Writing Consultancy, fall 2007

I'm totally going to open up a dance club that looks a little something like this. ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=O_iCgh9P8ec

OMG GO-GO DANCING IS SO AWESOME!

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continuing the musical theme (yes, i'm avoiding homework, but this is a good idea).

first off:

The Beatles - Paperback Writer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fXOsi6gPvDs

I don't know if this can be topped, actually. This has been one of my favorite songs since I was an eight-year-old soloing on a tennis racket. OMG WRITING IS SO AWESOME!

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A Robot Performs Standup Comedy to A Lackluster Response.

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Check out The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.

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In response to John's call for blogs--and having torn my hungry self away from the food blog Emily mentioned--here are a buncha blogs I haunt:

• Candleblog, a blog by one of my best friends from high school. Topics include coffee, filmmaking, free speech, grammar, "the nerd life," Vermont (my home state), and many more.

• The Masala Dose, another blog of a high school friend. A former copyeditor, Spine (the author) is now a grad student and T.A. in Portland.

• Tomato Nation, a bloggish website by one of the co-creators of Television Without Pity, itself a highly addictive website. I especially like Tomato Nation's "The Vine" advice column feature. Tomato Nation is a member of a group of blogs, Damn Hell Ass Kings, with none of which can you go wrong. (How do you like that for not ending a sentence with a preposition?!?) My other favorites there are Velcrometer (by a Twin Cities author), Frolic and Detour, Pamie, and (a daily read) Go Fug Yourself.

• Dohiyi Mir, another blog by a Vermonter, this one focused on politics, free speech, the peace movement, photography, and the author's pack of Dogz and Catz.

• New York Hack, a New York cabbie's blog, less frequently updated nowadays since she's turned many of the entries into a book.

I guess my knowing about all these blogs is a direct result of another literacy experience: writing--and, more to the point, putting off writing--my dissertation.

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First of all, I want to say that Movable Type is so much nicer than Blogger, it's not even funny. This may be way too cool for me.

Anywho, since we're going to be doing a fair amount of blogging on our own I thought it'd be fun to get a feel for what other blogs people read. There's quite a range out there, so if you want to chime in with a few choice blogs you like to frequent that would be schweet.

Since this is my post, I might as well get the ball rolling with a few of the (way too) many blogs that I read:
The MN Gameday Writer's Blog (where they have one particularly handsome contributor. . .)
Ezra Klein
Stereogum
Talking Points Memo
Marginal Revolution
Lawyers, Guns and Money (I'll save a rant on the Oxford comma for a later date)
Pandagon
Free Darko

That's a decent overview, I suppose. Now, tell me which awesome blogs I'm missing out on.

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