(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
(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
Tags: birthday · brooklyn · cake · new york · park slope · roommates · smiley
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
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 [...]
Tags: apostrophe abuse · brooklyn · dogs · ellipses-crazed · excessive underlining · exclamation-point happy! · irregular capitalization · park slope · saga · shit · unnecessary "quotation marks"
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.
You [...]
Tags: brooklyn · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · more aggressive than passive · more like crazy · park slope · shit
The latest in a well-documented series.
Tags: brooklyn · dogs · garbage · neighbors · park slope · shit · smiley
The latest in a series previously documented here and here.
Tags: brooklyn · dogs · excessive underlining · neighbors · park slope · shit · smiley · strangers
Tags: brooklyn · neighbors · noise · not-so-veiled threats · park slope