SUCKS/RULES: Why [Blogging] Totally Fucking Rules

Ok, so yesterday I wrote all about why blogging totally fucking sucks. And I meant it--it mostly does.

But there are a *few* things about it that do kinda rule, and it wouldn't be fair to leave that shit out of the equation.

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49 Years Ago Today, Shit Got REAL Bad in Park Slope: Plane Crash Flashback

Gothamist reminded us that today marks the anniversary of that horrible plane crash that went down in Park Slope 49 years ago. Two planes collided in mid air, killing 134 passengers as well as 6 people on the ground. Much of the wreckage landed at the intersection of 7th avenue and Sterling.

These pictures are insane...and INTENSE. Not to get all ghey, but it kinda gets me a little teary eyed seeing our neighborhood tricked out like a Will Smith disaster movie.

See all the pics here on Gothamist.

Holiday Gift FIPStravaganza: Day Four [Brooklyn Snobs-n-Weepy Lifetime Channel Movie Addicts]

This is our week-long dive head first into the trenches of holiday gift shopping, Park Slope style. Buy local, bitches! Unless, of course, you enjoy walking past empty storefronts every ten feet. In today's edition we cover BK snobs and sensitive cry babies.

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SAVE ISTANBUL PARK! SAVE ISTANBUL PARK!

These kebabs are not from Istanbul Park...but shit there is even *better* than these mofos. Guaranteed.

If you’re still wandering all the way over to Zaytoon on Smith St. for your falafel fix, two words: Fuck you.

Seriously.

Each time you make your way over to Boerum Hill for some cheap shawarma lovin’, a very important piece of Park Slope dies.

I’m talking about Istanbul Park (previously mentioned and loved on), which inhabits the space on 7th Ave. formerly occupied by No No Kitchen. Istanbul is all sorts of awesome: otherworldly chicken kebab, perfectly good ghanoush and an array of lamb dishes that make me wonder if the animals were raised on beer and daily massages, just like Kobe cows. This food is seriously good--and cheap. And yet, the place is always empty.

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SUCKS/RULES: Why [Blogging] Totally Fucking Sucks

If you're bored out of your mind, and need something to do just for kicks, start researching the "how to blog" scene. Between Google (391,000,000 results), Twitter and a few choice sites like Read, Write, Web, Copyblogger & the pre-eminent emperor of all blogging advice, Pro Blogger, you're gonna be busy learning all about this "how to blog" shit until Dakota Fanning grows pubes.

There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 bajillion articles (I've counted) on the following topics: how to engage your readers, how to monetize your readers, how to write posts that your readers are gonna like reading, how to think of ideas for posts, how to use randomly linked words in the middle of your posts to earn extra income so you can buy more weed, how to market your blog, how to publicize your blog, how to build your "personal brand," how to ruin your "personal brand," how to use Twitter and other social networks in conjunction with your blog, how to ensure your readers will keep coming back to your blog, how to use statistical data to understand whether readers ARE or NOT coming back to your blog, how to blog about your personal life, how to not blog about your personal life, how to get your readers to give you a virtual blow job...DO YOU GET IT YET???

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