Dateline: Placeblogosphere -- It's a Jungle Out There

Savannah Now: "City Manager Curiously Interested In My Sex Life."

Gothamist: Drunken Chicken Fight -- "Some new details about why an angry Kennedy Fried Chicken owner burned down his neighbor-turned-competitor's store in the Bronx."

Baristanet: "Maplewood Library to Kids: Drop Dead."

Kagro at Green Mountain Daily captures Howard Dean on his cell phone camera. Comment: "Oh, yeah, I remember that guy -- he owes me fifty bucks."

Gowanus Lounge: Life in Brooklyn: Nasty, Brutish and Short? "This all started when writer Douglas Rushkoff was mugged on Christmas Eve in Park Slope while taking out the garbage."

Peoria Pundit:"Question: Why is it that even though the crime rate overall is down for Peoria, we’ve got unsolved murders out the wazoo."

Why I Hate DC: You People Have Let Me Down -- From now on, when you notice the words "Laura," "Sessions," and "Stepp" in a byline, please notify me immediately. E-mail me. Send smoke signals. I don't care how, but make sure I know about it. I would spend another 1,000 words or so making fun of LSS, but the story is a day old and DCist already did a lot of the leg work. Wonkette already stole Late Night Shots from me. Don't let DCist take my precious."

The Burgh Blog: "Well you can’t take two steps downtown without running smack into a luxury living construction site. Hell, stupid luxury living construction site went and blocked my view of the baseball games at PNC Park. Now how will I direct my evil eye to Kevin McClatchy high atop my evil lair?"

TampaBLAB links to Shopping Cart Rodeo Clowns.

Redbank Green: "Gone are the days when a plunge into the ocean at the start of a new year was the province of a few wingnuts bent on proving their iconoclastic chops to a conformist world. No more."

Living In Cowtown: "I think one of the larger reasons I don’t pick up a newspaper anymore is because by the time a news story makes it into print, it’s old news."

The Bull In Full (Durham, NC): "It's ugly, it's horrible, and it shows all of the worst things one could see coming out in the open, things I really never wanted to see. But yet I can't look away."

Hidden City (Miami): "Many people have asked me when I'm moving out of my neighborhood. Besides the downward lifestyle move relocating would entail, I don't really know how much difference it would make. According to all the police with whom I've spoken, the simple fact is this: I live alone and work long hours, making me a choice target."

Curbed writes about Condo Vs. Condo in Brooklyn: "The nasty battle between the owners of 229 16th Street and the developer of 231 16th Street in the South Slope, which has already spawned its own website, now includes letters from lawyers and a, um, presence by 229 in front of 231 to meet and greet potential buyers."