Sex and the Other City
The first rule of television seems to be: if something works once, do it again. Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company has reportedly optioned the novel Prospect Park West to turn into a TV show. The book, by former sex columnist Amy Sohn, who also wrote the companion book for HBO’s Sex and the City, chronicles…
The first rule of television seems to be: if something works once, do it again. Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company has reportedly optioned the novel Prospect Park West to turn into a TV show. The book, by former sex columnist Amy Sohn, who also wrote the companion book for HBO’s Sex and the City, chronicles the lives, urges, and dissatisfactions of four Park Slope mothers. Here’s how The Post summed it up this morning: “The book creates a scathing portrait of Park Slope’s mommy brigade — of which Sohn is a breast-feeding member — as a parade of unsatisfied thirty- and forty-something moms sizing up their plights relative to all the other stroller-pushers at the playground. Few are having sex — at least not with their spouses.” It’s definitely the Sex and the City formula, but who knows if it will take off? Gawker asks the more important question: will it ruin Park Slope? There is already a festoon of strollers; will Berkeley Place now be clogged with red double-decker buses?
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex & the Stroller Set Show [Gawker]
Treading on a Slippery Slope [NY Post]
Is Prospect Park West the New SATC? [BuzzSugar]
Well, it was Fort Greene — or, technically Clinton Hill. See? I was showing you how the other half lives. By which I mean, the other half that wants to be diverse, but you know, not THAT diverse.
If PS moms start drinking at 5:00, I think my opinion of them has become more positive.
Heather:
That passage is brilliant! – what literary charms Amy has?
wow -so what are we to take from this?
A. Shootings happen all the time in Park Slope
B. Park Slope Moms usually bring up shootings in casual convo with other moms because inevitably one of those moms probably knows the shooter
C. Park Slope Moms have to wear crocs and oversize pants to push their kiddies in swings..back and forth…back and forth…back and forth
D. It’s 5pm (cocktail time) somewhere in the world
“Schlubby” PS Moms are hot compared to Middle America Moms.
Thanks for saying that, rf. Because yeah, exactly. The lot of you were actually starting to sound a great deal like Amy Sohn in this discussion of how hot Park Slope mothers are — which is admittedly more pathetic in her case than yours… but, still. I may be the first person to critique a bad shoe, handbag, or boring ensemble, (not to mention a cookie-cutter mid-century living room) but at the end of the day, I really don’t care what people look like. I’m not trying to sleep with them, even in my imagination. And personally, Helena Bonham Carter is my stylistic role model. If someone doesn’t like that? Not my problem.
Back to the topic at hand… I think Brenda’s idea is most excellent so I thought I would have a go at it, being as my darling moppet is at school and my darling husband is doing document review, and the casserole I haven’t bothered to make for dinner’s ingredients are still safely ensconced at the grocery store, and, since the house is already untidy, there’s nothing more for me to do?
“Most people go to Underwood playground,” Kai said, nervously glancing around and lowering her voice slightly. “Did you know there was a shooting here across the street last year?”
“No, I didn’t,” I said, glancing in the direction of the aforementioned corner. “But my daughter knows everyone at this playground.”
There was an awkward silence as we pushed our tots back and forth in their swings, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The girls shrieked their enthusiasm, and I wondered if two o’clock on a Tuesday was too early to have a glass of wine.
“It gets really busy here, later in the afternoons,” Kai ventured finally.
I still wasn’t sure entirely if she meant what I thought she meant or not, so I just shrugged. “Yeah.”
Fin.
> Ditmassnark what have I ever posted or said that was “femmy”
Nothing at all. I just – obviously erroneously – assumed you were female.
quote:
its another to be…well – schlubby and sorry but thats how the majority of PS moms look –
lol if you think park slope moms are schlubby you should check out harlem. in all my time living there i never saw a mother under 300 pounds!
*rob*
rf – the women I am talking about in Manhattan, Cobble Hill etc, might not be moms – but then I do have to wonder why they are pushing a stroller, sitting in a kids playground, or picking up kids at the local school? I dont know about the rest of the guys here but I am not being unrealistic – its one thing to be comfortable, or practical when you are spending the majority of your day taking care of kids – its another to be…well – schlubby and sorry but thats how the majority of PS moms look – and since I am in no way femmy (ditmassnark)and in fact WANT to see someone that can keep my overeager libido active, I really do not think I am judging this too harshly.
That being said – women are free to dress and carry themselves however they want – but I have to call B.S. on any attempt to call cthe current PS community hot or glamorous.
BTW – Ditmassnark what have I ever posted or said that was “femmy” – unless some how being Pro-AY is somehow feminine in your mind.
Speaking of gender confusion, where’s randi been lately???