Although BookBlog's members are located all over the place, it's technically a NJ blog since its headquarters (my bedroom) are right here in the great Garden State. Please keep your jokes to yourself, thankyouverymuch. If you don't live here, you just don't get it.

Jim of Parkway Rest Stop, an all-around good guy and one of the NJ blogging elite, was recently mentioned in a New York Times article about The Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers. According to Jim, "Jersey's a small town," and he's absolutely right. No matter where I go, from Fort Lee to Jersey City to Sayreville to Atlantic City, everywhere feels like home.

Click here to read the Times article.

Update: I just saw this tidbit about the article on Gawker:

Still, half of us is from New Jersey, and we’re a little taken aback. First, the presence of Bell Labs notwithstanding, we’ve never thought of it as a particularly technologically advanced state. (Our hometown didn’t even have cable until 1990.) We’ve also never though [sic] of it as a particularly coherent state: the top part thinks of itself as adjunct New Yorkers, the bottom part as adjunct Philadelphians, and neither wants to have anything to do with the folks in the middle.

Adjunct New Yorkers? Feh. This person in the top half who works in New York is thankful when she sees the "Welcome to New Jersey" sign at the end of each day. Gawker, please, stay in Manhattan and leave the rest of us who know how to drive on a highway alone.