FIPS UNDERCOVER III: Target, Atlantic Center Mall [Worse Than A Pap Smear]

This is part three of our four part series in which we attempt to uncover, once and for all, why the hell Target at the Atlantic Center Mall sucks a big dick.

ICYMI, Here's part one and part two.

NEWSFLASH: it's February. Christmas was over a month and a half ago. Now Duane Reade wants you to buy their Walt Whitman variety pack, chalky conversation hearts and pink M&M's. Back in our fave-oh-reet retail establishment, however, they *still* seem to be "restocking their shelves." That Christmas rush must have been fierce.

Dear anyone who is still claiming this shit is all a fluke: F.U.C.K. Y.O.U.

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9 Questions: Netta the WNYC Radio Producer

9 Questions is our semi-regular column in which attempt to get to the heart of someone's down-n-dirty "Brooklyn-ness," (or lack thereof), with the same nine simple questions.

Meet Netta: one of our many rad Twitter friends and an organizer of the upcoming NYC Twestival.

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I Am So Getting Laid From This Blogging Thing

In response to my You Are Not My Facebook Friend, Mom post:

Anonymous said...

"effed in park slope, I want to have sex with you. Your eloquence reduces me to mere horniness. If you were a woman I would hate you for your pithy economy of language, but you are a man, and a depraved/deprived one at that. So can you please tell me how we can hook up and make sure you don't write about it here? email me. find out my ip address. i mean it."

January 30, 2009 10:48 PM

Hang in there "Mark"...there's plenty more where this came from.

p.s. FIPS, I love the shit out of you.

What's With All The Hipsters?

(photo = Hipster Runoff via theCobrasnake)

"What's the deal? The dark frame glasses, tight jeans, scruffy faces, Brooklyn Industries bags, incredible skinniness, Chuck Taylor sneakers? Why are they all such carbon copies? I thought that whole style started as a way to be different, and now it's like a population of people who are exactly like each other and who are, in fact, very difficult to tell apart. I'm not trying to be offensive here, I'm truly curious. Does anyone know?"

BWAAAHHAHAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAA.

Yes, please! Does anyone KNOW??

(via Brooklynian)

Brooklyn = Porny [BUZZ]

+ Sunset Park is porny. (Brownstoner)

+ Raise your hand if you wished you worked at Slate Magazine. (NYO)

+ New New Yorkers. (Kottke)

+ Uniqlo's Spring Line revealed. (Racked)

+ Don't forget the Idiotarod this weekend (Brooklyn Paper)