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*BALLER - n. Kid free-n-lovin it

*BFI - n. Brilliant fucking idea

*BREEDER - n. Baby maker

*BR-ALLER - n. a BREEDER who's proven themselves to be cool enough that, despite their tendencies to procreate, can still maintain the basic principles of a BALLER attitude and lifestyle.

*COOPRETARD - n. Any annoying person who works at the Park Slope Food Coop

*D.I.N.K-n. Dual income, no kids

*FIPS - n. Fucked in Park Slope; the most badass'd blog on the dub dub dub

*SILTH - n. Sloper I'd Like To Hurt

*SAHM (or "SHAM") - n. Stay At Home Mom

 *SCHADENFOER - n. The feeling of envy and/or hate toward literary wunderkind and Park Slope resident, Jonathan Safran Foer

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Thursday
25Feb2010

Boyz to Men: Mating for Minors 

I don’t know if the “treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen” approach is genetically encoded into male DNA or what, but watching the mating rituals of 6th graders has truly been a revelation.
 
Since around 3rd grade, the girls have been circling ever closer, ever more fervently. But lately they’ve begun to explode, one by one into a mass of body odor, hormones and passionate need (desperation?).
 
Although 6th graders are all over the growth chart, the girls are often so far ahead of the boys, it’s mind-boggling. Meanwhile, the hottie boys are all easy to spot as they seem to develop, through pure instinct, the powerful pull of indifference and disdain. Or possibly cluelessness...its still unclear.

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Thursday
11Feb2010

25 Random Things About Park Slope

My most favorite Facebook moment thus far, hands down, was the 25 random notes phenomenon. This went down waaaay before this fly-by-night Doppleganger b.s. Do you remember? For a few glorious weeks (circa 12 months ago), Facebook friends shared over 125 million random facts about their lives.

Stuff like:
 
2. When I am alone climbing stairs, I always count the stairs. I run up the stairs by twos.

Ohkay.
 
21. I have one tattoo...that I regret endlessly. I got it right after college in one of those "HEY WORLD...SEE THAT!? ERICA IS COOL AFTER ALL" moments. Newsflash = I'm not.

Yes people, this IS that Erica.

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Friday
05Feb2010

REAL FIPS Doppelganger Week 

We all are on Facebook.  It helps us waste time, keep in touch with people that we don't care about enough to actually call on the phone, and cyberstalk ex-lovers and ex-friends.  

But I think my favorite part of Facebook is this recent viral phenomenon called "Doppelganger Week," where everyone is supposed to change their profile picture to a celebrity that they supposedly look like.

Who knew I had so many dillusional friends and associates?  Be honest with yourself—you don't look like Jennifer Connelly or Kate Winslet.  Not even close.

In the interest of keeping it real, I propose a REAL FIPS Doppelganger Week right here.  Tell me who you actually resemble.  I want to see some honesty here: Roseanne Barr, Mo'Nique, Steve Buscemi, whatever.

I don't really know what celebrity I look like, but because I have a large, round head (thats where I store all of my genius ideas, obvi), I'll go with Charlie Brown or a Cabagge Patch Kid doll. 

Wednesday
01Jul2009

STFU Parents

Welcome to our new fave blog: STFU Parents.

They've jumped head first with a bang,  into an issue that we at FIPS touched on many months ago: Facebook = Babybook

You used to be fun. Now you have a baby. If you're being driven crazy by your friends' baby updates every time you check your status feed, please feel free to contribute to this blog. stfuparentsblog@gmail.com Also on Twitter: twitter.com/STFUParents *submissions can be text, screen capture, anonymous, etc.*

Come on, people! So far, Park Slope is severely UN-represented on this site.  Step it up!

Wednesday
27May2009

Park Slope Breeder Kills It on Jeopardy

If the topic of our BREEDER vs. BALLER column this week was trivia...and if BREEDER's column was guest written by Justin Bernbach, BALLER would be totally fucked.

Bernbach, a Park Slope resident, has so far won more than $80k on his recent winning streak on the popular gameshow Jeopardy.

I was totally impressed with this information...until I read about this: the dude got confused between Twitter and Facebook!?

F-A-I-L.

(via NY Daily News)

Friday
30Jan2009

A PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE: You Are Not My Facebook Friend, Mom


Dear Mothers, Fathers, Mothers-in-Law, Fathers-in-Law, Most Aunts, Most Uncles, Godparents and Friends of Parents,

I think its great that many of you are embracing technology, texting with your kids, using digital cameras and, perhaps, even video chatting with your grandkids. In fact, I encourage to you to continue exploring the dub dub dub with reckless abandon. Set up an RSS reader for yourself! Start a family blog! Make your own greeting cards! Download some foreign language podcasts!

There is much out there on the web for you to enjoy.

But, here's the thing (and I'm sorry if its hard for you to hear this) but this is the honest truth that many of my Generation X, Y and We comrades are not quite sure exactly how to tell you is this: WE DO NOT WANT TO BE YOUR FUCKING FACEBOOK FRIENDS.

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Friday
26Dec2008

BALLER Special Report: Facebook = BABYbook


Breeder vs. Baller will return with a bang, next week. This week we bring you a special edition, from the trenches report from our favorite resident badass: BALLER.

WASSUP, bitches? Happy Christmas, Merry Chanukah, Kicky Kwanzaa and blah, blah, blah. I've been nursing a killer eggnog buzz for the past few days, but I'm officially outta weed now, and there's just something I gotta get off my chest.

Facebook: embrace ur own fate and just go ahead and change your name to Babybook.

I fucking hate facebook now...HATE IT. Not because of all the annoying apps, and not because of the retarded new design. I hate it because its been totally and completely overrun by babiez.

My front page feed looks like a fucking yearbook for the pre-natal unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. "Oh my gosh, he's sooooo adorbs!" "Little Beth is just as precious as her big sis!" Or my fave: "Alex looks like he loves his mommy and daddy very much!"

Right.

That's exactly what Alex looks like.

Wanna know what I think Alex looks like? I think Alex looks like "GETTHEFUCKOFFMYFACEBOOKFEED, you little fucker."

And you know what, I don't think I'm being unreasonable here. I really do get that you are super excited to be a new mommy and a new daddy, and I really really AM happy for you. I would love to see a pic every once in awhile of little Cooper or little Maizy tooling around the city or going to the pumpkin patch.

But when literally every single item in my feed is related to the comings and goings of the under 36 mos set (and every single comment, that every single friend needs to make about every fucking new pic posted of the under 36 mos set), it almost makes me wanna go back to myspace (and I HATE myspace with the fire of a thousand hot burning suns).

And Dubya Tee Eff with this new practice of putting a pic of your child *instead* of a pic of yourself?? Have you people ever heard of child predators?? Kidnappers?? If I am your friend, I am more than happy to click on your little photo album button and look there for pics of your precious offspring. I'm friends with you...not your little bebe.

And not only am I forced to deal with all the real world baby bullshit, now I have friends (*yes, actual people that I KNOW) making facebook profiles for their unborn fetuses (just like this asshole).

And its not just facebook. I read about some fucking dude the other day who has literally invented a contraption that twitters everytime his unborn baby kicks? It's called the kickbee!

I get that this is not really facebook's fault...it's my own fault for not having enough straight up BALLER friends like myself. And I guess I just really felt the need to write this as a reminder to all you self-important new parents: this is *exactly* the sort of shit that makes it so fucking annoying to be around you.

This notion that it is impossible to focus on/discuss/highlight/celebrate ANYTHING in your lives now that does not revolve around your kids is very fucking boring and tedious for EVERYONE except for:
*your spouse
*certain members of your family (though not all)
*other new parents who want to partake in this incessant, self-involved narcissistic mind fuck.

And sidenote: how is that we have, as a society, collectively anointed the act of becoming a parent as the penultimate, no holds barred, "hooray for me!" exercise worthy of a 24/7 liveblog/facebook/friendfeed/twitter fest over all others? Can you imagine ANYONE, ANYWHERE spending this much time and/or energy on facebook talking about their cat? Or their ceramics class? Or their cure for cancer research?

My guess is: no. You wouldn't last one week before you "unfriended" the annoying SOB's.