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Monday
Oct072013

The Great GoogaMooga is not coming back to Prospect Park. Where should it go?

Remember when you first heard about The Great GoogaMooga. And you were like, "Oh, wow, that sounds kinda awesome. And holy shit, it's going to be right in Prospect Park! How easy and convient for me. I must get tickets!" And then you tried to get tickets, but it was a total fucking shitshow. Until you finally got tickets and you went and it was even more of a clusterfuck. And ever after organizers gave all the ExtraMooga ticket holders refunds, you were still like, "meh." But somehow you didn't learn your lesson and you went back the next year and stood in-line waiting in the rain for almost an hour before they cancelled the event on you. And then on the walk back home you got all these emails and tweets from GoogaMooga on your phone saying "Things are still on and we have plenty of tickets ready! Come down to Prospect Park!" So you walked back and they were still like, "Oops sorry we're totally still cancelled even though we said rain or shine. Oh and ps we're not paying any of our vendors for all their lost food. Sucks to be them!" And then they left and the park was totally destroyed? And those who actually got to go said it sucked anyway. Remember all that?

Yeah. What a mess.

Well guess what? The Great GoogaMooga isn't coming back to Prospect Park anymore! Besty Smith, head of revenue and marketing for the Parks Department, told folks at a City Council oversite meeting last week that "after two years of assessing [GoogaMooga] in that site, we pretty much feel at this time that [Prospect Park] is probably not the appropriate venue for something like that." (Props to A Walk in the Park's Geoffrey Croft, who was there to break the news to the rest of the interweb).

Still, that doesn't mean that this is the end for The Great GoogaMooga. According to Smith, organizers are currently looking for another location. Seeing how good they've been in the past at picking locations, it's probably a good idea that we throw some suggestions out for them. I'm thinking Governor's Island might be a good spot, since the ferries will control the flow of people flooding the entrance. But I could also be down for an indoor festival. Javits Center, anyone?

What do you think? Where should The Great GoogaMooga go? (And feel free to answer "away").

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