it is possibly the best thing to potentially ever happen to anyone anywhere in the history of the universe

hooray for governors island!

it's almost ready and almost open for summer. hip hip hooray!

#midnightbackstroke

@unfoRettable's parks and recreation character donna live tweets scary movie night in a bonus clip from last night's episode. it is #hilarious.

treat yo' self

@unforettable answers questions for nymag including the following:

 Name one TV show that people are not watching, that they should be watching. 
 Nashville is really good, really fun, and I don’t know that it has great numbers.

girl doesn't even know who ginuwine is.

perfect television.

NeRd aLeRt: "The Low Line "

Some group of idiots want to create a High-Line style park...underground in a former trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.  Here's the proposed location and a picture of the original space:

According to this sketch, the park would be lit with solar collectors above ground which would pipe sunlight through fiber optic cables and distribute the light with underground diffusers.

It actually sounds pretty interesting, but ultimately the thought of an underground dimly light park in the LES seems like a glorified homeless shelter.  For example, this indoor park at the Deutsche Bank on Wall Street is above ground and it's homeless chess player city.  Just sayin'.  Looks pretty though.

Fun fact, Starla and I met at The Delancey where we tricked a very drunk JVM into buying us many drinks until the bartender told on us like a little bitch.  Happy belated birthday Starla!
 
[Delancey Underground]

nErD aLeRt!

The park here, called Madrid Río, has largely been finished. More than six miles long, it transforms a formerly neglected area in the middle of Spain’s capital. Its creation, in four years, atop a complex network of tunnels dug to bury an intrusive highway, also rejuvenates a long-lost stretch of the Manzanares River, and in so doing knits together neighborhoods that the highway had cut off from the city center.

All around the world, highways are being torn down and waterfronts reclaimed; decades of thinking about cars and cities reversed; new public spaces created.

Most famously, in beauty-mad San Francisco, the 1989 earthquake overcame years of entrenched thinking: the Embarcadero Freeway was taken down, which reconnected the city with its now glorious waterfront. In Seoul, the removal of a stretch of highway along the now-revived Gaecheon stream has made room for a five-mile-long recreation area called Cheonggyecheon. In Milwaukee, the destruction of the Park East freeway spur has liberated acres of downtown for parks and neighborhood development. Even the nearly-30-year, bank-busting Big Dig fiasco made Boston a better place by tunneling a downtown highway, though it was obviously nobody’s idea of a stellar urban redevelopment project.

In New York, city and state officials are inching closer to tearing down the Sheridan Expressway, a mile-and-a-quarter-long gash in the South Bronx connecting the Bruckner and Cross Bronx Expressways, perhaps to replace it with homes, commercial spaces, playgrounds, swimming pools and soccer fields arrayed along the Bronx River.

But Madrid Río is a project whose audacity and scale, following the urban renewal successes of Barcelona, Spain’s civic trendsetter, can bring to a New Yorker’s mind the legacy of the street-grid plan, which this year celebrates its 200th anniversary. That’s because the park belongs to a larger transformation that includes the construction of dozens of new metro and light-rail stations that link far-flung, disconnected and often poor districts on Madrid’s outskirts to downtown. (via)

gabe?

#summerscreen

Epix Movies Free-For-All and The L Magazine present summerscreen in McCarren Park starting tonight. Free movie projected with food trucks and other vendors selling their stuff.

Schedule:
July 6 – Friday
July 13 – Wayne’s World
July 20 – Ghost World
July 27 – Ferris Bueller's Day Off
August 3 – Clueless
August 10 – Jurassic Park
August 17 – Rain Date
August 24 – Rain Date


That is a really strong line up, but I must say, August 3 and 10 look especially awesome.

miss you, ron.

(via)

UPDATE!

your mother's butt.

did y'all notice how blessed we were to have TWO new episodes of parks and rec last night? in my favorite of the two, they all got wasted on tom haverford's new kahlua-like beverage called snakejuice.

here's a gif:

this goes out to memphis.

and bun-bun, too.

don't forget to watch parker posey on parks and rec while drunk on margaritas tonight!

set your tivos!

PARKER POSEY WILL BE ON THIS WEEK'S PARKS AND REC!!!!

thx ktv!

i don't mean to beat a dead goat in the mouth, but...

...i just read this funny chat with amy poehler and aziz ansari in nymag. it's super-cute. it's about that funny list of funny food names that tom haverford recited on last week's parks and rec (which nobody watches even though its in the top 2 funniest shows on tv).

jess sent me this website a couple of days ago, where you can get more.

and they mentioned this in the article. someone made ron swanson's idea of a turkey leg inside of a grilled hamburger patty. "put ketchup on it if you want. i couldn't care less."

we were just talking about this

via

the famous lil sebastian

is trashville getting a new theme park?

maybe, probably not.

festival tennessee looks like a ton of fun though. in other news, i think they should bring back opryland. that place was cool!

presenting...

...the st. louis cervix!

the winner of the recent competition to (re) design the urban parkspace at the foot of saarinen's arch. thx midge!

sun dappled waters - shelby farms

from here.

sort of a gay icon

dont you hate searching for a seat in bryant park?

well now you can buy your own and take it everywhere with you.

According to the park's online shop, you can "bring home the most cherished and iconic element of Bryant Park, the signature bistro chair. Your Vintage Bryant Park Chair will be selected from the park’s collection of distinctive furniture, greatly coveted and used daily by Midtown professionals and Manhattan dwellers alike. Each steel-framed chair, fitted with wooden slats, is painted in our custom shade, 'Bryant Park Green.' Every chair is authentic, guaranteed to have been in the park for at least one year, and will bear distinctive wear patterns created by patron use and weather conditions." via

or you can take one home and close your eyes and your physical discomfort will almost make you feel like youre eating your lunch with thousands of strangers watching.