This one's for my homies

I’ve already addressed my lack of respect for blogging in the past, but that doesn’t mean I’ve never read a blog before starting my own. I personally know people who maintain damn fine blogs. I’d like to take this time to shout-out to them and give credit where credit is due.

Brilliant Title

If there is a blog that can be credited as the source of inspiration for my own, this is it. Jillian is a true storyteller. She takes the little things in life, the everyday occurrences, and turns them into fun, thoughtful, hilarious blog posts. Bad dating stories. Awkward encounters with customers. PG-13 rated cookies. Her stories, much like her blog name, are simply brilliant.

China Basin Baseball

I wish my blog was as funny as this. Greg has the perfect kind of off-the-wall, out-of-nowhere, absurd style of humor I love. The fact that he uses this gift in a sports blog only makes it better. And he’s got guest writers. Multiple guest writers! He has everything, while I have nothing! Greg’s the next blogging mogul (is there such a thing as blogging moguls?)

His blog is tailored to covering baseball – specifically SF Giants baseball. I’ll understand if that causes you to shy away, but trust me, his stuff is good (except for his atrocious grammar and his opinions on Hector Sanchez, but he’s my friend so I forgive him).

A Few French Fries Short of a Happy Meal

Where do I start with this one? This blog is…interesting. Yeah, that’s a good word for it. Interesting.

In all seriousness, and with all due respect to the others, this is the finest blog I’ve read. That might not be saying much given how few blogs I read, but it’s the highest praise I can offer here.

Sometimes very serious, but usually laugh-out-loud funny, Stephanie gives an inside look at how to get through life with sanity still firmly intact. Made all the more difficult when you’re an up-and-coming crime reporter.

Vlogbrothers

Remember how I said I don’t follow any famous bloggers? If you do, that means you’ve been reading since my first post, and for that I thank you. All five of you. I realized later that these guys are the exception to the rule. 

Video bloggers Hank and John Green are the brothers behind the very successful Brotherhood 2.0 and Vlogbrother videos on YouTube. They have the distinction of being the only bloggers I pay attention to who A.) use videos, not text, and B.) I don’t personally know.

Their videos have inspired a truly unique online community, which has managed to accomplish some really neat things outside the World Wide Web, too. Charitable organizations, conferences for professional YouTubers and just proving in general that nerds can be cool. Sort of.

Just Joan 

I’ve previously joked that I haven’t read my mother’s blog since 2010. Except I wasn’t joking. To be fair, she is my mother. I’m kind of already in the loop about what goes on in her life. But if you want to know a little bit about what it’s like to be a mom battling through Stage 4 breast cancer, and is brave enough to share her story too, check out her blog.