Thursday, September 13, 2007
Thursday bloghop 19
It's been ages - well, three months - since I did a Thursday bloghop. I'm really bad about anything I set myself to do every day or regularly, in any case. Good thing I like to eat.
1. Started at Wide Awake Café, one of my favorite daily stops. The last couple of days Laura's written eloquently and with great feeling about the General Petreaus testimony and reaction (here and here). She's always terrifically articulate, about everything but her impassioned and compassionate writings about being a military commander are really exceptional. She covers a wide range of subjects from her own art to her classroom work to her family to traveling to cultural observations to politics. Never a dull moment and always very worthwhile reading.
2. Red Sugar Muse is tidy and attractive. It seems more buttoned-up than it turns out to be once you start reading. Unfortunately there is no "about" or similar way to find out who this interesting Tanya person is, but she uses words to awfully good advantage and makes me laugh while I'm finding out what she thinks about things. I particularly recommend her 9/11 post, although you should be warned that it's not all sweetness and light. I also recommend this post on a man who keeps finding dead bodies (well, that's not really what it's about) and a couple of other things. I'm interested to see that among her high selective list of links is one of my daughter's favorites, Dooce, to which I clearly need to give more attention. As for Red Sugar, I'll definitely be back.
3. Couldn't resist the name: One Sentence, and the intriguing idea: one-sentence "stories". The blog discusses stuff about the stories so they kind of go together. One of the ones I like a lot (and have said in real life, as a matter of fact) is this one: "I told my three year old son that he was putting his shoes on the wrong feet and he responded that they were the only feet that he had." Yeah, okay, that's not a story with any kind of beginning middle or end, but the rules are just that they have to be true and they have to be fun to read. I suppose it's an extreme version of extremely short stories, right? I have to say, too, that I see that One Sentence also talks about Dooce, she of my daughter's and Red Sugar's appreciation. Is there something going on here?
4. One Sentence doesn't explicitly have links but it mentions people who have mentioned it, and I found one I particularly enjoyed, CTV.ca, so there it is. It's a bit of this and a bit of that about technology and tv, with a Canadian slant (.ca) but no limitation on wit or excitement about the gadgets and things. He mentions an "exhibit" on the Nikon Japanese website, for example, of master Origami paper work, and it's phenomenal.
So many websites, so many blogs, so many things to see and read and write about. . . .
1. Started at Wide Awake Café, one of my favorite daily stops. The last couple of days Laura's written eloquently and with great feeling about the General Petreaus testimony and reaction (here and here). She's always terrifically articulate, about everything but her impassioned and compassionate writings about being a military commander are really exceptional. She covers a wide range of subjects from her own art to her classroom work to her family to traveling to cultural observations to politics. Never a dull moment and always very worthwhile reading.
2. Red Sugar Muse is tidy and attractive. It seems more buttoned-up than it turns out to be once you start reading. Unfortunately there is no "about" or similar way to find out who this interesting Tanya person is, but she uses words to awfully good advantage and makes me laugh while I'm finding out what she thinks about things. I particularly recommend her 9/11 post, although you should be warned that it's not all sweetness and light. I also recommend this post on a man who keeps finding dead bodies (well, that's not really what it's about) and a couple of other things. I'm interested to see that among her high selective list of links is one of my daughter's favorites, Dooce, to which I clearly need to give more attention. As for Red Sugar, I'll definitely be back.
3. Couldn't resist the name: One Sentence, and the intriguing idea: one-sentence "stories". The blog discusses stuff about the stories so they kind of go together. One of the ones I like a lot (and have said in real life, as a matter of fact) is this one: "I told my three year old son that he was putting his shoes on the wrong feet and he responded that they were the only feet that he had." Yeah, okay, that's not a story with any kind of beginning middle or end, but the rules are just that they have to be true and they have to be fun to read. I suppose it's an extreme version of extremely short stories, right? I have to say, too, that I see that One Sentence also talks about Dooce, she of my daughter's and Red Sugar's appreciation. Is there something going on here?
4. One Sentence doesn't explicitly have links but it mentions people who have mentioned it, and I found one I particularly enjoyed, CTV.ca, so there it is. It's a bit of this and a bit of that about technology and tv, with a Canadian slant (.ca) but no limitation on wit or excitement about the gadgets and things. He mentions an "exhibit" on the Nikon Japanese website, for example, of master Origami paper work, and it's phenomenal.
So many websites, so many blogs, so many things to see and read and write about. . . .
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