Stabilizing the Blog...

Well, I have to see the blog chaos as not all that bad, as it gives me the opportunity to add links again and properly introduce each one with some comments. I will add a few each day. Since the folks I list are probably the principle readers and all know each other's blogs, this is probably redundant, but why not?

First is fellow Sacramentan Jeff Culbreath's El Camino Real. Jeff is a printer, a traditionalist, and is interested in California's Catholic history and culture. He lives close to where I grew up, and I have met Jeff in person, as I have also met...

Alicia Huntley of Fructus Ventris. Alicia writes about all sorts of interesting things, from literature to food to medicine to politics. She is an exile from the Golden State, so she gets second listing here.

Since California is known for citrus, it makes sense to next list Stephen Riddle's Flos Carmeli. I am not sure what a dentist would think of caramel floss, but I haven't been to one of those white-jacketed sadists in over 12 years, so I don't care. I do know that Stephen writes well about the arts, culture, religion (particularly Carmelite spirituality), literature, and the universe in general.

Tomorrow I will list and comment on three more.

AND,

For introductions to the ones that were already up there:

Pink Mochi is Ann's website design business. She is good and easy to work with. I have known Ann for something like 17 years and recommend her without reservations. She is also a good percussionist (she plays Western concert percussion, Japanese taiko and this really cool Korean percussion music that I cannot for the life of me remember what it is called).

Art Goblin is the site of my artist friend Jared Gutekunst. It is hard to describe his paintings, but he really knows his stuff. He is also a member of the Lectura Dantis that I belong to. Jared is a graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts, which had a major role to play in the Bay Area Figurative movement.

As for Lileks, well, he really needs no introduction, does he?