that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. more ›

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it a few more times, just for fun? For example, SFist is sure the San Francisco Chronicle wishes they could blame server problems for this error. But this San Francisco man that appeared on "The Daily Show" is, sadly, no glitch in the system. more ›

We're very proud of our parentals over at Gothamist today. We're very proud of them every day, of course, but today we have reasons above and beyond how very cool they are. Today they are the rightful holders of the 2005 Bloggie for Best Non-Weblog Content of a Weblog Site, uh, whatever that means. Jen Chung at Gothamist guesses, "We figured that non-weblog content meant our Happy Hours, Movable Hype concerts, contests and movie screenings." more ›