weekend arts & leisure – tab worthy blogs part 1

Those of you who use Firefox or Opera or really any web browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer (Creating security vulnerabilities since 1995!) know what I’m talking about when I say “tab worthy.” These are blogs that should not only be bookmarked for occasional reference, but given their own tab to enable frequent viewing:

George Comics: If you want an example of one of the many ways in which life is unfair (other than the fact that Natalie Portman refuses to return my phone calls), look no further than “George” which should have by now been picked up by Universal Press Syndicate allowing its author, John Norton, to sit on exotic beaches sipping Mai-Tais while living off the royalties of Chinese-made stuffed children’s toys (now 73% lead-free!) based on his characters. Read his strip, read the archives, buy his book, get him noticed. And Natalie, I know you have my number, it was on the court documents you filed.

The Big Board: Mike has that certain special something that is difficult to put into words. But I’ll try anyway: 

He links to me a lot.

But not only that, The Big Board is one of those rare personal blogs where the author writes about whatever he wants and yet manages to maintain a low ECC (Excessive Cat Content). He is a self-proclaimed liberal but the good kind in that he follows the Big Ten. Here you will find reasoned political commentary, sports coverage, and the occasional drink mix. It is not quite a daily read because Mike doesn’t update it that often, but well worth checking out a few times a week to see what he’s come up with lately.

PostWatch:  A blog dedicated to chronicling the life and times, good and bad, of the Washington Post, one of the nation’s most important newspapers and my adopted home-town rag. The writer is a conservative but one of the good kinds in that he does not see grand left-wing conspiracies in the mainstream media but more of a general cultural bias. Also, he doesn’t hate gays. Always well-written, and often very funny, a good daily read for anyone interested in a fresh perspective on the day’s news.

Waking Ambrose:  In author Doug Pascover’s own words: “Titrating my own cynicism into a solution of Ambrose Bierce's, which has fermented for a century. Each entry begins with a definition from Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary followed by a modern adjustment.”

Okay, when you have to hit the dictionary by THE VERY FIRST WORD you know you’re in trouble. Doug is at once intelligent, literary and humorous, and you hate him all the more for it. I check it a couple times a week. I would visit more frequently but I like to get a few extra pages of my Word-A-Day Calendar under my belt before venturing to Doug’s blog.

For those of you I missed on this round, my apologies. When engaging in the artistic endeavor of creative writing I allow my mind to wander and so feel compelled to follow my muse wherever it may lead.

And by “muse” I mean “gin-induced psychosis.”

J.