Tuesday night, Sarah and I dropped in at the Lower East Side restaurant Verlaine for a small party hosted by the aggregating litblog network MetaxuCafé in celebration of its first anniversary, where we ran into publicist Lauren Cerand snapping away with her camera. (That's Metaxu founder Bud Parr behind her wearing the glasses.) Then I walked across the street to the Magician, where blogospheric sensation Andrew Krucoff threw together a holiday party for one of his sites, Young Manhattanite, with New Yorker fan Emily Gordon as special guest of honor. Joining me in the Rivington Street blog party crawl were novelists Marcy Dermansky and Jami Attenberg.