Blogs Noted: Gene Logdson, Full Cry, Cute Overload, Global Swarming Honey Bees, Delia Lloyd, Mexico Cooks!

Gene Logsdon, "Archeology Not Agriculture Teaches Good Agriculture"
By the author of the greatest read of 2011, Holy Sh*t. I am not kidding.

Full Cry: The Hounds of Beagle House
Delightfully writerly descriptions of a bunch of, yeah, hounds. Not for those who want to save the foxes.

Cute Overload Ceiling Cat
A brief, wierd video. Good if your Prozac dose is a little low today. (Why take Prozac at all when you can check in with Cute Overload?)

Global Swarming Honeybees on Urban Beekeeping in Hong Kong
Links to a beautiful and strange video.

Delia "Real Delia" Lloyd on one uber funky vacation

Mexico Cooks! Reviews my favorite Mexican restaurant in Mexico City, El Bajío.

I just bought this b-b-b-bodacious sound clip for the new Dancing Chiva video-- which will be on-line next week.

Thanks, amiga M., for sending this link to the TED video about e-Patient Dave.

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Links Noted: Art & Word Editions, Redacción sin Dolor, Francis Ford Coppola on Art + Money, Christine Boyka Kluge, Real Delia, Rose Rosetree, and more

Art & Words Editions
Founded by Kris Waldherr in New York. This is the future of publishing, people. Wow. Sign up for the mailing list and get your goddess PDF. (Thanks, Diane Saarinen, for the tip.)

Washington Independent Review of Books
Amidst the general catastrophe that has befallen newspaper book reviewing, I am delighted to see this. Founded by historian David O. Stewart in Washington DC.

Redacción sin Dolor
El blog de Sandro Cohen, Mexican writer and esteemed writing teacher.

The Bleat
Dancing Chiva Literary Arts, S.C.: Limited editions, e-books, writing workshops, and more. P.S. Sign up for my Techniques of Fiction workshop May 28 with Dancing Chiva in Mexico City.

Francis Ford Coppola on Art & Money

Christine Boyka Kluge
Poet with a camera and eyes beyond Rimbaud.

Real Delia
The "Finding Yourself in Adulthood" blog of the Politics Daily columnist has a bright new look.

Better Book Titles
(Thanks, Mary Kay Zuravleff, for the tip.)

Rose Rosetree
Aura Reading of Lady Gaga, face reading of Hosni Mubarak, Q & A with Mr Enlightenment, and why smoking mota opens your aura to nasty whozits (really). Fiction writers: can you read your character's auras and faces?

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Links Noted: Amusing, Curious & Mexico-Related

Amusing, Curious & Mexico-related:

Amusing:

World's Smallest Movie Theater, Sol Cinema
I want one of these for my backyard! Oh, wait, I don't have a backyard.

Via the excellent Real Delia, Eddie Izzard's "Death Star Canteen"
A tewwibly British bit of improv.

Also via Real Delia, Hyperbole and a Half

Bethesda World News
By my amiga, writer Paula Whyman (P.S. check out her bread head guestblog post for Madam Mayo here.)

Papa's Pugs blog

The Fun Theory (by Volkswagen)

I Am Baker's How to Make a Heart Cake

Cute Overload on Monkey Jell-o Wrestling


Curious:

Swan Bones Theater

How to Find Real Food at the Supermarket

Using Hand-Held Clickers to Keep the Kiddies Attentive
(Strikes Madam Mayo as both very useful and more than a bit sad...)

Mexico- Related:

Radio Free San Miguel de Allende

Naomi Andrade Smith's Villa Victoria Blog

Perros Guia para Ciegos


"Links Noted" appears every other Thursday, except when not. More anon.

Blogs Noted: Laura Carmelita Bellmont, The World of Edgar Allan Poe, Julianne Douglas, Leslie Pietrzyk, Adriana Camarena, Bricolage, and More

Laura Carmelita Bellmont
Who will be teaching a 2 day pop-up paper engineering workshop at the Center for Book Arts in NYC, wow. (Yes, MSC, it would be grand to live on CPW. For more on NYC, click here.)

Artist and writer Jim Johnston's Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide: "Mom in Morocco"

Undine's The World of Edgar Allan Poe
See especially "The Reticent Mrs Shelton". So bizarre.

Julianne Douglas's Writing the Renaissance
A new year's resolution post EVERYONE should read.

Adriana Camarena in the Mission
A Mexico City lawyer's interviews in SF.

Via Bricolage, the Keats-Shelley house in Rome has such a beautiful new website it makes me sigh for Rome...

Novelist Leslie "Work-in-Progress" Pietrzyk talks points about her recent writers pow-wow.

Thx Thx Thx
Thx! Viva Thx!

Southern Cross Review
Rudolf Steiner meets 2011

Araceli Ardon: Kurt Wenner in Queretaro

Washington Musica Viva Links page
See especially artist Marilyn Banner's "Expanding Unconscious Sources: A Return to My Inner Self"

Getting the Royal Treatment
So, like, totally true.

And finally: my other blog, Maximilian ~ Carlota, for researchers of the Second Empire / French Intervention, will resume next Tuesday.

Next post: Monday.

Blogs Noted: Carl Banner, Mummenshanz, Chore Wars, Smaller Box, Juniper Ridge and More

Carl Banner plays Beethoven (brief video). And check out the blog, too: DC Musica Viva, and in particular, You Know You Are An Artist When. (People, please stop saying DC is all about the rat race... )

Beltway's newest issue is now online, the Langston Hughes Tribute Issue, co-edited by Katy Richey and Kim Roberts. Contains 34 poems inspired by Hughes's legacy, commemorating his residence in DC in the early days of his career.

Wish I could have posted this one a couple of weeks ago: via Swiss Miss, the digital story of the Nativity.

Also, via www.swiss-miss.com, Mummenshanz.

Mary J. Lohnes' interview with Olga Grushin.

Managing Pain without Drugs... on Squidoo

Gloria Ruentiz, artist in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur

Smaller Box Blog

Todd Caldecott

The 2008 Collapse (Wired)

Chore Wars testimonials

Double Rainbow Maker
For the leprachaun within.

Juniper Ridge
I'm a big fan of their Douglas Fir Tip tea. Wildcrafting: I wonder who came up with that million dollar word? Tres 2011.

Speaking of evergreen: check out Karen Benke's advice on breaking writer's block for NANORIMO.

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Blogs Noted: Lofty Ambitions, Robert Lanza, Gecko Tails, Gelato Baby, BldgBlog, and More

Lofty Ambitions Blog
By Douglas Dechow & Anna Leahy
P.S. Check out their guest-blog post for Madam Mayo, Top 5 Aviation Museums.


NPR: The rediscovered album, the "mysterious masterpiece," "UFO" by Jim Sullivan
It really is fine. (Did they beam him up?)

HuffPost: Dr Robert Lanza, "Is Death the End?"
Time may be what you make it.

Gecko tails
By my amiga Julie Wakemann-Linn. She's the editor of Potomac Review and a writer--- now blogging (and writing) in Tanzania.

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
More Africa: Sierra Leon after the eclipse

The Guardian: Mapping Facebook Friends
Ha, looks correlated with the entirely expected.

Gelato Baby
The pix are calorie-free.

Velly, velly twickee
How to get clicks on your facebook ads.

Pluma Fronterizo
Calling all librarians!

BldgBlog: City of Holes and streeeeetching time

SF Parking Super Efficiency Strategy
It's not for everyone. Oh so 2010. (Teux deux: get iPhone app.)

C. Westbrook Designs
3 D printed jewelry. And a case for the iPhone.

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Blogs Noted: University of Chicago on Friedrich Katz, Rachael Laudan on Mexican Potatoes, Joe Ahearn's Bat Terrier, Quarterly Conversation & more

University of Chicago News
Friedrich Katz, the great historian of Mexico, has died.

The Smartly NY
Deborah Batterman on (Un)American Activities

Rachel Laudan
On why Mexican potatoes are so lousy

Colonial Mexico

Conduit of Joy

John Cleese on Creativity
(video)

109 Year Old Man
(video)

Eddy & Schein
10 Mistakes to Avoid (note especially the one about ID.)

5 Ways Augmented Reality is Making Your Life More Sharable

History Unfolding
What You Learn in France

Pen Hallow Press
Independent publishing and letterpress publishing

The Quarterly Conversation
Fall 2010 issue

Eternal Earthbound Pets
Not a blog but, oh well, maybe when the Rapture comes...

Answers from SilenceAn enlightened take on 2012

Bat Terrier
Joe Ahearn's blog

www.core77.com
A good on-line design mag.

http://jbrae72.popslice.com/07.-videos (video) San Francisco earthquake footage.

Blogs Noted: C. Marina Marchese, Seth Godin, Savita, Another Bourgeois Dilemma, Sandra Gulland, David Agren, Frederick Ruess, Fred Ramey

Red Bee Blog
By C. Marina Marchese, author of Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper. I love what she's doing with honey and apitherapy-- and introducing the concept of terroir.

Seth Godin
Getting better at seeing.

Savita Blog
A nice design blog.

Another Bourgeois Dilemma
(Yeah, I have a lot of these. But not bike trips to Tuscany. I hate bike trips.)

Sandra Gulland
About research overload! By a brilliant novelist.

David Agren
Mexico City-based freelance journalist.

Frederick Reuss on Huffington Post
My fellow DC novelist and Unbridled Books author on "Secrecy and Censorship: Book Burning in the Era of E-Books" (Can a laptop spontaneously combust? Just wondering.)

Three Guys, One Book
A guestblog post by Fred Ramey about Unbridled Books.

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Blogs Noted: Neuronarrative, Listen Well, Rose Rosetree, Mex Files, Farmer in the Dell, Obit-Mag, American Egypt

Neuronarrative
By David diSalvo

Debbie Stier
Publishing expert. A treasure of a blog for those interested in where, by digital Jove, is this all going?!

Listen Well
Mystic audio.

Mex Files
by Richard Grabman, author of Gods, Gapuchines, and Gringos: A people's History of Mexico

American Egypt

Deeper Perception Made Practical
By Rose Rosetree. Movie star auras! Gray slime! This is must reading for novelists. I am not kidding.

A Farmer in the Dell
For those who love exclamation points! But seriously, this is a charming and informative blog. And the food looks delicious!

Obit-Mag

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Blogs Noted: Food Shark, Susan Coll, Paula Whyman, Susan Higginbotham, Wonders and Marvels, Staring at Strangers, and More

Food Shark
I totally want to eat here.

Wonders and Marvels
A gem of a blog. Be sure to read the page "about"--- paradigmatic, it seems to me.

The Morgue File
Free-- really free-- stock photos for bloggers. (This is where I found this photo of the ducks. What's with the ducks? Hope they're not going to the Food Shark.)

Staring at Strangers
From New York to Michoacan and Somewhere in Between by Jennifer Rose.

El Cosmico
Last I checked it hasn't been updated since February of 2009, but, well, great concept.

Michael Hyatt
Check out his posts The End of Publishing as We Know It and Shave 10 Hours Off Your Workweek.

Via Leslie Pietrzyk's Work-in-Progress blog:

Susan Coll for Bethesda Magazine
By novelist Susan Coll-- check out her latest, Beach Week, which is getting rave reviews.

Paula Whyman for Bethesda Magazine
Plus check out her Bethesda World News: News from the Center of the Universe

Medieval Woman
By Susan Higginbotham, novelist. Check out her post on Google.

P.S. Book humor!

Blogs Noted: Blue Dog Rose, RAVE, John Oliver Simon, Mexico City

Blue Dog Rose
By artist and dog mom Nakisha Vanderhoesen

RAVE: Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition
By Miguel Angel de la Cueva, conservation photographer

John Oliver Simon
This is new blog turning out to be one of the best po-blogs on the web. Check out his series on forgotten poets, including Cleveland's d.a. levy.

Mexico City: An Opintionated Guide
By writer, artist and Mexico City resident Jim Johnston

Note: This "blogs noted" post is moving to every other Thursday. Check back again September 2nd. Regular posting again next Monday, August 23rd.

So, more anon.

Blogs Noted: Laraine Herrin, Anat Baniel, Litpark

Laraine Herring
Blog by the author of Writing Begins with the Breath.

Anat Baniel Method Blog
"Move into Life!" The video beats a cup of coffee.

Married... with Dinner

Litpark
By novelist Susan Henderson

Blogs Noted: Karen Benke, James Kunstler, Reading the Past, Karen Maezen Miller, Work-in-Progress

Huffington Post's Karen Benke
On creativity. P.S. Check out her guest-blog for Madam Mayo here.

Right-reading
By Tom Christensen. And this post on his new book, 1616.

Clusterf**k Nation
(Will those twin asterisks fool the google robots? One does hope so.) By James (The Long Emergency) Kunstler. Doom, gloom, general disaster, and deflation and, alas, though my take on human nature is a sight more charitable, I usually concur with his overall diagnosis. (Recently: "the only change Americans want is from the cash register at Wal-Mart." Ouch. This week, he had Senator Dodd slurping the bean soup in the Senate cafeteria.) P.S. For a vibratory antidote, Cute Overload usually does the trick. I am not kidding.

Cute Overload
Best ever: the voiceover for the Carnitas video.

Reading the Past
Like the title says.

Work-in-Progress
By my amiga novelist Leslie Pietrzyk, blogging consistently and informatively on matters all & sundry about creative writing. With a beautiful, all-new cherry-pie-red design! (P.S. Leslie, thanks for the mention.)

Karen Maezen Miller
Zen. But I am not sure about the laundry part.

Blogs Noted: Pluma Fronteriza, Araceli Ardón, Colonial Mexico, Writing in the Margins, Southern Cross Review, Elephant Painting Gallery, and more

Pluma Fronteriza
By Raymundo Eli Rojas. Ray writes, "Please share that PF is open to receive book descriptions by Mexican authors."

Thursday Thoughts
Book discussion by novelist Katharine Davis.

Araceli Ardón
By novelist Araceli Ardón. A recent post about robots.

Colonial Mexico
So many surprising little corners of Mexico...

Writing in the Margins
Clara Paulino's musings on a home in between: language, places, ways of seeing.

Southern Cross Review
Eclectic magazine with a regular feature on (of all things) anthroposophy. (P.S. I'm calling it a blog because I want to.)

Elephant Painting Gallery
For real.

Bella on-Line Feng Shui Site by Carol Olmstead
I'm a big fan of Carol's newsletter.

Blogs Noted: Nola, Maximilian -Carlota, First Person Plural, Own the Dollar, Charles T. Tart, and more

Nola.com Gulf Oil Spill News Page
Includes links to public blog.

Maximilian - Carlota
I decided to rename my new blog. It was "Second Empire," but that seemed a little Star War-y. It's a blog for researchers (both serious and armchair) of the tumultuous period of Mexican history known as the Second Empire or "French Intervention." I'd love to use a more poetic title taken from a saying of the period (say, "Bed of Roses in a Goldmine"?) but I do have the search engines in mind.

First Person Plural
The Writer's Center's blog now has a new URL.

John Oliver Simon
Poet and translator-- recently blogging about some interesting Costa Rican poets.

Casa del Poeta Ramón López Velarde
In Mexico City. New blog, excellent long-time reading series.

Periódico de Poesía
Editor Pedro Serrano's Defensa de poesía.

Real Delia
On clearing out the inbox. (Holy Smokes, is this really possible?)

Own the Dollar
Includes this fun interview with organizing expert Regina Leeds.(See Regina's guest-blog post for Madam Mayo here.)

Charles T. Tart
Consciousness evolving.

Professional Writing Coach
Excellent new writing blog by Eva Hunter. (See her guest-blog post for Madam Mayo here.)

P.S. World Cup youtuberie with a surprise.

Blogs Noted: Gulf Blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis, Right-reading, Blue Ocean Notes, Writing from Merida, Scientific American Expeditions Blog, Bees

Right-reading
Tom Christensen's excellent blog. Four years on, I'm still reading it.

Writing from Merida
By Canadian writer in Merida, Mexico, Joanna van der Gracht de Rosado. Mexico bloggers, be sure to add this one to your blogrolls!

Blue Ocean Notes
Dr Safina at TEDx in DC on the Gulf oil spill. (Fast forward 1: 38)

Gulf Blog
UGA Department of Marine Sciences blog.

Scientific American Expeditions Blog

Sic Semper Tyrannis
I've been following this one for several years now, especially when things get dicier than the usual extreme diciness in the Middle East.
See the note on McChrystal.

The Barefoot Beekeeper
Biodynamic.

Blogs Noted: Oil Drum, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, John Oliver Simon, Anne Sinclair, Shiva Nata

Alexandra van de Kamp
Read her guest-blog post for Madam Mayo.

The Oil Drum
(And along these lines, not related to Oil Drum, but about the spill, a video about booming. Stay with it for 2 minutes; that's when it suddenly turns wacky. Not for the church ladies and laddies.)

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

John Oliver Simon
An outstanding poet and translator, sharing some new work and reflections.

Shiva Nata Blog
(Dig the duck)

Le Blog d'Anne Sinclair: Deux ou trois choses vues d'Amerique

Blogs Noted: Delia Lloyd at Politics Daily, Broken Teepee, Edible Geography, Free in DC, Thomas Cowan, Deborah Batterman, Chico Lingo, Mary J. Lohnes,

mirror mirror
New blog by poet Brian Clements.

The Constant Conversation
The blog of the Quarterly Conversation.

The Things She Thinks About
By writer Deborah Batterman. And Check out her interview for Marshal Zeringue's very fun blog Coffee with a Canine. and his other blog, Campaign for the American Reader.

Chico Lingo
By writer Sergio Troncoso. Check out his post on the new issue of Literal.

Delia Lloyd at Politics Daily

Numero Cinq
Translation contest ends June 30th!

Gherkins and Tomatoes
(but don't scroll down so far as to see the piece about eating cats...)

Edible Geography

Free in DC

Broken Teepee
Reviews my novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Bless you, Broken Teepee.

Apifera Farm
I've noted it before, I note it again. Donkeys dancing with raggedy pie!

Mary J. Lohnes

Dr. Thomas Cowan
Raw milk manifesto.

Dr Amen's Brain Blog

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Blogs Noted: True / Slant, Blue Ocean, The Two Way, Karen's Perspective, Energy Doorways, Lists Galore, Epide-Mixe, Must Watch Everything

True/ Slant
by journalist John McQuaid
Be sure to read his article about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Carl Safina (Blue Ocean)
Ocean activist.

The Two Way
NPR's News Blog.

Lists Galore
Like the title says...
I've been surprised to see the amount of traffic
that comes to my blog from this site.

Energy Doorways Blog

Karen's Perspective on Everything
Fascinating and "Cool Stuff," "real estate ready."

Must Watch Everything
by Maryland Writers Association member Glen Jordan Spangler
(who also has a very amusing website).

Epide-Mixe
Transatlantic Photos (Washington, DC and Toulouse, France)
One of the co-bloggers is Ines Hilde, graphic designer who
worked on some of Tameme's beautiful covers.

Blogs Noted: Julie Zickefoose, Nicholas D. Kristof, Mark Monlux, Alan Weber, Steven Hart, Numero Cinq, Lewis Lapham, Gayle Brennan Spencer

Several blog posts for writers are in line: one on my notes from the Writer's Center's Leesburg First Friday lecture about "Staying Focused: Writing and Researching the Longer Book Project," also a note about the fabulous panel at the recent Virginia Book Festival in Charlottesville and-- more!-- the jaw-dropping "Writing the Future" conference at the Writer's Center with Lee Gutkind and company. That one, truly, changed the paradigm for me and I'll be blogging about that soon. But I'm on deadline (past deadline, actually) to turn in some translations, so today's post is brief.

Julie Zickefoose
Artist, writer, Boston Terrier and Macaw person

On the Ground
Nicholas D. Kristof writing for the New York Times

Now Smell This
A perfume person. I'm interested to learn more about scent-oriented blogs.... anyone?

Mark Monlux's Poohabspiel
(Don't you love that blog title?)

Alan Webber Rules of Thumb

The Path of the Bookseller
By Joseph Zitt. We had an amusing exchange over at Steven Hart's blog recently.

Steven Hart
Author of The Last Three Miles and newbie bookseller (go, go, go!!)

Numero Cinq
Aphorisms wanted! Wit and arrogance appreciated (so they say..) My own aphorism about bagels and death masks seems to have shut down the contest, however... (TR Hummer, O poet of tweets, are you there???)

Bobby Byrd
Motto: "It's a good time to be a poet, I think, although the pay is shitty." Author of White Panties and Dead Friends

Lapham's Quarterly
Some foie gras for this world o' Whoppers.

Postcards from San Antonio
By Gayle Brennan Spencer

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