Two New Blogs

Celebs and Media

I read today that Microsoft just added its own blog service.

Jump. The. Shark.

It sort of reminds me of when Geocities was bought up by Yahoo.

However, with that said and recognizing that I often contradict myself without noticing, I still havent lost my blogbug. I discovered last night that two people who I digitally respect a great deal have added my humble blog to their sites. They’re two highly creative people I met off of GAB and have met without the avatar of Dead Robot.

Ladies first: Uncle Al was the man behind the icons when GAB started. Mostly he writes about meat, which is good. And music. Which goes with meat. Mostly. The rest of his site is a site to see. The man is a Wacom tablet god.

And then there’s Dawn’s Brain, a freelance designer documenting various foibles and adventures in the crazy koo-koo world of going out on your own. So far she’s written some pretty insightful stuff (I smell “Freelance Design for Dummies” in the works!) and throws in a human element of self doubt to make it racy and a good read.

You’ve all read the stories of people meeting online and being weirded out by the actual live-meet. No different here. I remember walking away from the handshake-say-hi with Uncle Al like I had just been spit on by a rock star, and didnt care…he acknowledged me! And the first time I met Dawn I was suprised at her gentle attitude (she would talk to people on the streetcars) and whipcrack smarts.

Good people brought together by the warming radiation of our monitors.

9 thoughts on “Two New Blogs”

  1. Anonymous

    I have lost the Black Eagle web contract (still do posters…for now) to some upstart that snuck in under my trip wire and now is considered the webmaster/promotions manager. Visitors to that site will notice two things: BRIGHT colours all over the calendar (yeah thats fitting for a leather bar) and bizzare, non-validated code made by your fave program, Dreamweaver.

    So I have asked to be taken off the link section. That dog’s breakfast is no son of mine!

    I should post more to your Tina Fey Scar page, Nuts.

  2. Jim

    I’m pretty happy that I’m beating out bearprofiles.com with referrals to you.

    You’re going DOWN, Blackeagle!

    So to speak.

  4. Evil Panda

    I go through the same thing on a daily basis.

    I had a Blog, but let it lapse over a year ago. Maybe I’ll start one…

  5. Anonymous

    I’d love to see EP’s blog.

    We three should start a site of disgruntal Graphic Designers blog.

    I am brewing up an entry of “Micro Hover Designing” where the owner of the company I work for barks at me: “Make it blue! No Red! No Blue! Now print it! Not the right Blue! Dont care if its for screen!” for two hours solid.

  8. Dawn Pedersen

    “Let us all bask in the monitor’s warm glowing warming glow.” –paraphrased Homer
    Simpson.

    You say some awful nice stuff there. You, on the other hand, are one of the funniest damned people I’ve ever met, and I wish you lived closer to me (You know my love of stalking gay men.)

    By the way, I only talk to starngers on the streetcar to impress strangers from the Internet.

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