Annotated
Blogroll
(an old-fashioned list of personal favourites - blogs and research links having to do
with memory and technology are listed on the blog proper)
Harvest
Bird
My poet laureate. If I could
write like her, I’d be doing it all the time and people would have to feed me
and bathe me (and sleep me).
Public
Address
A community of New Zealand
bloggers, captained by Russell
Brown: the blogfather, ‘Il miglior blogger’ (T.S. Eliot).
The
Fundy Post
The ineffable yet affable
Paul Litterick. Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle.
Author of my favourite year-end
post of 2008 and all-round terrific blogger.
Sit Down, Man, You’re a
Bloody Tragedy
The most literate, smartest
blog outside of Aotearoa. Has astonishing hair.
The most literate, smartest
blog outside of Aotearoa and the UK.
You can tell where this is going, don't you?
A community of New Zealand
feminist bloggers. Includes Deborah, of In a Strange Land most deserved
fame.
I have a thing for
self-explanatory blog titles. (Like the title of my blog, you know.)
Jake has a blog. Or does he?
Lots of high-quality mudgeonry.
Random sample from the current offering: "Tony Blair has consulted Lonely
Planet and found that Sierra Leone is "one of their top ten to visit in
2009". Better yet, you can fly there in six hours, thus helping to
preserve Tony's paradigm-busting, kaleidoscope-smashing legacy of helping the
little brown people while saving the little blue planet."
An American writer in London.
Remarkably, the blog is as good as its
title.
Accounts for 85% of the
country's output of political and historical bloggage. A national treasure.
Paul, like Deborah, is one of
the plants we have deployed in Aussie to keep an eye on our neighbours.
Spleen
The gentle and wonderful
Stephen Judd. In spite of the blog’s title, he vents very little.
Object
Dart
Che Tibby: He doesn’t like
Dickens or Philip Dick. Being employed in the public sector, he’s not allowed
to write about politics or policy. So why you would want to read his blog, is
beyond me.
Frugal
Me
Stephen and Che on how to
live within your means. Well, at least their means, I guess.
Jack Ross's blog about poetry
and writing.
Bronwyn Lloyd's craft blog.
Bronwyn and Jack also run the remarkable Pania Press.
Did I mention I have a thing
for self-explanatory blog titles?
Self-explanatory blog titles:
me like.
In between watching every
film commercially released in Wellington, Dan Slevin finds the time to take
issue with Fritz Lang and interview
Richard Jenkins. Not a bad gig, in other words.
Second
Sight
Philip Matthews’ film blog. This
entry will give you some idea.
Love is a Symbol
Merc’s art and poetry. Handle with care.
Woman Wandering
A New Zealand photographer in Europe.
Uroskin. Self-styled ‘member
of the scorched army whose rubric is sodomy’ - that must mean he has an agenda.
He’s also the reason why I
haven’t subscribed to Adsense yet.
No
Right Turn
Idiot/Savant knows his shit.
And his shit has mainly to do with New Zealand politics.
Fighting Talk
Lyndon Hood: political
animal, satirist, graduate.
A Pelt, a shrub, a soil
sample
Believe it or not, this person
travelled to the bottom to the page and decided to apply for inclusion in what
is quite possibly the least read blogroll on the planet. He reckoned it
couldn't hurt, but I bet it could actually syphon readers away from his blog.
Anyhow, he's a Christchurch poet and critic and seems nice enough. Part of me
wishes he had less hair.
Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry
Persistently funny, to the
point of annoyance.
If your blog is not on this
list and you’d like it to be included, emailing me
(making sure you include the URL) will do you absolutely no good whatsoever.