James Lileks, except he’s decided to take April off.
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/ 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/ 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 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 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 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/ Wall Street Journal arts writer Terry Teachout’s site.
http://sarahweinman.com/ Mystery reviewer Sarah Weinman’s site
Snark
http://www.comicscurmudgeon.com/ Comics Curmudgeon eviscerates newspaper comic strips, especially “Mary Worth” “Apartment 3-G” and “Rex Morgan, M.D.”
http://defamer.com/ Defamer is an L.A.-based gossip site
http://www.gawker.com Gawker, a N.Y.-based gossip site
http://www.gofugyourself.com Women who love fashion tear apart badly dressed celebs
http://maddox.xmission.com/ Rude, crude and funny personal Web page.
http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/ Sometimes rude, crude and funny site
http://queryletters.blogspot.com/ Unbelievably bad movie proposals
http://www.sploid.org/Hot new rival to Drudge Report. Stories with tabloid-style headlines
http://nytimesweddings.blogspot.com/ Pretentious weddings as reported in the New York Times Sunday section ripped to shreds
General Interest
http://www.englishcut.com/ A Saville Road tailor gives us the inside scoop on bespoke men’s suits
http://www.goldenfiddle.com/ General gossip site
http://www.instapundit.com AKA the Blogfather. Start your surfing here
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/ Excellent general commenter
http://www.onemansafari.blogspot.com/ One Man Safari posts just pictures, but what pictures! Music links as well.
http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/ Luxo focuses on news by, about and from Pixar
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/ This Fish Needs A Bicycle: Very cute young New Yorker writes about her life and relationships. If I were younger …
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
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!”
There’s more than politics and entertainment out there. Here are some fascintating science blogs:
The Esoteric Science Resource Center (general science info and snark)
The Panda’s Thumb, an anti-creationism site
The Loom The blog of Carl Zimmer, a science writer who mostly discusses evolution
I’m Stuck in Rehab With Pat O’Brien is a pretty hilarious blog.
The Pat O’Brien from Access Hollywood and such, who recently checked himself into rehab.
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.