New York Blog Festival #19 (A work in progress)

New York Blog Festival #19

Welcome to the Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF) for December 5, 2005, a representative roundup of the last week’s posts by NYC bloggers. I wish I had more entries for you, but do to the craziness of the season, and a case of food poisoning today, I just haven't had the time to do a ton of research. I will add more entries as I can.

The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.

Working and not working so well...

An Englishman in New York reports on the Park Slope Food Coop and communism.

mister snitch! from Hoboken blobs about blogging or not blogging. "The secret of blogging is not to blog at all." Then he asks about "Pajamas Media". "Did anyone else wince when, at their big NYC party, Roger Simon said they wanted to be the New York Times of blogging?

Shouting Thomas at Harleys, Cars, Girls and Guitars,brings us a look at the work going on at a Woodstock Tattoo parlor.

Finally on the subject of work, Asymmetrical Information has been nominated for best business blog of 2005.

Eating your way around the boroughs...

While hunting for an apartment, one New York Blogger had to stop at Jesus Tacos on the way to Hamilton Heights

While seeing the sights or ignoring them like good New Yorkers...

A Guy In New York has a deal on inexpensive theatre tickets for "Papering" and "Dressing the House"

And Shithouse Rat tells us not to be obsessed fans who mob celebrities. Sounds like good advice.

And I'll throw my two sense into the hat and tell you to leave the city and head for New Haven, where a hot new show by Rob Handel is now going on. Read the great review from Variety.

Or if you've left all sense of the external world behind, try coding with the Dead Poet's Cafe, while listening to Kora music.

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