• Save a gay orphaned baby whale evacuated from New Orleans to CBGB's, or something like that. Stop asking questions and just give them your money. [Yeti Don't Dance]
• A panel of blogland critics of everything, and we weren't invited? We're hurt. [Emdashes]
• One of the oldest bars in the city closes its doors, and the neighbors sure don't seem upset.
[A Brooklyn Life]
• Those Fox News paychecks aren't quite enough to live on, and, clearly, if you're working there already, you're more or less willing to whore yourself. [Belle in the Big City]
• Ben Smith gets his hands on Mark Green's 2001 opposition-research book on Mike Bloomberg. With incendiary chapter headings like, "OFFENSIVE—SEXIST BEHAVIOR ... Issue: Girls all tend to be vegetarians... 325," we can't imagine why he didn't win. [Politicker/NYO]
• So apparently some French tire company just released a restaurant guide for New York, and they threw a party for it. We really hope there were food bloggers there, complaining simultaneously that this guide is too pretentious and elitist and that Zagat is too populist and unsophisticated. [Twenty Bucks a Day]

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