I got nominated by Evn for an award. As if sending me shirts isn’t enough! But anyway, it comes with rules.
1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Link to the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs nominated.
There have been blog love memes that I’ve participated in before, so I’m trying to pick seven here that I never have done this with. But I’m going from memory so I might be wrong. So, here are seven blogs that I love in random order:
1. Shakesville: This is a big, famous blog that has been really instrumental in getting me to blog. It gives loves to little bitty bloggers like myself, and Melissa really celebrates the diversity of the blogosphere in a way that has taught me SO much. Feminism, politics, teaspoons, geekiness, OMG shoez.
2. Shapely Prose: I love Kate, with heaps of cuddly love. Also, I’ve learned so much from her about size acceptance. I mean, I had a sort of consciousness about being fat and loving myself, but she has pushed me hard into seeing the insidiousness of size hatred in its many forms.
3. Pandora’s Bazaar does the personal Pagan blog thing without being smarmy or squishy, which is kind of hard to do.
4. Felix Leiter.com: For the single-mindedness. This is what you call focus.
5. The Comics Curmudgeon makes me laugh very hard. Sometimes stuff comes out of my nose.
6. I Expect You to Die is probably the best James Bond blog that I don’t write.
7. Rich Sommer: The Blog is just the sweetest blog ever. Rich is a supporting actor on the show Mad Men, and blogs a little about acting and mostly about how cute his daughter is.
The idea of a blog named Felix Leiter simply cracks me up. But I Expect You to Die is also amusing and awesome. That current post up about For Your Eyes Only makes me want to watch it again right now for about the 35th time.
Although Pam’s House Blend may have been the first blog I ever visited, I think I’d have to say it was the old Shakespeare’s Sister blog which inspired me to start my own. And while PHB was probably the first I visited, SS was probably the same day. And almost all of my blog pals I met there.
There are more great blogs out there that I can name. I read PHB too, but I was trying to be more diverse; some feminist, some funny, some entertainment, some Pagan.