Curious About Budapest?

Hell yeah! I live here and I haven't a clue what the fuck is going on. No TV, a 70-hour workweek, and being at the beck-and-call of two diaper-filling machines means that I don't get out much. Or get much news. If I don't see it on my run to buy groceries and more diapers to be filled, chances are it will fall outside the scope of my attention.

But no longer! Now there is an almost daily English-language blog/news/website thingie called pestiside that I can turn to for all the Hungarian news I can stomach. Sure, after reading a bit you might get the feeling that the guy behind this thing has a shrine to Ayn Rand in his reading room, but that's a damned sight better than the four dead hookers buried in Budapest Sun editor Robin Marshall's backyard. No, no, I kid. His yard couldn't possibly fit more than two.

Anyways, pestiside is a fun read for anyone who can't read Hungarian sources, or who, like myself, just couldn't be arsed. The site is cynical enough to poke fun at thugs and politicians on all sides, and if it weren't for the fact that they actually had a sense of humour about all things magyar, I'd swear that it was a bunch of Hungarians putting it together.