LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the 'editorial we'? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are......

Saturday: We're celebrating Chinese New Year by hitting the Chinese New Year Carnival, which runs from January 27 - February 2, daily, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Admission is free to Walter U. Lum Place, Washington & Clay Street. Sunday: Consumating, "a site that helps geeks, nerds, hipsters, and bloggers find dates" (and, incidentally, is run by Ben Brown, former editor of our sister site Austinist) is throwing a big party this Sunday night, the 29th,......

So of course we're surrounded by Bay Bloggers all week here in Austin, but didn't think to ask "Hey, you wanna do Bay Blogger Thursday?" We know, stupid. Luckily we also hadn't remembered to announce the start of Austinist, which besides having all the inside dope on the haps at SXSW, is helmed by none other than Ben Brown -- who, lucky for us, grew up right here in the Bay Area! And he......