Who Gives a Shit: BALLER Perks?

Ok, so spill it: what's your favorite perk of being a BALLER and getting to do whatever the fuck you want, WHENEVER you want?

For me, hands down, its traveling. I love, love, love, the fact that Greg and I can take trips to exotic locales, stay in nice hotels, get drunk at dinner, and stay out late...IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Being a BALLER is an international pursuit, ppl.

Speaking of, in my quest to be all cool-n-travel-y, I became obsessed with the Jauntsetter newsletter. Have you signed up for this bitch yet? If not, you should:

• First of all, they featured me as a Jauntsetter of the Week last week. So that rules.
• Second of all, its a killer weekly list of tips/tricks and great info about travel deal and cool places. Also it's targeted toward bitches like us who live in NYC, so all the info is R-E-L-E-V-A-N-T.

Anyway.

Yeah...so mine is travel.

What's your fave BALLER perk?

Who Gives A Shit: Catholic School Girls?

I'm sorry but it must be asked. What has happened to catholic school girls? 'Cause it can't be just me that thinks these iconic creatures (stuff of men's—and womyn's—fertile fantasies for generations) are not quite living up to their reputation. At least not in Park Slope, anyway.

And, yes, I'm heartless. I'm a bitch. I hate Catholics. I hate fat asses, my own most of all. I hate womanhood. I'm a hater. And mean too.

So, now that we've gotten that off our chests, have you gotten a load of catholic school girls lately?

Who Gives A Shit: How Much Do you Pay Your Housekeeper?

Look people: I know that I'm basically handing you the "gentrification," "rich white people have got SUCH problems," blah, blah, blah angle here, but fuck it. I need some help.

So today's question is: *if* you are one of those sonofabitches who is lucky enough to have a housekeeper:

• How much do you pay?
• How big is your apt?
• How often does he/she come?

That's it.

Here are our specs: We have a 1bd apt (690sf) and I want someone to come every *other* week. We have a dog (obvi) but that's our only challenge. I found someone who I really like, but she wants to charge me $100 and I kind of feel like that's highway robbery. But WTF do I know? (don't answer that).

I started inquiring on Twitter last night and so far have gotten the following responses:

• "$80 for 2 bd, every 2 weeks. However, stinky teen boys reside here."
• "I pay $80 for a 3 br, 2 bath."
• "Mine is 80 dollars for a one-bedroom. also she is awesome and cleans out my fridge."
• "$60 every other week for a 2br."
• "We pay $100 which is a deal since we have 4 fur people and male in house."
• "We pay $70 for a 2br/2 bath apt with 1100 square feet.
• "20$ an hour for 3 hours."
• $15 an hour (she just started last week), though she only takes clients who want her to come every week; we have a 3 bedroom and it takes her 3 hours."
• "$55, also 1 BR." [daym, not sure if this dude is importing child labor from some 3rd world country that you wanna accuse me of being racist toward or what, but that's quite a deal].

So what say you guys??

WHO GIVES A SHIT: BODEG-A-THON!

Even though people may call you the GAY Deli, I still <3 you.

Here at FIPS, we're big fans of singing about the unsung heroes of our hood.  Walking to the train on this insanely beautiful morning, I stopped and thought about how much I lurve the nineteen billion places where I can stop and get coffee during my daily two block walk.  Which got me thinkin'--which is your ab-fab favorite little mini-mart around here?

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Who Gives A Shit: Do You Blog?

So Brooklyn Based, Brokelyn and I had our very first #bkblogs event last night, and I gotta say: shit was pretty off the friggin hook!

Hundreds of BK's best, brightest and bloggiest descended on the Bell House to network, get drunk, eat Lobster rolls from the Red Hook Lobster Pound, cupcakes from Robicelli's, and rock out with their co...oh, never mind.

Anyway.

Here's just *some* of what went down:

• @MikeTRose from TUAW brought his iPad and had a sea of Apple groupies gathered around him all night (NICE move dude!).
• @stfuparents, @karynmurph @saveassistants and I all formed a band: 4-non Preggers.
• Dorothy from @Jauntsetter came up with this killer idea for an Italian club! (let's do it!).
• @theambershow figured out that a @robicellis cupcake is only 5 points by plugging in all of the ingredients to our WW iPhone app (YESSSSS!).
• @hipgirls chatted everyone up, despite the fact that she had a deadline tomorrow morn...FOR HER UPCOMING BOOK (yay!).
• @DimaM came out of the closet as FOREIGN DUDE (i.e. the writer of the FIPS post that got this whole Gorilla Coffee coverage started)
• @robertgorrell made me laugh my ass off, as per U.
• @theskint did not hang out in any dark corners of the room.
• @ninedaves pitched me a killer idea for a new FIPS column (coming soon to a blog near you THIS BLOG).
• I met the dude from @levysuniqueny and decided we need to set up a FIPS tour pronto!
• @amyblogschow rolled through and gave me a "drive by hug."
• Met some old and new outside.in friends (INSIDE).

So yeah: I met sooo many killer new bloggin peeps (though I *still* didn't meet enough of your asses!) and generally just had a blast. But more than that, I think we totally confirmed that: Yes, Brooklyn *is* the bloggiest borough.

I'd def like to start doing these meetups on the regular, so stay tuned for more scoop about the next one!

So our question(s) for you today is(are): Do you blog? If so, why? And how? And is it worth it? And do you enjoy it? And would you recommend it to others?

Fuck all that anon privacy shit today...link us to your blog loudly and proudly below so that we can see what we're dealing with here (and get your ass some CLICKS)!