Each week, in addition to the links you can see by spying on my Google Reader, I compile a list of posts that interested me and post them here on Saturday. You can check out the ABDPBT Personal Finance, ABDPBT Tech, and ABDPBT Commodity Fetishism versions at your leisure as well. If you have any posts that were great that I missed, please send me an email and I’ll check it out before next week.
This article from the National Post lampoons Dooce (along with other bloggers) as a hipster parent, despite (as she said on Twitter) the fact that she lives in the suburbs and drives a Mini van. Perhaps hipster is a state of mind? I don’t know. But it was a funny article, all the same. I have to admit I’m worried about Dooce et al., though, with all the turmoil, and the Dr. Phil show, and now that she’s hard-selling t-shirts on Twitter. Are ad sales down? Wasn’t her book a New York Times bestseller? Is Jon going to have to go back to work? I don’t know. I’m going to stay tuned, though, despite myself.
I thought about doing some muckraking regarding the ironically titled Broad Summit that took place last weekend, but muckraking is hard work, emotionally speaking, and to be honest, I didn’t quite have room for it this week. Here is a recap from one of the event’s organizers. I encourage you to go over and share your thoughts on this event as a model for blogging get-togethers. It sounds like it was lots of fun, though the sponsorship and exclusivity of invitations still trouble me a bit. Perhaps you can lend a new perspective.
Just Like The Number Where 2+2=Six. A blog about life in the family Six, party of four.
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ONLINE DATING CHRONICLES
Sure, I eventually met my husband, Mr. Right-Click, through online dating. But not before I had dated nearly one hundred of Los Angeles' least suitable bachelors. Laugh along in my Online Dating Chronicles.
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MUCKRAKING
Sometimes I like to muckrake. You can read about it here. Oh, and here too. Listen, if I don't do it, that muck will just keep piling up until we have to call a roto-rooter. So really, you should thank me. You're welcome.
LISTS
You know, you slave away at blog posts day after day, you try to write fiction, you try to provide interesting social commentary, but at the end of the day, they come for the lists. Check out List Mondays to see what all the hullabaloo is about, because I sure as hell cannot explain it.
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This is where I post stuff that I think is cool. Maybe you will think it's cool, too.
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LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles is where I was born and raised. I always thought I'd leave, but for some reason I never did. Sometimes, I like it here. Other times, I'm not so sure. But good or bad, it has made me who I am.
Sometimes I take the melodrama of my life and twist and turn it until it looks almost charming. I do this because I want you to like me:
Cigarettes & Green Felt: This is about the time I figured out that adults were mostly full of shit.
Assburger: It's not just a disorder on the autism spectrum: it's also one of your relatives!
On Truth: Sometimes somebody will say something and it hurts your feelings. And then you will write a story about it and your aunt will call it "phenomenal." Everyone else will try to pretend like it never happened.
The Sheer And Unmitigated Power of Bob Mould: Sometimes you spend your formative years obsessed by an unrequited teenage crush, and then one day you realize that person is now an orthopedic surgeon who lives in your neighborhood. It kinda sucks when that happens.
Ben From Madera: For one Halloween, Ben dressed up like a bee, like that kid in the Blind Melon video. That's how I will always remember him.
Mr. Right-Click
He is my best friend, even if he uses a PC. And the fact that sometimes he will pretend to be a "Pancake Pirate" is only part of the reason. Arrrr!
Mini
His cutie-pie percentile group is off the charts.
Spinning
If you think this is just about exercise, then you have underestimated how wildly inappropriate people can be when they undergo physical pain in a group setting.
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