totally unrelated note, turns out reading In Cold Blood while fighting off an anesthesia hangover is basically the worst idea ever.)

Anyway, in an interview with NY1, clearly the only news channel after my own heart, turns out Mr. Fancy Pants Bestseller himself accidentally gifted his reject pages to my own fine avenue in our beloved little neighborhood: 

Shteyngart says he was so upset with an early version of his first book that he chucked it -- 500 pages in the garbage. One problem though, the bag broke as it was being carried out to the dumpster.

"Seventh Avenue in Park Slope was covered with my manuscript from one end to the other, pages fluttering around. Stupidly I put Gary Shteyngart at the top of every page if some editor should see it. My friends would walk around and say 'Page 230 is looking pretty good here,'" says Shteyngart.

Did I find any of these pages floating around?  No.  If I had, would I have paused for a moment and considered turning them in to my agent?  No comment.

Sure, Gary doesn't live 'round here (Gary, we're on a first name basis, FYI), but I'm thinking that JSF better watch his back.  I have a hunch we're all in the mood for a new literary sweetheart.  Also, use better trash bags, gang.

(Image via Marny Smith)

I NEED ANSWERS: WHY DOES THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY LITERALLY STINK?

Jobs, healthcare, babies in bars?  No, the real question on tap: why does the entire main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library (at Grand Army) smell like body odor?

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Moregasm Giveaway

Our buds at Babeland have a new book out, and if you're still bitter about listening to your neighbors have sex all the time, seems like you should treat yourself to this: Moregasm: Babeland's Guide To Mind Blowing Sex.

One of the co-authors and co-founders of Babeland, Claire Cavanah, will be speaking about all the good stuff in the book (and who knows what else?) tomorrow night at the Park Slope Babeland store at 7pm.

But in the meantime, we have one of these suckers to GIVE AWAY to one of your lucky asses!

Here's how to win it: leave a comment below with your suggestion for the best place in Park Slope to get it on. Funniest/kinkiest/weirdest one wins the book (you have until 6pm 3/2, so hurry up).

I might even have Meredith judge this shit, since she's so single-n-ready-to-mingle.

Ok, got it? Are we clear?

And make sure to check out the Babeland event tomorrow night!

Moregasm: Babeland’s Guide to Mind-Blowing Sex
A talk with co-author, Claire Cavanah

Tuesday, March 2, 7pm, free
Babeland Brooklyn, 462 Bergen Street
Can you have great sex without an orgasm? Why are we still debating the existence of the G-spot? Brooklyn’s own Claire Cavanah, co-author of Moregasm: Babeland’s Guide to Mind-Blowing Sex and co-founder of Babeland, shares stories and talks about why we need the Babeland Bill of Rights.