Friday, February 16, 2007
Too busy yesterday so Thursday's hop is a day late. As this is entirely self-directed, though, that's all right. Right?!
1. Started at Lori Byrd, self-described as "Commentary on current events, entertainment and everyday life delivered with a Southern drawl" and written by a verbal, energetic, interesting woman. Her perceptions are often quirky with a slightly different twist than others have, and there's almost always a good dose of humor in her observations. Highly recommended.
2. From there, on to Daddypundit, literally chosen by fate because when I flipped over to Lori's site, the mouse had already selected it. This blogger describes himself as "A man who desires to be the husband and father that God has called him to be. Worship leader, guitar player, and avid reader." I'm enough of a dyed in the wool northeastern schoolgirl that my back starts to arch at that description, but I've learned that prejudging often deprives me of interesting and perceptive writing and insights. I enjoyed reading Daddypundit's discussion of teaching his daughter to play golf and, even more, his thoughts on C.S. Lewis and Calvinism, and of the Screwtape Letters as a movie (good idea!). He writes about family and work and politics, among many other things. (He mentions how much he likes Fred Thompson which is interesting to me since I was thinking of him only the other day (and it turns out we're not the only ones - check this out!) .) Daddypundit is a little too religious for me but he's very interesting and definitely worth checking in on for reasoned, calm writing on a wide variety of subjects.
3. Next I wandered to Coffee with CrankyBeach which is described as "a hoot" by at least two commenters. The Valentine photos of Star and Cricket (a fluffy dog and a sleek cat, respectively) are charming. On the other hand, the Gila monster - actually, it's a gecko - is not. It's interesting, certainly, but definitely not cute. Her subjects range from personal observations to politics to tv and movies to cars to scifi to . . . well anything that catches her interest. Fun.
4. Over to Life Under the Sun which is visually lovely although it doesn't display very well in I.E.6 (I'll have to try in 7 tonight) in that most of the sidebar flashes and eventually stays put partway down the page. I loved her serious, funny and same-to-me top 10 reasons why she loves blogging - definitely a meme waiting to be spread far and wide. A divinity school student and a stay-at-home mother of two girls, she used a nice template by Gecko & Fly who are right up there in the pantheon of blog designers, I must say.
5. So Gecko & Fly is logically the next stop. These folks have some very nice new-blogger templates as well as a slew of Wordpress templates. Also they have comments and observations on all manner of things blogging. Their techie quotations and cartoons are really funny (most of the time) but I especially like that they mention and casually review all manner of techie things like Windows Mobile 6 and that they discuss Google-and-Mozilla, for example. This is a site that deserves joining my Blog Angels list since it clearly often has useful info and remarks.
Now back to the crazy work week and looking forward to rare readers' observations of these sites - and/or suggestions of others that I should include while hopping.
1. Started at Lori Byrd, self-described as "Commentary on current events, entertainment and everyday life delivered with a Southern drawl" and written by a verbal, energetic, interesting woman. Her perceptions are often quirky with a slightly different twist than others have, and there's almost always a good dose of humor in her observations. Highly recommended.
2. From there, on to Daddypundit, literally chosen by fate because when I flipped over to Lori's site, the mouse had already selected it. This blogger describes himself as "A man who desires to be the husband and father that God has called him to be. Worship leader, guitar player, and avid reader." I'm enough of a dyed in the wool northeastern schoolgirl that my back starts to arch at that description, but I've learned that prejudging often deprives me of interesting and perceptive writing and insights. I enjoyed reading Daddypundit's discussion of teaching his daughter to play golf and, even more, his thoughts on C.S. Lewis and Calvinism, and of the Screwtape Letters as a movie (good idea!). He writes about family and work and politics, among many other things. (He mentions how much he likes Fred Thompson which is interesting to me since I was thinking of him only the other day (and it turns out we're not the only ones - check this out!) .) Daddypundit is a little too religious for me but he's very interesting and definitely worth checking in on for reasoned, calm writing on a wide variety of subjects.
3. Next I wandered to Coffee with CrankyBeach which is described as "a hoot" by at least two commenters. The Valentine photos of Star and Cricket (a fluffy dog and a sleek cat, respectively) are charming. On the other hand, the Gila monster - actually, it's a gecko - is not. It's interesting, certainly, but definitely not cute. Her subjects range from personal observations to politics to tv and movies to cars to scifi to . . . well anything that catches her interest. Fun.
4. Over to Life Under the Sun which is visually lovely although it doesn't display very well in I.E.6 (I'll have to try in 7 tonight) in that most of the sidebar flashes and eventually stays put partway down the page. I loved her serious, funny and same-to-me top 10 reasons why she loves blogging - definitely a meme waiting to be spread far and wide. A divinity school student and a stay-at-home mother of two girls, she used a nice template by Gecko & Fly who are right up there in the pantheon of blog designers, I must say.
5. So Gecko & Fly is logically the next stop. These folks have some very nice new-blogger templates as well as a slew of Wordpress templates. Also they have comments and observations on all manner of things blogging. Their techie quotations and cartoons are really funny (most of the time) but I especially like that they mention and casually review all manner of techie things like Windows Mobile 6 and that they discuss Google-and-Mozilla, for example. This is a site that deserves joining my Blog Angels list since it clearly often has useful info and remarks.
Now back to the crazy work week and looking forward to rare readers' observations of these sites - and/or suggestions of others that I should include while hopping.
Labels: blogs (others'), gk1, politics, reflections
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| posted by jau at 12:58 AM
jau — at 4:00 PM, February 16, 2007:
| posted by jau at 12:58 AM
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jau — at 4:00 PM, February 16, 2007:
I didn't mean to be negative - I wasn't, was I? - it's just not my cuppa tea, but I like your writing and your wide look at things. I look forward to visiting again and hope you'll do the same.
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