BREEDER DILF Suicide Contagion?

Can we call it a contagion yet? Why are all these supposedly successful middle-aged dads jumping out of their manhattan high-rises? First there was the UES daddy architect, and now an NYU professor!?

Is this yet one more advantage of living in Park Slope? (there aren’t enough high buildings to off yourself via high jump--in front of your effing kids no less).

This is really kind of creeping me out. I’m glad Erica talked me out of the annual fundraising appeal I was planning for the “give my husband a proper midlife crisis” foundation (text MLC911 to make a tax-deductible donation of $5, 100% of proceeds to actual relief). He might have tried to leap off our 4th floor fire escape in a huff of male hormones and emasculation.

But, really. WTF?

'Is There No Fabulous Left in Park Slope??' [PSP BREEDER RANT]

There are many, many good reasons to shell out the $25 smackers required to sign your baby making ass up for Park Slope Parents.

There are tips on how to "Ferberize" your bebes, women ready, willing, and able to answer any breastfeeding query you might have, suggestions on great piano teachers in the area, and rec's for good nannies. But my most favorite-ist thing about PSP by far, is when people post shit like this little gem:

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CREEPY STUFFED-ANIMAL GRAVEYARD = FREE WITH PURCHASE OF $1.2 MIL. BROWNSTONE

photo via @AxelMurillo

There’s much to love about living on 12^th St.: Excellent neighborhood bar up at 8^th Ave.; all-night greasy diner at 7^th Ave.; two nearby wine shops; GRAB (fill my growler!); plenty of strollers to “accidentally” kick outside of Union Market, etc.

Things to hate: The trashy locals near 7^th Ave. who hang out on their stoop all day, every day that the temperature is above 40F; AND the stuffed-animal graveyard in front of the house at 364 12^th--which is now for sale for $1.2 million smackaroos.

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Does This Kate Spade Bag Look Park Slope-ish?

Cause Kate Spade thinks it does.

It's called the "Park Slope Brennan," and here's how they describe this shit:

Manhattanites ogle from across the river at Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, where tree lined streets and brownstones mix with artisanal eateries and boutiques. Meticulously crafted in vibrant smooth cowhide, this breezy hobo style is easy-to-wear and deceptively roomy, to make everything from your phone and keys to your vintage lomo camera snug and stylish. Noel jacquard lining adds a final luxe flourish.

Wow.

This has actually never happened before, but I think Kate Spade just left me speechless.

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Big Dick in Park Slope

Big Dick in Park Slope from David Livingston on Vimeo.

We get a lot of email here at FIPS HQ, but the one we received today from artist David Livingston alerting us to his onging art project "Big Dick" *might* just be our favorite.

Here's the premise: Livingston wears a 6 foot long flaccid felt penis (stuffed with sofa upholstery, of course), and walks around various NYC neighborhoods documenting people's reactions. Oh yeah, and in "Big Dick in Park Slope," he's also wearing a doll in a baby bjorn.

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