Mani/Pedi Smackdown: Put Your Best Foot Forward...

It's that time again for the females of Park Slope. We need some pruning and beautification and we need it NOW. Preferably minus these rugrats!

Because—as has been previously noted, I'm LAZY—I generally don't stray very far for the mani/pedi/waxing/massagey. It's usually Seven Nails, which I really kind of hate for the insincere smarm factor (and the price), or the one above the market on 7th btwn Carroll and Garfield, which I kind of love (but it's also a lot 'o money). What is that place called, anyway?

My friend Karen, however, thinks these joints are highway robbery and won't set her dainty toes in a nail salon below 9th Street. She's been taking Spanish lessons from her pedicurist somewhere around 12th Street. It's a 2 for 1 deal, I guess.

So, show us your toes please! Review your fave and least fave PS nail salons in the comments. 

Seltzer Bo-oy-oy, Where Are You Hi-i-ding?

photo: via NYTSo, I LOVE that people still get seltzer delivered. My mom, an honorary Jew, but really a Park Slop Sicilian, can't get enough of it. She waxes on about the egg creams of her youth (a beverage that makes me barf a little in my mouth).

Anyway, I regularly see this mystifying nostalgia truck parked around the hood loaded with cases of bottles. Ronny Beberman, aka Seltzer Man of Brooklyn, sells the shit (I mean nectar of the gods) for $25/case of 10 siphon bottles every two weeks, delivered to your door.

"It's like night and day," said one subscriber. According to seltzer dude's wife, who seems to be in charge of marketing and new sales and was hoping for one in me (sorry!), it's more fizzy and won't go flat like regular store-bought, it's good for the environment, and it tastes way better without the plastic bottle flavor.

So, if you've got a yen for the fizzy (and i don't mean lizzy), help keep Ronny in business. He's at 718.464.6408.

WHO GIVES A SHIT: COMING SOON TO PARK SLOPE?

Ok, take note:

NONE OF THIS SHIT is actually coming to Park Slope...Y-E-T.

But, hello future business owners: WE NEED THIS STUFF! ALL OF IT!

So, yeah: here's my list of restaurants/businesses/services that *should* be in Park Slope, but are not:

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Garbage Men Are Lazy?

Am I missing something, or are the garbage men supposed to PICK UP the garbage, and like take it away somewhere?

Yes?

OK, so then WHY THE FUCK are the streets of Park Slope waaaaay dirtier right *after* the garbage men come then they are before they get here???

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Daym, Brooklyn Kitchens!

pic via Domino Mag (has nothing to do w/Brooklyn Kitchens, but its pretty, right?)

This shit might even be worse than the disturbing tales of woe uncovered by Eric at the Mac Support Store.

Apparently Brooklyn Kitchen & Baths, a kitchen/bath contractor and supplier on 5th Ave, has been inspired by the handiwork of Bernard Madoff, and is running their own lil' Ponzi scheme right here in Park Slope. Yikes.

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