wishbone clover

UpTake Travel Blog is Such a Cool Gig

UpTake Blog Network from UpTake Networks on Vimeo.

UpTake, the travel site for which I write (for whom? it does seems like an entity some days) about hotels made this amazing thank you for all of its (her?) bloggers.

It's a video tour of all of our personal sites! With a cute song, from Frisk. Fresh. Freette. FEIST! That's her name.

Whew, that was a rough five minutes of memory digging and googling!

And thank you UpTake, for the video link love.

Link Love/Where I'm At

As I've mentioned before, I've been busy with a couple of other gigs and distracted from my wishbone clover duties. In case you've been wondering, here's where you can find me when it's too quiet here:

Styledash, where I write about nail polish, celebrities and jewelry. Yes, just like here, except with fewer swear words, plus they pay me.

Green Daily, where I write about how screwy PETA is, how much I love Orangutans and celebrities. Oh, and my crush on Al Gore.

TONIC News Network, where I write a feel good column every Wednesday. Last week I wrote about the amazing Australian Olive Riley, who was the oldest blogger in the world at 108. I'll be writing more about her soon. Also, I think you'll recognize the names of some of the other contributors...

What a Bargain! is my blog about...bargains. Whenever I run into someone who brags about a great find, I take a picture and post the story. I want to include everyone, so send your bargains to: share.a.bargain AT gmail DOT com.

Lucky Cat Photography is my photo site. Mainly I do portraits of kids and families, but I have portfolios of other stuff, too, like nuns and the private parts on statues.

If you're sick of me and want some other cool surfing stuff, check out:

My cool sister Julz's new shop on Cafe Press. You need a t-shirt, right?

Mourn the loss of Big Papi oops, Chief informs me it was Manny, my bad, guess I'm not really that broken up,huh? by making a Red Sox bobble head on this awesome site, discovered by my brilliant friend FromSF.

Feeling strong? Want to feel even stronger? Sign up to do the Pushup Challenge with my buddy Kristen.

Meanwhile, I'll be over here sipping gin and juice with my BFF Stefania. Most of you know her as CityMama and my concert partner in crime. She's also one of the founders of MOMocrats.  What started out as three moms blogging to support John Edwards is now a full-on political sounding board, with several bright and informed women contributing to the effort to put a democrat to the White House. They' even got invited to the DNC!

That should keep you busy for a while, at least until I find more things to write about Kim Kardashian
on Dancing With The Stars. Please let her be partnered with Maks!

Six Random Things: A Meme

Citymama tagged us with the 6 Random Things meme a couple of weeks ago. Even though we love a meme,
we're late getting it up. We'll get to the excuses in a minute. First the administrivia:

1. Link to the person who tagged you. See above.
2. Post the rules on your blog. Right here.
3. Write six random things about yourself. See below.
4. Tag six random people  at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. Oh God, fromsf is going to ignore our meme tag again...but we're still tagging her
5. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website. We'll keep it clean. Mostly.
6. Let your  tagger know when your entry is up. Hey Stefania! We're not lame after all!

Okay, here's the stuff about us. Partly we're late because our whole blog is about random things, and partly because there are three of us to coordinate on a group post like this. Which leads us to random item #1:

There are three of us posting here. A lot of people miss this, perhaps because all of our "names" start with "C" - colleen, cheapgirl and cat. We think we have relatively distinct voices, but obviously we all like the same kinds of things. See our bio page for slightly more information about us here.

Friday Link Love

Cat lurves bossip, a site focusing on African American celebs. Current headlines: "Who Looked More Bangin'?" "Is That You, Pookie?" and "Are You Feelin' This Get-Up?"

Colleen lurves a full belly, a blog about eating well in NYC, especially this post about Aaron's tattoo. Dude! I want that! No, I don't mean the carrot. The fabulous Marco pinged my blackberry jam on his blog, Cook Here and Now. I am in awe of his farmer's market photos.

cheapgirl lurves not reading websites during her digital hiatus. Except maybe ours.

Friday Link Love - September 7

Cat's recommendations today:

• Don't you wish your boyfriend was this funny?
• I'm on record as loving Val Kilmer and his interpretations of "special" material. Someone else shares my  perspective: Top Gun Recut.
• By way of FromSF, a delicious Edward Gorey presentation of The Trouble with Tribbles.

From Colleen:

• I'm reading Hedonia, the brilliant Sean Timberlake's San Francisco food blog, which includes overheard conversations, recipes, reviews and money shots of delicious dishes. Tell me you were not enchanted by that muffuletta picture (caption: "Least Vegetarian Sandwich Ever"); I shall call you a liar.
• When I got to China, one of my first trips was to a quick-e mart to see what types of candy the Chinese eat. I love candy, and I love Candy Blog, which rates sugary delights on a scale of superb to inedible, and give purchasing information so you can hunt down that limited-edition German marzipan.
• And it's not a blog, but I love to check out the gorgeous samples at Starshaped Press, and plot the stationery I want to make when Jennifer is back from her baby leave. Um, she crafted posters for Shellac? Count me in for whatever design services she offers to normal folks.