Figures... no fun links, so I'll talk blogs

So I start a blog to showcase some of the wacky things that I've come across during the day, and nothing comes my way for a while. Oh well. Of course as soon as I publish this entry I'll find all sorts of oddness. I haven't been to Fark in a while - that's usually a good source but it's so easy to get sucked in and then I'll be reading all day long.

I'm fairly new to the whole blog scene. There are only a few that I check in with on a regular basis. Mostly friends old blogs (although she doesn't do it anymore apparently - oh well).

I came across New York Hack on the AP wires a few weeks ago, and I love it. It's written by a female NYC cab driver. She talks about traffic, Jersey Drivers, and the idiots she encounters on a nightly basis. Nothing is candy coated. It makes me laugh. While I love New York City, it's reputation as of late has been a little candy coated. Everything is pictured as rosy & bustling. I find it refreshing to see first hand accounts that there are still a vast number of idiots left in the city. That's what makes New York the greatest city in the world!

I also get a kick out of reading the James St. James Report. James was one of the original Club Kids that were a mainstay of the NYC Club scene in the late 80's & early 90's. He & his cohorts would dress outrageously and go to the clubs to see & be seen. Not that I ever made it to a club to see first hand. While I loved dance music, the whole drug & club scene was not my thing. But I do find myself fascinated by the stories. James wrote a book about his experiences and the resulting clubland murder called Disco Bloodbath, which was later turned into a movie called Party Monster starring Macauley Culkin & Seth Green (not to be confused with the documentary of the same name, but same general idea). I get a kick out of the movie. I dunno, it draws me in every time. It's sad to see how drugs can twist a person's mind. All in all, it was a scene that I'm glad not to be a part of, but it's interesting to watch. So James is a rather flamboyant writer and it's always fun to see what he is up to.

Another fun site I like to check in with is PostSecret. The blogger, Frank Warren, asks that ordinary people send them a postcard with a secret on it. They he posts a few every week. It's fascinating to have a little window into other people's dark sides. Some are rather innocuous, while others are rather painful & sad. As the USA Today article points out, "For many readers, PostSecret is a deliciously addictive fusion of old tech (snail mail) and new tech (the Internet) that produces something never seen before." Good point.

The last blog I'm posting here today is Daily Depeche, which links to a number of different Depeche Mode sites & links. Hubby just found it yesterday, but I think I'll have to check it out fairly often - they have some cool things listed.