June 17, 2001

12:28 AM

Just some light reading...Buck Wolf is a producer at ABCNEWS.com who writes a twice-weekly column on items currently in the news. Nice, light reading, a few laughs, and some stuff you didn't know before (probably). Do any of you have favourite sites with interesting stuff for reading on slow news days?
posted by BGM (11 comments total)

If I'm really bored, A&L Daily usually has something (but I guess that's hardly a surprise to anyone!).
posted by andrew cooke at 12:35 AM on June 17, 2001

This chick cracks me up on occasion.
posted by dong_resin at 12:49 AM on June 17, 2001

slow news, no news, or mo' news, I always need my daily fix of fuckedcompany.com
posted by rorycberger at 3:09 AM on June 17, 2001

There's this site, I can't quite put my finger on it. But I know it has a blue look to it. Yes! The background is blue. That's all I have to go on though.
posted by crasspastor at 3:13 AM on June 17, 2001

Here's a few possibilities:

Exquisite Corpse
American Prospect
ftrain
disinfo (seems to be down a lot lately)
Telepolis
The Atlantic
Transparency
new internationalist
Utne Webwatch Daily
wood s lot
posted by aflakete at 4:55 AM on June 17, 2001

I like reading Mary Schmich's column in the Chicago Tribune. She's responsible for the essay used in that "Everybody's Free" song. Everyone believed it was a Vonnegut piece, but it really wasn't. I like her perspective.
posted by Cavatica at 5:05 AM on June 17, 2001

Talking about our favorite blogs again, are we? What a closed loop this all is. Anyway, Andrew Smales, proprietor of Diaryland, is the funniest blogger ever. Yes, funnier than Lincoln.
posted by luser at 8:58 AM on June 17, 2001

My Uncle Joey is 76 years old (or so) and writes movie reviews. I don't always agree with him, but most of the time I do, and I find it interesting to read what an elderly gentleman thinks about today's cinema.
posted by culberjo at 11:38 AM on June 17, 2001

Want yo' entertainment? For movies, it's got the be The Filthy Critic (may be offensive to some). For music, it's got to be rootnode.org, the closest thing to a real underground music mag online.
posted by bonzo at 2:30 PM on June 17, 2001

Bonzo neglects to mention that rootnode is also *his* site, so take his recommendation with that in mind.
posted by rodii at 2:54 PM on June 17, 2001

(Bonzo, please see this discussion in Metatalk.)
posted by rodii at 10:01 AM on June 18, 2001