To be added to as I actually get through the blogroll as promised earlier, a promise broken by the World Cup third place game and much baseball (a Mets doubleheader and the Yankees game; hey, after tomorrow it's the All-Star break, I gotta save up) but made moot now as I just accidentally clicked "read all blogs" under my Bloglines uberfeed and now have 900+ posts to either skim through or ignore:
• Wil Wheaton has a meaningful conversation about his writing with his Internal Critic. Long but lots of fun.
• Barbara O'Brien is one of the many folks remembering yesterday's grisly anniversary, and expanding upon it to take in the current state of British (English, Scottish and Welsh) politics.
• Now this is the kind of "blog wars" I actually enjoy. Dueling YouTube videos, apparently from the '80s (I'm too behind in things to sit through any of them). Ilyka Damen catches us up. I watched a lot of MTV in the '80s, I harbor no regrets.
• Jenn at Reappropriate has some choice words for Sony's advertising agency on the World's Stupidest Billboard Campaign, at least the stupidest one this week.
• Kalinara is disturbed by the tendency of shoujo (girls') manga to feature female protagonists who start out plain or wimpy or otherwise mediocre, whereas the male protagonists in shonen (boys') books tend to be somewhat perfect paragons. Kinda like the difference between your typical fairy tale and a Homerian epic.
• Jill at Feministe passes along a couple of excerpts from a really horrid advice column supposedly run by people who live in the 21st century.
• Wil Wheaton has a meaningful conversation about his writing with his Internal Critic. Long but lots of fun.
• Barbara O'Brien is one of the many folks remembering yesterday's grisly anniversary, and expanding upon it to take in the current state of British (English, Scottish and Welsh) politics.
• Now this is the kind of "blog wars" I actually enjoy. Dueling YouTube videos, apparently from the '80s (I'm too behind in things to sit through any of them). Ilyka Damen catches us up. I watched a lot of MTV in the '80s, I harbor no regrets.
• Jenn at Reappropriate has some choice words for Sony's advertising agency on the World's Stupidest Billboard Campaign, at least the stupidest one this week.
• Kalinara is disturbed by the tendency of shoujo (girls') manga to feature female protagonists who start out plain or wimpy or otherwise mediocre, whereas the male protagonists in shonen (boys') books tend to be somewhat perfect paragons. Kinda like the difference between your typical fairy tale and a Homerian epic.
• Jill at Feministe passes along a couple of excerpts from a really horrid advice column supposedly run by people who live in the 21st century.
• Cory at BoingBoing announces that Kyle, whose adventures I've been following ever since he put his one red paper clip online, has finally traded, up and up and up, for his dream house in Saskatchewan. Bravo, Kyle! Can I interest you in this here pair of tweezers?
• Oh Liz at Blondesense, thank you so much for linking to the movie trailer for The US vs. John Lennon! I miss him a great deal as well.
• Lastly, some Independence Day thoughts from Digby.
More as I start the long dark read-through of the mark-reads...
Update: Okay, that's done. A few more:
• Melissa expands on Echidne's post about activism being seen as a dirty job done by invisible elves. I think a lot of people aren't activist not because of the hard work factor so much as the time management and organization necessary to be an activist. John Adams may have called it commitment, but there are only so many things to which one can be committed in one's life. [And some of us have deep convictions but are completely burnt out on activism by this point, not in the least because we've seen the fruits of our efforts go by the wayside as people after us go in different directions and don't maintain what we began.]
• Melissa also has a terrific post about odd puzzle pieces, which as far as I'm concerned is a Koufax 2006 best post nominee.
• Glenn Greenwald asks why hypocritical right-wing pundits think it's okay for some papers to leak classified information which could actually impact national security but other papers publishing publically-known information in puff pieces that have nothing to do with security are somehow treasonous.
• And Hugo Schwyzer has one of the better analogies I've seen of late, comparing bladder control to control of sexual desire and where blame is assigned for each.
Hmm, do I have time for a quick morning nap before heading out to and back from the supermarket in time to catch Drew Carey's live World Cup Final webisode? Yeah, why not...
• Oh Liz at Blondesense, thank you so much for linking to the movie trailer for The US vs. John Lennon! I miss him a great deal as well.
• Lastly, some Independence Day thoughts from Digby.
More as I start the long dark read-through of the mark-reads...
Update: Okay, that's done. A few more:
• Melissa expands on Echidne's post about activism being seen as a dirty job done by invisible elves. I think a lot of people aren't activist not because of the hard work factor so much as the time management and organization necessary to be an activist. John Adams may have called it commitment, but there are only so many things to which one can be committed in one's life. [And some of us have deep convictions but are completely burnt out on activism by this point, not in the least because we've seen the fruits of our efforts go by the wayside as people after us go in different directions and don't maintain what we began.]
• Melissa also has a terrific post about odd puzzle pieces, which as far as I'm concerned is a Koufax 2006 best post nominee.
• Glenn Greenwald asks why hypocritical right-wing pundits think it's okay for some papers to leak classified information which could actually impact national security but other papers publishing publically-known information in puff pieces that have nothing to do with security are somehow treasonous.
• And Hugo Schwyzer has one of the better analogies I've seen of late, comparing bladder control to control of sexual desire and where blame is assigned for each.
Hmm, do I have time for a quick morning nap before heading out to and back from the supermarket in time to catch Drew Carey's live World Cup Final webisode? Yeah, why not...
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