Alt-log — “ Salon used to run a column called Alt, which highlighted stories from that week’s crop of alternative weeklies from all around

the country. I loved it. They’ve stopped running it, so I’ve decided to highlight my own favorites from the week here.” –Gael Fashingbauer Cooper (who also maintains the Pop Culture Junk Mail blog and the weekly Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune weblog). Recent items in alt-log include a critique of Zagat, a pointer to “my dinner with an etiquette expert”, coverage of a “pet communicator” ‘s intervention with the reporter’s troubled cat, and an account of the attempt by the arts section of a “Mormon-stronghold Utah” newspaper to ignore a local production of The Vagina Monologues. Just for starters. Many of the links receive little more commentary than “I liked…”, “I really enjoyed…”, or “I’m a sucker for…”, but she does her footwork.