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 13, 2006, will be hosted by A Guy In New York …

• Insignificant Thoughts links to a video you will like if you like The Simpsons … a real-life version of the opening sequence …
• Clareified responds to a study that states that “22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just one in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms” … “SEVENTY-EIGHT PERCENT OF MY COUNTRYMEN CAN’T NAME ALL THE SIMPSONS?” …
• AlarmingNews on alphas and betas: “Take a rich man who’s insecure and a poor man who’s self-assured and see which one attracts a higher quality of chicks. I know who my money’s on.” … and asks, “How do they not walk into walls?” …
• Liberteaser discourses on conservatives and legalizing drugs … we all know how well that Prohibition thing worked out …
• Bagel in Harlem was mentioned in a NYT story and got a lot of email as a result, “mostly from men looking for some hot bagel love; but I’ve also collected messages from people expressing a real curiosity about East Harlem and the changes occurring in the neighborhood.” … hmm, for hot bagel love try this, this, this, or this …
• Forgotten NY added a new page about remnants of the trolley system … “more exposed trolley tracks” …
• NewYorkology says “The New York Botanical Garden, which is hosting its annual Orchid Show through April 2, is offering two-for-one admission every Tuesday and Thursday in March.” … and that “The van Gogh exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cezanne and Pissarro show at the Museum of Modern Art were the most popular museum exhibits in New York and rank among the world’s most popular museum shows of 2005” …
• 10,000 Birds reports that “the Great Backyard Bird Count just wrapped up with excellent results. Participants submitted 59,017 total checklists, observed 603 total species, and counted 7,445,226 individual birds” …
• The Daily Gotham has a post on micro lending in east Africa where you lend to borrowers …
• what about the plastic animals? has pics of 2 interesting puzzles …
• SerandEz will host the next Kosher Cooking Carnival …
• spinachdip nyc has “An open letter to the United States Postal Service” …
• Yet Another Weird SF Fan has a simple way to determine if our minds create reality: Can you “stop nuclear waste from being radioactive by turning the Geiger counter off“? … or how about stepping in front of a train and thinking that it stops …
• this is what we do now links to a story where a 37-year old woman says a 4-year old boy seduced her …
• New York Hack has a story of an idiot in her cab … at least he tipped well …
• Elvira Black celebrates the Carnival of the Bipolars …
• Daily Refill needs help picking the image of her that will run with her column in The Villager …
• NYC Stories wonders why Sprint PCS makes more in 2 minutes than he does in an hour … “In about 2 minutes, and I am being generous here, my new phone was activated. So that means that Sprint is charging $1080.00 per hour for phone activation services. I wish I charged that much for some of my services.” … so do we! …
• jewschool has a report on the recent American Renaissance Conference and the nexus of White Nationalism and antisemitism …
• Miscellaneous Objections has a link to a cat piano … and says “Parents today need to learn to say no.” …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars wants to know the name of the Wibbly Wobbly Building “under construction on the West Side Highway and 20th Street” … and asks, “Why in the hell would I be interested in the politics of any musician?” …
• Englishman in New York has some links and observations about David Irving, “a deluded, pompous, arrogant, stubborn individual who will never change his mind and for whom every form of opposition is part of a wider Jewish conspiracy” …
• Dave Friedman’s Soul of Wit says of school choice, all “New Yorkers should have that choice, not just the ones who vacation at Vail” …
• The Tin Man asks “Wouldn’t it be weird if George Allen won the Republican nomination for president in 2008 and Mark Warner won the Democratic nomination?” …
• The Daily Dump says “with the right amount of tuna” you can force cats to do anthing … can you make them bark? …
• BuzzMachine would “take Eos again in a flash” …
• Bakerina tells you “How to prepare a good cake” …
• Asymmetrical Information has a conundrum … “If I’m pro-choice–and I am–then how come I’m always gleefully reporting setbacks for my side?” …
• mister snitch! is still working on his book proposal …
• Da Greasy Guide declares that “Joilicious! Tennessee Slim Is The Bomb” … although we kinda wonder about a woman who wears furry high heels while wearing a bikini …
• gothamist has a link to “the terrifying Magical Grid Of Bad Emo Hair” … shudder …
• Suitably Flip went to DC to where he “took part in a GOP seminar on ‘mastering the blogosphere’” …
• Kesher Talk has some observations on Tony Blair, prayer, and the press … and is impressed with Condolezza Rice’s exercise routine …
• opinionistas saw “quite possibly the worst movie I’ve ever seen. And this coming from someone who saw “Ishtar” and “Congo” in the theater. Twice. Yes, they were bad, but never before has the screen actually seared my retinas with a film’s sublime awfulness. I fold my hands and openly pray for it to end.” …
• Ace of Spades has a good title on this post: “Yard-Blogging: Man Fights Media Embargo By Putting Mohammed Cartoons On Front Lawn” … “lawn blogging” sounds better to our ears …
• The Dawn Patrol obeserves that “a newspaper reporter in New York City openly announcing that he’s pro-choice is about as surprising as a window dresser openly announcing that he listens to Barbra Streisand” …
• lowercase L was the Yahoo “WEBlOG of the day for March 4, 2006!” …. you go LOWERCASE l …
• Exit Zero wants to send Bill Maher To Suleimaniya …
• WhatISee has a pic about the impending takeover of NYC by Yum Yum …
• Dead Programmer’s Cafe believes “there’s a conspiracy to hide the fact that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer left the company a long time ago. I mean think about it, would you continue to work if you had that kind of money?” … some of us would …

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