Blogs? Blogs!

A quick update: I have officially created a stand-alone page devoted to excellent blogs from all corners of the internet! (Only one month after I claimed that such a project was happening imminently!) Please visit the page here, or click the corresponding sidebar link to view the complete list. If you're not linked and think you should be, you are not that special and should quit being such an entitled little piss-pot please shoot me an email and I will remedy the situation post-haste.

Also: Today, I'd like to devote this post to highlighting four blogs which are of exceptional brilliance -- blogs which you should visit immediately, as opposed to, say, later this afternoon. They are:

Escape to New York
Evocative writing and beautiful photographs by Jen Bandini. I cannot say enough about this blog; it effortlessly captures all the detail, turbulence, and raw feeling that comes with living in New York City, and the essays run the gamut from hysterically funny to bittersweet to utterly heartbreaking. Go now. Read everything.

To Kiss the Cook
Gorgeous food porn-prose, amazing recipes, adorable quotidian vignettes. (My recent favorite here.) If I ever move to Chicago, I will be banging on the author's door within three days and begging, begging, that she cook me something... or at least hang out with me.

Hollywood Sucker
Everything she writes is hilarious. No, really: everything is this funny. It's sick. Which makes the fact that she hasn't written anything in over a month somewhat worrisome, but since she is apparently planning a wedding and working on a screenplay, I guess it's forgivable.

Dilettantsia
High-minded, pitch-perfect cultural criticism. This blog is so interesting that I don't even mind how stupid/uncultured/illiterate I feel by comparison after reading it. (Just think of it this way: She devours big books, sees serious plays, and founds literary magazines so you don't have to.)