City blogger?

How many of you blog about the city you live in and the things going on in your area? Do you know of many Canadian-centric blogs that don't sound like regurgitated tourism pamphlets? I find that NY bloggers in particular are almost always--and successfully, no less--talking about the great things going on in their city, but I rarely see that in Canadian blogs. Surely this country must have its own version of the "happening" city covered from head to toe by enthusiastic bloggers!

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Permalink Reply by Jessica Claire on May 13, 2008 at 10:07am

I'm not Toronto-crazed but I do like posting about my fave local haunts occasionally

it's good to share the canuck love~!

Permalink Reply by NoOrdinaryBen on May 31, 2008 at 6:23am

Sometimes I try to blog about our city but it usually ends up making me pissed off or depressed.

Permalink Reply by Ask Alice on June 24, 2008 at 4:44pm

I'm sure I'll have some "Around Calgary" posts coming soon. It is Stampede in a couple weeks afterall.

Although I do need to dispell the myth that we're all a bunch of red-necked, cowboy-hat-wearing, truck-driving, whiskey-swilling, tobacco-spitting, steak-eating, boot-stomping, horse-riding, hay-ploughing, conservative-loving, musket-shooting assholes.

PS - Not sure when was the last time anyone used a musket ever but it seemed to fit right in there.

Permalink Reply by MissMilly on October 14, 2008 at 3:10pm

are you my neighbor? lol

and I shoot my musket on Musket Market Tuesday, just down from the "Cecil", love to give those crackheads a little excitement in their lives.

Permalink Reply by Jillianne Hamilton on August 13, 2008 at 9:35pm

I tried to start a blog about Charlottetown. I'm moving there in a few weeks. But after I set the thing up and made a nice banner image... I don't know. I just didn't know what I would end up writing about.
Piece of advice: live in a city before starting a blog about it. lol

Permalink Reply by MissMilly on October 14, 2008 at 3:08pm

having you said this makes me want to follow up on the local blog idea I had happening as I drove down main street..... though not sure if where I am is necessarily happening, but with a mind like mine it could be.... :)

and yes I have found that a lot of the eastern american blogs do sound a stitch touristy and do make me die a little inside.

Permalink Reply by Riff Randell on October 16, 2008 at 1:08pm

Whenever I try and post about Halifax I end up calling it "Smellafax" and obsessing over the annoying details, like the landlord who wants to rape me and the homeless people doing crack in my stairwell.

Permalink Reply by Jenn Belle on October 16, 2008 at 2:31pm

Maybe you just need to move to a better part of Halifax. I live in the North End. It's supposed to be a bad part of town, and yes, I have been robbed, but I like it there. It's quiet, it's artsy-fartsy, and relatively close to everything I need (srsly. the 24-hour grocery store is literally 2 doors down and work is a 15-minute walk away).

Even still, though, I lack in blogging about the city much because I don't do much around the city, even though there's always something cool going on. That should change. If only I weren't so lazy!

Permalink Reply by Riff Randell on October 16, 2008 at 2:33pm

Bahahaha I live on North, just East of Robie!!! I bet we're neighbours and don't even know it! You know that sketchy cracked-out apartment building across from Aliant? Yeah, that's me.

Permalink Reply by Jenn Belle on October 16, 2008 at 2:36pm

Ha! That IS a totally sketchy cracked-out place to live!! Holy. I live two blocks up on Windsor, just past the Sobeys. It's like Robie is the Great Divide between "crack row" and "artsy students' village." (not saying you're on crack, nor that I am an artsy student. Just the neighbourhoods are).

Permalink Reply by Riff Randell on October 16, 2008 at 2:38pm

Oh man, tell me about it. And you're totally right about the Robie Street Divide. Funny thing is how hell-bent I was on moving into that place... it gave me this major complex, like if they turned down my application I would have felt so rejected.

Just cause I'm not a hooker don't mean I can't pay mah billz!

Permalink Reply by Lisa on November 25, 2008 at 10:42pm

But... in Halifax they have a moment of silence after Shaggy's Boombastic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz88kJSdT6Y

Right?

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