A HUG FOR MUG READERS. What an uplifting feeling to wake up and find that Blog About Town made the Manhattan User's Guide 400 List!

If you're new here, feel free to make yourself comfortable and sample the offerings. As you can see by scrolling over recent entries, there's ongoing coverage of the New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest — including an open invitation to share your own captions! On October 28 you can find comments on the Village Voice's 50th Anniversary and some firings at Condé Nast and New York Press. The new movie The Weather Man got a favorable review on October 25. (There's no accounting for taste.) And coincidentally, Manhattan User's Guide got a link on October 21 in response to its critique of the Zagat dining guide.

If you aren't already tired of lists, here are some other entries that might be of special interest to MUG readers:

Al Duvall and Singing Sadie
Karaoke at Japas 55
Longhouse Reserve, Long Island
A Play About Smith Street
Brooklyn and New Orleans Accents
Mayor Bloomberg's Phone Campaign
Tuesday Night Trivia
Visiting Ocean Grove, New Jersey
Loser's Lounge
The Gumbo Crew
Idiotic Design
Bloomberg Attacks Bicyclists
Gotham Chamber Opera

As we say in New York, "Y'all come back now, y'hear?"

Photo: David Marc Fischer