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January 6, 2007
Wasting Time . . .
. . . and trying to pretend that my deadline doesn't really exist.
I’m in that stressful period of rewriting that George calls The Badlands, which means that I’ve been finding new and better ways to procrastinate. Thank God for the Internet. I can’t imagine what writers did before to waste time . . . they probably had to clean their houses, or something equally wretched.
Here’s a smattering of the new websites I’m hooked on:
1. Hungry Girl. This website is amazing . . . I started browsing it, and ended up spending over an hour reading all of HG’s back posts. It’s full of all sorts of fantastic diet food ideas. I’ve already ordered the GNU bars . . . and the CocoaVia bars . . . and bought the ingredients to make Yum Yum Brownie Muffins . . . and rethought my stance on fake-meat products . . .
2. Lainey’s Entertainment Update. I’m totally hooked on this site. I don’t know where this Lainey chick gets her dirt, but she seems to know everything. Or at least all of the important stuff, like what’s really going on in the Witherspoon/Philippe divorce and the machinations that are the Tom Cruise publicity machine. This is the go-to website for all of your need-to-know celebrity gossip . . . and lots of stuff you don’t need to know, but is fun to learn about anyway.
3. Mighty Goods Shopping Blog. I almost hate to look at Mighty Goods, because I don’t even know that I want need all of the things I want need until I see them here . . . and then I have to have them all. The ultimate shopping source for all sorts of fun, funky and totally hip items. Just try to control yourself.
4. IMDB. This is an oldie, but a goody, especially if – like George and I – you can’t watch a movie without obsessing over who some actor is and where you’ve seen him before. Just click, click, click over to IMDB, and voila, the knowledge is yours. For example, did you ever wonder what happened to that chick who played Madeleine Stowe's younger sister in Last of the Mohicans? Well, now you know.
So, tell me chicklets, what else is out there in the Web Wide World? And could meatless food products possibly be that good?
Posted by Whitney at 6:00 AM | Comments (5)
Comments
I look for humour in my nets. Smart Bitches have a new Man Titty today and the other day at Faster Than Kudzu Joshilyn Jackson told the boobs in Paris story. Just a couple.
Meatless food products can only be that good if they are fruit or vegies.
Posted by: wendy at January 6, 2007 5:31 PM
I am the queen of procrastination. You need to check out http://www.celebrity-babies.com/ . I spend lots of time just reading various blogs and sites. This one sometimes has some simple, yet great ideas for us WAHM http://wahm-business.momswithaspine.com/
Posted by: Alexis at January 6, 2007 8:55 PM
As far as entertainment websites go, I've gotten very addicted to perezhilton.com. He can get a little raunchy, but he updates his site about a bazillion times a day so there's almost always something new. Don't know where or how he gets his info, but he's got an 'in' somewhere!
Posted by: margge at January 9, 2007 8:24 PM
Who's got time for new places? I have to check out the LC every day to make sure I didn't miss anything over here. Then it's off to HW/SW for my daily lesson. Arch Ink gets a looksee to make sure Jenny is keepiing her poromise to blog more often. Then of course I have to check out Faster Than Kudzu because Joss is too funny! And Dee and Dee's sites--their book reviews and their blogs. And then if I have some spare time I might go over to my own blogs and write something there. By the time I am done, I don't have any more time for my own writing because now I have to make dinner or do the dishes or whatever else needs doing here at home. And now that I have the laptop, I can be on the 'net ANYWHERE I want!! My husband thought I was just going to use it to write--silly, naive man....
Posted by: Sheri at January 9, 2007 9:30 PM
Well, Storknotes is a given. Then let's see, I enjoy piddling around on MySpace... WOW there are some interesting people in this world! Shocking the things I find there! And then for mindless time wasting free computer games... pogo.com PopIt rocks, but then so do the word games. I need to broaden my net horizons!
Posted by: Lisa at January 16, 2007 11:01 PM
