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September 15, 2007
Curiouser blogs, and blogrolls
Blog for a lazy Saturday: Curious Expeditions, "devoted to unearthing and documenting the wondrous, the macabre, and the obscure from around the globe... We are D and M, a gentleman and gentle lady who were living normal lives, decided to give it all up and ride narwhals into the sunset."
Illustration from "Naměsíc a ještě dál",
which translates to "Farther Than the Moon."
Along the way, they show us plates from the 1931 Czech children's book above, lead us to crosses in bottles of Serbian brandy (and from there to more Impossibottles) and flip us to Flickr for a large version of the mummified head of St. Catherine of Siena, and much more.
This blog is a smart grownup's replacement for Saturday afternoon Creature Features, delights of the right brain.
And their blogroll is a useful portal to blogs you might like if you're intrigued here.
Blogrolls are endangered. Read the discussion -- More blog, less roll -- at Doc Searls' new Harvard hang. The applause for white space and splendid isolation makes me squirm uncomfortably.
I regret the dust bunnies and shrunken heads of my own blogroll. Linking is a generous way to participate in and extend the Web, and I hope soon to replace this archaic relic with blogs that feel intelligently alive to me now, each in a different way.
But the busy part of this weekend is about to begin, full of events that will climax in a family gathering around the TV for the Patriots-Chargers game Sunday night.
Journal Food Editor Gail Ciampa and I have been stocking the new Football Food & Spirits blog with recipes. You're invited to contribute to this cookbook in the making. If you whip up a winner for the folks you feed, please consider letting the rest of us try your recipe.
Posted by Sheila Lennon
at 5:14 PM | Permalink
The biggest problem we're having right now on Web Urbanist is that there is a group of us ... and we're worried about collectively deciding who would go onto the blogroll :/
Posted by: Urbanist on September 15, 2007 7:55 PM
That's part of it. People you leave out, or drop, will feel bad.
Posted by: Sheila on September 15, 2007 11:17 PM