In my 12 of 12 for May I included a picture of a letter I received. I didn’t blur out my address and I even included a subtle hint about how I loved to receive snail mail.

I was lucky enough to receive two pieces of mail thanks to that post. The first was from Los Angeles…from a guy named David. He didn’t leave his last name, but he did leave his initials.

David sent a cute greeting card, an old photo of a dog, and a vocabulary flashcard for the word “piquant.”

If you’re reading David, Thanks!

I also got an Audrey Hepburn postcard from Boscardin. She said nice things too. Thanks Maria!
And in case you missed it, my mailing address is:

2869 W. Yellow Peak Drive
Queen Creek, AZ. 85242

Feel free to send cryptic postcards, heartwarming greeting cards, or expensive presents my way.

I want some suggestions.

What personal blogs do you guys read on a regular basis?  I’d like to add a few personal sites to my daily reads.  I’m looking for things that aren’t too mainstream and popular…just a normal blog (like this one).

Do you blog?  If I’m not reading your blog yet, leave the URL in the comments so I can check it out.

I’ve started this little thing called The Benevolent Blogger.

I’ve created a permanent page at: WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com/benevolentblogger

Join me, and help me spread the word about this project.

The political blog that I created and completely abandoned when I moved to AZ turned two today.

I penned an anniversary post here.

The blogroll there is still muckraking and stirring things up in OC. They were recently mentioned in the Orange County Register [link] for posting the Lucas letter. From the Register:

Garden Grove Democrat Paul Lucas lent a hand to GOP fixer Mike Schroeder’s effort to defeat Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s reelection effort — but only after Lucas had his own figurative back-alley meeting Nguyen, according to this fascinating post at TheLiberalOC.com. As you may know, Schroeder and Assemblyman Van Tran are political enemies of Nguyen, and are backing Dina Nguyen’s effort to unseat her.

In 2006, when Lucas unsuccessfully challenged Republican Tran for Assembly, Janet Nguyen gave Lucas opposition reasearch on Tran, according to the item. TheLiberalOC backs this up with a letter of admission from Lucas, which was produced at the Monday’s GOP Central Committee meeting in an effort to block the party’s endorsement of Janet Nguyen for reelection. The effort failed and Janet carried the day.

This supervisor’s race just keeps getting better and better.

The supervisor’s race really is interesting, and I’m slightly disappointed that I am not close enough to hear the day-to-day gossip.

I was trying to fix a small part of the left sidebar and I ended up screwing this entire page up…of course I didn’t back anything up, so I ended up having to rebuild the sidebar from scratch.

The comments were out of commission for a little while, but things are all back to normal now.

I’ve also added a “recent comments” section on the sidebar so we can keep track of conversations happening in the comment section.

I hate to do this, really…but comment spam is overwhelming me here at WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com.   And in an effort to make things more difficult for spam bots I’ve installed one of those annoying word-verification systems.

I really hate word-verification.  I always type the words incorrectly.   So all of the words in my word-bank are easy to see and type.

If you can think of some fun words that you’d like to add to the word bank leave them in the comments and I’ll add them.  It must be a single word (no spaces), and I won’t add profanity or words longer than 8 letters.  What are your suggestions?

I know that most of you don’t care about WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com traffic facts, but this blog isn’t just for you selfish fucks.

I use this space on the web as a virtual scrapbook, and I wanted to take a second to look at some fun stats. First off, look at keywords that have brought googlers into WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com in the last few months:

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What do you think the person that googled “QT + Giving Blood” was looking for? And do you think that the person googling “gay guys named Michael” found what he was looking for? There’s a few of us.

And this next table shows people that have linked (starting with the highest rate of clicks to lowest):

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If you’ve linked here, thanks!

And speaking of web traffic, the political blog that I started in Orange County just passed the 200,000 visitors milestone.  Congratulations to the kick-ass team of liberals that put so much sweat into that site.  Click here to read the 200,000 visitor announcement.

i’m not going to write any capital letters in this post.  and i’m not trying to be all ee cummings on you…i’m actually protesting uppercase letters.

my right shift key is sticky, and it doesn’t always capitalize…and since i type at super-human speeds, i have to backspace to make corrections a lot more than i like to.

so frustrating.

i’m thinking about getting a new computer (a mac for sure) but torn between a desktop and a laptop.  what would you chose and why?  i’m thinking about saving until about summer for this purchase.

It’s Wednesday, y’all! And this is a special edition of WWW dedicated to good, readable, entertaining blogs that I like to read regularly.

Puntabulous - Good. Dorky. Fun. Craig is a pretty big nerd that writes about his life and his argyle sweaters.

Diabetes Mine - Amy Tenderich runs this blog that is a great resource for people living with diabetes. She doesn’t just focus on one thing like new meds, or research. Amy also gets into her own personal struggle to maintain a healthy BGL, and she talks about the emotions and struggles of the day-to-day.

Cheap Blue Guitar - Brian is a Phoenix-area guy that I wished wasn’t so busy. It’s selfish, I know but I wish he would blog more because I really enjoy reading his stuff.

When Good Robots Go Bad - This is my friend Celeste’s blog. She’s pretty busy studying linguistics, and she doesn’t blog as much as I wish she could either. I haven’t seen her since August, and I’ve been missing the hell out of her…so the sporadic blog updates have been good for me.

Inside The Head of a Television Junkie - This is Mr. D’s blog. I like his site because he’ll often introduce me to random songs or YouTube videos I hadn’t known before.

Are You There Buddha, It’s Me Gary - Gary is from Minneapolis and I really enjoy his small posts with inspirational quotations and some other zen-related things.

Boscardin.org - This is Maria Boscardin’s blog. She writes a lot about blogging and just life.

Lemonade Life - Allison is a Type I Diabetic and she writes mostly about her life as a PWD. She doesn’t get too much into the medical/technological side of things.

The Liberal OC - This is the political blog that I started back when I was in Orange County. There is a solid team of progressives there that have maintained the blog since I’ve left. I still check this site out daily to see what’s happening in my old neighborhood.

Promenade Through Change - I found Jake’s blog through an ad that he placed here through Entrecard. His stuff is pretty entertaining. He’s a college freshman voice student, and he blogs about many things including adjusting to college life and musical theater.

As I mentioned in the Traffic Blog that I posted this morning, I covered the benefit concert in Peoria last night for a Phoenix-area newspaper.

I’m not going to link to the story here because I don’t want my personal blog address to show up in the referral log of the paper…but if you’re clever and you use google you can probably find it.  Just use the technology that is so great in these NEW TIMES, and look for a Superbowl blog.