Welcome to the 29th Big Apple Blog Festival and to Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars! Thanks, again, to A Guy in New York for creating this weekly roundup of the best posts from NYC blogs.
Valentine’s Day
One of the more unusual blogs around, lowercase L seeks out and reports on oddly placed… you know whats. He found one on Valentine’s Day in Park Slope.
Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars wishes the Karaoke Queen a Happy Valentine’s Day, and tells you what he does when he gets up in the morning. Also, cars with opinions!
For the loveless among us, My Urban Kvetch publishes a list of posts for readers who are “…totally sick of all the posts by people in happy functional relationships.”
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, useless! worthless! insipid! found somebody.
Politics, Outrages and Such
While the mainstream media refuses to print the cartoons that outraged the Islamofacists, Atlas Shrugs has been running them since October. The result: another coup for the blogosphere and a torrent of traffic for the Super Girl.
Why are they called Red and Blue States? The copyranter overhears a drunken conversation.
Alarming News is all over the Cartoon Jihad. 10 People Killed in Libya! NPR is on the story and America is to blame!
A member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors doesn’t think the U.S. needs a military. The Urban Grind is suitable outraged. What’s the difference between the West Village and San Francisco?
Will Hillary pussy whip Bin Laden if she’s elected president? Check out the Girl Scientist for the answer. (Or click this link to go directly to the Flash animation.)
Cake or Death? reports on the “Ten Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill You.”
NPR decided against publishing the cartoons that outraged Muslim fundamentalists on its website. brain terminal calls this “veto-by-murder.”
The gay marriage controversy seems to have disappeared from public consiousness, but The Tin Man is still on the job. Give him credit. The word “bigot” does not appear in this post.
New York City
How did commuters cope with the blizzard? Iron rails & iron weights tried to catch the “6:42 shuttle to Ronkonkoma.” At 6:50 he threw in the towel and drove to Patchogue.
WhatISee provides a wide array of photos of a pillow fight in Union Square. Also, some great pictures of the blizzard.
For pictures of the snow in Morningside Heights, visit what about the plastic animals?
A Guy in New York suggests that tourists stay at the Embassy Suites in Battery Park. Picture shows why. How romantic!
What’s the first sign that a neighborhood in the Bronx is experiencing gentrification? Why, Trai La Trash, “the popular drag-queen artist,” moves in. The Bridge and Tunnel Club is on the story in SoBro.
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.
A minister of the province of Uttar Pradesh in India has offered an $11 million bounty for the heads of “… any of the cartoonists who drew the images of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).” The Politburo Diktat covers the story.
What’s to Eat?
Semifreddo is “… an Italian dessert with the texture of a frozen mousse.” NYCnosh explains how to make it.
Over at White Trash BBQ, the boys from Brooklyn bought a new smoker. And reminisce over smokers from the past. Blues and BBQ… all you need to add is Harleys and scantily clad girls and you’ve got it all.
What’s in your refrigerator? In mine, you’ll find neatly packaged leftovers courtesy of the Karaoke Queen. eat drink one woman tells you what Justin Chen keeps in his fridge.
Questions of Etiquette
“Is it inappropriate to go braless to your mother’s wedding?” You had to ask? this fish needs a bicycle has the answer.
Sex on Shrooms? A three part story at The Assimilated Negro.
Didn’t know whether to file this one under “Questions of Etiquette” or “Politics, Outrages and Such.” Best title of a post this week: “Texas House Candidate Admits Former Profession As A Manwhore.” Read all about it at Ace of Spades.
Sporting News
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.
For a player by player comparison of the 2006 Yankees and Redsox, visit Yansfan vs Soxfan. Have I told you, dear readers, that I’m a Cub fan? This will be, I guarantee, the year of the Cubs.
Is yoga a sport? mimi in NY goes to yoga school.
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very interesting, but I don't agree with you
Idetrorce
Posted by: Idetrorce | Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 07:20 AM