Links to fun things

I'm usually not one to make a post just of links to other stuff (I'm sure there's a word for blogs like that, but I don't know it); I wanted this to be an original content-rich type of thingie, but sometimes I just can't help myself.

My friend - um, let's call her Jeanne, 'cause I can't remember if she uses her real name or not - recently attended Lebowski Fest in lovely Seattle and looks to have had a great time. Her awesome, awesome blog recounts her wonderful times here, here, here and here (she met the Dude, dude. The Dude).

Also tonight, I perused many of the blogs that were nominated for the 2007 Bloggies - some of my already favorites were nominated, such as BoingBoing, PostSecret (which won for best blog, and has in the past as well - if you don't read this on a weekly basis you are truly missing out), Gizmodo and Say No to Crack. I was surprised that not a peep was heard of What Would Tyler Durden Do?, as it is the only kind of celebrity news I can stomach; I guess there are others out there, too (see here and here, if you want - I know the latter is a favorite of Ms. Savage Cats, former classmate and still friend via the magic of the internets - and by the way, I meant no disrespect by that whole 'blogs who post links' thing earlier. You do it really well. Better than anyone I've ever met.).


If there's any sports fans amongst my reader (who I imagine I can count on two hands - maybe), I would highly recommend The Brushback - an Onion-like site that will make you laugh. I wish I could be more eloquent here, but give me a break, ok? It's funny.

And finally, a word from the grand old man of American poetry, Walt Whitman:

Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
Just as much whence we come that blare of the cloud-trumpets,
We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out
before you,
You up there walking or sitting,
Whoever you are, we too lie in drifts at your feet.

As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life, 1860