Welcome to the 24th Big Apple Blog Festival and to Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars! Thanks, again, to A Guy in New York for creating this weekly extravaganza.
Life in the Big Apple
Do you have bad habits? I chew my nails, much to the dismay of the Karaoke Queen. this fish needs a bicycle chews (and otherwise abuses) her lips. Laugh, fellow bloggers, but this post logs 64 comments.
The Wonkster summarizes the press coverage surrounding the death of Nizxmary Brown, “the 7-year-old girl found dead yesterday after what was years of abuse.”
“Gawker’s newly deputized Special Correspondent for Brown-People Issues, The Assimilated Negro,” provides a commentary on the dearth of People of Color on the editorial front lines of the magazines that like to lecture the rest of us on the virtues of Diversity.
Why do we fear Friday the 13th? Suitably Flip has the answer.
I didn’t even know that the New York Times had profiled the building in which I work, 111 Eighth Avenue. BlogChelsea pointed me to this article in the Times. Google is moving in!
Back in Brooklyn, Lento’s has closed down after 73 years of service as a bar and restaurant in Bay Ridge. blogNYC has the story.
Gotham Gal reviews Devi, an Indian restaurant on East 18th Street.
gridskipper offers directions to a walking tour of Woody Allen’s New York. Elaine’s anybody?
Have you ever had a cup of Snowman’s Poop? what about the plastic animals has pictures, and the story.
Urban Elephants laments that the Second Avenue Deli is no more. Things keep changing!
Cut the Shit got a puppy for Christmas, a miniature, wire-haired dachshund, and discovered, contrary to the motto of his blog (“… you wipe your own ass”) that a puppy owner must clean up shit. Little Tyler wakes up in the middle of the night and barks his fool head off. Joe had to call home and ask Mom for advice.
Sporting News
Yanksfan vs Soxfan reports that Derek Jeter celebrated the New Year by acquiring a new girl friend. Picture included. She smokes! Spring training begins in a month. This will be the Cubs’ year, I guarantee.
That’s Entertainment
The Karaoke Queen and I agree. This is a mortal sin. Straight (well, not very straight) from the New York City Boys, “Jesus Christ, the Musical!” Father Rod, forgive me my sins.
The Apiary features an interview with Brian Berrebbi and Eric Appel, writers for The Andy Milonakis Show on MTV.
The upcoming Johnny Cash show on Broadway will be “an absolute mess.” So says, Modern Fabulousity. This does not surprise me. Johnny Cash, one of the all time country greats, seems beyond the scope of Broadway. I mean, he was straight…. really straight.
My colleague in multimedia, nyc stories, announces a two week theater festival based on the life and works of Edgar Allen Poe.
mimi in NY visits a strip club in Portland, OR, and does not find contentment. She’s headed back to NYC, “Rent due in two weeks, unemployed and about to embark upon - yoga school!” Good luck with that.
Shouting Thomas and the Karaoke Queen, co-stars of Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars, finally saw King Kong. What is the deeper meaning of the saga of the great Kong? See here. Note that Kong is climbing the Empire State Building in the logo of the Big Apple Blog Festival.
Shelly Winters died last week. Read her obit at Cinema Strikes Back. My favorite of her movies: Next Stop, Greenwich Village.
My Urban Kvetch has the details of the first Passover comedy: “When Do We Eat?”
High Tech News
Politburo Diktat reports that a “city employee gets fired for accessing a web forum 19,200 times in 2 months.” Not a blogger, but an addict of a sports forum.
Living the Scientific Life has been nominated for “Biggest Blog Whore.” Vote once every 24 hours.
A VC (A Venture Capitalist, I believe) proposes that users band together to pay for free an ubiquitous wifi.
Political Arguments
From a Brit living in New York, Third Avenue posts this complaint that conservatives might be overdoing it a bit in their complaints about political correctness. Well, I’ve complained about it myself, but here at Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars we don’t practice any type of correctness. We just say whatever we want.
I’m in full agreement with The Urban Grind, when it comes to pro-terrorist lawyer, Lynn Stewart. Lock her up and throw away the key.
The Tin Man wants to impeach President Bush. “The wiretapping is the last straw.” Ain’t gonna happen. One of the delights of performing my turn as host of this blogfest is that I get to surf so many sights with pictures of men in their tighty whiteys sharing a kiss. You don’t see that at Harley shows.
Alarming News sets forth the history of stampedes at the annual Muslim pilgrimage call Hajj, along with a body count. It’s not a pretty picture.
Ace of Spades suggests that the way to influence the Muslim world is to pay “… millions of dollars to get broadband internet there and all the free porn we can.” He also reports on the threat that a radical Muslim Iman perceives in the dancing of John Travolta.
Will Iran succeed in holding the world hostage with nuclear weapons? Will the West continue to fester in the miasma of appeasement? Atlas Shrugs wants to know.
BuzzMachine links directly to a number of blogs that cover the scene in Baghdad. Get the story from the source.
Late Final explains why Ted Kennedy deserves a beating. This has to be explained?
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