Linky love
posted in Blogging |I have a bunch of blogs I’ve stumbled on one way or another that I haven’t put into my blogroll…So I thought it might be nice if I passed them on with a blurb or two.
First on my list is Kate at High Altitude Gardening. I discovered her blog via the “Next Blog” button on Blogger, totally at random. Being that I am married to Mr. Total Green Thumb, who paid his way through college by running his own nursery business, and am the daughter of Granny Total Green Thumb, and am very interested in gardening at high altitudes (though now it’s a moot point, sigh), I started reading. I liked what I read. I kept reading. I bookmarked her. She writes about gardening in the mountains of Utah–yes–but also about all sorts of other things. A great read!
Bent Objects is an intriguing spot to visit. Mr. Bent Objects creates tiny sculptures out of ordinary, everyday items–hourglasses, corkscrews, a paddle-ball–and infuses them with a sense of whimsy. I discovered Bent Objects via Clicked.
Mutha, at Word to your Mutha, is a mom to three, one of them adopted from China. She writes amusing tales of life with three little ones. And she has a podcast!
Check out Passive-Aggressive Notes. Readers submit notes they’ve found or had directed to them that are the epitome, the essence, of passive-aggressiveness. Many of them are hilarious, some intentionally so, some not. The commenters have a lot of in-jokes as a result of following PAN for a while, one of which is being the first to post a comment saying, “That (subject of note) was fucking delicious!” The Heisa Monster is another in-joke. I don’t remember how I found PAN; it may have been via Clicked as well.
An old friend/acquaintance/adversary of many years is Blog Antagonist, at Blogs Are Stupid. She started her blog as a snarky sideswipe at a bunch of folks who were, lemming-like, starting blogs…then she discovered, ironically and much to her surprise, that a blog was an agreeable pastime that offered her an outlet for her desire to write. She still has a tendency to use ten-dollar words when three-dollar words would do much better, but I enjoy her writing and think many of my readers would, too.
So there ya go. Dip in and enjoy.
