Rockin Girl Award, Part Deux

Right, so the awards must go on. Here are my five picks for Rockin’ Girl Bloggers (in alpha order):

1. Recovering Baptist over at Martini Ministry. Honest to God, reading her blog has made me shed tears of laughter. She has a knack for exposing human weakness in the funniest possible way. Be sure to check out her recent post about being a porn-virgin no more. For those who are currently on some sort of dieting adventure (so that would be, I don’t know, I’m guessing 90% of us) you have to check out her Diet Chronicles they’re an absolute scream.
2. The Dirty Catholic. With a tagline of “You can’t believe they let me work in a church? Neither can I” how can you not be intrigued? She’s a very down to earth person who whole heartedly embraces her faith, swears like a sailor, and talks about sex. Needless to say, she’s one of my favorites.
3. Rockgrrl. She’s my first friend on Cape Cod under 60. She also happens to be the reason my blog exists at all. She’s tremendously smart and witty. The day after I read her blog from beginning to end I declared that she was who I wanted to be when I grew up, signed up for a blog, and started to copy her in every way I knew how. Because that’s what friends do. Or was that just the plot to Single White Female? I think I might be getting them confused. Anyway, you should check her out over at The Duneshack.
4. Alice Bradley of Finslippy is one hell of a blogger, she also happens to be a professional-writer in real life. Her blog is filled with funny stories about moving to the Jersey suburbs, having a child, and she does this all while using some damn gorgeous prose. I believe there was a time (read: a few weeks ago) where I wrote her a half-drunk email telling her how much I loved her. All the sentiments were true, I only wish I had written it while I was sober, I have a feeling it would have come across a little less, well, creepy.
5. I’m pretty sure I also wrote Aunt B of Tiny Cat Pants a similar drunken email. Friends, don’t let your friends drink and email. It’s always embarrassing the next day. Always. Nevertheless, Aunt B’s blog is fantastic. She’s an incredibly smart and funny liberal feminist from Tennessee. Her posts are always thought-provoking; sometimes they touch a nerve and things get rowdy. I don’t know about you but I love rowdy people, so this is the place to be for that kind of thing.

I’m pretty sure my restraining orders don’t extend to emails, so I’m off to write a few (completely sober) notes to see if any of these fine gals feel like participating in the Awards Gala. I’m keeping my fingers crossed because some of these women are weighty blog contenders and I’m feeling a little nervous. You know what would make me feel a little less nervous right about now? Beer.

 (((Update))) Hrmph. Looking over this list this morining it now occurs to me that my list is so totally NOT in alpha order that it’s embarrassing to admit I was a Literature major, completely sober while writing it, and that I claim to be able to read at all. Can I at least say I was very very tired?