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- Chicagoist was in such a tizzy over the arrest of their Governor, Rod Blagojevich, - looking at the federal complaint, examining fellow arrestee John Harris, enjoying artists' interpretations, and comparing him to a Lego man - that they almost didn't notice that Mayor Daley wasn't bothering to have the streets plowed.
- Seattlest had visions of monkey smugglers and frozen custard dancing in their heads, and lots of shopping locally left to do before the holidays.
- Shanghaiist was surprised to hear that the US may not have a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
- Bostonist explored the dirty side of the holidays, catching a burlesque show called The Slutcracker and watching the annual Santa Speedo Run.
- LAist snapped up shots at the UCLA Undie Run, a semi-annual event featuring drunk college students wearing next to nothing.
- DCist noted this year's stinky Ginkgo fruit epidemic in Washington, and pondered whether they smell more like vomit, dog poo, or uhhh, something else.
- Torontoist got all meta and announced that the site would be shutting down at the end of the month, but not before doing many, many awesome and amazing things.
- Austinist explained why it isn't worth the effort to get angry over homophobic rapper Trick Trick, and was surprised that a local school teacher threw a fit when a student tried to hand out free copies of Linux in class.
- Londonist watched an ingeniously condensed record of a walk across the entire breadth of the city and its suburbs, which was almost enough to build up sufficiently large appetite to conquer an epic Christmas sandwich.
- Gothamist visited Sesame Street and brought back a special message from Elmo.
- SFist saw so many choice companies negatively affected by the recession, so they asked readers which businesses they would like to see collapse in 2009.
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I cant believe Torontoist is shutting down.
that site has as many posts per day as phillyist has per week.
and as many comments per week as phyllyist gets per year.
im so sad.
Someone at Gothamist apparently made a serious mistake. Torontoist is actually good, has readers, vibrant comments, and oodles of good well written stuff that actually is specific to the city it covers.
Compare it to Phillyist which is not that good, doesn't have readers, has a dearth of comments, and seems to be mostly made up of sparsely posted generic stuff with the majority of the local content being random YouTube videos without any context, adopt the vicious pitbull of the week and a post with a couple of news headlines. It would seem the most logical to go.
Joe Carter:
1. Way to recycle content from your post on PhillyBlogs.
2. Why don't you stick to topics you know about? Oh wait...
JAB
your 2nd point is lame and nonsensical.
Joe's comment is full of knowledge and poignancy.
your comment however is useless.
poor torontoist.
Someone didn't take a good look at the time line. This was where the original content happened.
Really, if you had good compelling content I would check in every day, not every couple of days.
And I do know what I am talking about, I can compare and contrast things. It is something I have been doing since at least as far back grade school.
If you compare and contrast the two it is obvious which one is better, more in touch with the community it supposed to serve and has better quality content. Posting random YouTube videos with out as much as a word of their relevance is just laughable. You used to have more content, but now it might as well be Genericist. How the hell is a top ten list of comic book authors locally relevant. Maybe it would be better to just ditch Phillyist and replace it with Slackerist or something given all your video game and pop culture focus instead of local issues and goings on. You wouldn't even have to make any staff changes!