Bryan Joiner

I read a lot of blogs, but I’ve made a command decision to stop reading blogs that aren’t by friends of mine. I just don’t see the point in reading a random person’s random thoughts, and this might be because my friends’ blogs pretty much cover everything I want to read about, aided by two new ones and one I’m just learning about:

My Checklist — 2009 things to do in 2009 by Ben

BizNass Review — the sublime, the absurd, and the sublimely absurd in hip-hop and pop culture from, the master, the Biz

Roby’s Intermittent Thoughts — I haven’t even written my college friend back to tell him I’ve started to read this, so don’t tell him yet, but this is a blog from a friend who’s a doctor now and it’s generally great. He just went to South Africa to work in a hospital.

These, of course, just supplement my normal roster:

Donkey Hottie — from Moacir, an English PhD student, and this can cover pretty much anything

Cleveland Frowns — sports, sports betting, political/social/philosophical stuff from Frownie

banana nutriment — esotericism from PTB

fivethirtyeight.com — a ragingly popular blog from N.R. Silver

Jeremy Blachman— inside L.A.’s TV and film industry, with writerly stuff

Mik Awake — A sample:

Hey, S–

Just wanted to let you know I had a really great time kicking it with you outside of work. One question though: why do you remind me of my mother so much?

BTW, I mean that as a compliment. A sexual compliment.

Curious,

M

The one exception to “I must know them”: the guys at Surviving Grady, the best Sox bloggers out there.

This is what I read. Links to be updated on the right correspondingly at some point

Company:	The Bryan Times
Position:	Reporter
Location:	Bryan, Ohio
Job Status:	Full-time
Salary:	$20,000 to $25,000
Ad Expires:	January 27, 2009
Job ID:	865289
Website:	http://bryantimes.com

Description:
This job requires a little bit of everything; court reporting, feature writing, layout skills and managing a small weekly newspaper. You’ll be expected to take photos and handle PR at the weekly which needs some TLC to improve its circulatin. We want somone who can do it all. Send resume, writing samples to teresa@bryantimes.com or Teresa M. Melcher, The Bryan Times, P.O. Box 471, Bryan, OH 43506. No phone calls.

I’m fairly sure GWB is not human.

A special Friday post that I had forgotten about, concerning that same ol’ show…

It’s a slow day…

Ryan Howard vs. Albert Pujols, argument of our times. Here.

Those clamoring for blog consolidation may get their wish soon

Me: What’s going on out there?
Cop: The president’s driving by.
Me: The current president?
Cop:Yeah, Bush. (Smiles.) He’s still got a little time left.
Me: I guess I should have known that it was Bush and not Obama by the fact that there is absolutely no crowd waiting for him.
Cop: (Starts laughing.) Yeah, that’s exactly right. If it was Obama we would actually have to do some massive crowd control.

Ah, the sad, lonely exit of George W. Bush.

Part II be up.

… to, among other things, read Mad Men’s America, Part I, a look at American politics and society in the age of P-E Obama, as seen through the TV show Mad Men.