For this week's column, we asked our writers what their favorite blogs are. Why? Because we are opening a side blog next week and talked turned to all things blogs and we thought, hey, why not pimp our favorites? Most are blogs, some are not, but that's ok because that's how a pimp rolls.

Travis:

Captain Smack
Queen of Dysfunction
Better Than Your Boyfriend

Dave:

I kinda hang at AceofSpadesHQ.
Lileks
Blackfive
Junkyardblog

Bonnie:

My favorite blog (read as: the only blog I read) ended with the beginning of FTTW!!! ASV!!! I was a blog virgin until ASV popped my cherry....(ed note: ASV just takes you to a link that takes you to here)

Seetwist:

XKCD.com (more of a web coming than a blog).
The Generator Blog is good for a few laughs.
Waxy.Org is good for links when I'm bored
Post Secret usually has some good stuff.

Philbrick:

It's already on the FTTW link page. My favorite blog is Hog on Ice. In fact, I discovered FTTW through Hog on Ice. I'm also a fan of Agent Bedhead. Without her I probably wouldn't know who the hell Pete Doherty is. I think that's a good thing...

Jim:

Baseball Think Factory and Crooks and Liars. And Drunkard for those who like libation.

Timmer:

Blogs I read almost every day, on days I read blogs:

Outside the Beltway (Politics and Current Events and a Great Caption Contest.)

Electric Venom (The wife/lawyer who's married to a prior Army Officer offers her opinions on life, food, love, education, American Idol, and anything else that might piss her off.)

Blackfive - (A prior Army Intelligence Officer and his crew make sure Soldier's voices are heard. Sometimes they're too right wing even for me, but their hearts are in the right place.)

The Shape of Days - (Slices of life served up fresh.)

The Llama Butchers (YIP YIP) - (I don't know how to describe them, but they make me smile.)

Dean's World - (A real liberal view. I'm sure Howard Dean hates them.)

Protein Wisdom - (Politics, current events, and a dancing armadillo on Fridays...sometimes...if he's up to it.)

Resurrection Song - (His name is Zombyboy, he's a natural.)

Lifehacker - (Computer shortcuts and cool stuff for Macs and PCs.)

Eject! Eject! Eject! - (Not really a blog...he writes really good essays...every now and then...but he's just revamped his site and has had new content almost every day for about a week...but take the time to read his essays.)

Pajiba - (Movies, movies, movies.)

The Daily Brief - (Where I got my real start with Stryker, Sgt Mom and the crew.)

There are others, but I wouldn't admit to them.

Deb:

Wil Wheaton – I first read just for novelty sake and then got pulled in for the love that is all things geeky, well that and my inner fangirl went SQUEEEE.

Argh Ink – Jennifer Crusie’s blog. Crusie rocks and is one of the reasons that I write in the romance genre. I want to be her when I grow up. (http://www.arghink.com/) You should specifically check out the entry about the latest literary device… THE GLITTERY HOO HAA

For Better or For Worse – I grew up with this “comic” strip, seriously! The characters have actually aged along with the strip. It makes me mad sometimes – mainly because I know that Lynn (the creator) is going to put Liz with Anthony because she has a bad habit of letting her characters end up with their first loves, but other than that it’s a great strip.

Paul:

Boing Boing
Engadget
MAKE: blog
Consumerist

Pat:

I don't read blogs. What's my favorite site, after FTTW? The Comics.com site, where I am a devoted fan of "9 Chickweed Lane".

Cullen:

Dean's World, Blank Forever, Wizbang! also: The Sheila Variations and The Bunny Blog

one of the blogs I'm currently enjoying most is: Chris's Invincible Super Blog (http://www.the-isb.com/). Fun stuff.

Another great blog, that I don't visit as often as I should, is Bad News Hughes. Although he updates infrequently, he is too damn funny.

Josh:

Waiter Rant
savage love
I Can Has Cheezburger?

Jo:

Halfbred Son - It's a blog/story about a man who is an immortal cursed to walk the earth for centuries. The stories tell about his life. I enjoy it very much.

Richard:

I've been reading Avitable for a while, it's a rather entertaining blog. Avitable is full of himself but self-deprecating, he makes himself the butt of the joke a lot of the time, which is actually pretty rare out there in Blogoland. I try to go by once a week, but you could make it a semi-daily; he updates often. Avitable has shown some of the sickest videos I have ever seen, has a pretty unique take on the standard memes he's done, he's done a few odd videos himself, but the most outstanding feature at avitable.com is the comments. Usually when a blog gets popular enough to get several dozen comments on every post, coughwaiterrantcoughdavebarry'sblogcough the comment section is little more than a lot of really cool people making inane comments, apparently just for the sheer joy of commenting at a popular blog. Avitable has a few of those too, but he also has quite a collection of colorful characters in his comment clique, you could easily enjoy a few other fine blogs by clicking around the sites of those whom comment there. No guarantees on that, of course. The other distinguishing feature at Avitable.com; he goes to the trouble of answering those comments. This is not only rare for the amount of comments received, but it also makes each post a sort of mini-forum, very cool.

I also go to Presurfer a few times a month. Gerard surfs the net so you don't have to, collecting all that's worthwhile in one place. If none of that does it for my boredom, I have always enjoyed the little mouse-control games you'll find at Ferryhalim.

Dan:

Larry Livermore, I went for the punk and stayed for the prolific commentary on more than a few interesting topics. Particularly racism. Especially racism. Very very little I disagree with when it comes to this guy. Just enough to keep me going. He started and used to run Lookout! Records; I emailed him a couple of times and he's Mr. Nice guy, and always eloquent. Not bad at all for a guy who just fucking broke 60 years old. Daily reading.

Weasel Manor, although Ben Weasel only updates when he feels like it. Bastid. Still a good read though. Ben is usually worth waiting for.

Dr. Frank's Whats-it, of course. Duh. Guy's a genius. Daily reading.

327 Words, written by a guy (an old friend of Larry Livermore's, that's how I found it) whose birthday is on March 27. So he decided to write 327 words a day for 327 days. He's a philosopher pothead cycle enthusiast, so that's 3 for 3. I'm in.

El Guapo In DC, He's Latino, Guatemalan in fact, he's the most guapo man in all of D.C., and he is the shit. Too funny.

Club Life, some blog about some asshole bouncer in some shitty club in Manhattan. The best part is that he calls himself an asshole and says that it's the idiot club frequenters that has jaded him so. And he's probably right, I mean holy shit, read some of the shit he has to put up with. But he's still a cantankerous bastid, God love em.

And waiter rant, of course. Hell.

Then my lunch break comes and I stop working.

Ian:

Some of my daily stops aren't actually blogs, but cartoons. XKCD is simple art with geek humor that I love - same with Cyanide and Happiness at Exlpolsm (click on "comics").

Other than that, I always stop by Scalzi for John Scalzi's daily dose of strange. He's an award winning sci-fi author and freelance writer who talks a lot about the business of writing. He also openly discloses how much money he makes in a year and from what sources "because somebody in this business has to talk about the money".

Michele:

I kind of miss the days when I had internet at work and could read blogs all day long. But those days are long over and my blog reading has suffered. Here's what I read when I have time:

100 word stories: A group of writers have a theme for the day and write a story in exactly 100 words on that theme. Readers encouraged to post their own. Oh yea, I write there. Though I've been in a drought lately.

Something I Learned - as the site says, punk rock and other assorted bullshit. Lots of podcasts and mp3s.

Strange Reaction - punk rock, podcasts, mp3s, and Scott writes neat stuff about all the cool stuff he posts. Sorry, it's been a long day and words fail me.

Positive Ape Index - Uber cool artist Coop struts his stuff. Lots of car blogging.

Journalista - Where I keep up on all things comics.

Buzzstuff - in a word, FUN.

Davezilla - this guy has been at it longer than me. That's a long time.

Other sites, already mentioned here: Dr. Frank, Sheila Variations, Blank Forever.....damn I need more hours in the day.

What are your favorite blogs? Got a blog? Pimp it, baby! We're going to be updating our links page soon and you want to be there!

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