WARNING: These bloggers may not suit individual palettes. There is frequent swearing, some not so Christian themes, and other things that may just not tickle your funny bone. If you don’t like them, comment on their damn sites. I’m just a conduit.
www.laineygossip.com Let’s start with Lainey Lui – she started a little newsletter a few years back just for friends who wanted to hear celebrity scandals. Her hairdresser and makeup artist friends in the film industry in British Columbia would toss her little nuggets of celeb gossip and she’d share them with a growing list of readers. Eventually, she launched www.laineygossip.com and started selling ads there. The website is now a family business, employing her husband and several contributors who post every day. She’s written a book about her mother the infamous “Chinese squawking chicken.” Lui also hosts both ETalk Canada and The Social. More importantly, she opens peoples’ eyes to the world of Hollywood and not in the who-is-dating who-and who-is-pregnant-now kind of way. She’s taught me that the best marketing mind in the world is Angelina Jolie and possibly even Miley Cyrus. Don’t believe me. Check out the site. Her quick wit and several well-written daily posts have made her arguably the most successful blogger in Canada. |
www.Dooce.com Arguably the most famous blogger in the history of the Internet, Heather B. Armstrong used to be known as the woman who got fired for blogging about her job. Then she was the woman whose family disowned her because of her blog. Then she was the post-partum depression survivor/evangelist for mental health. She was the first blogger openly shunned for exploiting her kids for web hits. Her divorce made national headlines in the United States. She taught the world how to use/not use the Internet for good. Recently she’s run a marathon, taken on maternal health in developing nations with Christy Turlington. And she’s done all of this with a sense of humour that has truthfully gotten me through some of the toughest days of my adult life. Armstrong has literally found a tribe, her website now hosts a community where men and women the world over communicate about raising kids, making mistakes, gab about food and movies, and so much more. Oh, also she has written three books. You know, no big deal. This is the blogger I want to be when I grow up. She’s owned up to her mistakes, made amazing discoveries, shown me things I wouldn’t know if she wasn’t in my life. She made me love Interpol and Arcade Fire. I love her and am so pleased she’s a part of my day-to-day existence. Oh, and she lives in Utah – which means I would probably never have met this person who inspires me. How frigging rad is that? |
www.thebloggess.com The Bloggess – ah, the most eccentric of my online guilty pleasures. Jenny Lawson. This woman has also found her weird, wacky, online tribe. She makes me believe I’ve found mine in her comments section. This blog has taxidermy, nudity (not real nudity), unicorns, cats, real and really surreal conversations with her husband and friends and a sense of wonder and imagination that rival the most amazing sci-fi writers on the planet. Her book “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir,” was the read of the summer for me last year. Well, only partially cause it only took me two afternoons to read it. Her run on sentences and daily battles with kitchen appliances, and her love for Doctor Who; it’s all very relatable. Mostly. Lawson is another person I consider to be a part of my life, but who lives in Texas and whom I never would have met without the wonderful invention of the Internet. Oh, and her cats are named Ferris Mewler and Hunter S. Thomcat So, you know. |
These are my grown up imaginary friends and just like my real friends I buy what they’re shilling. These three women have turned their passions into their businesses and vice versa. They are Internet heroes and make every day better for me and thousands of others. If that’s not a business model you should emulate than I don’t know what is.
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