Blog it Forward V

The word has come down from my main man, Buzz that today is BIF V.

Your task today will be to pick someone (or sometwo or somethree) off of your blogroll and let us know why you feel that they are linkworthy. What is it about them that prompted you to link them? Are they funny? Are they philosophical? Do they produce wonderful photographs? Maybe you just feel a kinship towards them.

This is getting harder to do. I'm not kidding myself into believing I'm bestowing huge honors on people by BIFing them. But I take this seriously, ya know? Okay, I won't bore you with my entire thought process and BIFing policy and I'm totally overthinking this and I'm getting to the point, I swear. (I'm loving using "BIF" as a verb, by the way.)

All that said, the first pick was a cinch. It's the fabulous Kelley of Suburban Blight. Because I met her and I luv huh. I wish I could find a better way to convey it than, "she's the Bomb Diggety!" but that's all I got at the moment. As for why you should read the blog since we don't all have the pleasure of actually hanging out with Miss Kelley (and I wish I did more often), it's a good mix of personal stuff and issues and personal takes on the issues. Which I like because too much talk about "the issues" bores me to death (with a few minor exceptions), and I drift towards blogs where I can get a feel for the person behind it. She smaht lady and her sense of humor jives with mine.

I first ran across Suburban Blight... I think it was last summer some time. Didn't pay all that much attention but I knew she was out there, this "conservative lady blogger from Atlanta." Her links get around. And then I found myself on AIM with her a few times and, ya know, a little interaction with someone goes a long way. That cuts both ways, of course, but in this case it was a good thing. So anyway, meeting her just amped all those positive vibes up a hundred notches because she is all that and more. Luv huh.

My second BIF target is Natalie from Picklejuice. Natalie's one of the longer residents of my blogroll. She's the only local blogger I'm interested in meeting that I haven't yet. She's... um... kinda out there sometimes. I think it's just that her sense of humor is more highly evolved than mine (where by "sense of humor" I mean "neuroses" but I mean that in the nicest possible way). Anyway, she runs the gambit on topics, defies categorization, and can work up some vim and vigor on anything and everything. Most times, I finish reading a post and am left thinking, "Huh?" Above all, she just seems pretty cool and I see a barbecue and some beers (and wines, and liquors) in our future. And thanks to her I now use the word "sexswah."

I'm trying to remember how I even found her in the first place, as I'm sure I discovered her before I discovered GeoURL, but I can't. I think one of the first comments I made over there had something to do with cute pictures of Nico.

Anyhoo, that's my fifth installment of Blog It Forward. Feel free to share the love and participate.