clioandme's blog reviews View clioandme's profile

  • The Victorian Peeper

    Friday August 1st, 2008 at 20:56 | Rating: 5 | Report

    Excellent blog about various aspects of Victorian Britain by a professional historian.

  • History and Media

    Friday August 1st, 2008 at 20:50 | Rating: 4 | Report

    Most of this site is in Polish, so I can only comment on the English content. There is good historical content in English. The trick is to find it. You will not find an English link in the navigation up top. Nor will you find a little flag button to choose English. What to do? Well, one of the bloggers visited my own history site, so I could ask him. Turns out you have to look in the categories on the right. There you will find "In English". Click that and you get an About page in English as well as English-language posts about history and media. These are different posts. It is not a mirror of the Polish content.

  • What's Wrong Around Us?

    Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 05:40 | Rating: 5 | Report

    Don't let the title fool you. This is not a winer's blog. If something seems out of wack in the world, you can depend on Tiffany to offer a unique, thoughtful, and well-written opinion on it.

  • The Right Blue

    Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 05:38 | Rating: 5 | Report

    Beautiful photographs and well-told stories by a woman with decades of diving experience and a passion for her subject.

  • The Junk Drawer

    Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 05:36 | Rating: 5 | Report

    Good combination of humor and intelligence, each reinforcing the other.

  • @ the Library

    Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 05:33 | Rating: 5 | Report

    Charmingly strange blog about what this guy sees at the public library where he works. Given the list of regular characters, someone could probably take this as a starting point for a sit-com script.

  • Right Commentary

    Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 05:31 | Rating: 5 | Report

    I disagree with much of its content, but it is probably one of the most intelligent conservative blogs I've seen at BlogCatalog.

  • Of Cabbages and Kings

    Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 22:41 | Rating: 5 | Report

    So many humor blogs are mean. This one isn't. Nor does it rely on the dirt in our headlines. Just Jenn's unique view on the silliness of this world.

  • Griper Blade

    Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 22:36 | Rating: 5 | Report

    Hard-hitting liberal political commentary from someone who knows how to check his facts and cite his sources.

  • People in the Sun

    Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 11:05 | Rating: 5 | Report

    I first found this blog because of a post he did when still a soldier in Israel. The author's voice and humanity soon earned my respect.

  • Civil War Memory

    Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 11:04 | Rating: 5 | Report

    Best darn Civil War blog out there. A mark of his effectiveness is the critical statement at the bottom here. This blog is about Civil War memory. It analyzes our memories critically, and therefore it sometimes also shakes at our identity. Some readers won't like that. But if you're curious about history, have an open mind, and aren't afraid of intelligent commentary, then check out this blog.

  • Copywrite, Ink.

    Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 11:01 | Rating: 5 | Report

    A mark of this blog's quality is the ability of its author to draw me into subjects that I would not have thought were interesting. His subject is communications, usually for companies, but its relevance is broader.

  • Cartoons by Ben Hoffman

    Monday July 28th, 2008 at 22:59 | Rating: 5 | Report

    First-rate political cartoons on this blog. Glad he decided to get back into it and share with the rest of us.

  • Narcissus-X

    Tuesday August 21st, 2007 at 15:43 | Rating: 4 | Report

    Pretty darn silly, and worth a look. I keep waiting for Narcissus-X to have some sort of personality crisis, but so far nothing seems to shake him.

  • Photos from northern Norway

    Sunday August 19th, 2007 at 18:44 | Rating: 5 | Report

    The images of northern Norway helped make my summer in sticky Washington, DC a little more bearable. I like how you can click on the photo and see them in higher resolution. I'm not so happy about the URIs in the newest photos, although I understand the need for some kind of precautions.

  • Victorya Chase Goes to Therapy

    Sunday August 19th, 2007 at 18:35 | Rating: 5 | Report

    The posts in here are sometimes so sad that I can only take one or two at a time. But what makes this blog stand out for me are its vivid images and unassuming authenticity.

  • Janet is Hungry

    Sunday August 19th, 2007 at 18:30 | Rating: 5 | Report

    The photography on this blog really makes it stand out. The food looks so mouth-watering yummy.

  • Eavesdrop Writer

    Thursday August 9th, 2007 at 21:23 | Rating: 5 | Report

    Wonderful vignettes.

  • Military Songs of War

    Tuesday June 12th, 2007 at 07:40 | Rating: 3 | Report

    Some problems with the ads on your site. They're not intrusive, but the "payday loan" ads that come up through Google advertise incredibly high-interest loans that exploit young soldiers living from one paycheck to the next in the worst kind of way. See for example this 2001 story on PBS. Not good. On a different note, it would be nice if you included the source of your quotations and images. You provide a little information, but not enough for the user to look the source up himself if he wanted to.