Linkage: KDramas, LJ Smith, knitting, race, manga, gender

[oyceter]

• desdenova has started to watch Damo! Whoo! I pet my shiny new obsession and beam as it spreads. Come on, people, make me feel better -- who else is out there watching kdramas?
  
  My current kdrama sources are meganbmoore, shewhohashope, rilina, vonnie_k, The Stack, Dramabeans, and of course d-addicts for information.


• For the other Sekrit LJ Smith fans out there, shewhohashope pointed me at this. New short stories! And a promise that Strange Fate is not dead yet.


• I'm not blogging about elections because most of the press surrounding them make me blow my top. Also, I assume everyone's already reading delux_vivens, but for those who aren't, she has been posting a lot of articles and links about Obama and race.


• Via rilina, who already highlighted Asia Pacific Arts' best music of 2007: best Asian films, best Asian-American films (I really want to see Munyurangabo now), best wordsmiths, and top 10 places to see Asian films in CA (most in Bay Area and LA). I'm just sad there aren't more in Bay Area and even more jealous of rachelmanija and her LA-ness.


• I've long been frustrated by the lack of visibility of non-East-Asian knitters of color in the knit blogosphere -- I'm sure POC knitters are there, but their blogs and designs and culture definitely get much less focus if they're not East Asian. So I was delighted when SistahCraft pointed out Black Purl Magazine and its venture into the print world.


• And David Welsh gives a wonderfully snarky tip sheet for journalists writing about women in comics. I hope they read it and actually listen.

I tend to forget that people don't read my mind and instantly realize what I'm reading; is anyone interested in knowing my blogroll? Also, since I can't telepathically figure out what you guys are reading, what are some of your favorite blogs?

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

The blogs I subscribe to are mostly humor/mockery blogs or cute/funny animal stuff, but there's some other stuff in there, too. I also have several web comics, which are not really "blogs", per se, but I shall include them anyway.

Mockery
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/index/)
I don't read romance novels, but I like their commentary on them, especially when they post bad book covers.
Claudia's Room (http://claudiasroom.blogspot.com/)
Mocking reviews of Babysitters' Club books.
The Dairi Burger (http://thedairiburger.wordpress.com)
Mocking reviews of Sweet Valley High.
Go Fug Yourself (http://gofugyourself.typepad.com)
Mocks celebrity fashion. You don't need to care about fashion to read it (I don't); they're always funny.
Lurid Digs (http://www.luriddigs.com)
NSFW! Mocks the decor (and sometimes the guys) of photos posted to gay dating/hookup websites.

Animals
I Can Has Cheezburger (http://icanhascheezburger.com)
lolcats
I Has a Hotdog (http://ihasahotdog.com/)
loldogs
lolsecretz (http://lolsecretz.blogspot.com)
Post secret with lolcats and other animals.
Cute Overload (http://cuteoverload.com)
Cute animal pics.

Other Humor
Dooce (http://dooce.com)
Can be pretty well summed up as "a neurotic woman writes humorously about her neurotic daughter and neurotic dog". She's very, very funny.
Because I Said So (http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/)
Another woman writing humorously about her kids. Not quite as funny or well-written as Dooce, but I enjoy it.

Other
Andrea's Buzzing About (http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/)
Autism and disability activism.
Language Log (http://languagelog.com)
Linguistics!
Candy Blog (http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/)
Reviews of all sorts of candy.

Webcomics
Dinosaur Comics (http://www.qwantz.com)
Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/)
Sinfest (http://www.sinfest.net)
The Perry Bible Fellowship (http://pbfcomics.com/)
XKCD (http://xkcd.com/)

[oyceter]

I love Go Fug Yourself, but I stopped reading them via Bloglines because they keep updating posts or something, so they would keep appearing.

Also, thanks for the link to Dairi Burger! They are doing LJ Smith stuff too, how awesome!

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never have that problem with Go Fug, but every so often Candy Blog gives me the last ten posts again, even though I already read them. Annoying.

And yeah, I like that Dairi Burger is reviewing other stuff, too. They had a series I totally forgot existed, Sleepover Friends, but I know I read quite a few of those.