WHASSUP: Shit Goin' on This Weekend & Beyond

Japandroids at Siren 2009 (*insert Bikini Island reference*) by Jonathan McPhail.

Since you all pack your social calendars miraculously far in advance, here's a heads up on some of the stuff happening in and around the Slope this weekend and early next week.  Feel free to add your own haps in the comments, and, please, invite us all to your buddy's rooftop party without his consent.

*Saturday, July 17: Siren Fest.  Not that this is news to any of you all, but if you're planning on dealing with humanity on Saturday, here's the lineup.  It's free, so you can spend all of your money on booze and the public drunkenness summons with which you'll get stuck.

*Sunday, July 18: Flashwalk.  The second-annual five-borough-plus-Jersey walk covers 43 miles, and takes 14 hours.  So, if you're feeling particularly masochistic on Sunday, the crew's meeting up at Grand Army Plaza @ 6am.  Route details and the answer to "Why in the hell are people doing this?" here.

*Tuesday, July 20: Feast of Music.  Alan Licht, Noveller, Fair Use, Kathleen Supové @ Littlefield on Degraw between Third and Fourth Aves.  Details here, and remember, FIPS is not responsible for any trouble you get into west of Fourth Ave.

Anything else, gang?

Fucked in Prospect Park? MIH Heatwave BBQ, The Sequel

Any of you OG's around here may recall the MIH Heatwave BBQ last summer around this time in Prospect Park. For those that need to be caught up, here's what went down:

Some co, MIH Ventures, threw a GIGANTIC BBQ in the park, without a permit, and then had the audacity to leave that bitch looking like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Trash was E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E and I mean everywhere. The park looked like it got date raped after some sorority party, and it literally took a team of volunteers days to get it looking like normal again. Needless to say, the Parks Dept was none too pleased, and our lil ole post got over 100 comments from various, angry-n-pissed off BKers.

Well a crafty FIPS reader has done her research and alerted us to the fact that this shit is going down AH-gain this Sunday, July 18th.

Jayzus.

Ok, I've got a few questions:

1. Do these MIH Venture bitches have a permit this time around??
2. If they DO have a permit, HOW THE FUCK DID THEY GET ONE after the shitshow that was left last year?
3. If they *do* have a permit, and the Parks Dept was smoking crack long enough to actually issue them one, what measures are being taken this year to avoid turning Prospect Park into a rotting garbage barge again?

UPDATE: They do have a permit!? Uhm, how???

People are already getting pissy about this (myself included) and the damn thing hasn't even gone down. So fine: If MIH Ventures HAS gone ahead with plans to be responsible, manage their trash and not act like a little bitch this year, then I will stand corrected.

But as of now, know this: we are watching you "Heatwave BBQ"...and we're ready to bring down the wrath of Khan on your asses if you leave our park looking like Three Mile fucking island.

You've been warned.

HEY PROSPECT PARK: WE WANT FIREWORKS & WE WANT EM NOWWWWW!

Dear Prospect Park,

Whadda we gotta do to get some fireworks up in this bitch!?

Look: we appreciate the fact that you guys do fireworks on New Year's Eve...only no we really don't. Cause we're all out getting drunk-n-high and we don't even notice them. Point is, when most people think fireworks, they think July 4th! Fireworks and July 4th go together like shanananana rama lama ding dong...peanut butter and jelly...Lindsay Lohan and cocaine.

And I *know* that fireworks are expensive as shit, and you probs got to get all sorts of profesh peeps to set em off and stuff, but I guess what I'm wondering (and what I would assume ALL of Brooklyn is probably wondering today) is whether maybe you'd be open to switching shit up?

Like could we mebbe trade New Year's fireworks for July 4th fireworks?

It could be like a whole big Brooklyn event!

And, yeah, I'm guessing you can't compete with the bazillion dollar fireworks show that Macy's is putting on, but who gives a rat's ass! We could turn this bitch into a whole big, bad ass BK celebration! Fuck Manhattan!

Maybe you could even do some big all day festival where diff BK food vendors could set up throughout the park...or even along PPW. We could shut that whole motherfucker down and just have an all day fun fest. And if you can't afford to go hog wild on fireworks, schedule one of the cool ass Celebrate Brooklyn Shows for that night as a prequel. Then no one will even notice that your fireworks display is wimpy.

Point is, we don't even really give a shit...we just don't want to have to get on the subway to go to Manhattan. And I'm guessing there are a lotttt of other lazy assed motherfuckers like myself that would be all over that Prospect Park fireworks shit too.

What do you think, Prospect Park? Would you bitches be down?

Love,

FIPS

[Who the fuck's with me?? If you agree, sign your leave a comment below...this thing could kinda be like our own lil petition].

Is ProPark Doing Fireworks, or What?

I can't find any information on whether or not Prospect Park is doing fireworks on the Fourth of July.

Anyone got the scoop?

NYC Food Film Festival: Review

The Fourth Annual NYC Food Film Festival showed up in DUMBO this past weekend, and maybe it was the food, maybe it was the fact that I am ridiculously in love with DUMBO, maybe it was the heat stroke affecting the part of my brain that controls all cognitive reasoning—but I really liked this festival.

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