Thursday, February 1, 2007
thursday bloghop #2
Update 3/11/07 - After a very nice note from the "ne'er do well" proprietor of Thunder Pig, I revisited with complete success. Its banner greets you with a gorgeous panorama and it's both visually and navigationally comfy. Plus, there's bunches of interesting comments and commentary. You gotta love the internet, don't you? Seriously. I mean, you can spend lots of time with people in Oklahoma, France, California, North Dakota, Florida - to name some of my favorites - and now, South Carolina, all just by clicking a little plastic device. Anyway, do visit Thunder Pig.
1. Kicked off today's hop at Spiced Sass, one of my favorites. Ligneus is never boring, almost always amusing and witty, and frequently spot-on (as he might say). His observations about the various Democrats and Republicans currently in the running are cogent and worth musing on, though he failed to mention Chris Dodd, one of the ones I find most puzzling from a skirt-chasing point of view.
2. Tried to go to Thunder Pig because I like its name but I got the oh-so-familiar blogger.com error bX-vjhbsj, whose meaning seems to escape the helpers as much as the rest of us.
3. So off to Asymmetric which loads way too slowly for the impatient among us but is worth taking a look at. A relatively new blog (October 2006), its author says that he "found myself thouroughly fascinating [and] realized . . . that people all over the world can benefit from these same trenchant and thorough (yet pithy) observations; hence, this blog." As a matter of fact, his subjects are widely varied (computers, Cuba and religion to name a few) and the blog is definitely worth visiting. Choosing to sidestep the more controversial of those topics, I clicked on . . .
4. The Liberty Film Festival site. Apparently this is the web page for Hollywood's Conservative Film Festival - who knew there was such a thing!!? See how interesting bloghopping can be! There's all kinds of information about showings of different films that are outside the usual purview of film festivals, not to mention most viewers. And the site is kind of fun being BRIGHT red and all. Of course, like most non-blogs, this is not a good one for taking a hop from, so back to Asymmetric and over to . . .
5. a blog that I would never in a million years have gone to without bloghopping, namely, A Templar Knight. Apparently this blog was created about six months ago by someone who is "a knight within the Priory of England and Wales". I'm not sure if he's kooky, but he writes well about all kinds of cultural topics. He is a teacher living in Wales with numerous articles and poems published in both English and Welsh. He is humorous and quite observant. Give it a look.
That's all for today. Enjoy!
1. Kicked off today's hop at Spiced Sass, one of my favorites. Ligneus is never boring, almost always amusing and witty, and frequently spot-on (as he might say). His observations about the various Democrats and Republicans currently in the running are cogent and worth musing on, though he failed to mention Chris Dodd, one of the ones I find most puzzling from a skirt-chasing point of view.
2. Tried to go to Thunder Pig because I like its name but I got the oh-so-familiar blogger.com error bX-vjhbsj, whose meaning seems to escape the helpers as much as the rest of us.
3. So off to Asymmetric which loads way too slowly for the impatient among us but is worth taking a look at. A relatively new blog (October 2006), its author says that he "found myself thouroughly fascinating [and] realized . . . that people all over the world can benefit from these same trenchant and thorough (yet pithy) observations; hence, this blog." As a matter of fact, his subjects are widely varied (computers, Cuba and religion to name a few) and the blog is definitely worth visiting. Choosing to sidestep the more controversial of those topics, I clicked on . . .
4. The Liberty Film Festival site. Apparently this is the web page for Hollywood's Conservative Film Festival - who knew there was such a thing!!? See how interesting bloghopping can be! There's all kinds of information about showings of different films that are outside the usual purview of film festivals, not to mention most viewers. And the site is kind of fun being BRIGHT red and all. Of course, like most non-blogs, this is not a good one for taking a hop from, so back to Asymmetric and over to . . .
5. a blog that I would never in a million years have gone to without bloghopping, namely, A Templar Knight. Apparently this blog was created about six months ago by someone who is "a knight within the Priory of England and Wales". I'm not sure if he's kooky, but he writes well about all kinds of cultural topics. He is a teacher living in Wales with numerous articles and poems published in both English and Welsh. He is humorous and quite observant. Give it a look.
That's all for today. Enjoy!
Labels: blogs (others'), france, politics, reflections
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| posted by jau at 9:16 AM
jau — at 1:37 PM, February 02, 2007:
Bobby Coggins — at 12:31 PM, March 11, 2007:
| posted by jau at 9:16 AM
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jau — at 1:37 PM, February 02, 2007:
You're welcome! By the way, do you use technorati to find out who's linking to you? They don't seem to be picking up anything from my blog for several weeks! Anyway, glad to have made your acquaintance!!
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Bobby Coggins — at 12:31 PM, March 11, 2007:
Thanks for linking to me as well, even if you couldn't get through. The "new" Blogger seems a bit twitchy, although I haven't had too much problems accessing my blog, "several of my posts have "disappeared."
Now, I save a copy to my clipboard just before I hit the publish button.
And, about the technorati thing, I always manually ping my blog from technorati, since blogger won't let me use a plug in to do it when I publish.
Click Here to see the Ping Page.
http://www.technorati.com/ping
I hope this helps you.
About the name Thunder Pig, it was my CB Handle when I was a kid, and still is, in fact.
If you are ever in western North Carolina, and in Macon, Jackson, or Haywood counties, try me on Channel 4 or 19.
Now, I save a copy to my clipboard just before I hit the publish button.
And, about the technorati thing, I always manually ping my blog from technorati, since blogger won't let me use a plug in to do it when I publish.
Click Here to see the Ping Page.
http://www.technorati.com/ping
I hope this helps you.
About the name Thunder Pig, it was my CB Handle when I was a kid, and still is, in fact.
If you are ever in western North Carolina, and in Macon, Jackson, or Haywood counties, try me on Channel 4 or 19.
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