Welcome to the Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF), a representative roundup of this week’s posts by NYC bloggers.
Last week’s Big Apple Blog Festival was hosted by mister snitch!.
Next week’s BABF will be hosted by Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars … if you have a NYC blog or you blog about NYC and would like to host an upcoming BABF, let us know …

Food

• WhatISee has a photo showing Shake Shack still has a line in winter …
• Gothamist has a great suggestion for a street vendor restaurant in New York …
• My Life With Garlic had “Food to Die For” on Thanksgiving … with pics …
• A Guy In New York had his weekly roundup of restaurant reviews … This Week In Reviews …
  

  Clothing

• Now What? switched to the glockenspiel after marching in Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade so she could march in parades wearing pants …
  

  Shelter

• gothamist has a great post on “Con Edison’s NYC steam system” …
• Letters from NYC has tips on how to reduce your utility bills …
  

  Technology

• writersbloc needs a new computer … and is “willing to consider my options with a Mac if anyone cares to give me justification and arguments to strengthen their case. Besides ‘it integrates better with your iPod’.” …
  

  OpEd

• Urban Elephants wonders “what the hell is a Republican in New York?” …
• Wonkster writes: “Reviews of the Port Authority’s possible plans for retail development near the World Trade Center site are trickling in, and they are not favorable.” …
• Asymmetrical Information believes “Making the country as a whole poorer in order to reduce income inequality doesn’t sound to me like a good idea.” …
• The Daily Gotham says “Wal-Mart is one of the worst examples of what can go wrong with capitalism. Their rival, Costco, is an example of what can go RIGHT with capitalism, but Wal-Mart represents the ultimate in worker exploitation, anti-union, anti-small business, etc. capitalism.” …
• Ace of Spades defends Al Gore … a little bit … says Andrea Mitchell is dazed and confused …
• The Corsair raises a glass to Condoleeza Rice …
• Exit Zero declares “Whether our government chooses to acknowledge it or not, Saudi Arabia is at war with us.” …
• Brain Terminal hopes “that conservatives don’t go too far down the road of conspiracy-mongering.” …
• As I Please reports that the avian flu vaccine shortage is now solved …
• Ragged Thots wants to know “Why would a clearly-identified publication of the Left like the Village Voice basically castigate a local politician as being in the pocket of labor?” …
• Dawn Eden speculates that Scott Spear, chairman of the national medical committee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, “probably meant to say, ‘Is this a local tissue?’” not “Is this a local issue?” …
• The People’s Cube reports, “As usual, the Europeans have been leading the way.” …
• Liberteaser has a campaign finance proposal … and is “willing to bet Robert Kennedy, Jr. $10,000 that Manhattan will not be under 12 feet of water in the next 10 years.” …
  

  Animals

• Theater of My Mind has a photo showing how a roach sees a subway station …
• untitlednamedotcom has some interesting photos of New York City Wildlife … look at the last one … is that a guard poodle? …
• Ace of Spades has a bit of advice for bear hunters …
• The Politicker reports that “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, recently ventured to Washington to chat with Republican legislators about global warning (sic)” …
  

  Living in New York

• NYC Stories: “New Yorkers can be jaded. We think we have seen everything, and sometimes we ignore the things going on right in front of our faces.” …
• Forgotten NY added a new page about “Edgemere on the Rockaway peninsula, whose mile after mile of ocean beach front has been left to rot.” … Google map …
• rion.nu has photos of “some of the back alleys and river walkways of darkened downtown manhattan at dusk” …
• Living the Scientific Life explains why “removing an egg from the endangered whooping crane’s nest increases the species’ chances of survival” … and has an interesting post about the 2 Galápagos tortoises currently on exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History through May 29, 2006 …
  

  Travel

• Young Manhattanite is going to live in Jerusalem for a month …
• Dave Friedman reminds those of us who drive, “cutting trucks off on the highway with the expectation that they can stop like cars is foolish and ignorant.” … I’d been wondering where that post had gone, thanks Dave! …
• greg.org has an interesting post about President Bush’s visit to Mongolia, with links to many photos … and he’s a “A Sucker For A Good Tracking Shot” …
• Amy’s New York Notebook has something you’ll like in DC … “Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress may be my new favorite building in the world.” … we like the Jefferson Building a lot and will be using a photo of the main reading room on the cover of a book we’re publishing in 2006 …
  

  Health

• Clublife needs some advice about why he is snoring like a buzzsaw …
  

  Family and Friends

• Ace of Spades links to an article that shows “what happens when self-esteem triumphs over good manners” …
• The Assimilated Negro is thankful for finding a long-lost sister this year … and has a great list including “Things You Learn About Your Boyfriend/Girlfriend After They Move In With You” … our favorite: “they’re only funny one to two hours of the day, which used to be the one to two hours of the day you spent with them, but now is the one to two hours of the day you don’t” …
  

  Entertainment

• The Anonymous Blogger has price comparisons of bowling in New York and bowling in Union City …
• joe’s nyc has a great photo of a bicyclist riding past a movie set …
• Mister Snitch! says “The fanboys have taken over the asylum” … and “office photocopier repairs spike during holiday season” …
• BounceFM has info on the next 718 SESSIONS Holiday Classics Party on December 11, 2005 … with Danny Krivit and Davdi Depino …
• Fisher-Price My First Opera Blog writes that “the movie of Rent is, overall, a resounding disappointment.” …
• About Last Night posted his weekly “list of recommended Broadway and off-Broadway shows” … including Bach in Leipzig, which closes December 18 … and has 2 good quotes on gratitude …
• Corante New York explains “Why people often confuse Toronto (yes, Toronto) with New York” …
• My Urban Kvetch “saw Walk the Line on Thursday night, and really enjoyed it.” …
• dailyheights.com asks, “Is Richard Dreyfuss a Jerk? Playful? A Playful Jerk?” …
• Cinema Strikes Back gives 4 out of 4 stars to “Tarkan Versus The Vikings” (aka “Tarkan Viking kani”) … “Turkey’s answer to the Italian sword and sandal films, is more fun than the proverbial barrel of monkeys and just as crazed.” … “On any scale of normal quality, Tarkan is clearly total crap. The four stars are based entirely on the fact that it’s amazingly fun, and a perfect way to introduce yourself to the insanity that is Turkish cinema.” … now out on DVD (with “Deathless Devil”) …
  

  Holidays

• SerandEz links to a cartoon, “If the First Thanksgiving Had Been Jewish” …
• New York Hack has a nice holiday lights pic and heard the words every cab driver loves to hear …
• NewYorkology has a list of the “Top 10 new things to do in NYC this season” …
• Jewschool is “a huge supporter of Buy Nothing Day” …
• Dorian Davis has a poem for Thanksgiving …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars doesn’t believe Santa can “can deliver 12 beautiful young women from Bali to wait on me hand and foot.” …
• Elvira Black asks, “Ever feel like you’ve been cheated?” …
• Englishman in New York declares “Thanksgiving is fast becoming my favorite day of the year. It’s the one day when almost everything in New York stops—apart from the trains. … it’s one of the most inclusive and relaxed holidays I have ever experienced.” …
  

  Blogs, Blogging, and Some Other Stuff

• opinionistas has crossed the line and is now “associata non grata” …
• lowercase L thaks “the Donut Shop on 7th Ave here in Park Slope, Brooklyn, for giving me this perfect example of improper lowercase L usage.” …
• Modern Fabulousity has his weekly ModFab Gallery with links to 17 photoblogs …
• Nonsense Verse has a phrase that “is strangely satisfying” when added at the end of “those stupid, cryptic movie or episode descriptions on your digital cable” …
• copyranter says “Starbucks seriously needs to go to Billboarding School” … and advises that advertising agencies “DON’T HAVE A CLUE ahead of time whether the TV spots/ads they create are going to sell product.” …
• Buzzmachine is not happy with RSS readers that don’t tell him subscriber numbers …
• CaiLun.info reports on his “first attempt to bind single sheets” into a book …
• Alarming News has a link to “Best personal ads ever” … and says “Ann Althouse has problems” …
• Late Final says “piling on [Open Source Media] has gotten even more boring than the name, ‘Open Source Media.’” …
• Kesher Talk guesses that “the people who are going ballistic about the business end of PJ Media actually expect to make a significant portion of their income from their ads.” …

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