COOP SHAME TSHIRTS, THE REDUX

Fuck being out of town for a wedding, cause I end up spending a million dollars and then end up missing shit like this: COOP SHAME TEES.

FIPS set the trend by featuring this shit, but now everyone is jumping on board...and quite deservedly. Cause it looks like my holiday shopping is all done for the year (Grandma, I apologize in advance, but this is really better than those bath salts).

Take your pick among the best, because you know you missed your damn shift and liked it: 

-Suspended at the Coop

-Grace Period at the Coop

-On Alert at the Coop

Oh yeah, and end hunger in Brooklyn while you're at it: a percentage of the proceeds goes to a Brooklyn hunger-relief charity.  Seriously.  Making fun of people while feeding the needy?  It doesn't get better than that.

Park Slope is fucking famous, guys.

Ring ring, paging Adrian Grenier?  Hit us up and we'll buy you one so you can wear it loud and proud, you cheat.

Now, next order of business: one of you single Slope boys (yes, all of five of you) has to knock me up so I can make brilliant use of that hot pink Got Kombucha? onesie.

Get em while they're hot here.

Meredith is a freelance writer who can often be found yelling at her computer in the Tea Lounge while editing her first novel.  She lives on the border of Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, depending on who you ask (but defends Terrace Bagels to the death, regardless).  She self-indulgently writes about  all of these things on her personal blog, Meredithturits.tumblr.com.

In Which We Finally Get Over Our Crush on Jonathan Safran Foer

We still have a bit of a soft spot in our hearts for Park Slope author Jonathan Safran Foer cause he interned for us-n-shit, but ever since his "Park Slope restaurants are miserable" comment, we've kinda been keeping our distance. And, yeah: we've definietly taken notice of some of the recent haterade floating around the interwebs toward him and his new book Eating Animals.

Without naming names, everyone mostly hates it.

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John Hodgman Thinks 'Geek Culture' Will Rule

In a recent interview with the Kansas City News, our fave Park Slope expert on all things everwhere, John Hodgman, explains that though we all used to all embrace the "Jock model" of competition and strength, the future is gonna be all about idolizing and embracing the geeks and the nerds:

"Jockdom is very noble. It’s not deliberative. It’s certainly the best way to win wars. It’s the best way to motivate teams of people to fulfill a goal — not just war, but getting things done. The most important way to motivate a factory floor. But as you know, we’re not as much of a manufacturing society as we were before. China and other big industrial nations are rewarding their nerds and technicians rather than creating a culture that makes fun of them — it would be wise for us to embrace the book-smart as much as our culture has traditionally embraced the street-smart, the jock-smart. I’m not saying nerds must have their revenge; I’m just saying the time for wedgies is at an end."

I don't know about you, but its pretty obvs that this is *already* happening.

I mean, on Glee the cheerleaders have joined up with the Glee club and the former nerds are now becoming cool. The "slushie in the face" attacks have already been greatly reduced. So yeah...we think Hodgman is right on the money.

(via PSFK)

Adrian Grenier Reads FIPS!

Check out what he said on Grub Street yesterday about working his Coop shifts:

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UPDATE: Jonathan Ames Wants Our Tivo

Yeah, so its looking like Jonathan Ames *might* be down for taking our Tivo.

Dream big, people! Soon after posting our Tivo offer yesterday morn, I received the above tweet back from JA himself.

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