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Although this weekend probably won't be much fun (we to finish unpacking all those boxes), Friday is still a day of promises. Our promise? Letting you know what our brothers and sisters in -ist land are up to!

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other.

Phillyist woke up this morning and could not help smiling. The World Cup really does start this week. It seems like it was not long ago at all that Phillyist's alarm clock went off at 4:45 a.m. on June 5, 2002, and we were rousted from our too-short slumber to watch the United States play its first game of the last World Cup against Portugal. We had no idea while still bleary-eyed that just over two hours later, the U.S. would be celebrating a shock 3-2 win that began the team's historic run to the quarterfinals.