Welcome to Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF), a representative roundup of this week’s posts by NYC bloggers.
Alarming News is organizing a NY blogger bash for sometime in early September.

• Yanksfan vs. Soxfan says the “First Street Gallery in New York, has started what seems to be a minor controversy. It seems that the gallery is displaying what is purportedly a death mask of Ted Williams” …
• rion.nu, a NYC photoblog, has pics of tomatoes and peppers … at the Union Square Farmer’s Market …
• The Politburo Diktat has news about … the Flying Spaghetti Monster …
• Overheard in New York in “Don’t Ever Dare a New Yorker to Do Anything” … Woman: “If you don’t stop hitting the fucking brakes like that, I’m gonna throw up all over the back of your cab.” … Cab driver: “Oh yeah? Go right ahead, lady!” … She did. … –Cab, 34th & Lexington … Overheard by: Her friend, who was also kicked out of the cab … never had that happen when I drove a cab …
• A Guy In New York posted his weekly roundup of NYC restaurant reviews in “This Week in Reviews – August 26, 2005” …
• On Probation is leaving NYC … for Las Vegas …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars got back from his Caribbean cruise … barely … he and the Karaoke Queen missed the boat out of Nassau … “Don’t Rock the Boat” …
• Gothamist has “Classic New York Trips, part 5” … featuring the “New York Marble Cemetery, smack between Second and Third Streets and Avenues” …
• Matzoh Cojones … “The search is still on for a marrow donor, most likely of Eastern European Jewish decent.” for jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker …
• Newyorkcityboys links to news about “the third execution of a homosexual in the past 2 months … ”
• NYC Metblogs … “TV Junky? This One’s for You” … “if you live in NYC or LA you can view some of the new fall pilots before their broadcast Premiers at the Museum of Television and Radio. And it looks like they will be providing liquor too!”
• a picture BY me has a link to a sewing class … “you not only learn how to sew, you learn how to produce correctly finished pieces that look every bit as good as what you buy.”
• A Small Victory is asking for help naming her new cat …
• Cinema Strikes Back says … “you need to pay closer attention to Indian cinema, especially if you like gangster films.”
• Clareified … “It’s real easy to be all fiscally responsible when you live with your mom.” … well, yeah! …
• Deadprogrammer’s Cafe … has some interesting photos of … steel eagles on the Chrysler Building … “The Devil in the Details”
• we feel like AMW with this one … “pervert081805” is a flickr post … “I was minding my own business, taking the train to work as usual when this man got on the car and kept staring at me. I tried to avoid eye contact with him but I had a feeling he was up to no good when he kept massaging his crotch. I couldn’t believe this guy had the audacity to do something like this in the middle of the day! So I took out my cell-phone and turned on the camera.” … via dailyheights.com …
• Jolie in NYC answers … “Beauty Question= ‘Help Me Fight Blemishes!’”
• anguswit … “both critics of the left and right acknowledge the existence of a continuum between civil liberties and effective counter-terrorism measures– if you increase one you tend to get less of the other.” …
• Amy’s New York Notebook reports on the “Peterborough Beer Festival, this year featuring more than 500 draught real ales.” … 500 …
• Forgotten NY added a new page about “ancient posters found at the Tenement Museum” …
• cityrag lets us know that “2 Big Macs have less fat than 1 Chipotle burrito!” … Ai yi yi! …
• The Galvin Opinion reminds us that in the Western U.S. … you can’t take water for granted … “Arizona Braces for Water War with Other States” …
• Ragged Thots asks … “Would sending [Pat Robertson and Jesse Jackson] to Cuba to hash out Caribbean basin policy be a violation of the embargo? I mean — assuming that they have to stay there?” …
• the daily isolato has “Four tips for perfect cupcakes” … one of which is “add a cup of sour cream” …
• A VC “spent $54.25 to fill our Honda Minivan with 17.9 gallons of gas” … and links to a blog post that “explains why the mainstream media’s fearmongering over the rise in oil prices is missing the big point.”
• The Tin Man wants “TheaVo – a TiVo for the theater. Pause live theater, just like live TV!”
• Theater of My Mind, a NYC photoblog … has a nice pic of the Bryant Park Hotel …
• towleroad says that if you want to duplicate Ansel Adams photograph “Autumn Moon” … you “may be able to do so next month, when the moon will rise in nearly the exact position it did in 1948.” …
• Letters from NYC says “Being sick as a dog has some benefits.” … in “CBGB’s – a love ending too soon” … has some fond memories of CBGB and growing up … touching … if my 14-year-old niece was to do something similar she’d probably get grounded for life …
• My Urban Kvetch 2005 was approached by a man who said he had lost his keys and asked for $9 to go home … and her address so he could repay it … and she asks, “Did I give him anything? And if so, how much? What do you think?” … we hope not … read the comments …
• Jane Galt at Asymmetrical Information comments on the jury system in “Who decides–and how?” … “The jury system was designed in an era of generalists, before even the invention of forensic evidence. Juries were generally being asked to rule on things they understood well–theft, infidelity, property rights, murder. Now they’re being asked to rule on things far outside of their experience (and in some cases, outside of their cognitive ability).” … and has observations on predicting the price of oil … “Predicting the peak” …

Listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
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 …