Swamp of Boredom

Forty Thirty-two Web Sites

I struggled to come up with 40 websites that I visit. I tend to visit the same 10 websites over and over. My struggles are obvious at the end of the list when I was getting suggestions from my 10 and 7 year old boys.

Pop Culture/Television/Movies
Go Fug Yourself – a snarky look at celebrity style
http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/

Kickette – the soccer world version for Go Fug Yourself. If it doesn’t float your boat, just go there for the Thursday Thigh Off where they take two European Soccer Players and compare their thighs. People vote and someone wins. Great eye candy.
http://www.kickette.com/

Pop Candy – USA Todays pop culture blog. Lots of links.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/

Pop Watch – Entertainment Weekly’s pop culture blog.
http://popwatch.ew.com/

The Watcher – written by Maureen Ryan, the tv critic of the Chicago Sun Times. Reviews of television shows, interviews, etc. Great discussions in the comment sections.
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/

Alan Sepinwall – same as The Watcher but Sepinwall is the tv critic for the New Jersey paper.
http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/

Movie Morlocks – a classic movie blog.
http://moviemorlocks.com/

Rotten Tomatoes – gives you a percentage grade for all movies reviewed, pulling reviews from all across the country. Great quick look at what movies are good or bad. Most are bad.
www.rottentomatoes.com

Television Without Pity – HILARIOUS tv show recap site. The snark flows deep and fast. Do not drink anything when you’re reading these recaps.
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php

IMDB – an Entertainment industry database. Wondering about a guest star on Law and Order? You can look up L&O, then the episode and presto! Links to all of the stars and guest stars, writers, directors, etc. It’s a treasure trove.
www.imdb.com

Cake Wrecks – I think I’ve linked you to this before. Funny site! They just posted a old picture of a general and his wife cutting a cake shaped like the mushroom cloud of an atom bomb. No kidding.
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

Shopping
Woot – a site that gives you one really good deal a day, usually electronics. Fun site to check.
http://www.woot.com/

Shirt Woot – same as above but for t-shirts. These are original t-shirts, designed by Shirt Woot members. Funny stuff.
http://shirt.woot.com/

Wine Woot – same as Woot but for wine. Not so funny. Just wine.
http://wine.woot.com/

Amazon Gold Box Deals – daily deals from amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox

Sports
Uni Watch – this blog is dedicated to sports uniforms. Random, I know, but he shows all kinds of good and bad uniforms, new, retro, obscure…a really fun site if you’re more interested in the sartorial aspect of sports than the competitive aspect.
http://www.uniwatchblog.com/

Sporno – probably self explanatory; a site that has sports pictures that unintentionally look like porn. Probably not safe for work. More funny than graphic.
http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/sporno-gallery


News
USA Today – I like USA Today because it’s a national newspaper. We cancelled our paper and this is the site where I get my news.
www.usatoday.com

The Daily Beast – I guess you would call this a news aggregator. They pull stories from all over the web to include in their Cheat Sheet. They also have original articles from people with a wide range of opinions, conservative and liberals alike.
www.thedailybeast.com

Unfair Park – the blog for the Dallas Observer.
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/


Books/Literature
Book Beast – the Book blog for The Daily Beast. I’ve gotten two really good recs from it so far. Great articles.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/book-beast

Publishers Weekly – where you can find their reviews, plus news.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/

Austen Blog – the blog to go to for all things Austen. I write reviews for the site, under a pen name, also.
www.austenblog.com

Austen Prose – another Jane Austen blog. Less minutia than Austen Blog, more reviews and discussion on the books.
http://austenprose.wordpress.com/


Tech
Macworld
www.macworld.com

Wired – a good general technology website
http://www.wired.com/

Jay’s Picks
These need neither descriptions nor website addresses:

CNN
ESPN
Money

Ryan’s Picks
Fox Sports
Yahoo

Jack’s Picks
Club Penguin