I mostly avoid responding to memes (boring of me, I know) but this one’s quite interesting, and it is still spiritually if not literally August, so I’m going to rise to the challenge of citing five non-law blogs I like. Mind you, I have trouble with numbers so you’ll get a couple more. To start off with, the one I can’t mention officially is my old mate Shyama’s blog, which is now defunct. Pity, it was fun.
So first, and most seriously, Jon Worth’s Euroblog is a good place on the web to discuss EU stuff from a non-legal angle, but well beyond that he covers politics from a Labour viewpoint as well. Second, the first of my historic writers’ blogs: the Orwell Diaries. I can’t say how much I admire George Orwell as a writer, and while a lot of this is bound to be domestic pottering, I still think it’s fab that his diaries are now being blogged. Next, a blog that’s visual. I’m only an amateur and dabbler but I do have a real thing about the modern calligraphy that is type – fonts and all that – and so I’m a fan of I love Typography. If you like looking at the typed and printed word, it’s a kind of porn. Now the second of my dead white males blogs, Pepys’ Diary. What can I say about this? He really was an early adopter. Finally, the West End Whingers are fearless and fun reviewers of theatre in London and beyond, and recently invented the Fram scale for measuring the turkeynessness of bloody awful plays.
So those are my five. Perhaps, though, this is a good opportunity to tell readers of Head of Legal about my own non-legal blog, freelanceintellectual.com (a pretentious name, I know: I let myself get talked into it). Visitors and commenters very welcome!
Now, numbers are going to be a bit dodgy again, partly because I’ll tag that Law Minx but a bit half-heartedly as I know she’s busy. I’ll also go for Nearly Legal and Usefully Employed, plus the Bank Law Blogger in case she needs to ease up from the banky stuff. But that’s still only four, even with La Minx, so I’m going to tag Ralf Grahn over in Helsinki at Grahnlaw and the Oxford/Melbourne Skepticlawyer team of Helen Dale and Legal Eagle.
EEEEE! You naughty person!! I shall endeavour to respond forthwith!!
(*goes off to examine nature of meme and tag simply THOUSANDS of people, PARTICULARLY itnerant undergraduate student nurses, because they are getting on the minx nerve, insisting, as they do, on calling the poor old snail in Donoghue ” Colin” – what sort of teacher am I if I cant make clear the nature of the duty of care given that the sight of a snail on top of a bottle as part of a powerpoint presentation induces nothing but fits of giggles?!!!*)
Aaargh. Carl, you, you nuisance, you. A couple of quibbles…
i) I am a meme graveyard.
ii) Most of the other blogs I read are unutterably tech geek.
If this meme lives, it will be on ‘Beside the Point’ (http://nearlylegal.wordpress.com),as Nearly Legal is now a team effort and therefore devoid of me going off at a tangent.