5/23: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS

The Pussy Ranch has temporarily become Graceland while Diablo Cody goes through her Fat Elvis phase.

THESE DAYS

The USS New York is being built in New Orleans with 24 tons of steel taken from the collapsed World Trade Center. [via Raw Story]

When a pump at a Hammond, Indiana, gas station malfunctioned, opportunistic motorists were able to buy gas for 29 cents per gallon.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

St. Paul resident jamwall brings the Onion-esque funny to his blog Banana Blograma.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

Photo series on China's controversial and enormous Three Gorges Dam

Morning Wood: From the makers of Slowdance Chubby!

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"The swimming."

-- Seven-year-old Braxton Bilbrey, when asked what was the hardest part of his successful swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco's Aquatic Park