I actually have a robust post ready to go but my holiday season “to do” list is kicking my butt so I give you this annotated link round up as an appetizer.

Greater Gotham tells us about a new website that lets New Yorkers talk back to the State Senate – all well and good but do they really want to hear what New Yorkers have to say? Call me a cynic but I don’t think they do

I’ve been spending more time lately on Twitter (both for my own purposes and for researching purposes.  If you find New York a bit to much to wrap your head around or difficult to keep up – Twitter might help (in an information overload kind of way).  So I decided I’d collect groups of  NY-related Twitter feeds you might want to check out. The first group – New York Food and Dining:

NY food truck twitters:
@biggayicecream
@waffletruck
@RickshawTruck
@nyccravings
@schnitzeltruck
@LCBBurgerTruck

NY food-related twitters
@seriouseatsny
@grubstreetny
@eaterny
@MidtownLunch
@CarnegieDeli

The ORT New York Autumn Cocktail Reception was held Tuesday and with the exception of my hair (which I always complain about), everything was fab. It was a great success and this was entirely due to the great crowd that showed up to meet, mingle and make a difference.