EVERYBODY IN BLOGS - internet friends, you may be interested in meeting some of my real life friends who have recently also become my internet friends and who many of you may also be real life friends with yourself or could one day become real life friends with, an experience which would doubtlessly be enhanced by making their internet acquaintance first:
- Stephen James's Amaranth Field: Stephe is going to med school in the fall, I sure hope he gets to stay local, though I am scared that he won't have enough free time to blog! I thoroughly enjoyed his description of a therapeutic video game for burn victims as well as some fuckin poetry, I think this is the first poem I've read in like 2-3 years and it's great
- Philip Adler's Pessimania: Not pessimism so much as disturbing visions, dream narratives, hallucinatory rants - in the words of some dude at the (fucking incredible) Zs show at Cake Shop the other night said, you can either be a good person or you can be an artist, and Vercingetorix is definitely a true artist, looking forward to see where this goes
- Julia Rebecca's Fumarama, not technically new at all but it went inactive for awhile but now is totally active again, Julia has thoughtful and very readable opinions on shittons of TV shows that I have never seen, but I read them anyway - it's weird and unfortunate that she doesn't include LOST or Beauty and the Geek, the two shows I actually do watch. Whenever I see Julia I talk about getting a poker game together, when am I ever going to make this happen?
- An excellent trio of recent-ishly mentioned friendbloggers, Ben, Talya, and Piper, have combined Voltron-style to form the wittily-named In Flagrante Delicious, a groupblog dedicated to high end blogging about (mostly) high end snack food, inspired at least in part by the Taquitos snack review website discussed by Hank in his recentish, almost Nicholson Baker-esque! post On Doritos Hegemony, which also includes a description of Goldfish that I've frequently repeated in conversation in the past month, "Goldfish are like Doritos' educated, liberal cousin: they're subtle, with muted flavor and just a hint of spice, and utterly ungreasy and unpowdery." I feel like 'we' (snack eaters) have so much useful snack know-how and am glad that such capable writers have taken up the task of concretizing it
- Speaking of reviews, Steeveee, mostly lurking in commentarios while McMuller does some truly heroic and entertaining actual-blogging in the wake of the deShowering of Crude Futures [UPDATE: STEEV has resurfaced, and, like Hank, hated Dreamgirls!], notes a potentially intriguing new-ish or at least new to me Web 2.0ish restaurant etc reviews + social networking site called Yelp, which he characterizes entertaining and appropriately as "like my scruffy prince charming w. a cowlick who can finally slay citysearch." I didn't realize until reading this how badly and for how long I have been waiting for said prince!