Re-Inaugural Blog Post: Metropolitan Bloggery v2.0

Welcome back, my little bloglings! I've missed you so. It has been a rollercoaster ride these past few months, but I am finally back and bloggier than ever. So, without further ado, let's get post-ical (post-ical)!

The blogosphere finally embraces me

Last night I had an "OMGOMGOMG" moment when I googled myself and discovered my very own name on somebody else's blog. I was even tagged! I am now a tag. Wow. I, I just, I feel so much... love right now.

Yes We Carve

The author references my pumpkin submission to YesWeCarve.com, which as you may recall I also mentioned here, on my blog. So this means that somebody else blogged on their blog about a blog post that I also blogged about on my blog. Woah. Bloooogggggg.

I'm Baaaaaack

Hello, my little bloglings! Did you miss me while I was on vacay? I know, I know. It's tough when your favorite blogger takes some time off. Fortunately, absolutely nothing happened while I was gone, so you didn't miss anything! Phewph.

Well, I'm back now. So... news: Commence!

New widget added

Fuck you, stock ticker. All you bring is bad news and shame. You are formally replaced as my top right-hand widget. Loyal blog-readers, I bring you: the Daily Puppy widget!!!

Now say it with me: "aaaawwwww!!!!!"

Martin Eisenstadt: "I am not a hoax" [Nixon-esque jowl jiggle]

We all knew that Sarah Palin wasn't the brightest crayon in the box, or the sharpest tool in the shed, or even the shiniest marble in the marble bag, but not knowing that Africa was a continent? Come on. That almost unbelievable claim raised more than a few eyebrows, and as it turns out, for good reason.

Martin Eisenstadt, the supposed McCain advisor and senior fellow at the Harding Institute who leaked this and other "inside information" to the press, is today revealed by the NYTimes to be nothing more than a publicity hoax. The story is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?em

Interestingly, however, Mr. Eisenstadt has a blog, on which he asserts his existence and claims that he is emphatically NOT a hoax. Huh????

http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/

What is this world coming to. If we can't believe in blogs, what can we believe in???

The markets are falling! The markets are falling!

From CNNMoney:

Markets were so jittery early Friday that the New York Stock Exchange felt it was necessary to post a statement on its blog confirming that trading would open as normal at 9:30 a.m. ET, saying it felt it was necessary to answer widespread rumors that the open would be delayed.
The NYSE also posted updated details of so-called circuit breakers, which would halt trading for certain periods of time if the Dow Jones industrial average falls 1,100 points during the trading day. It said it was posting that information with "the fervent hope we won't need them."

Now wait just a minute. This is crazy! The New York Stock Exchange has a BLOG?!?!

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/24/markets/stockswatch/index.htm?postversion=2008102406&eref=rss_topstories