Blogs

Abysmal Chick: Bloggers take note: Even if your life is fairly ordinary, you can still create an entertaining blog by being a funny, honest, and lively writer. Just like Abysmal Chick. abysmalchick.blogspot.com

Adam Platt: Mpls.St.Paul Magazine senior editor Adam Platt gives his take on all things Twin Cities. mspmag.com/adamplatt

After School Snack: A snappy, loosely formatted blog of liberal sentiment, entertaining You Tube videos, and pop culture observations, cobbled together by a committee of four. afterschoolsnack.blogspot.com

Chow & Again: Andrew Zimmern's Mpls.St.Paul Magazine blog is one of the most popular blogs in the Twin Cities—with a national following to boot. Get an insider's take on local dining and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from his Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods. mspmag.com/chowandagain

Chasing Windmills: A serial soap opera, or telenovela, CW offers short films written, shot, and edited at a frenetic pace and posted every weekday during the "season" (it goes on a hiatus every spring) by a Minneapolis couple who corral their friends and acquaintances as actors. The podcasts have a loose, seemingly improvised plot and a goofy, melodramatic charm, and what they lack in production values they make up for in energy and originality. chasingmills.blogspot.com

Diablo Cody: If you're going to read someone's ramblings about the minutiae of their daily lives, it should at least be someone who knows how to write and has an interesting life. Diablo Cody, Hollywood hot property and former City Pages writer cum stripper, writes with the best of them, though she doesn't really do her interesting life justice. Read it now, before she forgets her roots. diablocody.blogspot.com

Doodledee: This grab-bag blog is an entertaining roundup of commentary and Web tidbits so wide-ranging it makes you wonder how anyone can spend that much time on a computer. doodledee.com

Eyeteeth: Paul Schmelzer, who also posts at the Walker Art Center's Off Center blog, offers an intelligent, wildly eclectic site that encompasses art, pop culture, happenings, media, and a little light politics. eyeteeth.blogspot.com

Faith Mouse: Dan Lacey draws accomplished but often inscrutable cartoons from a religious and politically conservative point of view. faithmouse.blogspot.com

The Funniest Woman in the Twin Cities: Sheletta Brundidge, a comedian, newspaper columnist, TV and radio personality, and mom, may come close to living up to her billing with this lively blog, full of brassy observational humor. (See page 113.) sheletta.eponym.com

Girl Friday: Woman-about-town Alexis McKinnis writes a frothy but inexplicably appealing blog about nightlife, fashion, and whatever else catches her fancy. girlfriday.typepad.com

The Kirk Report: This savvy site has received national attention for the tips and information offered by Charles Kirk, a professional stock trader in Hugo, Minnesota. His blog also offers plenty of links to the week's best articles in print and online. www.thekirkreport.com

LA Log: Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's David Anderson's Minnesota perspective on life in Hollywood is one of a kind. mspmag.com/lalog

Lambert to the Slaughter: Veteran writer Brian Lambert applies years of journalistic curiosity and a jaundiced wit to everything touched by modern media. The popular blog is now at Mpls.St.Paul's mspmag.com. msp.blogs.com/brianlambert/

James Lileks: Fans who miss Lileks's old Star Tribune column can get their fix here at this old junk drawer of fascinating curiosities: a folksy blog (The Bleat), a podcast (The Diner), a photo history of Minneapolis, quirky collections of old matchbooks, foreign money, comic books from midcentury, and more. lileks.com

Mediation.Tumblr: This remarkably eclectic blog collects interesting stuff from far and wide: local blogs, arcane readings, pop culture, and world events. Quirky, but fascinating. mediation.tumblr.com

MN Publius: Young DFL partisans write an industrious and combative insiders' blog on local issues and politics. mnpublius.com

The Morning After . . . : Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's arts and entertainment contributors review concerts, plays, and art openings. mspmag.com/themorningafter

A Play a Day & Lysteria: Brendon Etter has one of the liveliest minds in the blogosphere. For a while, the Carleton College employee really did write a very short play every day. Then he started compiling hilarious daily lists—"Indications That You Are Almost Certainly Disliked," "Evidence That My Computer Is Having an Affair" . . . . By the time you read this, he may be on to something else, but it will no doubt be worth reading. bleeet.blogspot.com

Style Parlor: Get daily shopping updates, fashion and beauty tips, trend alerts and more from Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's Shopping + Style crew. mspmag.com/styleparlor