tales of an ordinary girl

I've neglected updating my blogroll again, but here are a few additions.

Black Sun Journal - Sean Prophet posts about society, current affairs, atheism, and religion. His posts are very well-written and well thought out. If you're not reading, you're missing out.

The Pioneer Woman - is a fabulous site for recipes and tips on cooking. It has one of the best hostesses on the internet, absolutely incredible food, humor, and did I mention the food?

Sean the Blogonaut - a blogger from down under, Sean posts about his daily life as well as what's going on with atheism and fundamentalist religion in his home country.

The Anti-Churck Zone - while the blog looks to be offline at the moment, it's a good overview of fundamentalist religion in the UK.

It's been a while since I've updated my blog roll. These blogs definitely deserved to be mentioned sooner.

(((Billy))) the atheist
The king of parenthesis, (((Billy))) is an atheist goofball (but I only say that in a good way), (so don't take it as a bad thing).

Another Goddamned Podcast
Yes, yes, another plug for the podcast I'm jointly producing with a bunch of other atheist oddballs. Our next podcast should be up tomorrow.. or tonight if I really get a jump on things.

APOD
APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) isn't really a blog, but it's a great resource for astronomy events and pictures.

Daylight Atheism
Well, you know, how can you be an atheist blogger and not read Daylight Atheism?

Friendly Atheist
I read too many posts referring to Hermant and finally I had to look into his blog. He's well-written, and well, maybe friendlier than I would be, but hey, is that such a bad thing?

Ars Technica Gaming
My first love was always video games. I'm still searching for a 30 minute weekly podcast purely reporting news and reviews - PC preferred. But you know, utopia hasn't happened either. Meanwhile, Ars Technica gives me most of that in a day.

La Vie Quotidienne
I stumbled upon Shefaly via Paul. Posts are largely about life, society, business, politics, and culture, but they're always interesting.

Sam's Spot
I surfed by Sam's place after she posted on my Blog Against Theocracy post from last year. I love her header picture and her stories about life in the countryside.

Splendid Elles
What more can I say about Elles other than she's splendid? Well, let's see, from her most recent post:

“What, that Elles girl? I think that she’s a total twatbitchcuntwhorestreisand. If she were of legal age, I’d say fuck her!”

Really, you have to read the site to understand.

Such Lovely Freckles's
Ute's new home.

Very Special Monkeys
I found this blog via Ex and I'm happy I did. While he hasn't kept up with his posting commitment lately *nudgenudge* his older posts are definitely worth reading.

I need to do these more often. I've added so many blogs to my reader lately that I can hardly keep up, but they're all worth it. Here are some blogs I'm adding to my blogroll today.

An Apostate's Chapel
From the desks of the chaplain and the deacon are well-thought posts about life and religion from an atheistic world-view.

An Atheist Homeschooler
Ute shares her life as an atheist and a homeschooling mom.

Atheist Rants
Poodles talks about life as an atheist living in Salt Lake City.

Atheist Revolution
VJack posts about atheism and Christian extremism in America.

Dikki's Diatribe
Dikkii posts about life, religion, politics, and music from Australia.

Elliptica
"Thoughts from an incurable math-lover" and poetry.

EnoNomi
Comments on life, politics, and religion from an atheistic point of view.

Flumaddidle
Videos and comedic stories from "a godless heathen".

Infidel753
Commentary on news, politics, and religion from an "individualist, transhumanist, atheist, pragmatist, hedonist, and regular guy".

The Daily Coyote
Daily notes and pictures of Charlie, a coyote rescued when he was 10 days old.

The Greenbelt
History, literature, commentary on news and religion from The Ridger, FCD - "(I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin)".

the meme pool:
Comments on science and religion from The Lifeguard.

From the Trends tab on Google Reader:

From your 98 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,522 items, starred 51 items, shared 842 items, and emailed 0 items.

More updates to my blogroll:

evanescent, blogged by a free-thinker, atheist, rationalist, and humanist. You'll find posts about atheism, philosophy, and politics.

Evolving Thoughts, where John Wilkens posts about cultural evolution and the philosophy of religion from down under.

Greta Christina's Blog, where she writes about atheism, current events, feminism, sex, and skepticism. One of her recent posts, Atheism and Anger generated a lot of talk in the atheist blogging community.

Half of Me written by Pasta Queen, who lost half of her weight between January 2005 and February 2007. She's an awesome, sweet lady.

The Spanish Inquisitor is always unexpected. He writes about atheism, books, religion, and science. (Well, and a lot more, but that's a good general overview.)

Symbolic Order Publishing, written by (I believe) Aaron Powell and Trevor Burrus. The blog is dedicated to discussing atheism and religion.

The Choice is Now, a blog dedicated to the pursuit of intellectual thinking, pragmatism, rationality, logic, reason, education, and advocacy for social progress via the deconstruction of patently false beliefs and abject stupidity (yep, stolen directly from her because she says it best), by Kelly Gorski.

The Skinny in Chile, a celebrity fitness blog, but really more of an overall fitness and nutrition blog written by mamacita chilena.

You Made Me Say It where PhillyChief discusses atheism, religion, science, and the ridiculousness of life in general. He also claims to be a KC Chief's fan, but I thought that was a breed that died out years ago.

More updates to my blogroll:

NeuroLogica Blog, a blog written by Steven Novella of the New England Skeptical Society. I listen to their podcast, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, which is very good. He writes about "news and issues in neuroscience, but also general science, scientific skepticism, philosophy of science, critical thinking, and the intersection of science with the media and society."

Horror Movie A Day, where Brian posts a review of a horror movie every day. He's really passionate about the craftsmanship (or lack of) that goes into a film and his reviews reflect it. I love the extremes of horror, good and bad, as long as it's entertaining. What better place to find out about them?

Memoirs of a Skepchick, a blog written by another member of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast crew and the editor of Skepchick magazine. Rebecca Watson writes about critical thinking and woo. She also has several guest writers in her crew.

Boobs, Injuries, and Dr. Pepper is written by the ever-humorous Crystal, about her life as a woman and a mom. This isn't a normal mommy blog. Janet, you'd love this one. Unfortunately she doesn't have a way to subscribe via a reader, so I have to remember to check in every so often.

I've been annoyingly sick since I've returned from Dragon Con. My energy is sapped and I feel like sleeping most of the time. I've developed this habit of taking a nap when I get home from work and then not being able to sleep later in the evening when I need to go to sleep. As soon as I get up from bed though I find myself gravitating to the couch and falling asleep, whether I turn on the TV or grab a book.

Anyway, I haven't disappeared. I've been trying to catch up on reading everyone's blogs and today I finally caught up. I've also been reading and thinking about what I'm going to write about Julian. I know what I want to say, but I haven't organized my thoughts into a central theme. Most likely I'll end up starting to write and letting my thoughts all fall out on the screen and then organizing them before I post.. which may mean that they're really not very organized.

Recently I've added some blogs to my blogroll. I've never thought of my list of links officially as a blogroll. For me it's a place to put blogs so that I can find them when I want to read them. But since I started using a reader, I don't use links much. But I suppose I'm also sharing the blogs I've found since I put them up there for everyone to see.

In any case, I've never posted when I added blogs to my blogroll, but I like the idea of doing it. So here are some blogs that I've added recently.

Higgaion, a blog written by Christopher Heard at Abilene Christian University. He writes a lot about Biblical history, but also about movies, social issues, family, and computers and software. Most of all he's an intelligent, well-thought writer.

The Primate Diaries, a blog by Eric Michael Johnson. He writes about primates, of course, but also about evolution, sociology, and psychology in general.

Evolutionary Middleman, a blog by John, a fellow member of the Nonbelieving Literati, a variety of topics from politics to atheism to science.

Travel Chile, a blog resource for foreigners in Chile written by fellow blogger mamacita chilena. In addition to the stunning pictures she gives advice to tourists, students, and others relocating to Chile.

There are many more. I've come across many as a result of Paul over at Cafe Philos. Thanks, Paul! All I can say is thanks everyone for making my day interesting and giving me a lot to think about.

I'm hoping to post more reviews soon. I'm really behind on movie reviews. I'm thinking of posting a review a day starting next week until I've caught up. I'll to see how much energy I have.