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Doug’s Blog Round-up
You remember how this works: for B.A.D., we’re supposed to shine a spotlight on less-trafficked (i.e., not “A List”) blogs that deserve more attention. Here’s the spotlight, folks.
Total Dick-Head was the first curious place I found earlier this week. English teacher David Gill writes one of the most focused single-topic blogs I’ve ever read: every last post is about SF author Philip K. Dick. Recent posts include some notes on the crossover between Lost and PKD’s Valis, a review of A Scanner Darkly, and a student essay comparing Deckard (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and Meursault (Camus’s The Stranger). Gill’s review of Blade Runner: The Final Cut is great. Check it out for the Blade Runner lolcats link, if nothing else.
New B&W reader Raw Dawg Buffalo probably gets more traffic than me, but I thought I’d give him a shout-out anyway as one of the freshest new (new to me) voices I’ve heard in a long while. He’s not always political, but his two most recent posts cover Michelle Obama and calling-him-a-dickhead-insults-penises-everywhere Michael Savage. Check him out.
But I wouldn’t have found Qucifer if I hadn’t paid attention to RDB’s comment threads. I have a bad habit of checking cute women out based on their blogger thumbnail pix — hey, sometimes people DO post a bigger photo on their profile page. Consider it the 21st Century equivalent of gawking at passing strangers (and this shout-out is, I suppose, a 21st Century wolf whistle). Qucifer’s profile page led me to one of her blogs, “Sensual Sex From East Coast to Midwest” (linked on Q’s name, above), and oh boy, do I enjoy reading one woman lecture to other women on blow jobs. I learned a lot from her advice to guys, too. No, I’d never heard of the stupid-ass “pussy-patting” maneuver, but now I know not to bother. Q’s other blog is lots of fun, too. (Just not as much sex.)
I don’t know if Corn Dog gets more or less traffic than me, but who cares. She’s closed up her blog (temporarily, I hope) because her poor little dog Dinky has a tumor. I miss Corn Dog’s voice. Go give her some love.
Recent B&W commenter Tommy Korioth must have found me through Mauigirl, and good thing, too. Over at his blog, Basket of Puppies, he recently wrote a great essay on racism in Texas. Check it out. How can you resist a basket of puppies?
D.
Very interesting blog you have. I saw your comment at Jon Swift’s pad. Happy B.A.D! You’ve been blogrolled.
Nate
Thanks, Nate, and right back at ya.
Doug, u know like u, m parents taught me well, i did not call him a corpus collusum, Its jus that our parents taught us descency and we listend. nd sad fact is, I know savage parents taught him too, he just didnt listen LOL
Really — you don’t think Savage learned prejudice from his parents? I have a hard time believing that. Just seems to me the hardest of the hard got that way thanks to their folks, their friends, their community. Unless, perhaps, Savage doesn’t believe any of his own shit and is only doing this because it pays the rent. That’s what I think is O’Reilly’s deal.
Thanks for the love, Walnut. I get waaaaay less traffic than you. I think my blog is going to be closed for a while. I’m officially depressed. I couldn’t hang onto the job. Sick dog. Life sucks tofu.
Hey, thanks for the link, I’m perusing the back entries of all my favorite blogs as I’ve been behind in blog reading for the past three weeks!