17th Sep 2004
Pestiside
If you have anything to do with Hungary and Budapest and you haven’t yet discovered it, go check out Pestiside immediately. Written by an expat living in Budapest, Erik d’Amato, former editor of the Budapest Business Journal, the site seeks to be “the Gawker of Budapest,” according to buddy Steve Carlson. It delivers. It’s a very amusing read. Adi is already hooked.
Interesting to note that he doesn’t have comments turned on. I can only imagine what kind of tirades he’s getting via email from right-wing nutjob Hungarians like this one. Their letters was always one of the joys of running the Budapest Week newspaper back in the early 1990s, but I suspect the Internet liberates them to a whole new level. (Pestiside’s tagline, “The Daily Dish of Cosmopolitan Budapest,” must really have the nationalist pantywaists seeing red, with its ironic allusion to a favorite Hungarian euphamism for Jews.)
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