Chick blogs for Christ
Yeah, I know. I’m a terrible chauvinist. But there aren’t many babes who blog that hold my interest. Too many cat blogs. Too many cute kid blogs. Too many flowers. Don’t get me wrong. I like kids and flowers and all that (cats, I have a bit of trouble with but we’ll leave that alone…). Maybe it’s all the feeeeeeeeeeeelings. “How I feel about everything.” Hey gals, I’m an ENFP so I’m in touch with the touchy-feely side of things. But I don’t exactly splash my inner feelings on the world’s stage. I am after all a thrice-nominated “Thinking Blogger” and nobody gives a hoot about my warm fuzzies.
And while I’m offending everyone can I just tell you something that really makes me uncomfortable. Telling me about your menopause. Gah! I’m almost forty but it still makes me squirm like a first-grader when some colleague starts talking about her hot flashes. Can we just not?!?
But on the other hand I’m getting a bit fed up with the guy bloggers. They blog about sports. Who won. Who lost. (Inside tip: They’re all losers). And movie reviews. Get a life! And Harry Potter. Come on, dudes. Focus! And a lot of these “biblical studies” blogs are just so creaky boring that I’m thinking of yanking the whole lot of them off my blogroll and replacing them with something a bit more lively.
Here’s a short list of cool chicks. Read ‘em at your own risk.
Suzanne: She’s single-handedly hijacked Better Bibles with discussions of Ephesians 5 and Junia (or is it Junias?). But she’s so dang smart and funny that I keep reading. (Suggestion for new name: Better Bibles for Babes Blog)
Lynne: She’s the Blest Pickle in From the Pickle Jar. A rare example of religious poetry that doesn’t make me gag.
eclexia: Such a cool name and lots of cerebral/heart-wrenching posts.
Intellectuelle: I just about dropped these gals from the blogroll after a few too many pictures of flowers but on closer inspection they’ve got some good stuff on there so I’m going to hang on to them for the time being…
Laura at Pursuing Holiness and Amy at Humble Musings are also pretty cool but I’ve just started tracking them…
Well I can already feel the flames licking at my heels so I’d better run. Have a great weekend.
And I only mentioned Harry Potter to get my ratings up! Perhaps it’s OK to mention tattoos instead, not so much a guy thing?
How’d I get on your list when all I DO is splash my feelings on the world’s stage?! Still, I’m honored. I love reading all the thinking posts on yours and the blogs of people who comment on yours. I sometimes end up feeling intimidated by it all because my brain just doesn’t think that way. It’s still fun to be part of the dialogue, though. Thanks for introducing me to this venue and giving me courage to dabble my toes in it!
Come on, somebody insult me, please!!!
David, I can never figure out if you are serious or not. Here I thought I rated, with my blog making it on your list of “cool chicks” and all it was was a ploy to get people to insult YOU! I feel used
and mocked and disillusioned.
Okay, I’m not very good at insulting. That was my lame attempt at a guilt trip.
Suzanne also has a blog of her own called: Suzanne’s Bookshelf
http://powerscourt.blogspot.com/
No eclexia, just hoping that if enough people link to this post I can get my technorati rank past Peter Kirk’s technorati ranking.
Oh, that’s too funny. I hope you could tell I was joking about the insult and guilt trip. I never know. People either take me way too seriously or not seriously enough.
I’m going to be laughing all day now about a post that knocks guy bloggers who talk about sports, when the whole point of the post was to win at the sport of Technorati rankings. I didn’t even know those rankings (or that sport) existed. I’ll probably have to do a cerebral heartwrenching post on it now that I do.
You WANT to be insulted? You are my friend Mr. ENFP. I am ISFJ – you may lose some people after that post! hahahaaa I feel therefore… PPPPFFFBBBLLLTTTT! hahahaa
You know it is really hard to insult someone with your honesty ( which is an admirable quality despite our cultures bloviating otherwise).
Thanks for hanging in there on Intellectuelle- I hope this summers efforts on the blog will merit your continued interest
I’m just hurt that you don’t like my flower pictures…sniff…sniff…
just hoping that if enough people link to this post I can get my technorati rank past Peter Kirk’s technorati ranking.
Not a chance! Certainly not unless you can do better than Harry Potter no longer to be stoned to death and Is Tony Blair the Antichrist?
You’re perfecting the art of the sensational headline!
Hey, thanks for the link, you’re too kind – even if it was an insult-bait ploy.
Well, you guys/gals are just one step ahead of me. I did have fun writing this though.
You had warned me about this blog – but I loved it – but then, I know you and just love your wacky sense of humor (runs in the family.) Excuse my ignorance, but what does ENFP stand for? My lovely friends and I have come up with the name of our literary project – maybe it should be a blog if we knew how. We meet every week and relay our strange, funny and divine happenings during the week. Since we are “women of a certain age” better know in certain tribes as crones, we will be writing the Crone Chronicles – that is, if we get around to it. (and just so you know, there is not a hot flash amongst us.) Sorry! Keep up the great work on your blog, my eccentric son. Love, Mom
My comment is to say that I would never even make the ‘if there were only 2 blogger chicks on the whole earth left and you had to pick 2′ list!
I’m not sure which link led me to this post and your blog but I’m glad. Good stuff.
We recently had a ntm missionary family visit with us who are home from Pelepele (serving among the Moniga peoples). I have a better understanding than before after hearing from them. We are adopting from Ethiopia and while I know that Mozambique is far away, I realize that I have much to learn!
Well, enough rambling from a lame, picture-posting, cute-story loving, with some occasional serious posts blogger.
Lisa J
http://www.teahouselj.blogspot.com
After a quick look at your blog I predict a great future for you as a reigning priestess of the blog world. Think cats. Dogs are OK but cats are the path to feminine fame. And flowers…
OK, what do I have to do to make your list? I could post about menopause AND tell you that I don’t post about Harry Potter. I figure the menopause post (that I haven’t done yet) would prove I’m not a sycophant, and the dearth of Harry Potter posts would prove I’m not a male or not a fan of JK Rowling or something.
I’m not listening; I’m not listening.
You almost sound shocked that woman are talking about their feelings. We are woman and that’s what we do. You said how you “feel” uncomfortable about our “feelings” ironic? I think not! I think it takes great courage to say what you really think since so many people really don’t. Ciao bella!
Irvina, I had to wash my hands after reading your blog. Gaw. Talk about flowers and cats! And the s-word and recipes. I think I need to go out to the garage and sniff motor oil for a while to recover.
@Fling-A-Fish or whatever:
I challenge thee to find gushy, flowery, girly content on my site, which I unashamedly plug here and now: http://www.fether.net . I will, however, promise an abundance of lame puns, sarcasm, finger pointing, and all-around ranting. Guaranteed to insult someone.
Oh yeah:
Where’s the pictures of your cat?
You mean the one my dogs ate?
On second thought I’ll skip the pics. Nice blog all the way back to… 2001. Did people blog back then? I thought they just fed punch cards into mainframes…
Oh, that 2001 is something it made up when I converted it from my old database. I haven’t finished cleaning up. Problem is I didn’t put dates on articles in the early years (2003? 2004?), so I’d have to guess anyway. I’ll just let people think I’ve been blogging that long. Actually, some of it predates 2001 because it started out from the notes I’ve taken all my life as I’ve studied the Bible.
I did the punch card thing in college though. Ah, those were the days… waiting in line for a keypunch machine, waiting in line to run the stack of cards through The Computer (IBM System/3!), then waiting again for the keypunch machine because of some silly typo… Then at work we had this awesome 9MB hard disk! Wow! And 8.5 inch floppies. And terminals instead of those infernal keypunch machines. We never heard of The Internet till electronics school in the late 1980s.
Yeah, I’m old.
Keep it up. Lots of good writing there. And it’s a good-looking site, actually rather masculine. Old man, boat, books on top. Maybe if you change your color scheme to lavender I can name you a “chick blog.”
Tanx! But… lavender?? I admit the dark blue is a little too corporate, but I just don’t know about lavender. On the other hand, being a girl and all, I do like to rearrange the furniture and paint the walls for no reason sometimes.