I have been sidelined from blogging by a variety of managerial hooha. Too bad! In the meanwhile these Salon blogs will keep you quite satisfied, and lead you to many others:
She’s Actual Size.
Radio Free Blogistan.
Reverse Cowgirl.
Different Strings.
Wozz.
Exploded Library.
Toby’s Political Diary.

Thoughtful exchange between The Raven and Rob Salkowitz on art and terrorism: Damien Hirst’s thoughtless comments about 9/11 being “visually stunning” and Eric Fischl’s controversial sculpture “Woman Tumbling.” Also good reading: Salkowitz’s further thoughts in this article — ostensibly a review of a stage show (!) based on Greil Marcus’ “Lipstick Traces”. Choice quote: “The tragedy of 9/11 is that it took airplanes flying into buildings to blast away the accumulated layers of phoniness, commercialism and propaganda that cloud our vision. And even that didn’t last.”

Foodies, get thee hence to the Julie/Julia Project, which is continuing voluminous chronicles of “extreme cooking”: “How in God’s name do people do multicourse meals? This is French Cooking for the servantless American cook, remember?!”

	This is how we wanted it to be! Leslie Blanton describes ending up blogging “by accident”: “I had been up examining Salon’s weblogs, and started one kinda by accident. Thought I’d see how hard it would be to download the free software. Now here I am minutes later, crafting my first posting.”
	Kriselda of Different Strings critiques that company that’s renting Bowdlerized Hollywood movies: “I have to wonder how they would feel if someone took a good, wholesome, family-oriented movie, and, in order to fit in with their desire to see more sex and violence, added scenes of shoot-outs and orgies to it, and then rented it to whomever. I doubt many people would be willing to agree that they have a right to make such changes, and there’d certainly be an outcry over the ‘degredation’ of these clean-cut films.”
	Michel Vuijlsteke is climbing up the rankings, thanks it seems to some flurry of interest in one Veronique de Cock’s chest. Which isn’t to say that this bilingual blog doesn’t deserve as much traffic as it gets.

	Ken Schellenberg reviews Arthur Phillips’ “Prague,” David Denby’s “Great Books,” and the Criterion DVD reissue of the complete films of Dreyer.
	Kat Donohue lists the “stupid” things she likes. (Historical footnote: “Yoyodyne” does appear in “Buckaroo Banzai,” but the smart people who made that movie actually took it from Pynchon’s “Crying of Lot 49” — which is always worth reading.)
	Read this story from Maxine.
	Ken Dow loves Radio Paradise, as I do: I owe my current wishlist on CDNow entirely to the discovery of RadioParadise. Shut that down and who knows when I’ll hear something worth buying.” (Note to Ken: Your nice template design unfortunately does something that makes your links not work in my browser, Opera.)

	Rich Kuslan’s Asia Business Intelligence is tracking the whole China-blocking-Google phenomenon.
	Tom Fox, blogging from Paris, notes that apparently McDonald’s in France recommends that customers only visit once a week. “Does the company make such suggestions to its American customers?” he asks. (I sure doubt it.)
	Pesky the Rat: Political satire with a rodential edge. “The DMCA, or Duplication & Multiplication of Chickens Act, seeks to regulate the reproductive habits of our barnyard friends.” “Bush misinterprets UN Map of falafel stands.”

0ne of the refreshing things about cruising the Salon blogspace tonight: It’s not all about 9/11.

	On Gnosis, Morgan Sandquist says OSX browsers aren’t rendering text very well. Do others find this so? I’m likely to take the plunge on a new Mac for home this autumn. Our old hardware won’t run OSX of course.
	Stephanie Losi, who worked as Salon’s first intern many years ago and who has gone on to other illustrious things, has a new Salon blog: Neurotic Oasis Goes to School. Learn one new thing each day — today, HTML and Chicken Kiev. (She’s also been blogging over at Neurotic Oasis.)
	Toby Sackton is blogging from Lexington, Mass., against war-on-terror hysteria. “What happened last year was real. What is being replayed today is not. When you feel your society being manipulated on a grand scale, a first reaction is to opt out, to withdraw. But if you don’t withdraw, you feel you are opposing an almost unbelievable power — like a storm that you cannot possibly influence or control.” He also reports from a “September Eleventh Families for a Peaceful Tomorrow” event in Boston.
	Rob Salkowitz has unearthed a quote from E.B. White from 1949 that’s eerily prescient: “The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructable. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions.”
	Mark Hoback’s “Green — a 911 Psychodrama” joins the fine “Plan B” in the rarefied realm of Salon blog-novels.
	Child abuse among Jehovah’s Witnesses — Mike Pence reports on Dances with Cactus.
	Susannah Breslin asks a funny “Ten Salon Blog questions.” “Who is Scott Rosenberg–really?” I’ve been wondering that myself.
	Christian Crumlish’s Radio Free Blogistan is doing an awfully good job of keeping up with doings in blog-land, Salon’s and elsewhere. He beat me to the punch to mention that I will be talking on a panel at the UC Berkeley J-School on Sept. 17, along with a variety of other fine people like J.D. Lasica, Rebecca Blood, Meg Hourihan and Dan Gillmor, about blogging and journalism.

Some very cool Salon blogs that I have somehow missed until now:

Calton Bolick is blogging from Japan. Check out this list of Japanese museums: My god, there’s a Ramen Museum!

Marcie Crofoot is running for Queen of America on this platform: “All garbage will be illegal. You’ll just have to create something from whatever you have left over. No exceptions. Okay. One exception. Diapers.”

Julie Powell is chronicling amazing culinary adventures over at the Julie/Julia Project.

Enaren: Culture and politics, emphasis on TV. (Is that Elvish in the title?)

The Reverse Cowgirl’s Blog is self-described as Susannah Breslin’s “attempt to justify the enormity of her porn collection.”

Music and book reviews from Paulapalooza.

More later!