My top 40 blogs and a few other things

[cleolinda]

The bad news: I pinched my finger in the screen door this morning and it bled and it still hurts and ow, and now I have an epic migraine.

The good news: I wrote 3300 words today, woot.

PC Mag's top 100 blogs for 2007. The ones that I read: Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, Post Secret, Lifehacker (sometimes), Go Fug Yourself (obviously), Gawker (well, I keep an eye on headlines from the Gawker-Defamer-Jezebel trifecta), Comics Curmudgeon, AdFreak (hi, David!), Boing Boing, ohnotheydidnt (well, I skim the headlines. The comments will make you beat your head against a wall) and, of course, Cute Overload. Actually, you know what? I'll give you my essential daily reading. Not all the blogs on my RSS reader; just the essentials. I'd say I'm giving away my linkspam secrets, but it's not like y'all can't already tell which blogs I read just from the links themselves. In alphabetical order:

Boing Boing
Bookslut
Brass Goggles
Bridge to the Stars
cap_it
Cinematical
CNN (various feeds)
Coming Soon
The Costumer's Guide*
Cute Overload
dduane
Defamer/Gawker/Jezebel**
Dooce
Entertainment Weekly (various feeds)
Fandom Wank (and other wank comms)
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
Go Fug Yourself
I Can Has Cheezburger
IGN Filmforce
John August's blog
John Scalzi's blog
keira_daily
The Leaky Cauldron
Making Light
Married to the Sea***
MSNBC (various feeds)
MTV Movies Blog (surprisingly good)
Narniaweb
Neil Gaiman's blog
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
Penny Arcade
Post Secret (Sundays)
Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books
Snopes
theferrett
trailer_spot
ursulav
USAToday (various feeds)
Wondermark
xkcd

* Does not actually have a feed; I have Watch That Page track it instead.
** Jezebel is my favorite of the three; it's far more feminist. Also, they have Crap Emails from a Dude, which I love.
*** Doesn't have a feed, either. I'd check it a lot more often if they did, even though I know it updates daily. Also, I kind of liked it better when the artwork was more Victorian.

So that's my top 40 (I counted: it just happened to be forty) feeds that are actually on my reader (with a couple of exceptions that I check manually). Google Reader says I actually have 173 feeds total, but that's the cream of the crop, in essence: some writers, some movies, some comics, some gossip. And also some hard news, so I'm not completely ignorant of the world.

Linkspam! And not all that much today, for some reason.

High seas mystery full of twists.

Several U.S. cities snapping over baggy pants.

Via Making Light: The Plagiarism Drinking Game.

Bill Waterson reviews the new Charles Shulz bio.

Supercat!

Box Office Report: ''Why Did I Get Married?'' a surprise No. 1.

Rowling calls first book tour in 7 years a ‘treat’; J.K. Rowling Talks Hogwarts Encyclopedia and More; More shots of Slughorn's house.

Golden Compass Trading Cards.

Over at The Costumer's Guide: New set pics from Keira Knightley's The Duchess. Mmm, ten-foot hair.

Whedon reacts to Fox shutting down Buffy sing-a-longs.

Eli Roth's 'Trailer Trash' to Hit Theaters This August.

Twisted Pictures' Take on Fatal Attraction is Coming.

Look Who's Auditioning for the 'Justice League' Movie.

Halle Berry’s ‘Nefertiti’ Will Have ‘Epic Quality’ To It.

Hackford Directing Mirren and Pesci in Love Ranch. Sometimes, I see headlines like this in my nightmares.

Comments

Quick question about HDM

[cosette-esk.livejournal.com]

After reading some of the comments on your Golden Compass guide (I love spoilers) I was wondering if these books might... weird me out? I started reading The Golden Compass and I really like it but some of the stuff people we're saying, about the daemon touching (and Will touching Pan, if that's like sex and they're 13 then I'm slightly creeped out)and "god" being evil or something seemed a bit strange for a "children's book" (it's in the children's section). I'm not religious but my parents are and I'm kind of wary of religion bashing because NON-religion bashing was what made me not so into it in the first place. I'm going to keep reading them anyway. Just wanting to hear people's thoughts.

Re: Quick question about HDM

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah... forget "like sex," there's an extremely vague fade-to-black type moment in addition that a lot of people interpret as sex (I do too, because I honestly can't figure out what it's there for otherwise). As for the religious issue... it sounds a lot more controversial than it really is, if you look at it. Basically, "The Authority" and the archangel Metatron are bad, but I want to say that it's said or implied that The Authority isn't the real God anyway, and by the end of the last book, they're still working towards "the Republic of Heaven." It's anti-church, but not anti-religion per se. Also, it's more of a young adults book than children's, which can make a big difference in the content--PG-13 instead of G/PG, for example.

Re: Quick question about HDM

[cosette-esk.livejournal.com]

Thanks for clearing that up, I really didn't want it to turn into something weird when I've liked so much of what I've already read. :)