It was just a few weeks back that the Washington City Paper completed a long overdue overhaul to their website, and now they have followed many a mainstream media mainstay before them and jumped on the blogging bandwagon.

It wasn’t long ago that the CPers were complaining about the prospect; in a March 17th piece on Washington Post blogging requirements without additional pay, City Paper editor Erik Wemple noted, “Full disclosure: The Washington City Paper is pulling the same shit with its staff reporters.” But today the weekly kicked off its blog, City Desk, with typical bombast, writing in their inaugural post:

Expect crack reporting and sharp commentary from a group of journalists that knows our city better than any team out there. In the coming days, look for posts from Trey Graham on theater, Mark Jenkins on architecture and planning, Tim Carman on food, James Jones on D.C. politics, Erik Wemple on local media, and many more.

Recently the Post debuted a similar effort, the disappointing local politics blog D.C. Wire, which seems to have been doomed from the start by the pro bono blogging policy. Hopefully the City Paper’s new blog can manage to rise above D.C. Wire — it certainly can’t be worse than their own recent venture into the genre, the painful-to-read dating blog About Last Night.

But we’ll see how it goes. Of course, we trust that City Desk won’t pull what in the blogging world has come to be known as a “Ben Domenech” — rise and fall in three days flat. Good luck, CP. And hey, link swap?