I forgot to mention one really annoying thing from this weekend: on Saturday morning, MK got a ticket right in front of my house. It seems that she was parked too close to a fire hydrant (actually she wasn’t). Thing is, she wouldn’t have even parked near the thing if it wasn’t for the fact that there was simply no where else to park near-by due to the recent influx of assholes that fill up the streets every Friday and Saturday night. And there would still be plenty of open spots, but none of those assholes know how to park correctly; they just leave their cars wherever without any consideration for spacing for others.
When I first moved into my neighborhood, things were nice and quiet (its a low-key Mexican neighborhood). Then early in the summer a bar opened up right on the corner (at 5th Ave and 23rd St… remember, I’m in Brooklyn) and its been nothing but one massive headache. Its called the Living Room Lounge and its aim is to slowly turn my block into some shitty ass hipster hang-out, and unfortunately its working.
First off, I think its extremely tasteless that the brain-trusts behind the bar decided to open a bar right next to a Mexican alcoholics anonymous. Plus my one lone encounter with an employee of the place certainly hasn’t helped my attitude:
It was after work and I was on my way home. Aside from the already long hard day, I stayed late to meet with a student, plus I wasn’t feeling good, so I wanted was to do was crawl into bed. As I passed by the bar, one of the waitresses was standing outside and telling all passer-bys: “Free pizza!” Not only was I just not interested, but since I felt like shit, I didn’t say anything, but instead simply nodded, to convey an appreciative “not tonight, but thanks for the offer” gesture. But about ten feet passed her, I heard myself being called “Asshole”. What the fuck? What a cunt! If I wasn’t feeling so shitty, I would have turned around to marched back and find out what the attitude was about.
Anyway, it seems that everyone who goes there, at least going by the assholes who hang out front and crowd up the street corner (mostly to smoke of course) are all the “too cool for school” variety of douchebags. I can’t attest for how it is inside since the place always has the curtains drawn; they probably know that if the outside world knew how fucking obnoxious their shenanigans were, the place would be burnt down in an instant. But a few times when passing by, I have managed to snake a peek inside and catch some of their “special” events, including a live painting performance (where everyone sits around and watches someone paint… and yes, it is about as gay as it sounds) and a burlesque show, which I’m guessing is their lame attempt at cashing in on the whole Suicide Girls craze, but to an even more obnoxious degree. And of course, I’m not the only one annoyed: the locals are super pissed since they smell gentrification stinking up their neighborhood, which in the end makes everything and everyone volatile.
So yeah, these are the fuck-wads that are filling up my block with cars and ruining my block. I’d burn the place down myself, but I’d be afraid that the fire would spread and take my house as well.
BTW, as I’ve mentioned before, I live in Park Slope, and for those who don’t know, its a rather hip part of Brooklyn. But have I told you how some folks I know are actually annoyed by this? First off, they get all indignant. Then they ask for my exact address, and then claim that I don’t actually live in Park Slope but Sunset Park (which is the area south… its known primarily as a poor neighborhood). They honestly act as if me living in their precious neighborhood is somehow ruining things, like I’m depreciating the property value. I’ve mentioned this to my roommate Stephy and she too has encountered the hostile hipster response many times. I guess we’re not cool or affluent enough for the folks around here.
Anyway, she tells me that not only does our zip code fall into Park Slope boundaries, but our garbage and recycling schedule does as well. And it probably safe to say that a few of the folks who make the biggest fuss about this are themselves not really in Park Slope.
Why I am bringing this all up? Because I had another ridiculous argument this earlier today. And do I care? Not really, but since others seem to be genuinely upset by such a fucking trivial matter, I will take any opportunity I can to remind these folks that…
I FUCKING LIVE IN PARK SLOPE, GOT THAT? AND I’M NOT GOING ANYWHERE! DEAL WITH IT ASSHOLES!!!
In other news, a studio around where I work was throwing out some stuff and since I noticed something cool looking, I figured it was worth taking…
The thing is, I really don’t know what to do with it? I’m open to suggestions…
