(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 shit 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 [...]
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) 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 can’t [...]
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 · excessive underlining · neighbors · park slope · shit · smiley · strangers
Tags: brooklyn · neighbors · noise · not-so-veiled threats · park slope