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The diet's more or less over, but I'm still trying to watch what I eat so that I don't have to start dieting all over again come this time next month. But whether you're trying to lose weight or just trying not to gain it, when you're weight watching, lunchtime meals of pizza and cheesesteaks from the place downstairs from your building just aren't the best idea. But you can only eat salads so many times in a row before you get bored (or your colon rebels), and sometimes you just want a hot meal. Lean Cuisines and SmartOnes both offer relatively satisfying, low-calorie meals with Weight Watchers points printed right on the box (Healthy Choice is a bit hit-or-miss in my opinion, although they've recently introduced a number of new recipes) that can sometimes even be really tasty—but tasty or not, one thing's for certain: once out of your microwave, none of your frozen meals will ever look like the boxes make them look.

Improv drummer + YouTube = World domination. Kinda.

We'd like to thank Chris Illuminati at phillyBurbs.com for calling us one of Philadelphia's ten best websites, where we're joined by such local luminaries as Philadelphia Will Do, Foobooz, Geekadelphia, and Overheard in Philly. Chris has promised us a month's supply of home-churned butter as a prize. We need it soon, Chris: we just invited Paula Deen for dinner!

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

Fascinating profile of local performer Stoya. Don't worry, we know you know who she is.

The London Observer just called Phillyist "the pick of the city's blogs." Just us. Nobody else. To those of you who were directed here from Tom Hall's excellent article, welcome! We're having a slow day while we recover from the Phillies parade and Halloween festivities over the weekend, but we'll be back up to full speed tomorrow. For those of you who are regular Phillyist readers, pay it forward and give The Observer some link love today!

Our lives as bad-asses sure pale in comparison to former Pagans chapter president John Hall.

Philly as a "festering spiritual slum?" We can see that more than as "the most genuinely Christian movement in America," but we’re sitting over here.

It's Book Quarterly time! They got fiction, non, and some excerpts.

by Sarah Gormley

Hello! Welcome to my gossip blog! It is wonderful that you chose to read me today. Good for you! Here’s what’s hot:

We bring you the buzz from the 215 blogosphere this week.

We bring you the buzz from the 215 blogs this week.

Here's what went down in the 215 blogs this week, with some unintentional emphasis on cheesesteaks.

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Phillyist Sarah is always tempting this Phillyist with articles on food blogs about inventive things to do with bacon, but this may be our favorite yet - bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze. Imagine Homer Simpson with his held tilted back, his eyes glazed over, and drool dripping out of his mouth, and you will understand our reaction. The first Speed...

You gotta wonder about Penn students (and alums too, as it turns out): they shoot up terrorists, steal panties, and now apparently they adopt other people’s identities and swindle them out of loads of cash. To be fair though, Drexel does share some part of the latter, seeing as one of the accused is still a student there. You all know what we’re talking about right? Because it’s in the friggin international news! So Philly...

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Apparently it's National Fast Food Day! Is that a bell we hear? Perhaps a... taco bell? (Via Sarah) Rumor is that Tom Cruise will play Hugh Hefner in the upcoming biopic. It's kind of a creepy idea, but it sort of works, too. The secret, true name of Cloverfield is supposedly... Cloverfield. Also, there's a new trailer online, but it's a poor quality...

If you were a cool girl, you had a crush on a New Kid. If you were a nerd girl, you had a crush on a graphic artist. Phillyist fell (who are we kidding, falls) into the latter category with a decidedly loud thud. So it is with the drooling affect of an oversexed pre-adolescent that we greet the news that Adrian Tomine, our very first comics crush, will be reading tonight at the Free...

Phillyist loves food. A lot. So much so that when we’re trapped at our desk unable to nosh, we spend a good deal of time online looking at food-related items and salivating on our keyboard. A particular form of torture pleasure is checking out local food blogs and listings so we can fantasize about restaurants and markets that we could be enjoying that very second if it weren’t for the dastardly need for full...

Don't forget that Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday at 2AM, folks! That means an extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning – and we'll never complain about getting more sleep.

I'm not going to lie: I text a lot. I got into the habit in high school - it was a means for inter-class note passing. Sure, we weren't supposed to have our phones on campus, but our teachers very rarely seemed to notice or care. But even back then, as a cellphone-obsessed teenager, I tried to keep things polite. Not, admittedly, for my teachers (seriously, text messaging in AP statistics is decidedly impolite), but for the people around me and the people receiving my messages.

We're a little narcissistic. We have a Google News Alert set up to tell us anytime anyone mentions Phillyist on the internets. Usually, it's just a fleeting reference (like a "fleeting expletive," we suppose) to us on someone else's blog – quite often another -Ist blog.

For a band with only a three-song EP to its name, Vampire Weekend sure has polarized the indie rock blogs. It’s like a cage match between hype and backlash: on one side you’ve got a long line of critics and fans hailing the New York band’s refreshingly polyrhythmic, Afro-pop sensibilities, while on the other, there are just as many people resenting the mounting hype or their sunny tunes or both. (You can sample some of that criticism, which ranges from “What’s the big deal about this band?” to “They’re the Jimmy Buffetts of indie rock,” here.)

(Part One) (Elevator Repair Service) (Second half and future showtimes)

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.

Oh, you'd better believe Phillyist will be visiting The Victor Cafe soon. (Via the MenuPages blog, via Sarah, via Editor Jim.)

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.