FIPS CARES: Pull Up Your Pants, Dumbass!

My Homie!!!!  My Homey??!!!! 

Whatever…you are my personal hero, State Senator Eric Adams of Brooklyn.

Senator Adams, we at FIPS applaud your noble, maybe even tireless campaign to STOP THE SAG with your purchase of six billboards to combat this ridonculously enduring fashion trend. 

We join you in calling out to the youth and plumbers of Brooklyn to pull up your goddamned pants!

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Gowanus Canal Goo: It Doesn't Get Much More Toxic Than This, Ppl

Cleaning the Canal from Characters of Gowanus on Vimeo.

This shit eats through heavy duty plastic...and gawd knows what else.

[Sidenote: guess the Gowanus Canal is the obvious choice, if you ever need to dispose of a body?...jus sayin].

Snow Day

The Snowman from Li Perez-Rey on Vimeo.

LOVE this time lapse vid! It's a day in the life of a snowman in Prospect Park shot on Feb 26-27, 2010.

(via Gatomedia)

Open House NYC: Best in Bad Local TV

I stumbled upon my architect husband watching this Open House NYC shit Sunday morning (WNBC, 8:30am), and it was hard for me to tear my eyes from the realtor's cleavage long enough to see the awesomely overdone house she was hokking (sp?) hocking.

I LOVE this show. Love it!

Have you seen this? Do you love it too? What's your favorite bad local tv show?

Boyz to Men: Mating for Minors

I don’t know if the “treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen” approach is genetically encoded into male DNA or what, but watching the mating rituals of 6th graders has truly been a revelation.
 
Since around 3rd grade, the girls have been circling ever closer, ever more fervently. But lately they’ve begun to explode, one by one into a mass of body odor, hormones and passionate need (desperation?).
 
Although 6th graders are all over the growth chart, the girls are often so far ahead of the boys, it’s mind-boggling. Meanwhile, the hottie boys are all easy to spot as they seem to develop, through pure instinct, the powerful pull of indifference and disdain. Or possibly cluelessness...its still unclear.

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