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Hey yall, I'm sure she'll put this up soon, but there's a new article on Gwen in the Austin Chronicle this week. (www.auschron.com) They're doing a thing on line diarists, etc. I just recently, maybe 4 or 5 mths ago, started reading online journals and the like. I have a whole big list of things I have to read online when I get to my office, or I feel like I can't get my work started. (my boss would be so pleased to hear...). I have to cut some out though, because instead of spending maybe my first 30 mins. or so reading, it's stretching into the hour. I find a lot of good stuff through other people's suggestions so... What do you read daily? some (but not all) of my favorites:

Gwen Danicki's web log (I have a pitas account myself, but never bother b/c she always finds the good stuff) Plaintive Wail (this is Stee from Mighty Big TV) Mighty Big TV Salon.com my old hometown paper online

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

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again, I apologize for the lack of commas. It's not Gwen Danicki. It's Gwen COMMA Danicki's weblog. oops.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
Besides these forums, the WWF.com's Ross Report, Tomato Nation, CNN, and whenever I get a chance, I lurk around MBTV (I usually print a recap or three for the bus in order to catch up on the important stuff).

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
This site, naturally, plus several email lists for dog-related stuff. I keep up with the Michael Moore website, the ASPCA website and nopuppymills website, check out eBay regularly for stuff I think I need but don't, and half.com for Still More Books to order. If I have even more time I'll read The Onion and the Dave Barry archives.

Alas, all those days may be coming to an end soon, as my cushy job is going away and I may have to seek other employment. Guess most employers would be upset if I spent a significant portion of my day on personal activities....

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

FUCK. I didn't realize it'd be online today. Gawd, do I look fat enough, y'all? Don't answer that! Paul says it's okay, so I'll just take his word for it and not say anything more.

Thanks, Gardanna, for bringing that to my attention! I'm running to read it and tell everyone else right now.

Y'all know what I read coz it's in my bookmarks... so I'll quit de-railing the subject now...

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

I think it's a nice picture, silly! I have to ask Mary Ellen, too, what dog sites?? (I'm on a bunch too...)

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
online, I read:
Gwen's Trailer Trash Forums
Gwen's diary, whenever there's a new entry
The Brunching Shuttlecocks
E! Online daily news
on Thursdays, E! Online's gossip column (Ted Casablanca is always breaking stories, and he always gets them right! Plus he's catty and fabulous to read)
Salon's daily updates of the truly horrible show Big Brother, and weekly updates of Survivor
email from my secret special Girlfriends List
eBay (danger danger danger)

offline, I read:
Premiere magazine
TV Guide
any catalog mailed to my house

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Gwen, you look pretty and happy, and I want your hair (are those highlights?).

'Gwen Danicki'. Hee!

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Gwen, what a nice article. Your picture is great!

I thought the "Gwen Danicki" was a new phrase for online journalers...

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

The Web sites I check out daily (or nearly) are:

Gwen's site, natch
Jackie Daniki's weblog and journal
Jackie Collins's journal
Squishy
Bad Hair Days
Chicklit
Tomato Nation
Plaintive Wail
Hissyfit
Arts and Letters Daily
SciTech Daily Review
The Onion (weekly)
Dave Barry's column at MiamiHerald.com, because my local paper doesn't carry him (weekly)

Damn. How do I get *any* work done?

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
I just read the Austin paper thingy and am pleased as punch, cos they did a superb job of explaining how Gwen's writing is so kickass. And I, too, liked the picture. :-)

I am cracking up, though, because of this part:

"...her e-mail list to notify people when she updates tallies 150. Of them, there's only a few that have gotten overly eager to be her buddy..."

*howl*! That's ME they're describing! Oh, so redfaced. Gwen, you must think I'm such a Freak. (But I wanna be your buddy! C'mon, please? Didn't that case of Sanrio shit and red onion jelly I sentcha sway your mood toward me a all?)

;-)

ps: I'm so glad you have the Forums. You can't believe how it's helped my html skills.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

aw, HELL. Never fails, I boast about my html-ability, and I go and leave off an "end italics" tag. I suck ass.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
and did it again. I'm going to shut up now, I swear.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
Gwen, I was about to send you mail telling you how much I love you for a completely unrelated reason (i.e., messing with the Republicans on my forum), but I can't send mail at work, so I'll just tell you here: I love you, man. Really.

And the article was really good, except at first glance I thought you said that I was the online journaler most like to have sex with another journaler. And I was thinking, "Damn, then nobody else must be getting any, because I've never had sex with another journaler!"

But talk to me after JournalCon. Maybe the wine and the Pittsburgh air will go to my head.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Gardanna, I'm on the Italian Greyhound email list, agility dogs list, agility dogs rescue list, Just for Fun agility list, Just for Fun obedience list. Dog lists are addictive. I have been on the canine epilepsy list, agility dog instructors list, pet cancer list, canine eventing list, aggressive dog list, stewards list, etc, but I dropped off a lot of them because too many of those are slanted towards one "right" opinion.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
Klee: Oh, you know I didn't mean you. (Not much.) (Just kidding!) I don't know what the hell I was talking about, coz the people I had in mind usual don't even bother to read long enough to know I have a mailing list. They just email me and talk about themselves.

Beth: it was wishful thinking. Why don't you answer my cyber-flirting emails, huh? Huh? HUH??

Dude, I'm jealous that I don't attract the hardcore Republican mens like you do. How do you do that?

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Oh, and Jackie, I guess they must be highlights. But it looks like the photographer was nice and played with the contrast level a little.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
Gwen's site is the only one I truly check daily (or more often than that) but I check out the following weekly: Disgruntled Housewife, Shelleyness, Walter Miller's homepage, The Onion, Fresh Hell, Tomato Nation, Underwired. And though I don't check it out much I have to love Bust because their expansive links section (viva la girl wide web!) helped me find lots of these fine sites.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
I just read the article. It was really good, and the picture was great. How lovely that people are acknowledging your ultra-fresh ways, Gwen.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000
Well, Gwen, I sent your hairy-man-love postcard to my man, with an invitation to get nasty later that evening, and he stone cold rejected me. Something about that hairy chest not putting him in the mood, or some crap like that. So, you know, I think you and I just need to give each other some space until I'm over this.

The Republican men-folk? I don't know how I get them. Some of them have been around for a long time. What's funny is that most of them, especially the long time readers, are among my nicest, most supportive readers. I think they make the forum more interesting.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

I totally dug the article and really liked your picture, Gwen. Truly. You look similar to two gals who are dear friends, a composite of the both of them. And like Klee, I felt myself blush at the "there's only a few that have gotten overly eager to be her buddy" part...actually I felt a cold shot of fear that it's me! it's me! I'm freakin' Gwen out! Noooooo!

So, now that I might be an official stalker... Gwen? I have a question. There's a cute shop in my town that has all that Sanrio stuff, all the characters, cute little things I didn't even know they made and I really, really want to buy you something...but I don't know what you already have! I want to get you something really unique, and I'm stumped. Then there's the problem that I don't know how to get it to you. So, I think you should post a wish list somewhere and then, um...like a PO box or something? Being the novice stalker that I am, I really don't know how people do these things. I'll probably just keep thinking of you whenever I'm in the store...wistfully. Sigh. And with all that cash burning a hole in my pocket. Dang.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

SANRIO! Jen just told me there's a huge Sanrio store in Soho, and we're going there tomorrow! Way off-topic, but still.

Oh, and I read Beth's forums because someone's usually stirring the shit on there. I love me some online drama.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Today I've been digging around Beth's forum, checking things out, but I keep finding myself just skimming for Gwen's posts. I don't "know" anybody else over there and all those conservatives give me the heebiejeebies!

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000
I read Uncle Aussie, somewhat religiously- http://www.woogly.com/daily.htm These days, also librarian.net and Obscure Store. Obscure Store has a great bunch of links off to the side, so I kind of use it as a "portal" (!) But lately they've been having far too many abused-animal stories, and it's pissing me off.

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000
I keep a very short list:



-- Anonymous, August 06, 2000
Damn damn damn. The link for Travesty is http://www.aberration.org/~t ravesty/

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2000
i lik to read Cosmo. it has great dating advise!!

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000
Y'all go check out An American Boy if you have somehow hitherto failed to do so. It's by Gustave of MBTV, whom I met in Toronto last month, and who rules several nations of my world.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2000
Also, go to www.africam.com if you haven't seen it yet. The Leopard Cam has some interesting stuff during CST daytime.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2000
I just read Go Ask Alice, which I should have read in highschool, but never did. It was a quick three hour read, and it was sad sad sad.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000
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