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My mom tagged me. Yes my mom blogs; yes my mom is cooler than yours.

Premio Dardos means “prize darts” in Italian and is awarded for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary and personal values in the form of creative and original writing. The rules are as follows:

1. Accept the award by pasting the graphic on your blog along with the name of the person who granted the award and a link to his/her blog.
2. Pass the award to another 15 blogs that are worthy of acknowledgment, remembering to contact each so they know they have been selected.

Thanks for your tag, Mom - you named a third of the blogs I'd use (well that would include Bev, who linked to you). Therefore, I'll do my best to come up with fifteen but am also going to have to link to the ones to whom I'd have linked if they weren't mutual friends. Many of the blogs I read are locked, and a few are too public to respond.

I am NOT fucking including Tweets. I cannot include MySpace blogs because I want people to look at these blogs, and MySpace isn't always the safest click. Besides, often, my friends' MySpace blogs are locked half the time, and the suggestion is to link to public blogs - the idea is to share really good writing.

Please do not leave comments telling me who I should have tagged. I am trying to keep "should" out of my vocabulary. If you don't like my choices, mine isn't the place to make "corrections."

1. Castlehom - my friend Shannon's dad - he's become my friend over the past few years
2. Cyberoutlaw's Hideout - his photography is superb, and his stories are creepy because they could be true. i HIGHLY recommend his noir collection Burning in the Heat, which I desperately need to review
3. Famous by proxy - Shannon's fiancee. She's crafty and cooky and kooky and funny and I like her
4. Lara - she will probably be posting more. She's one of my favorite people on the planet
5. Fallen Angel - the perfect example of biology not making a family. Politically, I disagree with half of what he says. Doesn't matter - he says it eloquently
6. Red Shoooes n Inky Fingers - full of crafty goodness! a lady I know from a modification group comprised of some good people and a few shitheads a lifestyle that's no longer part of my life but I love the crafts and we'll share ideas once I can figure out how to make my sewing machine stitches stay put
7. Scarybaldguy - another perfect example of biology not making a family. computer guru. dad. crazy cat man (as opposed to crazy cat lady). we have a movie snuggle date as soon as I can afford to move to Phoenix
8. Shannon Larratt is Zentastic - i'd known Shannon in a modification group comprised of some good people and a few shitheads a lifestyle that's no longer part of my life, but I'm glad he's still around
9. The First Church of Common Sense - she works with the downtrodden and describes the interoffice bullshit beautifully
10. Twelve 28 Tattoo - the blog of tattoo ARTIST Joy Rumore
11. WHaT WaS I THiNKiNG WHeN I SHuT MY MouTH? - OMG this is awesome. It's the archives of my friend Lianna's blog. I've known her since before I'd started stretching my earlobes. That's a long time. If you'd like to read the archives of a journalist who knows a bunch of psychotic people, this is it.

These are the blogs that won't follow along with the game, but which I feel are worth reading

• PROTECT - the National Assoication to Protect Children
• Chris Rose - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - he wrote 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
• The Consumerist
• Food Driven - forget the ice cream truck; this is a CUPCAKE truck in New Haven and someday I'll read the blog with enough time to get to the day's location!
• Geoff Fox - when he publishes his photography, you'll forget that he's our local meteorologist
• White House.gov Blog Feed - I love that we live in such progressive times. The White House is almost as cool as my mom, blog-wise.

I'd also add the ones that my mom had also listed:

1. Zen and Chocolate - I wait for her email, saying that she's updated.
2. Cosmic’s Corner
3. fmd - my darling Quin, who is the mother of our son Taylor, the recipient of (why the hell would he want when he's on a Naval ship in the middle of nowhere) Ramen soup
4. The Purple Chai
5. Airy Persiflage