(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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curse as much as you want, dude: you’re still bitching about body wash. (personally, that’s what i’d call a gamekiller.)

related: i swear this isn’t some sort of stealth viral marketing campaign

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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 shit was cleaned up when he checked a few hours later.
meanwhile, elsewhere in brooklyn, confusion still reigns.

related: [...]

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laura spotted this punchline of a note (”you know it’s time to move out when…”) at her apartment building in downtown brooklyn. or rather, her former apartment building.

it’s unclear whether the note-leaver was motivated by recent research suggesting that pictures of eyes may deter crime. meanwhile, kim documented a convenience store in worcester, massachusetts taking [...]

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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 [...]

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amy in seattle says her favorite part of the note is the children (please, think of the children!) but i was most impressed by the use of both “being effected” and “being impacted” in a single sentence. those loud, “vulgar-related” noises might, in fact, be the sound of english teachers around the world crying out [...]

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