Big Apple Blog Festival – March 13, 2006
Welcome to the Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF), a representative roundup of this week’s posts by NYC bloggers.
The Big Apple Blog Festival likes to go on tour … if you don’t like what we covered here, and 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 March 27, 2006, will be hosted by A Guy In New York …
Enjoying Life
- Now What? “can’t explain how hilarious these things [BrightFeet] are to me” …
- opinionistas got “paper towels and toilet paper” for Valentine’s Day …
- Young Manhattanite is “renting a fully catered party bus to Atlantic City” for his birthday …
Childhood
- The Bronx links to a story reporting that “A school in the Bronx plans to charge more than Harvard” …
- Miscellaneous Objections says, “Any parent who buys this should be reported to Child Protective Services” …
- Writersbloc works with someone who doesn’t seem to know the difference between Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks …
War
- The Politburo Diktat is asking for contributions for a headstone for Casey Sheehan’s grave …
- Alarming News says Terry Jones is “not saying that God condones Saddam’s behavior, of course. He’s merely suggesting that, in a just world, Saddam would still be in power.” … who? … oh, that Terry Jones …
- Exit Zero says the War on Terror “isn’t Islam vs. Christianity. It’s not even anti-terror vs. terror. It’s human rights vs. sharia.” …
Rants
- Elvira Black‘s “rant du jour concerns a certain sub-group of writer–namely, the novelist in search of a publisher, or one who has self-published and is not hitting the best seller list as of yet (lol). I’d encountered a number of these folks on the Yahoo writers’ groups that I’ve long ago quit, and I’m starting to see even more insufferable examples over at Blogcritics” …
Living in New York
- Ragged Thots notes “the cops can be around to ticket the average person with a ridiculous summons but not one around to help clear the trains of street people taking up six or seven more seats than they are entitled to — well, that’s a good way to create an irritated citizenry.” … yep …
- NYC Stories had a notice for Diorama Lodge, which “is for anyone with a hankering for liquor-fueled arts and crafts” …
- gridskipper NY reports that “The morning after a visit [to Cheap Shots Bar], you will have the amazing ability to attract jackhammerers, sandblasters, and heavy equipment operators everywhere you go. Five-story-high hydraulic pile drivers will decide that this is the morning they must smash their way to the deepest bedrock, mere yards from where you rest your aching head.” …
- Forgotten NY added “The Land of Cars. Fresh Meadows, NYC’s westernmost suburb” … and notes that he “never had even a whiff of that peculiar romance most American men feel about their automobiles” …
- Living the Scientific Life has an update on the red-tailed hawks: “Pale Male and Lola are incubating eggs on their Fifth Avenue Penthouse overlooking Central Park!” …
- Bagel in Harlem is having bagel dreams … of a new “La Marqueta” running “from 111th street to 119th street under the Metro North Viaduct above Park Avenue” …
- joe’s nyc has a beautiful photo of the Empire State Building at night …
- The Assimilated Negro thinks “there’s probably some ‘neighborhood priority system’ going on behind the scenes at” Netflix …
- NewYorkology has a “New view of the Red Hook cruise ship terminal” …
- Clublife cautions that “what you’ll find in the streets of Manhattan at four in the morning [is] Wolves aplenty” …
- what about the plastic animals? has a couple of nice pics of the new Hearst Building …
- Dead Programmer’s Cafe is growing pineapples on his windowsill …
Singing, Dancing, Acting
- About Last Night has his weekly “list of recommended Broadway and off-Broadway shows” …
- Brooklyn Vegan says “This summer’s Central Park Summerstage schedule keeps getting better and better.” …
- Matzoh Cojones says “On April 2nd, I’ll be joining Lewis [Taylor] worshipers at Irving Plaza to get down and revere this small white guy born to Jewish parents, who has the spirit of Marvin Gaye in his heart.” …
- Englishman in New York has a challenge: “Even if you’re not into hip hop I dare you to watch [Buddha Bride] and not be impressed by her energy, passion and skill.” …
- Downtown Dancer has a couple of posts on “Dance Europe’s disturbing policy of bias and censorship against Israeli dance companies.” …
Work
- copyranter takes “a look at what happens when The lowest form of humanity–real estate agents–do their own advertising, as opposed to hiring the fourth lowest form of humanity–ad people–to do it for them” …
- The Dawn Patrol demonstrates that Planned Parenthood didn’t do its research on Elizabeth Cady Stanton …
Blogs and Blogging
- Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars is “entering the 48 Hour Film Project in New York City [and will] be blogging about this project, and I hope that a number of other New York blogs will also cover the competition.” …
- My Favorite Intermissions (formerly Fisher-Price My First Opera Blog), apologizes “to whoever googled ‘In Time which Made a Monkey of us All’” …
- BuzzMachine says “the age of scarcity of information and distribution are over; anybody can do this. We shouldn’t want to be gatekeepers. We shouldn’t want to get in the way of connecting people to what they want to know. We should do just the opposite and enable more people to find out more information.” …
- The People’s Cube seems to have been purged from Google … and they “can only think of three reasons for this: 1. Google is retaliating against sites that ridiculed its Google China project. 2. Google has begun to implement its Google China policies in the rest of the free world. 3. A left-leaning Google employee who’s got access to the database was suffering a nervous breakdown over the mockery of Marxism on our site, and so he or she dastardly removed/blocked The People’s Cube, hoping to “improve” the public discourse by silencing the competition. You tell me which one it is.” … what is up with that? …
- Dave Friedman writes, “One reason I do not read many of the right’s favored blogs, such as Powerline, Malkin, and Little Green Footballs is that their capacity for outrage is exceeded only by the lack of judiciousness they exhibit when reporting on controversies that pique their ire.” …
Economics – Basic
- Asymmetrical Information has some observations on “Affirmative action and the academic labour market” …
- Liberteaser reports that Minnesota has a law that prohibits gas stations “selling at low prices [if it] ‘has the effect of injuring a competitor’” … so much for the free market in the land of 10,000 lakes …
Whatever
- Joey McKeown answers the question: “can anyone join the Amish in their quest for whatever it is they’re questing?” …
- 10,000 Birds has more advice for new birders …
- Jolie in NYC worries about worrying … “The problem with being quote-unquote ‘beauty savvy’ is that I now think about random things like free-radicals and their damaging effects at totally inopportune times” … we hate it when that happens …
- The Apiary declares “Yanni Didn’t Punch Out His Girlfriend” …
- Lengths of comfy verdure asks you gals to please stop “tucking your skin tight jeans into your skin tight tall stilletto boots” …
- this is what we do now believes “Hearing your phone ring, checking the caller ID, rolling your eyes at the person who’s intruding upon your valuable time and clicking ignore has to be one of the greatest aphrodisiacs ever.” …
MSM
- The Daily Gotham says that “in recent years, under the leadership of inkstained, wretched hacks like Andrew Sullivan and Martin Peretz, [The New Republic] magazine has turned into something akin to National Review on a liberal guilt trip” …
- Karukeion declares that “The NYTimes is going down the toilet” after having drinks with a NYT reporter …
Food
- A Guy In New York had his
weekly roundup of NYC restaurant reviews …- Blog Chelsea writes that “Consumed with late winter carb lust, we’ve been eating our way through Billy’s Bakery” …
Politics
- Ace of Spades notes how warm and safe he feels knowing that our ports aren’t being run by a foreign state, but “By The Mafia” …
- As I Please loves this quote: “To be honest, I’d trust Dubai with my ports before I trust Congress with my wallet” … and notes that retaliation by Dubai could include “curtailing the docking of hundreds of American ships, including U.S. Navy ships” …
- Suitably Flip says “Hillary Clinton’s Not So Bad” …
Sports
- Steve Silver reminisces about Kirby Puckett … RIP …
- spinachdip nyc on the purchase of the Metrostars by Red Bull: “the fewer clubs Phil Anschutz owns and operates (he currently owns and operates DC United, LA Galaxy Houston Dynamo and Chicago Fire), the better for each club” …
- Living the Scientific Life says “Friends Don’t Let Friends Eat at the BallPark” …
Gadgets
- Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars says “If you’re really serious about getting the goods on that cheating heart of yours, try the ‘LandAirSea 3100 GPS Vehicle Tracker.’” …
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