Thursday, January 25, 2007
thursday bloghop #1
Today I started off at Laura's Miscellaneous Musings, noting her comment that "It's time for this country to fully embrace Martin Luther King's dream and get past color-based politics and racial separatism". I agree. Times have changed, witness Obama being taken completely seriously as a candidate, so it's time to cease separatist activities like the Congressional Black Caucus. They were necessary and helpful, but it's time to accept that we've changed.
2. TV Shows on DVD. A compendium site, not a blog. Laura (see #1) has mentioned this site before but I've never visited. It's a place where you can vote for shows you'd buy on DVD, and how you'd want to buy them. It also lists DVDs that have already been released (old, new, classic and cancelled shows, no less, as well as what's about to be released). Plus, they tell you where you can buy them. Great resource!
3. Blog associated with #2 called (guess!) TV Shows on DVD Blog. It's been in existence since December 2005 so I guess I've been thoroughly out of this loop. Anyway, the blog is the personal comments of the folks who maintain #2. Fun to scroll through.
4. Yikes. Only two links on #3 (its own (see #2) and its Flickr photos), so there's no go-to-able link, thus stopping my rule #3 in its tracks. Back to #1 and off to Farmgirl Fare. Susan displays photos (like the fabulous black and white cat trying to get through a wire fence (one wonders whether it met with success) from a 240-acre (!) farm in Missouri where she moved after prep school, college, businesses, etc. The site won the Best Food Blog (Rural) for 2006 and has a handy "welcome to the site" page which is informative and interesting. Descriptions of seed starting, recipes, things to buy, ways to cook and store what you grow, etc., etc. A terrific site that will get more of my time, that's for sure. (Hmmm, chocolate biscotti . . . .)
5. On to These Days in French Life, written by Riana, "a food-driven, travel-loving American residing in the south of France with her French husband". Great photos and descriptions of the countryside and life in France. Check out that kitchen! She studied engineering until calculus did her in even though she'd done well in AP calc in high school. (Sounds awfully familiar tho' my intended major was physics, abandoned for the same dreadful reason in favor of philosophy, believe it or not.) I need a lot more time here.
Well, now I have food and travel lust with avengence, so it's a good thing I'm done for today.
2. TV Shows on DVD. A compendium site, not a blog. Laura (see #1) has mentioned this site before but I've never visited. It's a place where you can vote for shows you'd buy on DVD, and how you'd want to buy them. It also lists DVDs that have already been released (old, new, classic and cancelled shows, no less, as well as what's about to be released). Plus, they tell you where you can buy them. Great resource!
3. Blog associated with #2 called (guess!) TV Shows on DVD Blog. It's been in existence since December 2005 so I guess I've been thoroughly out of this loop. Anyway, the blog is the personal comments of the folks who maintain #2. Fun to scroll through.
4. Yikes. Only two links on #3 (its own (see #2) and its Flickr photos), so there's no go-to-able link, thus stopping my rule #3 in its tracks. Back to #1 and off to Farmgirl Fare. Susan displays photos (like the fabulous black and white cat trying to get through a wire fence (one wonders whether it met with success) from a 240-acre (!) farm in Missouri where she moved after prep school, college, businesses, etc. The site won the Best Food Blog (Rural) for 2006 and has a handy "welcome to the site" page which is informative and interesting. Descriptions of seed starting, recipes, things to buy, ways to cook and store what you grow, etc., etc. A terrific site that will get more of my time, that's for sure. (Hmmm, chocolate biscotti . . . .)
5. On to These Days in French Life, written by Riana, "a food-driven, travel-loving American residing in the south of France with her French husband". Great photos and descriptions of the countryside and life in France. Check out that kitchen! She studied engineering until calculus did her in even though she'd done well in AP calc in high school. (Sounds awfully familiar tho' my intended major was physics, abandoned for the same dreadful reason in favor of philosophy, believe it or not.) I need a lot more time here.
Well, now I have food and travel lust with avengence, so it's a good thing I'm done for today.
Labels: blogs (others'), france, reflections
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| posted by jau at 9:05 AM
Laura — at 10:01 PM, January 25, 2007:
| posted by jau at 9:05 AM
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Laura — at 10:01 PM, January 25, 2007:
What fun, thanks so much (as always!) for the link. I didn't know TV Shows on DVD had a blog, I checked that out. Glad you enjoyed Farmgirl Fare. :)
Best wishes, Laura
Best wishes, Laura
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