Who Gives a Shit: Are you excited for Beauty Bar?

(Sam Horine / Gothamist)Our friends over at Gothamist recently swung by and snapped some pics of Park Slope's very first Beauty Bar, which is housed in what used to be one half of Ozzie's on 5th Avenue. According to the blog, "The space has a pretty fair Happy Hour ($2 off all drinks and a $10 drink and manicure combo between 4-8 p.m.) to go alongside pretty reasonable prices for the area (beers run $5-7, cocktails are around $10).

You can check out all of the photos of the new joint HERE.

Anyone excited for BB's arrival? 

Who Gives a Shit: Will the New Loop Proposed for Prospect Park Reduce Accidents?

Prospect Park Road Sharing Taskforce

I’m not a frequent user of the loop at Prospect Park, but every once in a while I'll go for a long walk or bike ride around it. Sometimes I'm a tad confused as to where exactly I’m supposed to be (and as we're all aware, it's shit like this that leads to accidents, lawsuits, ticket crackdowns and the presence of giant orange barrels).

If on foot, walkers share a lane with the joggers, which sometimes gets jammy (not helped by those swimming upstream). As for bikers, during rush hours they are supposed to be immediately adjacent, in a 7-ft. wide lane, which is a bit too close in my opinion. All you need is one fool getting caught up in a call or sexting session and they’re suddenly more off course than an Italian ship captain.

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Who Gives A Shit: Will You Watch The Brooklyn Version of Jersey Shore?

 Photo via Oxygen

Fuck New Jersey. Soon trashy reality TV will be coming to us by way of our neighbors in Bay Ridge. Oxygen has a new reality show called Brooklyn 11223, which was made from the mold of The Jersey Shore. The two main players they’re trying to sell us on are former best friends, Joey Lynn and Christie. The ladies stopped being buddies after Joey banged Christie’s then-boyfriend. Sounds like classic reality show fodder, right? I hope these ladies cross paths at the Salty Dog.

The show -- predictably -- is trying to manufacture its own Snooki in the form of Carla. According to their website, “With a party-hard attitude and a ‘don’t dish it out unless you can take it’ style, Carla is the ultimate package.” You heard that? Move over, meatballs, ‘cause “Carla is the ultimate package.”

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Who Gives A Shit: Will You Vote For The Vote on Banning Co-op Products from Israel?

 photo by Park Slope Lens

It seems like only last summer we were arguing about arguing whether or not the Park Slope Food Co-op should ban all products imported from Israel. The B.D.S. (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement -- a global initiative to boycott Israeli companies -- has been knocking on the co-op's door since February of 2009, and has been called everything from anti-Semitic to, as super star lawyer Alan Dershowitz said, outright "bigotry."

Needless to say this is a hot topic that won't go quiety into that good night, especially since the Co-op and its members are ready to put their vote where their mouths have been for the last three years. But let's be clear, this isn't a vote for whether or not to actually ban Israeli products. This is a vote for whether or not to put the B.D.S. issue to a vote at a subsequent meeting. As I have written in previous posts, I am not a co-op member because they have too many rules and do shit like voting to put things to votes. Please refer to the quote below from the Wall Street Journal as a case-in-point:

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Who Gives a Shit: Can You Describe Your Worst Date in the Length of a Tweet?

A friend of mine once described a bad first date in one simple sentence: "He's currently doing his medical residency at a local hospital," she said, "and not only did he admit to having NO bedside manner, instead insisting that his patients should be thankful that he's saving their lives, he boasted that everything he knows about medicine came from Wikipedia."

We've all got bad dating stories. Unfortunately, our friends and family don't always have time to listen to them (they've got babies, jobs and TiVo'd episodes of Parks & Rec to catch up on), so we're often left scrambling to describe the abbreviated versions. We here at FiPS have also been on some bad dates, which we'd like to share with you. And since we know that you guys ALSO have jobs and babies and shit, we've kept them short and simple the best way we know how: by making them the length of a Tweet. Enjoy!

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