How to Handle a Down Economy:

Kevin takes on the fact that when you’re out of work, you have time to exercise more and get super fit, in a post called Funemployment … while Vee (follow her on Twitter at @vmlopez) goes to the 50 cent movies … Kristen writes of her final Tuesday deadline with the Northwest Times-Record weekly newspaper, which stopped publishing this week …

Restaurant and Food News and Reviews:

Alex of Zag, Inc. “a full-service, professionally managed student-led marketing agency based in Fort Worth,” gives us a visit, with lots of pictures, to The Love Shack hamburger place, which opened a new store this week … Lauren W. Smith has the same kind of story, but with a different writer, at her blog, Blue Eye Brown Eye. … Austin talks about a new restaurant and an old Horned Frog legend in “Old Rip” … Fort Worth Hole in the Wall is back with a review of Yogi’s bagels. I’d also like to draw attention to their cool map view of the places he’s reviewed on his site, which, unfortunately, shows he rarely eats in Southwest Fort Worth … oh well. The truth is, the Southwest area, where I live, is not actually known as a great place to find restaurants. More’s the pity. … finally, Rob has some thoughts on how to select single-cup coffee makers …

Arts and Letters

Log Cabin Village has a tale of the woes that come from trying to fix a broken hand water pump for which the parts need to be ordered from somewhere. Hand water pumps are not a high sales-volume item these days. … Kevin notes that registration for Fall Arts Goggle is now open at Fort worth South … Arts Goggle is a Fort Worth South festival offering an opportunity for musicians and artists to share their work and runs Saturday, October 3, 2009, 3:00pm-10:00pm  …

Shopping

Lauren W. Smith profiles an Etsy vendor, @deargolden, who has some cool retro-70’s clothing … and Julie at Silversmyth has got sterling silver earings for unpierced ears.

Social Media and Networking

Lauren W. Smith wants to invite you to Fort Worth Co Working on August 7 in the 76107 area … they will have coffee, wi-fi, and at 5:00, drinks. The event begins at 10:30 a.m.  … David has found out how you can nominate your favorite chartity for a $25,000 social media makeover …Richie says that he hates those people who fake having a twitter network, even worse than he hates twitter spammers, and then gives us advice for if you have to handle the accidental death of a VIP in your organization, as he had to last week. Streaming video of the funeral? Yes.

Strictly Personal Blogging:

You get a general meditation on the difficulty of exercise in Emily’s “Letter to Jillian Michaels,” one of those garden variety I-hate-you-I-love-you rants to your athletic trainer that can come whether the trainer meets you in RL on on a DVD … and finally, Kristen gives us a hilarious post on her first kiss; true love it was not. I can’t quite remember my first kiss. But my memory is pretty selective and I’ve probably forgotten it because I want to, and saying that alone may be enough.