Category Archives: Blogging

Blawg-o-sphere. Cube? Dodecahedron?

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Moosehat

I’ve been asked to come up with a short list of some blogs I think are good. Given that I’m outrageously opinionated, this should not be difficult to do. Strangely, athough I normally avoid memes like the plague, this is one assignment I eagerly accepted, given that it contributes to my being on the tee vee. If you, also, can put me on tv, I am perfectly prepared to meme away on command… see how easy I am to get along with?

Some good blogs, and why (and if I left you off, it’s just because I’m saving you for myself, okay? You’re still in the blogroll, silly! No hurt emails plzthxkbai!):

My blogs, of course:

raincoaster
TeenyManolo
Ayyyy
runningthroughrain
The Shebeen Club

  • Defamer, the Hollywood gossip blog. Mark and Seth are probably the best writers in the blogosphere, and they cover a lot of ground, wittily. The commenters are gold.
  • PerezHilton, the #1 blog in the world. Why? He dishes up celebrity gossip nearly 24/7, and he has a compelling (love it or hate it) personality. Blogs without personal identities are completely DOA.
  • DarrenBarefoot, a Canadian abroad. He’s the best example I know of what Nancy White calls a Technology Steward: he isn’t a techie, but he can justify the ways of tech to the rest of the world, sifting through a billion flashes in the pan and pointing out the ones we need to bother with, the ones that will change our lives. Also: really funny.
  • RenalFailure, wild fabrications and outright lies. Hilarious, strange, creative, weird.
  • DamnInteresting just is. DAMN interesting.
  • AliEteraz, a modern Muslim: Islamic reform, Pakistani politics, and changing the world, one post at a time.
  • Jesus’General, the (satirical) home of the glorious conservative revolution.
  • ParaEthos, one of the best intellectual art ‘n philosophy sites out there. Disorienting, enriching, and bizarre.
  • PrettyGoodOnPaper, a highly literary blog that’s not a book blog. Intellectual, challenging, intriguing.
  • WalkingTurcotYards, a remarkable urban photography blog from Montreal’s Turcot Yards, the largest abandoned urban space in the world.
  • Fark. When all else fails and you think the world has turned dull grey, a quick Farking will set you right. The greatest roundup of the bizarre in the intertubes!

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Your Unicorn Chaser for Today

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Let no man, woman, child or fingerling claim that we here at the ol’ raincoaster blog are unfeeling, unresponsive megalomaniacs. We are, but we prefer to hush it up when we can.

But it seems that our last post, the clearly-labeled Most Gruesome Workplace Safety Video of All Time, was a bit too much, even for our intrepid (an generally un-squeamish) readers. They cried aloud as one, requesting Unicorn Chasers.

Oh, fine. Here.

Unicorn Chaser

Lolrus sushi: all ur wasabi r b-long 2 us

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Lolrus

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As our devoted stalkers are aware, some time ago the ol’ raincoaster, through no fault of her own, joined the ranks of the gainfully employed. It was a Teeny disruption, which, like so many an apparently-minor event, began a slide down a slippery slope; she may even end up respectable one day!

In the course of such employment, she not infrequently stumbles across posts of genuine interest, sprinkled between the millions generic “Britney Does Something Scandalous/Angelina Walks On Water, Gives It To Dehydrated Africans” headlines.

This post by the Mr. Henry on the Manolofood blog is just such an one.

Walrus. Fucking. Turducken. Sushi.

Aged walrus fucking turducken sushi.

Pass teh bucket!

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Blogger’s Union Strike!

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If it can happen to the WGA, it could happen here. Thinkaboudit. WWMD?

via Matt

the blogger’s desiderata

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DesiderataAll I have to say is that I wish I’d written this. Go. Now. Read the whole thing.

Stumble aimlessly amid the trolls and waste, but remember what peace there be in staring at your toes for a couple of weeks. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all readers. Publish your posts quietly and clearly, and listen to podcasts, even the dull and garbled, for they too have a right to hog bandwidth. Avoid loud and aggressive bloggers. They are pains in the ass.

GO.