Terminalcoffee discussion

Hey Y'all,

Do you read any good blogs that are updated daily or near-daily that might be appropriate to show my freshman in the fall? I'm looking for something near-professional that might be good for them to study a bit as an "online writing mode".

What is near-professional? (Seriously, I don't get it.)

Sally, most of the blogs I know about that are kept up-to-date are pretty professional, but here are a few of them:

Big A little a: Children's Books, Writing, and Life -
http://kidslitinformation.blogspot.com/

Read Roger: The Horn Book editor's rants and raves- http://www.hbook.com/blog/

Precocious Curmudgeon: Spending too much time on comics, then talking too much about them - http://precur.wordpress.com/

Worth the Trip: queer books for kids and teens - http://worththetrip.wordpress.com/

Or there's always Randomanthony's, but you should ask permission from him before you tell your students about it - http://randomanthonyreturns.blogspot....

Kate Harding's Shapely Prose - a friend of a friend... good stuff - well-constructed page, gets LOTS of feedback from readers


Poetry & Blindfolds: The Vincent Truman Blog - "...expressive blogs that are as humor-filled as they are analytical. Not prone to absolutes in his assessment of the human condition, philosophy, religion or life in general..." - also a friend of a friend, thought-provoking, irreverent, funny

Ooooo, thanks guys! I'm excited to read that comics blog, especially.

Mindy, IDK. Sometimes my fingers seem to be operating on auto pilot.

OK, but I know some cool blogs, I just don't know what counts as professional or not or in b/w... Is it like professional writers, like they get paid for it?

Mine. Kidding...

No, not that they get paid for it.

Actually, what I need is someone who posts often, preferably on topics regarding pop culture, and who has lots of comments which need to be nearly moderated.

The AV club's bloggists are similar to what I have in mind.

Oh, just thought of another one:

Let's Fold Scarves (about books, feminism, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among other things) - http://www.moley75.co.uk/category/books/

And there are links to other blogs towards the bottom of the page, that include blogs such as this one:

Everything's Swirling: mostly wittering on about music, but also film, television, politics adn other idle nonsense - http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/

Pam's House Blend ROCKS the LGBT blogosphere:

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/

The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend:
"a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."

He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior." (CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)

*heehee*

The Blue Collar Scientist died last year, but his blog is still up and I loved it:

http://bluecollarscientist.com/

And Skepchick is just the shit:

http://skepchick.org/blog/

I read Matty's blog like a fanboy...

:)

What's your blog address, Matt?

www.lentettriste.blogspot.com

Ok just caught up on this thread, I'll have to check out Matt's blog!

Anyway, my favorite gossip blog has the best blind items and every 6 months he does reveals. This one is amusing:

This A+++ lister from days gone by was an Academy Award nominee/winner? and no one will have any doubts he was an A lister. Anyway, back in the day, this actor was also the man you turned to when LSD was just making its way into Hollywood. Everyone wanted to try it and this actor was about the only person who could supply it. It is said he used it almost everyday from the time he first tried it. That could explain why he didn't work much, if at all after first trying it, despite being in his earning years still. He was once married to a C list actress who has one of the most remarkable true life experiences ever.

Hahaha, it's Cary Grant, and Betsy Drake who survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria, and not only that, but rescued by the Ile de France, which is the boat she sailed when emigrating to America as a child. And when asked about Grant being gay, she replied someting to the effect she didn't know because they were "too busy fucking all the time.

*ahem*

A really good blog belongs to this guy:

The Suburban Guerilla

He looks a lot like me, for some reason.

Matt, I've perused your blog through your posts on RA's blog. It's really v. good. Both you fellas have great blogs.

Gus, my ONLY complaint about yours - you need to write more often. WAY more often.

EDIT: Holy crap, Gus! The link to your blog is NOT the one I have saved to my favorites (which only had one post). :) You seem to have LOTS more posted to this link. I think I'll save it to my faves instead. HOORAY.

I know I need to write more. In fact, I'm writing something right now. I just seem to be a bit more busy than usual these days.

http://badcoverversion.wordpress.com/...

This is my friend Elizabeth's blog on music and feminism and stuff. It's not updated as frequently as it used to be, now that she's a doctor of ethnomusicology. Teaching rock & roll.

'Cause feminism rocks. And rolls!

:)