Welcome to Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF), a representative roundup of this week’s posts by NYC bloggers.

Amy Langfield says today, Sunday, August 14, 2005, is Cat Adoption Day in Brooklyn
Alarming News is organizing a NY blogger bash for Thursday, August 25th
A Full Belly has some interesting links, including one to MetaFilter about why steaks in France taste different than U.S. steaks … and the difference between real vanilla and vanillin …
dailyheights has a “Creepy mural advertisement seen in Crown Heights, near Dean and Bedford.” … Ai yi yi yi yi … what was that dentist thinking? … also a “meaty” post on “The Mighty Wind of Meat (El Carneviento) on Flatbush Avenue” … with a photo of the “combined essence of thousands of pork shoulders and chickens.” … ugh …
A Guy in New York posted his weekly “This Week in Reviews” … with links to many NYC restaurant reviews .. and has a bleg for humorous food blogs
The (vast) Right Wing Conspiracy has a list of ice cream flavors from “Star Spangled Ice Cream” … Navy BattleChip sounds good to us …
Adam Kuban at sliceny looks at the “Daily News Pizza Roundup” of New York City’s best pizzerias from last week and adds comments … and links to his reviews … read it all …
Englishman in New York has a link to a hilarious video titled “The Triple Tofu Tower”
Slant Point has a Hawk Sighting Update
greg.org has a link to a good story by asking “Did you know George W. Bush shot a miraculous 11 holes-in-one on the first round of golf he ever played?” …
AlarmingNews had the best headline for the NYC government effort to remove trans fats from restaurants: “First they came for the cigarettes but I wasn’t a smoker so I did nothing. Then they came for the cupcakes….” … we would have written it: “First they came for the cigarettes but I wasn’t a smoker so I did nothing. Then they came for the chicken feet….”
NYC Stories has a quick roundup of the upscale burger joints opening in Chelsea
NewYorkology notes that the Central Park Conservancy will have walking tours of Seneca Village on August 27 and September 18 in “Scientists probing Central Park’s Seneca Village”
the corsair states that “The education going on in American public schools at present is naught else but incoherent piffle, and if we are honest with ourselves, we all know that already. When was the last time a President allowed their children to attend a public school? I thought so.” … recommends the Paideia Proposal … in “A Little of the Old In and Out” (scroll down) … and also asks “Did George Stephanopoulos inadvertently get Madeline Albright her gig at Foggy Bottom?” …
cityrag covers the opening .. with pics … of “the cheesy Hard Rock Café” at Times Square in “Smashing!” … where guitars were smashed on cinder blocks (cause the old rockers couldn’t bend over?)… and suggests … “maybe donating a bunch of guitars to local schools would have been a better promo” … yeah … also has some pink catblogging … with links to flying cat pics in “flair for style” .. AND … “great drive-by shot of the Weenie Mobile on the NYS Thruway” …
Stereogum asks “Who are the WORST-DRESSED MEN in rock ‘n’ roll? Rock chicks are too easy to pick on (especially w/ Fergie now sporting Depends), so stick with the dudes. Does Jacko get automatic top billing?” …
Towelroad has “New Info on Hangings in Iran” about the hanging of two Iranian boys in July …
Jossip says Eugene Robinson is a media hero for “tackling the issue no other media want to address: the obsession with the missing white-girl obsession.” in “Missing White Girls: The meta-meta coverage obsession” … and is looking for an intern … “Free indentured servitude now available!”
Charlie Suisman at Manhattan User’s Guide put out his “Best of MUG” … we are very interested in the Flybar … a pogo stick on steroids …
Jane Galt of Assymmetrical Information was guest blogging at Instapundit this week.
Salli Vates liked the Comte de Montagne she picked up at the Bedford Cheese Shop.

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If you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF, send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail … see you next week …