Who gives a shit: Where can you get a gift wrapped in Park Slope?

I never think about the gift I'm buying for someone prior to 5 minutes before walking out the door on my way to give said gift away. More than once I've peeled the price tag off of some trinket as I'm walking up to a party. Turns out the Neergaard Pharmacies on 5th Avenue offers complimentary gift wrapping on their reasonably priced children and baby gifts. I'm guessing it's a rare find to get free or (minimally priced) gift wrapping on that $25 Giraffe teething toy for your neighbor's baby shower, and stores like Area Kids refuse to even give out bags with purchases.

So tell us:  Where do you get a gift wrapped in Park Slope? Or do you stick your gift in a black bodega bag and call it a day?

Who Gives a Shit: Has Anyone Else Seen This Monkey?

Has anyone else been following the mutation of the monkey that sits in the first floor corner apartment of the overpriced and mostly empty Richard Meier building on Eastern Parkway?  I was just going to ignore it, since at first it started showing up like any ordinary large stuffed monkey would in some millionaire's window.  But it has continued to catch my eye every day as I walk to work, mostly because the monkey's owners are constantly dressing it in some weird outfit: it's been Abe Lincoln and Batman, and has even been forced to wear a 19th century pinafore and matching cap; and now it's "become" Snoopy for a day?   Is this poor bastard going to have an identity crisis or what?  

Or maybe this is "art"?

Who Gives a Shit: Are You Voting On Whether To Ban Israeli Products From the Coop tonight?

Photo by Park Slope Lens

Alright, people. This is it. After three years of talking in circles about whether or not to throw out all the Sabra Hummus, the Park Slope Food Coop will finally hold a vote on whether they'll be voting to boycott Israeli products from their store. Tonight's 7PM meeting is expected to be so epic that it will be held inside Brooklyn Tech's auditorium, which seats 3,000 people (compared to the 400-seat synagogue where the Coop's meetings are usually held). 

The Coop has published the meeting's agenda on their site -- here are a few things you should be made aware of, if you wish to attend:

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Who Gives a Shit: Will You Feed Your Babies "Farm to Baby" Food?

Image via change.org

Want to feel even MORE like a peasant when you take your baby to the park sans Bugaboo?

Because now you're going to have to explain to other Slope parents why your little Aldous is eating normal Gerber baby nosh from Key Food, and not shit straight from a farm. 

Yes, the farm to table foodie craze is now coming to a diaper near you. Farm to Baby, a new company based in Greenpoint, makes and delivers fresh baby food, sourced from local farms. Now, I like the idea of supporting local farmers, and small businesses. I am totally behind the concept of eating fresh foods that are unprocessed, so naturally, feeding your baby that stuff makes sense too.

BUT this seems excessive. 

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WHO GIVES A SHIT: WHAT DO YOU GET ON YOUR BAGEL?

image via BWOG: The "Sunday late night": a bagel with 3 scoops of ice cream, 4 cookies, 2 brownies, Nutella, peanut butter, chocolate sauce and Apple Jacks. Yum.

So, sometimes I get an idea for a post and then I email all the other FIPS writers to see they have to say about the subject. Case in point: Recently I took a trip to Israel, and when I got back my sleeping patterns were all fucked up. So for about a week after my return, I would get up at 6am every day, and would then promptly walk over to Bagel Market (which is kind of the only thing open at 6am around these parts). 

After spending so much extra time at Bagel Marche, I started to inadvertently become fascinated with the combos of bagels-n-toppings people ordered--I had no idea you people were so kinky like that.

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