COOL OR NOT COOL: Gettin' Busy At The Park Slope Food Coop?

Once in a long while, an article about Park Slope comes across my laptop screen that is just so damn mind-bending in it's own perfectly crafted galactical absurdity, it scrambles my brain a little bit. Like it starts to feel as if the myriad of possibilities for making fun of this shit--this neighborhood we live in and all the people who live in it--is just completely overwhelming. IT'S TOO BIG FOR EVEN THIS BLOG TO HANDLE.

Such is the case with The New York Observer's nuanced exploration into the dark underbelly of the singles scene at your favorite judge-y work camp market and mine: the Park Slope Food Coop. Lest you think the Coop is only good for inane PA announcements or #768 (or whatever the fuck the number is) plastic recycling days, think again, ppl. Because apparently now your 2.75 hours of monthly avocado counting and orange vest walking responsibilities are not the only Coop-y things you have to look forward to. No siree, Sufjan! Here's yet another item to add to your ever growing "Reasons Why The Coop Rocks" Google tasks list: singles events!

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The Park Slope Food Coop Loves Itself, Hates The Onion

Don't even THINK about putting a flyer for your stupid band's show here. It is NOT welcome. 

(Thanks to Carmen for sending via Twitter!)

"Food Coop" Google Results Produce Interesting Advertisement

Google "Park Slope Food Coop" and peep the advertisement that comes up in the search snippet. The result is bound to harden your salami. To juice your pickle. To shoot cream from your cannoli. Dick joke.

[Via Twitter User Mike Epstein / Gothamist]

Cool or Not Cool: Banning Israeli Products?

Photo by Park Slope Lens

I'm shit sure that if you're a regular reader of this blog, this is not the first you've heard of a proposal to ban Israeli products sold at the Coop. As a matter of fact, for something that hasn't even been put to a GD vote yet -- and been beaten to death for almost three years -- it's still a weekly topic on quite a few NY blogs: Gothamist and FIPS have recently gone a few rounds with it. And this week The New York Observer, who has been a staunch voice of opposition to the boycott, ran Kiera Feldman's piece  Waging Nonviolence in support of the Israel boycott... I guess to prove how grown-up they can be. 

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Walmart Is Pretty Much The Park Slope Food Coop

Walmart, in an effort to convince New Yorkers that we absolutely MUST HAVE the big-box store in our five boroughs, is trying to appeal to the Park Sloper-set, says the New York Observer. Long cock-blocked from setting up shop in NYC, Walmart is trying to woo New Yorkers with their promise of such urban trendy delights like eating sustainable organic fruit or protecting the environment and feeding the hungry. 

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