" I Say a Little Prayer"

Inspired by posts on /. and many other sites for years, I thought I'd ask a rather obvious question. Where do you go everyday? Online I mean. What are your must see sites. We've talked music and movies plenty, and I've given up a few of my favored time wasters. But I want a good long list from many sources.

Do you read the news online? MSN? Yahoo? Google News? Do you read music reviews, check out early news on comic books, read celebrity blogs?

Here, in no particular order, is a list of sites I find time to visit as often as I can, and why.

First off, for general news I hit a bunch of sites. Drudge, FoxNews, CNN, NPR, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor NewsBusters. I read as many versions of stories as I can, because most news is totally biased one way or the other, and the only way to know the truth is to assume they are all lying to you. That way you have to find the facts that they all mention, you can presume that to be truth, and assume the rest is fluffy garbage.

I read a bunch of people's blogs now, which is fairly new. The only person not linked in one or three degrees from this blog is my friend Jill in NYC. Thanks to the rest of you for constantly making my day go by easier.

I read pop candy all the time. Its on USA today. I don't read the rest of the site. It hurts my brain. I'm sure it's hard work printing a national newspaper at a third grade reading level, but it doesn't mean I have to read it. Pop Candy is a shiny gem. She is thirty, lives in this area (DC) grew up around here and has the best job in the world. She blogs about pop culture. Whatever she wants. Celebs, comics, movies, TV, live shows, albums, and ignores whatever she feels like. I would intern for her in a heart beat. But then I'd be working for USA Today. Also I wanted to marry her when I was younger. It's a blog now, but back in the day it was a weekly column. The one where she says she was getting married was such a sad day for little ol' me.

For random knowledge it's wikepidea. I love to hit the random button. And I love to read the discussion tab. People get so angry! For movies it's got to be imdb. IMDB has gone through a number of style changes over the years, but before google was google, before Wikipedia was a twinkle in somebodies eye, IMDB was the most organized site on the web, and it's still one of the best. For music I use allmusic.com not to download mind you, but to research. Great stuff.

I read Penny Arcade and xkcd every day. Order of the Stick too. Questionable Content I like to save up and read weekly. Everything else can wait. Sure I read userfriendly back in the day, and PvP and Mac Hall and tons more, but the only web comics I still read regularly are those four.

For light articles I like Slate and Salon. I'm not really sure I know when I'm at one and not the other. I'm sure they don't like to hear that, but it's the truth. I like them both. And one of them has Doonesbury!

As an aside, I love Doonesbury. Fairfax County History always stopped after WWII. Gary Trudeau taught me US history after that. Vietnam, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Civil Rights, Iran Contra. The list goes on. I know for a fact that I can trace my absolute disdain for the Federal Government, no mater who is leading it, to Doonesbury.

ESPN for sports news is kind of a gimme. Rolling Stone gets at least one read. Pitchfork is where I go for album reviews. I read slashdot a few times a day for that hard to define "tech" news. I go to comic book resources for comics news, and ain't it cool news for the latest movie stuff.

I'm sure I've forgotten plenty, but how about a few from you guys?