How dare they call our Divine Goddess of Food dowdy !!!

Dowdy? Hmmm, yet you have the cool blog. Make way for dowdy-cool. They make you sound like a table setting at the Women's Industrial Exchange. Blog envy.

So Lix is good or bad? You people with your crazy language.

Well, given the two choices mentioned in the headline...EL

Query: until this post, who ever heard of Gutter?

I had stumbled upon it at one time. I believe the covershot in the attached pic is of one of our very own Charm City Rollergirls as well.

Gutter Magazine, a local online magazine.
www.guttermagazine.com

It's a hipster thing, but that's a topic already covered by Sam Sessa.

RtSO: Not I; nor do I believe that I will ever set cyberfoot there again. Even I have standards (believe it or not).

Truthfully, I'd much rather be on a cul-de-sac (defined as "a dead-end street" or "an impasse" or, anatomically, "a saclike cavity or tube open only at one end") than in the gutter.

Yeah what he said. I think these never-heard-of publications are riding your comet tail (remember Baltimore Eats!!! Seriously, REMEMBER!!!!)

I don't think there are bag-bottoms in Roland Pork. Skew more subtopian periscopers. Oh Grape Apes, so much attention tickles my uvula. (Someone translate for Rugbert the Solo Cup).

Somehow this topic seems apropos on a day when the governor of NY is resigning because of sexual indiscretions.

But "Lizzie Large"? Too too overly familiar!

Bob W: The cover photo alone is enough to keep me from logging on to their site ... that's definitely a NSFW pic.

Fellow D@Lers: If I could remember how to introduce a link, I would do so here. However, please check out my last post under "The blogging party" where I have contributed an update of sorts. Don't forget to mark 4/19!!!

Hipsters? More like lamesters. Gutter taking on MetroMix is a little like Carrot Top trash talking Gallagher, it doesn't matter who wins, there's just a lot of fizzy lame-goo everywhere. Lame. Lamer. Lamest. La Lame. I love that site; they are utterly without irony or a fancy é. Yeah, let's get a cool restaurant blog on a cool place like the City Paper. Hey, if you don't digg your mommy's schnoodle, be your own pet, Gutter snipes -- bring it!

Personally, I'm a fan of the Gutter.

The magazine -- not the drainage system.

Gutter stirs the pot and lets you try a taste.

I smell a slogan!

For one fleeting second I flashed on Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey. But back to reality, Dave. I'm thinking YouTube; cecums are a dime a dozen.

Oh, so that's what that weird odor is...

I've never heard of Gutter before, but then again the magazines I read are Cooks Illustrated, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The Economist, the National Review and Keynotes- the Cross Keys Newsletter. I am beyond unhip.

You are so anti-hip you're hip. EL

Ms. RokChick, thank you for thinking of me. Very kind. I rather like Rugbert the Solo Cup.

"Lizzie Large" might be a little familiar...but I kind of like The Epicurious L.I.Z.

It has a sort of gangsta-meets-cul-de-sac sensibility that just somehow seems...right.

You have to give Sam Sessa in Midnight Sun credit for that. EL

Wow, I think I just lost 20 IQ points by reading that garbage.

Have to say it:

But it's no worse reading Gutter than it is reading peoples' desires for reviews on Macaroni Grill...

In the interests of full disclosure, the nomenclature Epicurious L.I.Z. was coined by none other than J.M. Giordano, the editor of Gutter Magazine.

I'm not really sure what there is to "appreciate" about this post as Gutter seems to be rather confused. Metromix is not some generic site--it has existed in Baltimore for three years--and it is not biting off of Elizabeth's blog. Not only does Metromix not use any Baltimoresun.com material, but the site existed well before Large started posting. If gutter is confusing the entertainment Web site, with the Sun's new free daily print product, b, it should really get its facts straight.

OK. Time to chime in.
First, I would like to thank Ms. Large for being an AWESOME sport! (we got a little something for you!)
We at the mag get all kinds of requests/suggestions for Lix and Sux every month. We chose Ms. Large' (and I'll stay formal here cuz it feels like I'm sitting in my parent's living room!) blog because, well, like it, we wanted to expose it to our audiance ( so no "coat-tail riding" sorry haters) and it's the only serious food blog in town that we know of.
Second, Metromix. Sorry, nothing personal, we were approached by a few angry bloggers about the site, who felt that their stuff was being revamped and put up on Metromix. So I let them write it (when it comes to Lix and Sux, no one is safe! Even us!).
Third: Garbage: my Uncle Stash thinks that microbrew beers are garbage. He prefers Schlitz. Nuff said.
And could someone get us a copy of Keynotes? I SO want to check that out (i'm serious).

Disclaimer: I wasn't one of those "angry bloggers" EL

I had no part in the Sux on Metromix either, by the way.

I have a horse in this race, since part of my job involves marketing metromix.com in Baltimore...

But ... "sux" got it completely wrong, and so did the angry bloggers. No one at metromix lifted anyone else's blog content and posted it on our site. Metromix editors have too much respect for their readers and their peers (and their ethics) to do something like that. No way.