Haven’t done reader blogs in a while so here goes:
- War is over if you want it: Random Detritus reports on the end of the Punic Wars…in 1985.
- He’s a hippie, hippie Billy: Bill Thomas salutes the hippies.
- Gluttons for punishment: Chimpanzee Tea Party adds a riff to this excellent piece on “foodies”.
- Weather report: Running Down the Voodoo reviews a performance by the great Wayne Shorter.
- You’re my favorite work of art: Standard of the Day (not technically a reader blog) writes about the song that represents the high-water mark in American civilization.
What’s going on on your blog, if you keep one?
freelancer
http://thegreatamericandesert.com/
RDF has highlighted a lecture from a member of the NCSE about how Creationism has evolved over the last 150 years or so.
Can’t stop posting Carl Sagan youtubes whenever they pop-up.
And thanks to Cole, I’ve discovered The Ricky Gervais Podcast. I’m listening to Series 3 right now. We are a nation of Karl Pilkingtons.
cleek
same ol same ol
phillip anderson
Great on the ground report from NY-26 at Alan’s joint.
Southern Beale
I already blogwhored myself down thread … so I’ll just link to a short post on another blog, which finally explains why the GOP calls the healthcare law “job killing.”
Southern Beale
Poor Victoria Jackson. She’s barking mad.
Josh James
My blog:
http://writerjoshuajames.com/dailydojo/
been blogging on writing and the film industry (as that is where my profession is) but some political and parent stuff, too …
busybeingborn
My first-ever Balloon Juice comment, appropriately self-congratulatory.
I write a lot about film, at my own blog and some other places, and this week wrote about the 1970 Paul Newman movie “WUSA,” out on DVD recently. It’s only so-so, but it foresaw a lot of the FNC/Limbaugh shite we see on the airwaves nowadays.
Here’s my own blog post, with a link to the original review (at Slant Magazine): http://busybeingborn.com/?p=1142&preview=true
Pleasure to be commenting after years of reading.
John.
PeakVT
It’s now ancient history in blog time, but last week I wrote a post about the experiment the Tories are running in the UK.
Chris
I’m wondering why George W. Bush seems to be my local school superintendent, and why I should be happy that our elementary school’s standardized test scores are high.
I’m at A Blog About School.
Ruckus
@Southern Beale:
When I used to watch SNL I used to think she was loony but harmless. I was at least half right.
Brian
Jon is talking about foreign rip-offs of American movie, and I’m bitching about religion making us stupid (or, as always, just taking B.J. stuff and adding my own 2 rupees).
IrishGirl
Making fun of Arizona politicians, what else would I be talking about? :) I put up a new comic that has Gov. Jan Brewer’s head on the body of a dog w/ a scat joke to go along with it. I always take the high brow approach……
AZ Asshole: Gov. Jan Brewer
Scott
My blog is full of comic book reviews. Bah, even I’m bored with that crap.
The thing I think is especially interesting, however, is this thing about the governor of Wisconsin just out of the blue threatening to call out the National Guard on state employees…
Jennifer
I’ve got up a picture of Frank Booth’s cat, and a piece about the dead possum under my house.
Tom Hilton
I pimped my historical blog here the other day, so I probably shouldn’t do it again today. So, um, forget I said anything.
Brachiator
One of the people I commute with is a school teacher. She noted that some of her second graders were glad that they were off this coming Monday and didn’t much care why.
I suggested that she tell them that the country was celebrating Lincoln’s Valentine’s Day.
Tom Hilton
@Brachiator: Um, isn’t that a week early? President’s Day is the 21st.
The Ithacan
Thanks for the shout DougJ, you’re one real gone cat.
Paul in KY
@Southern Beale: I had the hots for her back when she was on SNL. Seemed like a sweet girl. Boy, she can act ;-)
Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q)
@Brachiator: That’s a great answer. Heh.
"Fair and Balanced" Dave
@Ruckus:
I thought the whole “dumb blond” persona was just an act.
freelancer
BillO is now an internet meme. Bwaaaahahaha!
Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q)
@Paul in KY: That kind of explains you willingness to encourage la_chan on here; you seem to gravitate to teh crazy. :-)
Brachiator
@Tom Hilton:
Some California schools (and some other institutions) are observing Lincoln’s Birthday, which falls on Saturday, on Monday Feb 14.
They also get President’s Day the week after.
Paul in KY
@Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q): I like em ditzy ;-)
MikeJ
WTF is up with that word salad full of spam at the Bill Thomas article? A full page of no para breaks full of links about boner pills. Perhaps you only see it with javascript turned off.
Still, not the sort of site I’d link to.
twiffer
my blog consists primarily of pictures of my kid, posts about the red sox and bouts of poetry.
Poopyman
OT, but this is relevant to us old Pirates fans. Chuck Tanner died today. I can’t believe he was 81. Been a long time ….
RIP, skipper.
Southern Beale
@Josh James:
That’s cool. My writing makes people cry … from BOREDOM.
:-)
Seriously. I hate writing fiction. That’s usually what I’m supposed to be doing when I’m over here bitching and moaning about the Republican caliphate. I have great ideas though. Maybe I should write scripts instead.
Southern Beale
@MikeJ:
Hmm must be your computer, it didn’t look that way on my Mac (running Safari).
Kavan
@MikeJ: MikeJ any chance you’d be willing to email a screenshot or something to editor AT ChangingAging DOT org? It sounds like we have some kind of a hack but I can’t see it from my browser.
General Stuck
Scary to imagine this could as well be Sarah as not, though locked away under layers of stupid and mean, also too.
The Ithacan
We are not seeing a problem (at changingaging) either but thanks for the heads up.
We are poppin the hood for a look around.
Pretty fun getting a link from Doug J.
I read BJ every day.
Kavan
@MikeJ: Editor of ChangingAging.org here. MikeJ real sorry about the spam. I can’t see it from my browser but will have our techs look into it.
R-Jud
@Josh James: Quotes from Real Genius gets a thumbs up from me.
I haven’t updated Books of All Time in a week or two, but I am sitting here pecking at the next post, which compares Old Testament God’s behavior to various mental illnesses in the DSM-IV. Not terribly original, but still.
jacy
Mostly, I have more pictures of our new kitty, plus random things about writing and hockey, but mostly the kitty.
J.W. Hamner
Hey that’s me! Awesome! Though now I’m getting flamed by foodies… even though I am one. I guess it’s a brief taste of what the Big Leagues are like.
Barkley G
I don’t have much other than not-so cheap shots at torture advocate Marc Thiessen and Erick Erickson.
Thiessen uses Marxist logic from the 19th century to justify GOP opposition to any changes to the Affordable Care Act.
Erickson is upset about gay republican showing up at his CPAC party.
FredW
http://www.HaveBeerWillTravel.com
My blog traveling and drinking good beer.
friendthegirl
Stinkin’ Thinkin’: Muckraking the 12-Step Treatment Industry
We’re still on the outer fringes of crankland, because — you know — what kind of a jerk would try to take away an addict’s last hope.
But, if you want a great case in point for what can go wrong if we give creationists a seat on the school board — or allow religion to influence public policy — visit us and see what happened to a whole branch of medical science and social services when the faith-healers took over.
Redshirt
I just had my 1000th Post Spectacular! It’s very exciting.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
I have been completely obsessed with Egypt for the past 18 days, to the detriment of my various bloggy socializing across the webs, and today I write about the idea that perhaps on today of all days, rather than get all Smart and Know It All about Everything That Will Go Wrong in Egypt — perhaps today is a day to honor and share in the Egyptians’ joy.
http://bit.ly/fqTVnC
I’m not sure it’s a very BJ-friendly post — it’s kinda Up with People.
A Farmer
Hating on John Kasich with Governor Kasich’s charm offensive. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out how to embed a real player file. I’ll gladly take help. Thanks.
Chuck Butcher
After about a month hiatus thanks to not being able to see why I ought to give a damn (following about the same) I decided I probably do. For now. Maybe.
mzrad
I officially launched my site http://CentralCoastFoodie.com in December and am having fun developing several themes related to sustainability, including “eat your garden,” “learn to cook,” “ride a bike,” and “support your neighbors.”
For the first post in the “Food on Film” series, I reviewed _Tampopo_ (1985), the Japanese film about learning to live through food. It was fun to produce my own interpretation of this film and to exercise publishing control of my feminist, English major thoughts right there on my own site. VERY COOL!
Brachiator
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
Very interesting stuff. Thanks for this.
luminous muse
In reference to Bill Thomas’s post above:
http://open.salon.com/blog/luminousmuse/2010/10/18/whats_with_all_the_hippie_punching
AmericanStudier
Hi All,
If you get a chance and are interested, I have a daily AmericanStudies blog, featuring one interesting American thing per day (the most recent one is a repeat, but it’s mostly new daily, I swears). I’d love to get your thoughts and takes and responses there! Thanks,
Ben
Aunt Moe
Friday Night Oldies!
Comrade Nikolita
I’m late to the party, my bad.
Here’s my blog, as a 4th year social work student at a Canadian university: http://youwantobeawhat.blogspot.com
If anyone would like to affiliate with me, I’d be happy to return the favor. :)
gil mann
Yeah, so “Standard of the Day?” Clicked over there, figured oh, must be a different B-Sol, no way the ex-WWF staffer who runs “The Vault of Horror” has a blog where he waxes eloquent about Rodgers & Hart.
But yep, same dude. Multitudes! People contain ’em.