This is my third post on New York City. The first one was quite successful, and ended up on my Popular Posts page. The second was my Road Trip Report after I spent a weekend in the city. Since then, I’ve gathered more information on that magical place that is so different from anywhere else in the country, that it could very well be its own country. But that wouldn’t work, because we’ve already got two declared presidential candidates from New York City!  I have quite a few blogging friends in New York: Shelly, Blogenfreude, MotherPie, LisaBinDaCity, Figlet, NYC Educator, Jellio, and Actor212. A New Yorker that I mentioned in my first New York post, el Jacek, has been really busy. He’s in the MBA program at ESADE in Barcelona. He made it back to New York for Christmas, then went on to Tunisia, and is ready for a jaunt to Turkey. He’s also looking for an internship position. If anyone has any leads for him, let him know through his blog. I also read a few more blogs about New York, such as City Rag, The Gothamist, Found Around NYC, and Overheard in New York. There are a million blogs in the naked city. Here’s where to find 6264 of them.

Manhattan

New York City hands out 18 million free condoms a year. So is it any wonder they have an official NYC condom? They’ve been handing them out on the streets!

Google Maps now has New York Subway stops.

Quiz: Are You A Real New Yorker? (via Found Around NYC)

Pictures of New York at night. Those are beautiful, but this is my favorite picture of New York.

A slice of New York Life. If you don’t like the traffic, do something about it!

New Yorkers don’t like tourists.  No they don't.

If you’ve always had the hankering to be wakened by the sounds of New York, check out the NYC Taxi Sound Alarm Clock! It will blast you out of bed with the sounds of rush-hour traffic. A great gift for displaced and homesick city folks. (via Mental Floss)

Cornershots has beautiful images of New York (and occassionally another city), with maps available if you want to find what you’re looking at. (via Ursi’s Blog)

Get your I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendar! (via YesButNoButYes)

Is there anywhere in New York you go and not see advertising?

A gallery of every ad in Times Square.

This guy was so scared of New York, he was afraid to ask for help when he got lost. So he wandered the streets for five days! (via Blue Beaver Beer)

BIG CITY CHURCH

Cowboy Joe was telling his fellow cowboys back on the ranch about his first visit to a New York City church.

"When I got there, they had me park my old truck in the corral," Joe began.

"You mean the parking lot," interrupted Charlie, who had been there before.

"I walked up the trail to the door," Joe continued.

"The sidewalk to the door," Charlie corrected him.

"Inside the door, I was met by this dude," Joe went on.

"That would be the usher," Charlie explained.

"Well, the usher led me down the chute," Joe said.

"You mean the aisle," Charlie said.

"Then, he led me to a stall and told me to sit there," Joe continued.

"Pew," Charlie retorted.

"Yeah," recalled Joe. "That's what that pretty lady said when I sat down beside her."

The 50 most loathsome New Yorkers. (via YesButNoButYes)

Nude women photographed on the streets of New York. Its an art project, but still NSFW.

THE VISITOR

Two Southern Belles were sittin' on the porch one hot afternoon. The first had just returned from a trip to New York. She said to the second Belle, "You know, up there in New York, they've got men who kiss men on the lips."

"Oh dear me!" cried the second Belle. "What do they call those men?" she questioned.

The first replied, "They call them homosexuals. And did you know, up there they've got women who kiss women on the private parts?"

"Oh Heavens!" The second gasped. "What on Earth do they call those women?"

"Why, they call them lesbians. Up there, they also have men who kiss women on their private parts." 

The second belle nearly fell from her chair. "Oh Lawdy! What do they call those men?"

The first Belle answered, "Well, after I caught my breath, I called him precious!"

 Previously on Miss Cellania: New York City, Road Trip Report, and November 12 Links.

Thought for today: The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. -John Updike

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