• A Quinnipiac poll found that New Yorkers like New York. Follow up questions included, "Yeah, but do you like like New York or just like New York?" and, "Which U.S. city is your BFF?" [Adfreak]
• Where we come from, it's polite to wait to get home before you throw out a gift bag. At the IFP Gotham Awards — New York's indie warmup for Oscar season — there is apparently no such etiquette guideline. [The Reeler]
• Never mind the pole falling on the little girl, the real Thanksgiving parade scandal was Pikachu giving his pole to Ronald McDonald. Which, of course, was caught on film. [Cityrag]
• We think that Rosa Parks might have preferred a more meaningful tribute — like, say, bus routes in low-income communities — but the MTA has decided to go with leaving bus lights on and the first seats empty tomorrow. [Liberal Serving]
• We find it hard to imagine a fate worse than serving as a seatfiller for the Country Music Awards. Some people, however, evidently enjoyed it. (Though not enough to post about it within two weeks of the event. [Tinsel and Rot]