Everybody’s doing it

There is something about Alameda that attracts its residents to blog, either the City calls to the writer to live here or the City itself brings out the nascent writer inside all of us, there are a lot of folks in Alameda blogging.   It would probably be interesting to figure out how many random Alameda bloggers there are per the population.

Anyway, there are a host of new blogs added to my blogroll so if you have some time to check them out some are worth a look.   Some notable ones are the Alameda, CA Restaurants who, hopefully, the author will eat his or her way across all Alameda restaurants.   Just a note though about the post on the Chinese food restaurants, while some of the joints out there may look “hole-in-the-wall-y” half of them are not that bad. 

And if you haven’t been checking out KnifeCatchers, you really should be.   Snarky, with a preference for Victorian homes and low price per square footage, L. Opine’s insitutional memory for all the homes for sale within the past two-ish years is amazing.

But then there is this blog, which isn’t a blog about Alameda at all and appears to be just two folks’ random musings on life in general entitled Desperately Seeking Root Beer.   I imagine that there is a story behind it, but that would require me digging through their archives which is often frustrating on the Blogger platform.  Plus that is secondary to this post anyway.   One of the authors recently wrote a post about Alameda, an Introduction if you will that was pretty amusing.   Highlights:

…Oddly, many Oakland residents seem to have only a vague idea where Alameda is and how to get there, despite the 4 bridges and a tunnel connecting Alameda and Oakland, and despite the fact that the distance between Alameda and Oakland is less than an average city block.

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My claim is that Alameda has more breakfast per capita than anywhere else in the Bay Area – difficult to prove perhaps, but I think it’s true. In fact, you can watch my ongoing and admittedly foolhardy project to eat at every breakfast place in Alameda here.

The “over-policed” part feels true when you get pulled over for going 28 in a 25 mph zone, but nobody’s complaining when they look at the crime rates relative to Oakland. As for the other comments, I can vouch for the fact that Alameda has changed a lot in recent years, and much of the “stuck in the past” feeling has gone, particularly along Park Street where a number of great restaurants and shops have opened in recent years, and the beautiful Art Deco Alameda Theatre has recently been reopened…

And that of course leads to a shot out to the “Alameda Breakfast Project.”  All worth a click through.