What Was Mustang Bobby Thinking?
For whatever reason the proprietor of Bark Bark Woof Woof has tagged my dismal effort as a blog that makes him think. This is may be a result of so many years spent writing in Russian, or writing official reports, which makes my syntax “unusual.”
The participation rules are simple:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote
While “I don’t need no theenking blogger award,” I’m including it for completeness [and the cheap joke].
I believe everyone on my blogroll makes me think, but five people who lead me to stories I might not otherwise notice would be:
Andante of Collective Sigh
Michael of Musing’s musings
Karen of Peripetia
Jams of Poor Mouth
Ellroon of Rants from the Rookery
They are free to post or no, based on their own inclinations.
13 comments
Well – Thankee for including me in the *Makes me Thinkers* Category! And as we read some of the same folks – I’d also count some of them (AND YOU) in this Thinkers Description. (Or as Banana Slug once put it: “Blogs Not Run By Idiots!” But for the sake of spreading the meme…I’ll choose folks not on your list. And If you don’t see your name…It’s not because You don’t make me think – but tis only a Short List of 5 Folks and my Blog Bookmarks has several hundred folks on it! *smile*
That’s why Steve Bates didn’t make my list, Bobby already tagged him, and five is pretty limiting.
Five is limiting…I’m struggling right now…but thanks for the tag!
Actually, Ellroon, you don’t need things to write about, you have a prodigious output from an array of sources. I obviously read a lot slower than you do.
Mustang Bobby knew what he was linking about! The blogs you’ve tagged are really think pushers, too.
and that’s why the preview button should be used…
Thought Pushers, I meant!
OWL: I like “think puhers.” Has a neat sound to it.
Yes, but limiting to five is a problem because both of you, OWL & CG, are also visual artists which forces thought into a different frame of reference. You shouldn’t limit your choices of reading or you end up with the Shrubbery.
Thanks for the tag Bryan. Much appreciated
Well, I added Steve to my list (cause I didnt see he was already tagged) and I had a couple of Two-Fer Bloggers who post at multiple Sites (and I think Heretik might be a Three-fer over at American Street) But it reminds me to redo and update my list…*WHEW* this is a lot of WORK cause I have lots of places I visit – and I might have to skip the MSM and News Services altogether – IF I can even get through my a-z lists!
Cat people have to stick together, Jams, even if there’s a few miles and negligible pond between them. We are linked by the Gulf Stream.
Karen, you do too much already, but people need to know that.
Good list, Bryan, and a real groaner of a pun. Now I feel a need to dig out… no, not the movie… the song by King and Brandow, “We don’t need no steenking badges.”
When I decided to accept Bobby’s tag (and, as I later found out, Karen’s), I resolved to list the first five thought-provoking bloggers that came to mind who were not already tagged by our immediate circle (as you, Karen, jams and OWL had been by the time I found the post). Anything else would have been crazy-making. I like the list I came up with well enough, but all these hours later, I find myself saying, “OMG, how could I have omitted [fill in blog name here].” I probably read 20 or 30 blogs a day on a non-workday; five is too small a number to do justice to the bloggers out there.
At least we helped that (apparently) young blogger drive up his search engine rankings, which I presume was his original purpose.
While I assume that was part of the plan, it is also nice to know where memes originate. I would hate to think I was driving up ad revenue to Instaputz so he could afford to hire ninjas to attack something.