Ask Dr. Ding

Dr. Ding is proud to share with you her proto-blogroll of Houston bloggers she met at Mama Drama Con Queso II!

Sk*rt – Very cool, innovative concept for this website! You can find almost anything you need here, from organic tampons to simple tips on world domination. Imagine the possibilities.

El Blog de Jamie – I have one thing to say, sashay, chantay. No, seriously, it’s: Jamie had green punk hair! Old school. I give props.

chookooloonks – Photoblogger extraordinaire. I LOVE Karen’s stuff. All of it. Gorgeous and lush. I mean lush in the non-alcoholic sense.

Slices from the Pearlady — Dr. Ding thought she was 18 upon meeting her, but despite that, she wouldn’t cough up the name of her goddamned moisturizer. I’m jealous of this blog’s interactivity and layout.

The Bloggess – The one, the only. She loves 80s Goth/Punk as much as Dr. Ding. Plus, she’s my heroine for having, with utter eclát, once appropriated a corset that belonged to a ghost-town prossie.

The Fuzzball – Hi. Lar. I. Ous. Around the world and backsnap, sweetie! She makes Dr. Ding want to be a fallen debutante too.

Who Cries Over Spilled Milk? – Dr. Ding now feels like a total tool for barely being able to take care of herself, The Beyonce, and Pooperella, because WCOSM’s kids a) don’t poop in the living room and b) well, see a).

Big Pink Cookie – Soul sister! We saw Star Wars in the same movie theater in the year of its release. In another state. She’s a knitta, and if Dr. Ding had dranken another glass of medicinal martini, I would have had to appropriate her scarf.

Cybertoad — Dr. Ding lurves the gorgeous green color of her blog. If I weren’t a shrink, my hair would be that color. Plus, isn’t Cybertoad just a nifty name, like something a Superheroine should have?  Methinks the answer is yes.

Pup Scouts – I need to call her, stat. This blog has everything you ever wanted to know about dogs, and more. Amazingly complete.

If I met you, didn’t list you above, and/or inflicted a long-winded, raphsodic narrative on you extolling the many gastronomical virtues of bacon and queso, please shoot me an email and remind me so I can put you in the Blogroll. Dr. Ding was all a-twitter meeting people who didn’t smell of despair and soiled diapers*, and forgot to write everyone’s name down.

So, loyal readers, please visit my treasured bloggish colleagues. Texas, and particularly Houston is a tad short on free-thinking, progressive, creative people who don’t run around in ostentatiously expensive gear, crying “Ladidah, well I do declare, who tore the Prada bumper sticker off my leased Benz? Smell my money! Smell it! Smellllllll it.™ ”

Bloggers are sorely needed to provide an antidote to mass-produced, (non)intellectual consumerism; we’re a refreshing blast of DIY cold air amid the twice-breathed miasma of popular periodicals and whatever AOL or Amazon thinks your ass should be reading. Click on the ads, too, dammit, so we can continue to chase the queso dragon. Mean it.

*Dr. Ding spends approximately 100% of her clinical time in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. I probably need to get out more.