Entries Tagged as 'park slope'

“I don’t need a birthday cake,” I said.

September 12th, 2008 · 112 Comments

(My roommate disagreed.)

Now it’s my turn: Happy birthday, Kim! (emoticon emoticon emoticon)
related: an occasion that blue mountain arts has yet to animate
extra credit: cake wrecks

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Tags: birthday · brooklyn · cake · new york · park slope · roommates · smiley

Seriously!?!

December 11th, 2007 · 59 Comments

The inimitable Jeff Rubin passes along this note from the foyer of his Park Slope apartment building. Yup, that’s what you think it is there on the floor. (Perhaps a hapless victim of the bag-tampering deliquent?)

(Jeff says the mess was cleaned up when he checked a few hours later.)
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Brooklyn, confusion still reigns.

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Tags: brooklyn · confusion??? · dogs · park slope · shit

Oh, shit!

November 11th, 2007 · 173 Comments

My own neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn has high concentrations of dogs, babies, crazies and bloggers, which makes for a heady brew of incredibly well-documented passive-aggressiveness. Certain notes (like this long-running series) show up in my inbox over and over again. I’ve gotten various iterations of this note from no fewer than six different people [...]

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Tags: apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · dogs · ellipses-crazed · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · park slope · saga · shit · unnecessary "quotation marks"

Some legionnaire’s idea of epigrammatic wit

May 21st, 2007 · 11 Comments

I realize this example (from outside the American Legion HQ in Park Slope, Brooklyn) is not so much “passive-aggressive” as it is “crazy,” but it tickles me too much not to post. The little species/feces couplet has been painted over and re-written at least twice, so obviously I’m not the only one who appreciated it.

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Tags: brooklyn · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · more aggressive than passive · more like crazy · park slope · shit

Now you’re just bringing it on yourself, don’t you think?

May 20th, 2007 · 8 Comments

The latest in a well-documented series.

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Tags: brooklyn · dogs · garbage · neighbors · park slope · shit · smiley

have a nice day

May 13th, 2007 · 10 Comments

The latest in a series previously documented here and here.

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Tags: brooklyn · dogs · excessive underlining · neighbors · park slope · shit · smiley · strangers

It was an ironic dance party, okay?

May 12th, 2007 · 22 Comments

Slipped under our door by the downstairs neighbors.

(Guilty as charged.)

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Tags: brooklyn · neighbors · noise · not-so-veiled threats · park slope