Welcome to the Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF), a representative roundup of this week’s posts by NYC bloggers.
We didn’t break it up this week … just presenting it in all its Big Apple bloggy goodness …
The Big Apple Blog Festival likes to go on tour, and different blogs host it … if you have a NYC blog or you blog about NYC and would like to host an upcoming BABF, let us know … The next BABF, on January 16, 2006, will be hosted by Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars … Last week’s Big Apple Blog Festival was hosted by A Guy In New York …

• Living the Scientific Life has lots of interesting news this week … including using a tropical blood-sucking bug to get blood from wild birds … and a good example of “why you shouldn’t necessarily believe everything you see.” …
• Exit Zero has a roundup of attacks by Islamists “waging war against the foundations of their own societies” …
• Elvira Black “lets it alllll hang out” … she got kicked out of her apartrment on Sunday morning … and she’s “Blogging from both sides of my brain” … now on Blogcritics, too …
• NYC Metblog declares that “as with pedicures, I’ve quickly gotten used to having my laundry sent out.” …
• Forgotten NY added “THE ORIGINAL 28. The artwork of NYC’s original subway stations” … check it out …
• 10,000 Birds has a reminder about the 4th Annual National Bird Day …
• Tres Chicas likes Bob Dylan … “that’s why they make chocolate and vanilla” …
• Lengths of comfy verdure “never thought of music as something that had to be done well. it was just something you did with the people you loved. it was a part of life, something you used, like a hand thrown mug or bowl.” …
• New York Brain Terrain reminds us that NEUROfest runs through January 29 …
• the daily isolato loves the Chocolate Souffle at Zipi Zape … “It is sweet, warm, chocolate/raspberry/boozy/custardy goodness, with splashes of some kind of kirsch/pomegranate molasses/I don’t know what all over the plate. It’s tart and rich and kiddie and grown-up all at the same time. I love it I love it I love it.” … she loves it …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars declares “White Men Can Jump!” … well, at least Greg Brunner can …
• Overheard in New Yorkhas mnay good overheards this week .. “A man is beeping his car horn incessantly in a traffic jam before the 59th St bridge. The guy in the car ahead of him rolls down his window, pokes his head out and calmly asks: What should I do? He rolls down his own window. Man #1: I…um…I just thought maybe you could move up a little.” … just a little …
• Englishman in New York reports that “Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is also expected to announce a doubling of Danish troops in Afghanistan.” …
• what about the plastic animals? has pics of Whitman chocolates that are only “only a third full. Very sneaky, Whitman. Just as sneaky as Breyer’s and other ice cream brands whose half-gallon containers now only contain 56 ounces of ice cream.” …
• rion.nu has some very beautiful pics “on the roof of La Casa Milà, also known as La Pedrera (The Quarry in Catalan). built by architect Antoni Gaudi, the unique biomorphic building has no straight lines” …
• Kesher Talk summarizes a never before published interview with Abbie Hoffman …
• Yanksfan vs. Soxfan has an old post “on the supposed budding romance between our hero, Derek Jeter, and aspiring mactress Stacy Lynn Spiers” that is still generating comments … more than 400 of them …
• Dave Friedman asks, “If one were to take a leak in the urinal, would that constitute defacement, or utilitarian appreciation of Duchamp’s aesthetic?” …
• Fifty Minute Hour says “the world is more free than it’s been in a decade” …
• CityRag has pics of “a life size snow-globe, but much better” …
• Clublife meets someone who says Dominican cigars are better than Cubans … “Much higher quality. You wanna try one?” … so, what’s the verdict? …
• insignificant thoughts says “Paper Does Job, Apologizes for It” …
• Bridge and Tunnel Club blog warns us that Eliot Spitzer has jumped the shark …
• Travis Ruse … check out his great pic of Union Square Station, 9:30 am …
• CaiLun.info has set up a new gallery and ways to purchase his handmade books …
• Cake or Death? has a link to a funny video … “Soldiers The Size Of Wales…”
• Brownstoner has a nice pic … “Red Hook: Fantail Cobblestone” …
• Modern Fabulousity likes the egg pics of Digital Apoptosis …
• Karukeion wants to know if anyone else knew about the increase in postal rates effective today … yep, we stocked up on 2 cent stamps and the new 39 centers a few weeks ago …
• Greasy Guide links to a story about proposed legislation in Connecticut “that would require movie theatres in the state to post the actual starting time of a movie.” …
• Letters from NYC is “blogging straight to Munu from my Treo phone” …
• blog NYC admits “we’ve seen a few episodes of ‘Newlyweds’ and sometimes Jessica says or does something so outrageously stupid that it’s made us want to cry, we just don’t admit it to Elle magazine.” …
• Jewschool has info on the Brooklyn Israel Film Festival … starts January 24th ..
• Asymmetrical Information likes “drinking with economists, because they’re funny.” …
• The Tin Man walked up up “Fifth Avenue on a weekday. There are so many glamorous and good-looking people who must spend entire weekdays walking up and down Fifth Avenue, because they were all out there today. And such beautiful architecture and fashionable shops. It felt like what people who have never been to Manhattan imagine Manhattan to be like.” … yep …
• As I Please cites a news story reporting that in Houston there was “a huge crime wave following the arrival of refugees from hurricane-hit New Orleans.” … and notes: “Because an influx of 150,000 extra people from, say Salt Lake City, would drive up the crime rate as well. It’s not the 140,000 regular poor bastards in Houston causing the problem. It’s the 10,000 new thugs and murderers.” …
• Kevin McCullough says Jimmy Carter “is an angry old man, who if he takes his own advice on how to interpret the Bible or the basic understanding of Christianity – is himself on the wide road to Hell!” …
• mister snitch! has some great Quotes of the day … our favorite: “The Paris riots are actually a splendid demonstration of the successful integration of immigrants into French culture.” …
• Amazin’ Avenue declares: “there’s just something so mystical, so organic about paying $9 for a beer and $15 to park a mile away from the stadium.” … wow, for $24 we get a great dinner, for 3 people, at Sanur … OK, OK, that does not include parking or beer …
• Suitably Flip has the witness list for the Alito hearings … with bios …
• The Assimilated Negro has a list of “pitfalls when bloggers date bloggers” …
• Amy’s New York Notebook notes the closing of Chicaggo’s City News and says “It’s a shame the Tribune Co. (which also owns the LA Times and oodles of other papers and TV stations,) couldn’t do something with that news, like run with it rather than shut off the spigot because only their competitors knew what to do with it.” … many, many people got their start in journalism at City News … too bad they apparently didn’t have any business-types there …
• The Daily Gotham has a very interesting post on the “Green Synagogue” in Latvia …
• About Last Night warns you not to send him stuff … “If you send me a CD without asking first, I won’t listen to it. … If you send me a book without asking first, I won’t read it … If you send me unsolicited press releases, I’ll toss them in the nearest wastebasket.” …
• Alarming News went to Atlantic City and doubled her money …

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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
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