A Vote For Julio Is A Vote For Park Slope

Right. So while everyone is focused on this whole election thingy, I'm focused on another rully rully important voting matter...namely Metromix's Best NYC Bartender competish.

As it happens, MY FAVORITE-IST bartender in all of NYC has been nominated! And his ass works right here in Park Slope at the Bell House! So like if he wins, Park Slope will be the best place in NYC to live AND the best place in NYC to get plastered!

LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN PPL!

Vote for Julio here. And then vote for him again at work when you're accessing the site from a diff IP address. Then maybe stop in the Apple Store and vote for him one last time just for good measure.

He's close to taking over the lead and we need all you btchz in order to make this happen. You don't even need to register or any shit like that.

YES.

WE.

CAN!

Opossums are the New Raccoons

Ok, so technically I have not yet heard of any opossum sightings in Park Slope yet, BUT IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME, PPL.

The genius powers that be in Brooklyn decided that the best way to deal with our ever alarming rat problem in the borough was to release a crapload of opossums, who would then (logically?) tear the rats apart limb from limb with those big sharp teeth of theirs. Ok, so lemme get this straight: the sweet, non-offensive geese get their own, custom-outfitted WWII gas chamber, and the rats get to fight it out for themselves and go three rounds with the city's crack opossum squad?

Well, gues what btchz? When a rat sees an opossum coming, this is generally what they look like:

The rat's were all singin' Jay-Z songs and takin a ride on the Cyclone as the lazy assed opossums basically caught not a single one of those bitches. Oh also, they started breeding, and now we have A MOTHERFUCKING OPOSSUM PROBLEM IN BROOKLYN TOO.

I have no goddamned clue who wins in an opossum v. raccoon battle royale, but I sincerely suggest someone research that shit pronto.

Oh, and keep your doors locked, ppl: otherwise a rat, raccoon, opossum OR tornado may very well kill you.

(via Daily Intel)

FIPS CARES: Tornado Dog

Ok, ppl. Gather round and activate your Scooby sense: we've got our first lost Tornado dog!

She was found this morn at 6th Ave and Union Street by a caring Park Slope vet. She weighs about 35 pounds, has not tags (or microchip), and she's as sweet as can be. She's currently chilin at Symphony Vet Center on the UWS. And though, duh: I'm sure they're takin great care of her, we still need to get her back home to her family pronto.

Anyone??

Feel free to leave a comment below, call Symphony at 212-866-8000 or send an email to: palomacat@verizon.net if you know who this girl belongs to.

Wherin I Talk About Myself And Ask You To Do Shit For Me

So one of the perks of having a website that kajillions of people come to every day that sometimes you get to be selfish and ask for shit. Like right now, for instance.

Remember how I went to that whole SXSW bullshit in Austin last year? Well next year, I want to run a sesh there with my bud @PatriceC, and so we submitted one: How to Be a Badass Online. Needless to say, this panel will rule your face so hard it might just cause it to explode. Only hitch is, we need peeps to vote for us in order to get it through to the next round. And the bigger hitch is that in order to vote you have to fucking register for an account which, yes, is RETARDED. True story.

Anyhoo, you-n-me are all tight now and since I provide your ass with supa fly fresh content every day, maybe you can provide my ass with a motherfucking vote? Please? I swear I'm worth the 49 seconds it will take you to do this. And gigantic fucking bonus for anyone who wants to leave a comment...espesh if its one that doesn't say: ERICA IS AN ASSHOLE AND I WOULD NEVER GO TO ANY STUPID FUCKING PANELS OF HERS.

Allllllso.

I'm teaching this class at Mediabistro this Fall: Intro to Blogging. And if you have any interest whatsoever in learning how to blog hard, you should totally sign up. And even if you don't want to sign-up, you should tell your friends about it. Or write about it on your blog...or Tweet about it. Cause even though I've never taught a class before in my life, I'm hoping guaranteeing this one won't suck.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

HELP: MISSING DOG

Ok, so yeah: it's all dogs all the time around here lately, but suck it up. This little guy is missing and we need to keep our eyes open. Here's the scoop:

He got out of our house late Sunday night on St. Mark's Ave btw 4th and 6th aves. He is a male dog and he responds to Dior or Biscuit (his nickname). He is almost all black but has a white stripe on his chest. He weighs appx 55 to 65 pounds and is very lean for a lab.

He is diabetic and needs insulin and other medicine daily, so it is very important that if you have found him that you let us know as soon as possible otherwise he will get very very sick without receiving his medicine.

If you have any info please reach us at: 917-602-3160 or 732-614-2766

Please please please let us know if you have any idea of where he is. He is very loved, very sweet and we would be beyond grateful and provide a REWARD if you are able to help us find him.