Big Apple Blog Festival

Choice selections from New York City's blogs: The Big Apple Blog Festival is here at Mister Snitch this week.

Food:

• Mama mia: Five cent pizza! And great pizza at that - on November 10th, Lombardi's will sell entire pizzas at five cents each, in celebration of its 100th year in business. (New Yorkology)

• A Taste of Chinatown made us so hungry we had to break for lunch. (Well, we might have done it anyway.) Sadly, the post lacks Smell-o-vision so we'll have to make do with the images and descriptions. (A Brooklyn Life)

• Still more Asian dining advice here. (A Guy in New York)

• Food blogger and very successful author Julie Powell says most food blogs are boring. You'd think this would make her personna non gratin (people without cheese) in the blogosphere and yet here we are linking her anyway. That's because Mr. Snitch hungers only for truth - and the Perfect Slice. (A Guy in New York)

• Thumbs up on some NYC cooking classes. (Metroblogging NYC)

• Since food and Halloween are so entwined, here's our transitional post: "In Vermont, during the week before Halloween, you have to be 18 to buy eggs." Just think - in a few days, they'll be pelting Vermont's homes with TWO-week-old eggs. (daily heights)

'tis the Season to be Creepy:

• Haunted New York: The Headless Horseman Haunted Hayride (near New Paltz), and Blood Manor (Manhattan and Long Island). Or, stay home and check out one of these classic horror films. (NYC Stories)

• Great reviews of classic 'grindhouse' horror films. Depravity, brutality, hilarity, and 'pornographic' violence. Just makes us feel nice and cold and tingly all over. (Cityrag)

• Remembrances of spirits passed, or why ghost stories are so well-suited to the fall season. (A Small Victory)

• 'Do They Know it's Halloween?' is a caustic video send-up of 'Do They Know it's Christmas?'. (stereogum)

• This image suggests that Halloween in Brooklyn looks an awful lot like Halloween in Hoboken. (Brownstoner)

• If I'd known I was going to die I'd have worn more comfortable shoes, the NYC horror festival, and another post involving a cheese grater, a garbage disposal, and severed limbs. (Bunniblog)

• The first Fresh Direct horror story we've ever heard. Truly scary. (Amy's New York Notebook)

• Leftist Halloween monsters. Sheer terror. You'll tell yourself 'it's only a poster'... BUT IT'S NOT. (The People's Cube)

• Halloween costume for a dog. (kstanley)

• The New York Young Republican Club is celebrating Mexico's 'Day of the Dead' (Nov. 2). Democrats, insert joke of your choice here. (NYYRC)

• The Bondage for Peace show. (Cake or Death)

• So scary, none speak its name: The sad state of the worldwide war on terrorism. (Exit Zero)

• Che Guevara gets with the capitalista progromme, hawking 'Scare a liberal for Halloween' t-shirts. (Che-Mart)

• Why: Chloë Sevigny isn't scared of the avian flu, celebs frolic in the pumpkin patch, Beyonce should always walk backwards, and a sweater ate Victoria Beckham. (A Socialite's Life)

• Cuddle Party Update. Keep telling yourself: It isn't an orgy. It isn't an orgy. It isn't an orgy. (A Picture of Me)

Politics & the Economy:

• Howlin' Howard Dean says the Iraq struggle is all about freedom. That's great, but what was the party line before? (Slant Point)

• Lad tells Kip that China is no longer a communist wasteland. Kip disagrees, and coincidentally points out that, in this country, even the Amish will abide only so much government interference. (A Stitch in Haste)

• Notes (and links) from the House Republican conference with bloggers. (Suitably Flip)

• A venture capitalist says: Let's party like it's 1999!(A VC)

• Karol declares Mark Steyn's piece on the Death of Russia to be a must-read. (Alarming News)

• How the late 20th-Century British liberal elite led to the decline of the Empire, and its implications for... well, us. (Atlas Shrugs)

• Fernando Ferrer, running one of the worst political campaigns in New York City's history, may have come up with the worst political ad, ever. (GOP and the City)

• Where Bush picked up his backfiring "Mission Accomplished" slogan. (greg.org)

Unsolicited advice and uncommon wisdom:

• Ace feels Al Franken's pain, and offers advice. Also: Cheeseheads in space, and Flabby Road. (Ace of Spades)

• Cajun observations, via Brooklyn: Sometimes, news is just whatever happens closest to the camera, and Aquaman is a total fratboy douchebag. (As I Please)

• ' "The truth is" means one thing and one thing only -- a lie is coming, and not just any lie -- a really, really big lie.' (See also: Truthout, Americablog, etc.) (Clareified)

• 99 tips for (better) living. This one's a keeper. (manhattan transfer)

• Certain inept Louisiana politicians aside, people in emergency situations generally rise to the occasion. (Fifty Minute Hour)

• That whiny plaintive, subdued sound: 'Everything sounds like Coldplay now'. (Daily Lunch)

• Fearlessly protecting children from the dangers of free speech: At what point did the left assume the role of Big Brother? (Eye Dream Awake)

• A frightening and sad observation re what can get a good employee fired in the twitchy, fast-paced and egocentric media biz. (gothamist)

• Why the author prefers being Jewish in places where Jews don't predominate. (jewschool)

• Google vs. publishers vs. authors vs. authors' groups. It's subject we've been posting about ourselves. Also: two twentysomething Japanese girls dressed like slutty cowpokes. (Dave Friedman's Soul of Wit)

• Lots of folks are turning their heat on for the first time in this heating season. For many of us in the NYC area, that means radiators. WIth fuel prices through the roof, it's time for some radiator knowledge. (Deadprogrammer's cafe)

• The science & art of the money-passing handshake. (Clublife)

• The Emperor has no clothes, and he's getting an award: The Nobel racket. (Fightin' with Grabes)

• It's not quite up there with opening a steakhouse in New Delhi, but it's still a bad idea. (Asymmetrical Information)

• Springsteen a cliché? Send your hate-mail to... (Blatherist)

• An American President told the nation that oral sex wasn't really sex. Now kids say it's a way to pass the time when the party gets slow. (Kevin McCullough)

• The Donald's 'verbal billions', and why the liberal bloggers aren't going after Mike Bloomberg (Corante)

• A man who's obviously never seen a Hoboken City Council meeting posts on the documentary 'Inside Deep Throat': "You could not cast a better set of sympathetic low lives, losers, freaks, mobsters and wackos, if you tried." (Englishman in New York)

These times demand almost any substitute for the Times:

• How inbred and navel-gazing has the NY Times become? Some are finding it indecipherable. (Citizen Journal)

• Bill Keller is a mensch. But maybe Times' staffers would be rowing in the same direction if he had more of Bill Safire's unexpected, uh, sting. (fishbowl NY)

• "I swear to God I can't take the Gray Lady anymore -- at least when I pick up a piece of trash like The Nation, I can count on the authors to be blatantly offensive, instead of acting that way subtly." (New Criterion)

Ideas with legs:

• A photographer pasted empty speech balloon stickers all over the city, then returned to capture what people filled in. A book is coming. (gridskipper)

• Remembering Rosa Parks. (Ragged Thots)

• Where the Wild Things Are - The Movie. (Right Moon?)

• Shaun O'Boyle's magnificent photographs of modern ruins - abandoned boatyards, sanitariums, mines, jails, hospitals, etc., capture the spirits of forgotten times. (modern fabulousity)

• Smiley meets Hitler. You just have to see it. (Miscellaneous Objections)

Radio, radio:

• Three radio jocks were suspended for pretending to do a science experiment with a kitten. The kitten was non-existent, but the suspension was real. (insignificant thoughts)

• Unceremoniously pulling the plug on Howard Stern, and looking back over his 20-year career. (Late Final)

Other offerings:

• Congratulations: Evan Coyne Maloney, proprietor of the only brushed-metal blog we've ever seen, wins an award for best short film. (brain terminal)

• "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!" is a children's book in which villains tax the profits of two kids' lemonade stand, limit the amount of sugar the boys can use, and force them to serve broccoli to customers. (Right Side of New York)

• Dawn Eden needs your opinion. Or perhaps you're the sort that only offers it up unsolicited? (dawn patrol)

• One of the more unusual "about me" lists we've seen. (Now what?)

• What do you call two saxophones welded together? An aulochrome. (Matzoh Cojones)

• Who's your blog-daddy? Compiling a family tree of the blogosphere. (Politboro Diktat)

• Checking out the babes, going home alone. Must be a blogger party. (Joey McKeown)

• Dig to China: Some Google map extensions allow you to see live NYC traffic jams and see where you would wind up if you dug straight down and kept going. (We in the NYC area would wind up off the coast of Australia.) (Kesher Talk)

• Not on a par with "They Saved Hitler's Brain!", but these days, "They Stole Britney's Bra" will have to suffice. (Yes, yes, there's a picture.) It's another Bu$Hitler conspiracy, probably a head-fake as the administration unleashes its stealth plan to invade Canada and steal its oil. (Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars)

• Probably the only song on Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 to be written in our lifetimes. (downtown lad)

• Take a moment and absorb this statistic: In this year alone, Shanghai will complete towers with more space for living and working than there is in all the office buildings in New York City. Yow. (Galvin Opinion)

• Finally: Neck Face tag photos, an announcement of a coming announcement, and other notes from next week's Big Apple Blog Festival host. (spinachdip nyc)

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