Welcome to the Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF), an unrepresentative roundup of posts submitted by NYC bloggers … to submit your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … use the Carnival Submit Form …
The Big Apple Blog Festival likes to go on tour … if you have a NYC blog or you blog about NYC and would like to host a BABF, let us know … The BABF appears irregularly …

• we added a new food blog, Word of Mouth … check it out
• GrrlScientist presents Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “A review of a gorgeous book full of nature-art, and this review including some stunning images as well.”
• Chris asked us to check out Savory New York and its accompanying blog, Savory Tidbits … and you should, too …
• Mrs Mogul is homesick for NYC …
• GrrlScientist presents Audubon’s Aviary posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “A review of the New York Historical Society’s showing of 40 of Audubon’s original watercolors, ‘Audubon’s Aviary’.”
• muse presents That’s not New York, C.S.I. posted at me-ander … and also Best school? …
• don’t know how we overlooked Carmen’s request to add A Chocolate Tour of New York to our food blogs … we’ve fixed that … the blog name that makes your mouth water …
• Gerry asked us, twice, to let everyone know that “TrueGotham.com is the blog of Douglas Heddings, Founder of The Heddings Property Group, LLC, and a Senior Vice President of Prudential Douglas Elliman. The focus of TrueGotham.com is New York City real estate. I help Mr. Heddings run TrueGotham.com” … we admire persistence …
• GrrlScientist presents Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Club George posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “a review of the book describing the adventures of a man who met and fell in love with an audacious red-winged blackbird, George.”

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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
To submit your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … use the Carnival Submit Form …
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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, 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 … we’re taking some time off for Easter break, so the next BABF won’t appear until May 1, 2006, when it will be hosted by A Guy In New York …
This week’s Big Apple Blog Festival is hosted by Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars.
Some excerpts:

• Ace of Spades covers Rudi Giuliani’s testimony at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. This guy should fry.
• Suitably Flip notes that “Joblessness Falls Again.” He also reports that Rep. Cyntha McKinney’s craziness goes far beyond slapping security guards. She’s a shill for the Scientologists.
• Shakedown on Page Six! New York Post gossip column wants $220G for protection money. Or else… what? useless! worthless! insipid! has the answer.
• Third Avenue thinks that conservatives are making far too much of the Islamification of Europe. Did you know that Holland prospects for foreign immigrants with a DVD of topless bathers? For subtle snarkiness, I think that Third Avenue is tops.
• Oh, my God! Modern Fabulosity and I agree on something. This is the end of the world as we know it. We both agree… Katie Couric is not the answer. We just don’t agree on the question. “Whatever charms Couric had — bubbly personality, wide smile, optimistic charm — have long been excised by her rampaging ego and unfortunate plastic surgery,” sayeth Mr. Fabulous. Shouting Thomas (which is me) has a rather different take on the Couric problem: CBS news has no credibility, and a PC hire won’t help. Does this mean, Mr. Fabulous, that I’m not a homophobe?
• and lots more …

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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
To nominate your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … or you have a NYC-related blog and would like to host an upcoming BABF … send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail.com … or use the Carnival Submit Form … see you next week …
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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, 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 April 10, 2006, will be hosted by Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars …
This week’s Big Apple Blog Festival is hosted by Suitably Flip.
Some excerpts:

• Atlas Shrugs takes the “malevolent pigs” of Google to task for their selective qualification of various news sources and advertisers, sometimes with terroristy overtones.
• Suitably Flip looked into the newly released 9/11 911 calls. So did the Village Voice’s Power Plays.
• Cake or Death catches a nasty case “undocumented fever”. As an aside, Cake or Death might just have the funniest profile photo ever to grace a sidebar.
• New Yorkology notes that pesky little indecisive tax on clothes under $110 that comes and goes so frequently has now left us for good.

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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
To nominate your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … or you have a NYC-related blog and would like to host an upcoming BABF … send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail.com … or use the Carnival Submit Form … see you next week …
You are free to repost the Big Apple Blog Festival so long as you leave this URL attached: BigAppleBlogFestival.com.
Technorati Tags: big apple, big apple blog festival, New York, NYC, New York City, Manhattan

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 April 3, 2006, will be hosted by Suitably Flip …

Friends and Family

• opinionistas declares that “instead of examining Boomers and learning from their mistakes, we’re simply taking their soul-crumbling notions to the next level. More than half of them went through miserable, messy divorces and wound up bleeding emotional shells – well it must have been because they didn’t protect their future assets before they got married! That’s the key!” …
• Englishman in New York turned 30 … “The sun is shining. And life keeps getting better.” … Happy Birthday! …
• The Dawn Patrol reprints “An Open Letter to Michael Schiavo” …
  

  Free Speech

• Exit Zero has “Random notes on Sharia” …
• Eye Dream Awake has a video of Dr. Wafa Sultan worth watching and comments worth reading in a post titled “What Is Truly Offensive Is Not Free Speech” … (“Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and barbarism, a battle that the forces of violent, reactionary Islam are destined to lose” in a NYT story) …
• Kesher Talk has a “Report on the London Anti-Toonophobia Rally” …
  

  Living in NYC

• gothamist reports that “Starting next week one of the biggest shifts in commuter rail in the past two decades will begin. In response to rider demand Metro-North, New Jersey Transit and the LIRR are all in the process of seriously upping their pre-dawn service.”
• NYC Stories says “Accept New York and ride the waves that it takes you on, and all will turn out well. Fight the tides of the city and your are fighting a battle you will not win.” …
• Bagel in Harlem says “Harlem is the first place in the city where I’ve ever known my neighbors’ names, but it’s also the first neighborhood where it’s been a struggle to find fresh produce” …
• Clublife reminisces about a chance meeting on the subway … and how things turned out 5 years later …
• Express Train says “Nothing makes the city seem smaller than when you run into a friend on a subway platform.” …
• dailyheights.com has a story about a livery driver who just doesn’t get it …
• Wonkster takes a quick look at NYC school’s gifted and talented program …
  

  Potpourri

• Asymmetrical Information‘s “most absurd belief? That ‘there are some things which are just plain wrong’” …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars has the blues and writes that “The cruelty and eagerness of the young is less appealing with every passing year.” …
• lowercase L has a pic for “SMAll Coffee in Chelsea” …
• Terry Teachout‘s favorite museum is the Phillips Collection … which “has digitized its entire collection of American paintings” …
• WhatISee has a pic of a large Horseshoe Crab …
• clarified, after getting into a staring contest with a pigeon
  on her window ledge, got a ceramic owl
  to scare it away … but it scared her instead …

• New York Hack says “vindication tastes sweeter than revenge. And it pays better too.” …
• what about the plastic animals? has a pic of peeling paint … in case you have time left over after watching the paint dry …
• Young Manhattanite seems surprised that Baltimore is “The City That Reads…The Economist?” …
  

  blogs, blogging, and the Internet

• spinachdip nyc guest blogger the belligerent intellectual says “writing someone else’s blog is a lot harder than I thought it would be” …
• Yet another weird SF fan is “thinking of changing the name of this blog to ‘The Whiny Ex-Kid.’”
• Living the Scientific Life asks “How Much of You Does Your Blog Own?” …
• this is what we do now declares that “ChompChamp had the potential to be the greatest website of all time” …
  

  Help Wanted

• Alarming News has a recurring dream and wants help figuring out its meaning …
• untitlednamedotcom has a pic of a refrigerated trailer that someone forgot to unload …
  

  Politics and Media

• Ragged Thots says “blaming the ‘liberal attack machine’ for [ Ben Domenech’] sad tale is as ridiculous as, yes, a certain one-time First Lady blaming a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy.’” …
• Amy’s New York Notebook has the Headline of the day …
• People’s Cube says that “the new ‘must work for money’ rule, introduced by the French government, has precipitated huge street demonstrations in Paris, as student and labor leaders rise against the specter of capitalism, worried that its emphasis on hard work and personal responsibility will ruin their most cherished cultural values of government dependency.”
• Matzoh Cojones writes: “Given that an Arab serves on Israel’s highest court, and that Israeli Arabs write for Ha’aretz and the Jerusalem post, it would be very difficult for Washington Post blogger Jefferson Morley to find examples backing his assertion that Israeli Arabs ‘are largely invisible in the country’s media’”
  

  Huh?

• Greasy Guide says for $500 you can own your very own Ghostface Killah doll … who buys this stuff? …
• Tres Chicas says “No Beard Is a Good Beard … Unless you want to look like some hipster doofus, or a Civil War soldier, or Pericles” …
• Miscellaneous Objections has “some pictures of dogs dancing” …
• CityRag writes “Mike Walker of the National Enquirer reported that the Church of Scientology is looking at purchasing Neverland and making it a retreat for Scientologists!” …
• My Urban Kvetch wonders “why middle-aged men on the beaches of Tel Aviv think Speedos are a good idea” …
• Kesher Talk has “News from the Near Future: Yale to Award Honorary Degree to Sirhan Sirhan” …
  

  War, Peace, International Relations

• Daily Lunch writes that between 1980 and 2004 the deadliest year for active duty U.S. military deaths “was 1983, year of the Beirut terrorist bombing which killed 263 marines: 2,486 deaths total. The next deadliest was 1980, with 2,392 deaths. By comparison, 2004 saw 1,887 military deaths.” …
• Atlas Shrugs has an “Official Warning: DO NOT GO TO FRANCE” … with pics …
• Dave Friedman declares “Give me Shakespeare and beer and brie and wine. I don’t care about the rest of either Britain or France” …
  

  Singing, Dancing, and Acting

• Suitably Flip says Spiderman is decamping … “Our friendly neighborhood Spiderman is trading in the city that never sleeps for the city… wait, let me look this one up… for the ‘forest city’.” …
• Ace of Spades says “the actual interest in zombie movies is all about personal interactions and group politics in extreme situations” … and asks, “Is there a big overlap between musical lovers and Tolkein geeks?” …
• Daily Refill says “movable hype 7.0 @ the knitting factory (main space), april 17th, bands start at 8:30pm” …
• Nonsense Verse “went dancing for the first time in about six months, and I felt completely out of my skin, outside the music, and out of my element in general” …
• NewYorkology reports that “Liev Schreiber, F. Murray Abraham, John Turturro and Marcia Gay Harden are among the celebrities signed up to take part in the free Shakespeare Birthday Marathon scheduled for Sunday, April 23” …
• dry2olives reminds us that “When it comes to musically defining the spirit of New York City, few composers can match the contributions of George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.” …
  

  Food and Drink

• Dead Programmer’s Cafe dipped Ukrainian Sushi (salo) in chocolate: “The flavor is outstanding” …
• Yanksfan vs. Soxfan reports that “Yankee outfielder Gary Sheffield’s endorsement deal with Burger King was terminated yesterday after Sheffield was seen violating the terms of his contract. Sheffield was spotted outside a North Tampa Golden Arches, sitting on the driver side of his SUV with a Big Mac in his left hand, a full ‘Super Value Meal #2’ on the leather seat to his right.”
• 10,000 Birds says “Seed-eaters are easier to identify than meat-eaters” …
• Slice Pizza Club will have its annual Coney Island field trip on Sunday, April 9, 2006 …
• Slashfood reports that “Robert Tomey, a McDonald’s franchisee owner, has put his leftover french fry grease to a good use: fueling his car.” … Grease Car …
• A Guy In New York had his weekly roundup of NYC restaurant reviews …
• WhiteTrashBBQ reports that Purple Turtle Catering won the Grillin’ on the Bay BBQ contest …

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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
To nominate your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … or you have a NYC-related blog and would like to host an upcoming BABF … send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail.com … or use the Carnival Submit Form … see you next week …
You are free to repost the Big Apple Blog Festival so long as you leave this URL attached: BigAppleBlogFestival.com
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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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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
To nominate your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … or you have a NYC-related blog and would like to host an upcoming BABF … send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail.com … or use the Carnival Submit Form … see you next week …
You are free to repost the Big Apple Blog Festival so long as you leave this URL attached: BigAppleBlogFestival.com
Technorati Tags: big apple, big apple blog festival, New York, NYC, New York City, Manhattan

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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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, 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 March 6, 2006, will be hosted by A Guy In New York …
This week’s Big Apple Blog Festival is hosted by Suitably Flip.
Some excerpts:

• At Metroblogging NYC, Lisa Beebe managed to find the hands-down scariest theme bar in New York. Even the sign creeps me out. Meanwhile at Metroblogging, Chris Trent is feeling that pang of guilt we all feel when we find ourselves squandering the privilege of living in the Big Apple.
• New York has the most dramatic, most recognizable skyline in the world. But it’s far from blight-free. Harleys, Cars, Girls, and Guitars wants to get to the bottom of one of the more pervasive rooftop eyesores.
• Amy at NewYorkology and Pamela at Atlas Shrugs reflect on the 13th anniversary of the first World Trade Center attack, which came to pass this Sunday
• It’s hard to screw up a restaurant whose central theme is cheese. Artisanal is one of my favorite gastro-indulgences in the city and the Big Apple Dining Guide gives us a compelling reason to make reservations tonight.

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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, 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 February 27, 2006, will be hosted by Suitably Flip …
This week’s Big Apple Blog Festival is hosted by Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars.
Some excerpts:

• 2Blowhards has published so many good pictures of cars recently. Michael Blowhard put up some great pictures of Bugattis. Donald Pittenger wrote a great article, with pictures, about concept cars.
• Is it bad manners to clip you fingernails on the Subway? How in the hell else are you supposed to pass the time? Englishman in New York has an opinion.
• NPR decided against publishing the cartoons that outraged Muslim fundamentalists on its website. brain terminal calls this “veto-by-murder.”

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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
To nominate your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … or you have a NYC-related blog and would like to host an upcoming BABF … send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail.com … or use the Carnival Submit Form … see you next week …
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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 February 20, 2006, will be hosted by Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars …

DETAILS, DETAILS

• lowercase L risked a run-in with security at the Makor Café … “Excuse me, sir, what are you taking a picture of?” … a ClOSE CAll … a VErY ClOSE CAll …
• copyranter thinks “journalists who use their middle initial in their byline are self-important Dweebs” … what if their name is John Smith? …
  

  PHOTOBLOGS

• untitlednamedotcom has a picture that will warm you … Palms in Winter Garden, Battery Park City …
• WhatISee has a roundup of NYC Photobloggers 6 …
  

  WEATHER

• Exit Zero was Blizzard Blogging and has pics of the snow on Sunday …
• rion.nu also pics … Two Feet of Winter White Covers Manhattan …
• Karlo.org has Bethesda Angel in Snow …
• WhatISee has Night Photos in the Snow … and Sledding in the Blizzard …
  

  FASHION and BEAUTY

• Express Train has a pic of a fashionista in a fur coat waiting for a train … lucky she didn’t run into the all-caps unhinged commenter MEllANY …
• writersbloc does not like stretch jeans: “Stretch jeans, while hugging every curve and boasting closer fit than their all-cotton cousins, hug a little too well. So well that the lack of gym time shows.” …
• Jolie in NYC says “Sephora.com and Drugstore.com are two of my” favorite beauty web sites …
  

  CELEBRITY

• The Dooryard is “not sure if I want to hang around Martha or if I want to be Martha.” …
• My Urban Kvetch, in “An Open Letter to Zach Braff,” writes: “We want to believe that our Hebrew homies will date and marry closer to home, but the reality is that once they move to Hollywood, it’s all over. Music swells, big-screen kiss, interfaith wedding, the end.” …
  

  HISTORY

• jewschool says that “the Islamic problem of the State of Israel are not the ones stated, such as the mistreatment of Palestinians (real and exaggerated) or their national aspirations. It is the awesome theological problem presented by the existence of the State of Israel.” … “For instance, most Jews consider the punishment of amputating a thieves hand under sharia law as an example of how Judaism is superior to Islam. The fact that many Jews do not understand that the Torah’s insistence of an “eye under an eye” to be one of economic compensation instead of the frequent Christian misinterpretation of the Torah demanding physical retribution does not diminish their own belief that in practice, for as long as anyone can remember, Judaism did not and does not advocate a punishment of amputation of limbs, even if they are not aware that according to most interpretations the Torah explicitly outlaws executing such a punishment even to gentiles.” …
  

  POLITICS

• The Dawn Patrol has a “new slogan for the pro-life movement here: ‘Life. Inflict it.’” …
• The Politburo Diktat declares that the War in Iraq “shouldn’t even be called a war, maybe a war-let.” …
• Dave Friedman’s Soul of Wit has another example showing “that politicians love nothing more than cosmetic fixes to intractable problems” …
• The Daily Gotham said about Dick Cheny accidentally shooting a fellow hunter, “Don’t just treat this as a hobby, Dick. Go pro.” …
• Asymmetrical Information declares that budget “deficits are not doing anything bad to the economy now; if they are having any noticeable effect, it is probably keeping the housing bubble from further inflating, which is to my mind a very good thing indeed.” …
• Yet another weird SF fan declares, “You have a right to life if your death can be somehow blamed on capitalism.” …
  

  SINGING, ACTING, DANCING, MUSIC

• A Guy In New York reports that jazz legend “Benny Golson is 77 years old and he is still very good, healthy, full of humor and life!” …
• Night After Night says Wade Schuman is “a musician to be reckoned with. Pulling out a harmonica, Schuman played an unaccompanied solo of stunning imagination and skill. He made the tiny instrument sing and growl; he blew multiphonic lines punctuated by sharp, percussive pops. During one stretch, he created a doppler-like effect; the closest comparison I could make would be a speeding train winding through a hilly countryside, the sound shuttered by trees and swallowed by the occasional tunnel” …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars says “If it ain’t the truth, it ain’t the blues” …
• Clareified has her list of “Top 20 Greatest Movies of All Times” … there must be a mistake … I don’t see “Hulot” in any of those titles …
• Liberteaser has a warning for “all you filmmakers out there. If you get a call from ‘Stacy,’ hang up. Quickly. Unless, of course, she’s taken out that personal loan.” …
• Suitably Flip gives “Two idolatrous thumbs up” to Showtime’s Sleeper Cell …
• Ragged Thots explains “why SNL isn’t as funny as it was ‘back in the day.’” …
• listen. says that “the multi-cultural polystylism of Golijov, whose Ayre has received reviews both rapturous and reserved–is not the future. It is a future, one of a thousand stylistic flowers that will bloom.” …
• An Unamplified Voice believes that Placido Domingo’s conducting “of the current Met run of Rigoletto … seems a very, very poor deal indeed for the house, but even worse for its patrons.” …
  

  DOT COMS

• Amy’s New York Notebook reports that Amazon has “more than 1,500” product wikis …
• Dave Friedman’s Soul of Wit and says “Google bulls are partying like it’s 1999” …
  

  OFFENSIVE CARTOONS

• Atlas Shrugs comments on the “offensive cartoons” [Ed., link here], “Most U.S. newspapers have opted not to publish the images. These are the same newspapers that sued the federal government for the right to run the dead floating bodies in the Katrina afternmath. But run the hundeds of bodies hitting the ground after throwing themsleves out of the World Trade Center? Never” … and notes that “Cartoon rioting continues unabated across the world” …
• elvira black declares that “calls to ‘understand’ how ‘deeply offended’ the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed are to Muslims– frankly offends me to the point of fury. The reasons for this are, literally, graphically clear. The source of my rage is not hard to locate–it is readily available on websites which offer up the richly perverted tradition of antisemitic cartoons and televised antisemitic and anti-American propaganda disseminated throughout the Muslim world on a regular basis.” …
• Mister Snitch! looks at “Daniel Schorr’s free speech problem” … we didn’t realize Schnorr is still around … and has a link to the “Anonymous Muslim Man Complaint Box” …
• Brain Terminal declares: “To a frighteningly large number of people on this planet, freedom is the enemy.” …
• The People’s Cube reports that “Western terror labs have finally produced a weapon so horrific that it has shaken Islamic world to the core, making over a billion people from Morocco to Indonesia fear for the survival of their freedoms, morals, beliefs, cultures, governments, and the very life itself.” …
• Alarming News notes the comparison of “the Muslim rioting over a cartoon to Christian anger over the removal of ‘Christmas’ from American life. Gib says it best in Clarified’s comment section: ‘I once called the Danish embassy during December. They said ‘Happy Holidays.’ So I burned it to the ground.’” …
• Englishman in New York says “Denmark’s Crime Is Ignorance Not Malice” … uh, what crime? …
  

  TRANSPORTATION

• Bridge and Tunnel Club blog comments on the NYPD puchase of muscle cars that “it is absolutely necessary to be able to attain speeds of 150 mph while patrolling the wide-open streets of Manhattan” … New York Hack: do cabs go that fast? …
  

  CRIME

• Bridge and Tunnel Club blog notes the first undercover kitten, used to arrest a “a back-alley, unlicensed veterinarian” …
• Cake or Death?‘s headline about the 16 year old kid who stabbed his mother 111 times: “‘Cause 110 Just Didn’t Get The Job Done” …
• Ace of Spades says “FEMA Aid Fraud [is] rampant” …
  

  LAWYERS

• opinionistas has “a list of observations from an experienced legal secretary” … our favorite: “15. You don’t know how to spell demurrer.” …
  

  ANIMALS

• Express Train has a pic of a fashionista in a fur coat waiting for a train … lucky she didn’t run into the all-caps unhinged commenter MEllANY …
• Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) reports that the “Lost Bird of Paradise Found, In Paradise” … by “the recent Conservation International (CI) expedition to Indonesia. This month-long expedition was the brain child of scientist and CI vice president, Bruce Beehler” … check the post for many pictures and lots of interesting details …
• 10,000 Birds writes about the CI expedition to Indonesia: “sometimes we have bad days when we lose a bird forever and sometimes we have good days where we discover a long-lost friend or a brand-new one. With the recent discovery of a whole bushel of species in a remote part of Papua New Guinea in eastern Indonesia, we’ve just enjoyed an extremely good day.” …
  

  FOOD

• eat drink one woman reports that James Oliver Cury orders in “from Doyer’s Vietnamese and Café Habana when we are too busy, or tired, to cook” …
• NYC nosh says Rice Krispie Treats are “everywhere, pre-cut into hefty bars, gussied up with sleek sans-serif logos, and stickered with a price tag that might make Snap, Crackle, and Pop blanch” …
  

  LOVE

• Greasy Guide has the exclusive “Greasy Guide to Valentines Day 2006” … hmmm, somehow “Chocolate Guide to Valentines Day 2006” sounds better to our ears …
  

  I CAN MAKE THAT!

• CaiLun.info turns his book making skills to a business card holder … he could sell tons of those …
• the daily isolato is “totally addicted to” Paper Doll Heaven … “My only criticism is that the wardrobe selection is not as humiliating as I would like.” …
• The Urban Grind has a pic of “Another Interesting Japanese Invention” … looks good to us …

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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
To nominate your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … or you have a NYC-related blog and would like to host an upcoming BABF … send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail.com … or use the Carnival Submit Form … see you next week …
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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 February 13, 2006, will be hosted by A Guy In New York …

NYC Photobloggers 6 … Friday, February 10, 2006, 6:30 pm, Apple Store, 103 Prince Street, at Greene

WORDS OF WISDOM

• Sexless In The City has some advice … “lead an interesting life, and you tend to meet interesting people. Focus more on what you can do for others than how well they meet your needs, and sometimes you might be surprised how well you are provided for.” … sounds right to us …
• Jewschool profiles Doc Hollywood, i.e., Dr. Neil Shulman … who gets it right when he says, “life is a dash between two numbers on a tombstone, [and] everybody should enjoy that dash.” …
• Best Of The Web says “Folk Marxism leads a Jew to applaud the murderers of Jews, and a Christian to condone violence even while claiming to abhor it.” …
  

  SPORTS

• 10,000 Birds predicted a win for the Steelers … “In 39 Super Bowl match-ups from 1967 to 2005, only once has a football team named for a bird emerged victorious. The Baltimore Ravens crushed my beloved New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (2001) to become football’s finest feathered franchise. Teams named for Homo sapiens just do better in this game. In an astonishing 27 of 39 contests, an organization named for a meat (not cheese) packer, chieftain, cowpoke, steel worker, indigenous American, gold miner, U.S. nationalist, or some species of pirate has won it all.” …
• The New SteveSilver.net states “There’s a lot of hatred for Donovan [McNabb] around here, and all of it is more or less equally irrational.” … agreed …
• MetsBlog.com agrees that “when the football season ends, we don’t count the days until fall arrives, we countdown the days until spring training” …
  

  419 SCAMS

• Suitably Flip is “a sucker for a good Nigerian 419 scam” … lots of good 419 scam-the-scammer stories at 419 Eater and SCAM o RAMA – “The Lads from Lagos” …
  

  POLITICS

• Ragged Thots says “Were I a Democrat voter, I’d be furious right now. If the party’s handling of the Samuel Alito nomination is indicative of how it plans to convey its beliefs and ‘values’ over the rest of the year, then it is facing a very long election season in the fall — despite all the political gifts (Libby, Abramoff, DeLay, Iraq) the GOP has been offering up on a silver platter.” …
• The Tin Man agrees with Nancy Goldstein that “Effective immediately, the Democrats will be known as the lyin’-ass boyfriend party – the perfect date for progressive voters looking to be stood up, bullshitted blind, or left holding the tab.” …
• Third Avenue is pleased that the House of Commons “voted down the government’s attempt to outlaw religious hatred by a majority of 10” …
• Miscellaneous Objections liked the captions CNN used for “the Cindy Sheehan / State of the Union / arrested over a t-shirt story” … and asked: “Why is William Shatner giving the Democratic response?” to the State of the Union speech … because they missed James Traficant saying “Beam me up“? …
  

  SINGING, DANCING, and ACTING

• BounceFM invites you to “Join the FRESH FRUIT gang this month for their PRE-VALENTINE’S DAY passion fruit flurry. On the decks with be the one and only QUENTIN HARRIS spinning all his new productions, plus the old foot stompin’ favorites we all love!” …
• Cafe Aman says Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar is “an effective and powerful piece of theater” …
  

  LIFE OF THE MIND

• Jossip says a “parody spread is a good idea, though. Maybe N+1 could do a doctored spread on ‘Women you will never see reading,’ and doctor photos of Paris Hilton and Jordan with copies of War and Peace. Those nerds would totally lock themselves in the library for hours.” … but it would be better if the covers of War and Peace were upside down …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars reports that Pamela of Atlas Shrugs “was just voted Infidel Babe of the Week. She also won the Infidel Bloggers Alliance Golden Balls Award” …
  

  TRANSPORTATION

• New York Hack is “really starting to believe there is something wrong with French people. Most cabbies know that the second they hear a French accent, it means there will be no tip” … when we drove a cab, the worst tippers were airline pilots …
• gridskipper NY describes the new P2P Circulator as “NYC-Philly Buses Now with 50% Less Chinatown” …
• spinachdip nyc is glad he took the Chinatown bus to DC “this weekend and not the weekend before: ‘Passengers were left completely befuddled as officers removed them from one bus and stopped the boarding of another. At least four buses were seized. The driver of a fifth bus ran away before police could inspect it, leaving his bus behind.‘” … I hate it when that happens … our trips on the DC-NYC bus have been uneventful …
• The Daily Dump was late for work “so when I got to the subway station and heard that a train was coming in, I ran down the stairs, through the turnstile and, to my surprise, saw that the subway car right in front of me was practically empty. My station is usually so crowded at rush hour that when a train rolls up you see the faces of the people inside the car pressed up against the windows like a cartoon.” … now, why do you suppose the car “was practically empty“? …
• The Daily Gotham appears to have turned into a listing service for “Staten Island Defensive Driving Classes” …
• Citizen Journal is not happy about the coming of cell phone service on the subway …
• lowercase L complains that “It’s hard enough navigating through the streets of Manhattan, with all the potholes, pedestrians, messengers, traffic and construction. Throw in a sign for a ClOSED street and one could easily get lost in confusion.” …
  

  PHOTOGRAPHS

• Right Moon? posts pics of her new baby girl …
• joe’s nyc has a pic of “Mary O’Garrim / Bart Balladeer / Requests Welcome” …
• Ari Goes Down has a pic of Michael Jackson .. in a burqua? … that guy is so weird …
• WhatISee has a nice shot of the sunset in New Hope …
  

  CULTS

• Brain Terminal analyzes Hollywood bravery and risk-taking … “it is not a risk to say what everyone around you is saying. It is not a risk to put out a film with a perspective shared by all your friends. That’s easy. What would be risky is if someone in Hollywood got behind a film that they didn’t agree with, one that they knew most of Hollywood would disagree with. That would take balls.” …
• Sweet Blog o’ Mine is starting to think David Allen’s Getting Things Done is a cult (see 43folders) … but liked the CLE credits …
• Kevin McCullough reports “On The MuscleHead Revolution broadcast in New York just moments ago Saddam’s former Air-Wise Marshall, Air Force General (number 2 in the Iraqi air-force) Georges Sada revealed where the illusive Weapons of Mass Destruction WMD’s disappeared to prior to our liberation of Iraq. As it turns out Saddam used 747’s and 727’s and caused people to believe that they were being filled with humanitarian aid for Damascus victims of a dam break. In reality the specially equipped planes ran 56 flights from Baghdad to Damascus to airlift, raw materials as well as refined weapons.” …
  

  TECHNOLOGY and INTERNET

• mister snitch! posted “A compilation of the best [blog] posts we (and our readers) could find, from 2005” …
• Letters from NYC discusses tools for your cell phone from Yahoo Mobile Tools and Google Short Message Service …
• Miscellaneous Objections says that “A lot of people seem to Google the phrase “naked cowboys.” A disproportionate number of them end up here.” …
• Clareified notes that “Western Union quits sending telegrams” …
• Asymmetrical Information had “An unhappy accident” … she “accidentally accepted a blogad for a website I will not link” ..
  

  GRATITUDE

• BuzzMachine has a commenter from New Orleans thanking WalMart, CraigsList, and Google …
• Manhattan Transfer‘s “Girlfriend Left Me For A Dishwasher” … and asked him: “do you mind coming by and sitting around my new place and waiting for the cable guy to come on Tuesday. I’ve got to work, and it’s not like you’re doing anything.” …
  

  ANIMALS

• Living the Scientific Life has moved her blog … and bought a space-age farm …
• CityRag has a pic of “Paris Hilton’s noticeable similarity to an Emu…”
  

  OFFENSIVE CARTOONS and BUY DANISH

• A Guy In New York has a potpourri about “Freedom of Expression” …
• ZombieTime has a “Mohammed Image Archive: Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History” …
• Citizen Journal has copies of the “offensive cartoons” … and has screen shots of “Tiananmen at Google” and “Tiananmen at Google China” …
• The Malcontent, in “All the Islam That’s Unfit to Print,” writes that “The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission characteristically picked Leftist politics over gay rights, supporting a violently homophobic Palestinian culture that would kill them over a liberal Israel that protects gay rights. As the author notes, wrapping this decision in human rights rhetoric counts not at all considering the IGLHRC attended rallies in Beijing and Havana.” … and we love this from the comments: “What I want to know, is when they recruit women homicide bombers ….. like the one last month who screwed up and failed to detonate her bomb …… what the hell was she going to do with 30 Virgins? Start the Rockettes? Surely to Shirley, she wasn’t a religious Lesbian? Well, maybe so!!” …
• Kesher Talk says “Not even those raucous ‘alternative’ weeklies like the Village Voice have printed the cartoons. Stories and pictures of Janet Jackson’s top falling off at the Super Bowl? President Bush as vampire? Hey, no problem there. But graphic film footage of 9-11? Mohammed cartoons? The U.S. press suddenly acts like the culturally sensitive version of Brave Sir Robin.” …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars weighs in on the offensive cartoons: “Leftist artists in the West love to babble that their work is ‘transgressive.’ As Clayton Cramer points out today, TV writers love to insult Christianity. There is, of course, no punishment for doing so. On the other side of the world, Islamic terrorists take hostages and behead people for daring to poke fun at their religion.” …
• NYC Metblog can’t even “get a glimpse of [the] political cartoons mocking” Mohammad … the offensive cartoons? here they are … btw, Piglet says, “Buy Danish” … except the hams …
• writersbloc‘s comment on the offensive Muhammed cartoons: “Perhaps if they promoted non-violence and condemned suicide bombers, this wouldn’t even have made it into the newspapers worldwide” …
• Exit Zero wonders “how far is CNN willing to go in its obsequiousness to Islamic law? Kathy Quiano and Paula Zahn might be ok with their burkhas, but I don’t think Anderson Cooper can survive without a barber” …
• Atlas Shrugs updates the charm offensive being waged by Palestinians … “Danish Cartoons Incite Palestinian Arabs to Riot, Rampage, Burn European Buildings” …
• Politburo Diktat has a “Mohammed Cartoon Update” …
• Englishman in New York notes that “Thousands of Palestinians marched through Gaza City this week chanting: ‘War on Denmark, Death to Denmark.’ Over a cartoon.” … no, EINY, it was over TWELVE cartoons … we might see spontaneous combustion if someone published as few as 50 or 60 “offensive cartoons” …
• As I Please points out “For the most part, these weren’t anti-Muslim images, you jackass. They were simply depictions of Mohammed. And the two images that equated Mohammed with terrorism or anti-women laws did nothing more than take Fundamentalist and Radical Islamists at their own words. They themselves claim to kill in the name of Mohammed and his laws.” …
• New York Brain Terrain weighs in: “The issue here is not free speech, the issue here is respect and courtesy for each other’s differences. Yes, newspapers have a right to print these cartoons, however offensive. However, they also have a duty to remove these cartoons out of courtesy and respect for the offended group.” … a duty? …
• Cake Or Death? also comments on the offensive cartoons: “you’d think that maybe Mohammad’s followers would try a more peaceful route of protest, to try to, you know, dispel the ‘myth’ that Islam has some violent tendencies that may include strapping a bomb to one’s person. Right?” ….
  

  I LOVE NYC

• Dawn Eden is looking for NYC heroes … “if you know anyone who lives or works in the New York City area — it could be yourself — who deserves attention for the good work he or she does, please drop me a line with a little information about them” …
• Downtown Dancer loves NY “Because an elderly Chinese man in a suit and fedora can get his leg up this high to stretch on a makeshift barre on Essex Street.” … click for pic …
  

  FOOD

• dailyheights.com links to a discussion on the dailyheights discussion forum about Palava Hut … that ends up being all about how much folks love White Castle … “Prove me wrong about Palava Hut” …
• Dave Friedman’s Soul of Wit won’t eat Domino’s pizza “because Domino’s does not sell pizza. It sells cardboard with “tomato sauce” and “cheese” slathered on top. It is to pizza what Tom Clancy is to literature: that is to say, a pale imitation” …
• NewYorkology asks, “Isn’t it lovely when foreign travel writers can boil down the New York food scene to just three restaurants?” … no …
• A Guy In New York had his weekly roundup of restaurant reviews, “This Week in NYC Reviews” …

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The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
To nominate your favorite blog post about NYC, or if you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF … or you have a NYC-related blog and would like to host an upcoming BABF … send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail.com … or use the Carnival Submit Form … see you next week …
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