Five Good Blogs

There's a bit of a grass roots trend starting in the blog world that I've now seen on about 6 blog sites, so I thought rather than come up with an original and witty blog, I would copy that idea and do it myself here. Five Funny Blogs is the original title, but I changed it to Five Good Blogs, because hey - not all blogs have to be funny to be good (although it does help maintain audience). Here's the guidelines for choosing your blogs, in case you decide to do it yourself and share some blogging joy.
1. They are funny (or just plain good, per my criteria change).
2. They are made up of mostly original content (not links to other blogs, YouTube, etc.)
3. They are updated regularly.
4. There is a good chance you've never heard of them. That means they don't have a gazillion other links to them, hundreds of readers leaving comments, etc.
5. At least one of them isn't already on my blog roll. (In other words, I had to go looking for it.)

So here they are: my FIVE GOOD BLOGS:

1. The Pioneer Woman
So-Cal ballerina meets and marries Oregon ranchers and births several children. Her blog has made me laugh out loud on several occassions and she takes rock'n pictures. Don't go here unless you're prepared to spend about an hour catching up on past posts.

2. Addison Road
I'm not really sure how to describe this eclectic blog with contributions from four regular writers. Their tagline says "where angsty GenX-ers make their living producing worship for boomers" --whatever that means. They are from California. They are writers, music producers, artists, Believers, emergent, liberal, random, and most occasionally rather funny.

3. Kinda Kitschy
This blog satisfies my inner loathing for almost all items coming from "Christian" book stores. I'm glad I'm not alone in this because for awhile I thought I was the only one who found something innately wrong with Action Figure Jesus and Testa-MINTS.

4. Crummy Church Signs
The name says it all, but don't miss the comments - that's where things get really funny.

5. Blogging...with Audrey
Ok, her blogs aren't funny, but this is my #1 favorite photographer of all time. She is enormously talented and the kicker is - she uses only all-natural light. Sometimes I get tempted to buy studio lights and go that route so that I can feel like a "real" photographer, but all I need in 5 minutes on Audrey's blog and/or website to realize that you can get some KICK'N natural light photographs - if you know what you're doing. This chick photographs for Ford Models and has a VERY successful business in Chicago. Compared to her, I'm like a 4 year old with a Kodak disposable camera.


Go forth...enjoy new blogs, friends. And share some that you know so I can feed my addiction.