# What are some good blogs to read? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574 "2005-04-03T22:07:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574/21 "2005-04-11T02:30:40Z")
[James Lileks](http://www.lileks.com), except he’s decided to take April off. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574/22 "2005-04-11T03:35:40Z")
Sites? You want sites? I’ll give you sites… This list is culled from my blog. It’s much longer, so I cut it down to the ones I read regularly. I especially recomment the “Snark” blogs. **Writers and Books** [http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/](http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/) Lee’s a former producer of the “Diagnosis: Murder” TV series. He currently writers books based on the series and just signed a contract to do books based on “Monk.” He’s interesting to read. [http://www.eridine.com/blog/](http://www.eridine.com/blog/) Laurell K. Hamilton writes two best-selling series, one about vampire hunter Anita Blake, and an Elvish series that’s best left undescribed (check Amazon). [http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com](http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com) Lynn Viehl has written 25 books under five pennames and holds forth on her work and other book and publishing issues. [http://www.scalzi.com/whatever](http://www.scalzi.com/whatever) John Scalzi’s site. Funny man and author of “Old Man’s War,” which I called in a review “the best Heinlein book Heinlein never wrote.” [http://www.journalscape.com/keithsnyder](http://www.journalscape.com/keithsnyder) Renaissance man: mystery novelist, experimental musician and filmmaker. He’s blogging about his current short movie “Credo” (about God and stuff like that) on another site. [http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/](http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/) Wall Street Journal arts writer Terry Teachout’s site. [http://sarahweinman.com/](http://sarahweinman.com/) Mystery reviewer Sarah Weinman’s site **Snark** [http://www.comicscurmudgeon.com/](http://www.comicscurmudgeon.com/) Comics Curmudgeon eviscerates newspaper comic strips, especially “Mary Worth” “Apartment 3-G” and “Rex Morgan, M.D.” [http://defamer.com/](http://defamer.com/) Defamer is an L.A.-based gossip site [http://www.gawker.com](http://www.gawker.com) Gawker, a N.Y.-based gossip site [http://www.gofugyourself.com](http://www.gofugyourself.com) Women who love fashion tear apart badly dressed celebs [http://maddox.xmission.com/](http://maddox.xmission.com/) Rude, crude and funny personal Web page. [http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/](http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/) Sometimes rude, crude and funny site [http://queryletters.blogspot.com/](http://queryletters.blogspot.com/) Unbelievably bad movie proposals [http://www.sploid.org/Hot](http://www.sploid.org/Hot) new rival to Drudge Report. Stories with tabloid-style headlines [http://nytimesweddings.blogspot.com/](http://nytimesweddings.blogspot.com/) Pretentious weddings as reported in the New York Times Sunday section ripped to shreds **General Interest** [http://www.englishcut.com/](http://www.englishcut.com/) A Saville Road tailor gives us the inside scoop on bespoke men’s suits [http://www.goldenfiddle.com/](http://www.goldenfiddle.com/) General gossip site [http://www.instapundit.com](http://www.instapundit.com) AKA the Blogfather. Start your surfing here [http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/](http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/) Takes apart Palestinian terror groups by quoting them directly. Ignore the comments, go for the news links. [http://www.nancynall.com/](http://www.nancynall.com/) Excellent general commenter [http://www.onemansafari.blogspot.com/](http://www.onemansafari.blogspot.com/) One Man Safari posts just pictures, but what pictures! Music links as well. [http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/](http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/) Luxo focuses on news by, about and from Pixar [http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/](http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/) Jaime Weinman blogs about musicals, TV Shows, animation DVDs and anything else he finds interesting. Great arts writing, that you won’t find anywhere else. [http://thisfish.com/](http://thisfish.com/) This Fish Needs A Bicycle: Very cute young New Yorker writes about her life and relationships. If I were younger … ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574/23 "2005-04-11T03:47:33Z")
My apologies to all for not noticing that the OP asked for politics-related sites. I’d delete the post if I could. Just call me a :wally ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574/24 "2005-04-11T13:11:04Z")
> [@pesch](#): > > S > [http://www.comicscurmudgeon.com/](http://www.comicscurmudgeon.com/) Comics Curmudgeon eviscerates newspaper comic strips, especially “Mary Worth” “Apartment 3-G” and “Rex Morgan, M.D.” I’ve become a fan of Apartment 3G because of Josh. Gotta love Margo’s reaction shots. “Generous? Generous? For the love of God, no!” ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574/25 "2005-04-11T13:35:12Z")
There’s more than politics and entertainment out there. Here are some fascintating science blogs: [The Esoteric Science Resource Center](http://www.livejournal.com/users/sclerotic_rings/) (general science info and snark) [The Panda’s Thumb](http://www.pandsthumb.org), an anti-creationism site [The Loom](http://www.corante.com/loom/) The blog of Carl Zimmer, a science writer who mostly discusses evolution ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574/26 "2005-04-11T20:08:15Z")
[I’m Stuck in Rehab With Pat O’Brien](http://stuckinrehabwithpatobrien.blogspot.com/) is a pretty hilarious blog. The Pat O’Brien from Access Hollywood and such, who recently checked himself into rehab. ---
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574/27 "2005-04-11T20:09:27Z")
[http://www.instapundit.com/](http://www.instapundit.com/) Instapundit has a great cross section of articles - and there is a very good listing of blogs on the right side of the page. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-blogs-to-read/297574.md?page=1)