GOOGA MOOGA CANCELED TODAY

NYC Parks Dept, Prospect Park Alliance & #Googamooga have canceled today's event in the interest of safety & prevention of damage to park

— Great GoogaMooga (@GoogaMooga) May 19, 2013

No Googa Mooga today [Sad Trombone]. 

Man, is someone out there sticking pins into a Googa Mooga vodoo doll or what? Seems like this festival just can't catch a break. 

You can follow their Twitter feed for continued updates. I see that they are fully refunding all VIP tix for today, though I don't see any mention of what's up for regular ticket holders? There's also some bitching that only an hour before they canceled the whole shebang, they were still trying to sell tix: 

@googamooga yet you still emailed people to sell more tickets for today only an hour before cancelation? Not cool. twitter.com/chrispetescia/…

— Chris Petescia (@chrispetescia) May 19, 2013

Bummer all around, I guess. On a scale of 1-10, how pissed are all you guys?

FiPS Juicy: Best Stories of the Week

In case you spent this week mourning the news that Bill Hader is leaving SNLj (RIP Stefon!), here's a wrap-up of juicy FIPS news that graced the pages of our blog this week:

* Park Slope's Pink House Memorialized in Solange's New Video
* Save the Boobies!: Mermaid Parade Kickstarter is Halfway There!
* Frankentstein and Charlie Brown Coming to Old Stone House This Summer
* Cool or Not Cool?: Pornography at the Barber
* Googa Mooga Part Deux-Ga: Bigger. Better. Longer.

[What You Should Order At...] Geido

Image via Park Slope Lens

WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT... is a recurring column designed in kind for your opinionated asses and our lazy asses.  We're going to pick one Park Slope resto a month and recommend our favorite dish at each.  Are we right?  Are we wrong?  YOU KNOW YOU WANNA WEIGH IN.  

There are ton of sushi restaurants in Park Slope, but none of them hold a candle to Geido. Nope, not even Taro or, may she rest in peace, Blue Ribbon Sushi. How many restaurants can you name that opened in 1985, and still have a line out the door and a minimum half hour wait on Friday and Saturday nights? So, yeah, technically it's on the Prospect Heights side of Flatbush, between Park and Prospect, but whatever, it's borderline. I'm claiming it for the Slope. The atmosphere is casual, with crazy graffiti on one wall.

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GoogaMooga Part Deux-Ga: Bigger. Better. Longer.

The return of The Great GoogaMooga, Brooklyn’s 21st century version of Woodstock, is upon us. As we mentioned back in March, the organizers have promised a ton of improvements so that they won't have a repeat of the multiple clusterfucks that went down last year: It's three days instead of two, there will be more vegan/vegetarian/gluten-free food options, more than twice the cast registers, only one food item at each vendor (because making decisions slows people down?), extra cell phone towers so you can tweet and instagram to your fucking heart's delight. 

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Park Slope on Twitter This Month

Time for a semi-regular FIPS check-in to see how #parkslope is faring in the Twitter-verse. It never fails to entertain.

1. Bet her dog's name is Justin.

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