Being a Sepia Mutiny blogger there is one thing I feel guilty about. With this post I am going to try and absolve myself of some of that guilt. It pertains to our blog roll. You know, that list of blogs we have links to in the right hand column of our page. Many of you who are bloggers ask us all the time to add your site to our roll. Our policy is explained in our FAQ:
Q: Can you please add my blog to the sidebar?
A: Send us your Web address, and we’ll take a look. We add the blogs we love, are addicted to and read daily.
We honestly aren’t trying to be blog snobs, it’s just that we feel in order that our readers take us seriously we only include blogs that at least one of us regularly reads and can personally vouch for. It’s like the mob. If we vouch for a site that we really don’t know, then we leave ourselves open to being shot by our co-bloggers. It’s all very Donnie-Brascoesque here in mutinous North Dakota. The best way I find new blogs is when one of you leave a very interesting comment and I click on the link to your name.
I just wanted to give a shot out to some blogs that I am starting to read, and others that belong to dedicated SM tipsters/commenters that may have some promise.
(1) Chocolate & Gold Coins, Michael Higgins- Any blog with the word “chocolate” in the name is a winner. He also sends us good tips.
(2) Punjabi Boy– Really, need I say more?
(3) Currylingus– I think that is my favorite blog name EVER. Neha makes me laugh any time I visit her site. And she’s cute.
(4) Kush Tandon– The guy is definitely lacking in charm 
but he is the only person that visits this blog that knows as much isotopic geochemistry as me.
(5) Desis for Texas– That powerhouse Mimosa has teamed up with Dheeraj to give a kick to this new blog.
(6) arZan sam wadia– This guy has sent us a bazillion tips and I don’t think we’ve used a single one. Ever. You have to give him an A for effort though.
(7) www.CrayonPeople.com– This is a new news aggregator that links to articles pertaining to people of color. It looks promising already.
(8) Dippu– This guy is both obnoxious AND a fundamentalist. I am only listing him here to get him off our backs and to store up some good karma.
(9) Ananthan– Always leaves good comments
(10) DesiDudeinAustin– If I find out that he’s not from Austin (where I have many fond memories from) I am going to take him off this list.
(11) Sluggo- He doesn’t have a blog but this is my not-so-subtle hint that he should start one.
(12) DesiDancer- See #11
(13) dhaavak– This is the most boring blog EVER. EVER. Perhaps that is why I am drawn to it like a car wreck.
(14) The Life and Times of Chai– The BlogHer conference made her famous.
(15) Maisnon– Her blog entry about her first Barbri class is the stuff of internet legends. And she’s a sweetheart.
(16) Bong Breaker– NOTHING yet but the IPO rumors are swirling.
I know I am forgetting several of you. Forgive me please. I am counting on my co-bloggers to fill in the blanks. Before any of us blogged for SM we each had our own individual blogs. We STILL do in fact. I miss blogging on my personal blog terribly. I could be so free there. It’s like when you live alone and can just come home and walk around naked. You can’t do that at SM. Anyways, I feel less guilty now. Like I said, if you want people to visit your blog you should leave good comments on the blogs you visit.
blush.. y’er cute. hugs and kisses. x0x0
For starters, how about more.
Oh yeah? Can you tell me what the papers by Patterson 1956 and Allegre et. al 1995 are about? 🙂
I hate to say that once for months, Claude Allegre had his visiting office in the same corridor where my office was.
I would rather not say more.
I am not a geochemist but pretty close.
Kush
lithium isotopes of the rivers.
They are the two classically cited papers about the age of the Earth.
p.s. I know you were joking 🙂
Oh, well. Then Allegre has worked on everything.
Guys like me put stock in Brent Darlympe. He lives in Corvallis. He recently got “Freedom Medal” (highest civilian honor) for geochronology.
These days, his full time passion is fighting ID guys.
FYI, My name is not Dippu- that’s the name of the dog my family used to own in Kerala. It was unfortunately poisoned by some angry neighbors of ours.. something about us being too “obnoxious” Hopefully you folks wont be too put off by my thending for links.. :\
Anna, btw, if you are reading this, thendi is a pretty bad word in malayalam- you should ask your mother about this. Call her a thendi and see what happens.
aww..now I’ll have to find a faculty posiion at the Austin Community College.
Dude, I don’t care how obnoxious your family is or how fundamentalist you are. Poisoning dogs is totally wrong.
Re: the post: So . . .many. . .blogs. .so . . .little. . .time. . .Must. . .get. . .rss. . .installed. . .in .. .spine.
(j/k! don’t shoot me!)
hey, hey. I put the fun back in fundamentalist.
Thanks Dude!!
I have been bigged up by a man who has met a man who has walked on the moon!!
I vote for pix of Abhi walking around the North Dakota HQ naked. It might make up for all the pix of half-nekkid women that get gratuitous FPPs. And then he could feel free again.
The latest episode of Punjabi Boy has just been published!
Featuring the first in a regular series called the RATE DESI BABE OF THE WEEK
Check it out!
Bookmark it!
Dont forget it!
Thanks for the shout-out, Abhi! 🙂
My blog is boringus maximus right now as I am in selling my house/moving across the country hell.
oh dear god, let’s not get any ideas for theming the next meet-up!
HAHA! Thanks to BlogHer and Dooce!
Hi Abhi I am honored that you have chosen my blog for such special recognition. This is a very nice birthday present, (yes, it’s today).
I should say that I am an economist with a special interest in India and the Indian economy but I also blog about general stuff from an economist’s point of view.
riiiiight. so…it’s a pretty bad word…but i should call my mother that, just to see what happens. no, you’re not obnoxious at ALL. :p why don’t you call YOUR mom that and blog about it on dippu.com? that works for me.
Why that’s rather charming of you old bean, I was saving my “ADD ME! ADD ME!” email till after I had actually put something up. But never you fear, it will deliver. And then some.
That is almost certainly a lie.
But I’m awash with ideas, I keep jotting them down instead of revising.
On another note, I think it’s so cool how most blogs’ comments have the facility to have your name as your own link. It’s such a smart idea, whoever thought of it. Essentially a viral spread. So many interesting people, so little time.
On the flipside, WAAAY too many boring plonkers with blogs out there too. Why do so many people write about themselves? Unless you’re interesting, I don’t want to know about dinner with Jonny or rackets with Mary.
abhi
Thanks for the listing.
U did use one of my “bazillion” tips…..the “Who killed netaji one” !!
Another thing that bugs me, which I shall be sure to mention in my boring blog are blogs that contain the following words in their title or tagline:
Musings Random thoughts Ramblings The Chronicles of… Story
All that just means “I don’t have anything to write about”
The one link in your list I’m not fond of is “Crayon People.” Their links are good, but it’s a little too label-fixated for my taste.
I prefer not to think of myself as a “crayon person” but a person person.
PS – ‘HERstory’ is not a title containing ‘Story’. So I’m scot-free here, no retribution from Anna’s sizeable fanbase please! Now I really must do something constructive. Ah look! Sudoku!
Yes, Arzan, and they’d use more if the tips actually had a desi angle. (Though to be fair, they occasionally do.)
That goes for any tip-sender, by the way. You wouldn’t send political tips to Sports Illustrated would you??
bongsi, i hadn’t even thought of it. it’s a feminist play on “history”, anyway. 😉
i share your revulsion to all of those and a few more. now that the blogging’s been around for a few years, “ramblings from my crazy mind”, “rants, raves and reviews” and “my thoughts/musings/typed diarrhea on life” ain’t sparkling and new. sheesh.
what sizeable fanbase? pffft. 😀
Ouch. I like my blog title. 🙂 -The Mad Blogger
Was it a reference to history or ‘HIStory’? I’ve got this whole mental image that you moonwalk, so don’t ruin it. Fanbase? Well I’ve never seen people post under the moniker of Abhi-lover or Manish-fan, but the Anna- prefix keeps cropping up!
Sure, why not? When Jesse Ventura makes a plea at the Golden State’s senate to approve a $100 million funding for a museum dedicated to Arnie, who do ya think should cover that??
currylingus.
wow.
I might have a girlcrush based on one word.
Abhi, very cool of you to make room on this list for me. Currylingus thanks and spanks you and all crew. May your mutiny grow and may North Dakota never turn into a dry state.
Cicatrix, what a coincidence! I might have a girlcrush based on one thing too, a left eye 🙂
sigh
I was getting a boycrush (meaning what a cool chick! just like a girlcrush but I’m male) on currylingus but now that a girl has one, I give way
here’s a blog you should have:
http://newsinlimerick.blogspot.com/
jeesus this post is such masturbation
Yeah, your readers miss that too(nudge, nudge). 😉
Happy New Year!
patti thendi chette