As I clock out for the Labor Day weekend and recover from the ChaCha article, probably the most exhausting project I’ve put together for Geek Out New York (except the one I’m working on now), I feel like spreading a little love to friends.

First: Johnny Dale is a model GONY reader, always passing along tips when they strike him and boosting my ego at opportune moments. He is writing a book and publishing it on—get this—the Internet! I know what you’re saying, “I’ve read free online literature before,” but this is different from the erotic Blackadder fan fiction you’re used to. Johnny’s The Darling Budds is a real book with characters and plot and wit and suspense and whatnot. I’m not caught up through all the chapters, but I love it so far. Read it, and tell your literate friends.

Johnny Dale also has the worst top Google result I have ever seen.

Next: Ryan Middleton is another nerdy friend of GONY with interesting creative pursuits. He moonlights as the “human pushover” on East Village Radio’s “Blue & Fish in the Morning, New York’s only nighttime shock-jock morning show. Ryan barely got a mention in a recent New York magazine profile of the show’s capable hosts, Rory Albanese and Jimmy Donn¹ (i.e., Blue Tornado and The Tropical Fish), but his integral role as verbal punching bag should not go unnoticed. He’s a funny guy in his own right. The show’s podcast is kind of creaky and barely work-y, but there’s some listening material in there for your Labor Day travel. Episodes air via the EVR website Thursdays at 9:00 p.m.

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1. Jimmy also has terrible Google results, so suffice it to say this is not Jimmy Donn the “horrorcore” artist. ↑