Wandering through Blogrolls

It happened again. I lost an hour.

I was checking out Andrew Sullivan and decided to flip over and see what Ta-Nehisi Coates was commenting on today. And Ta-Nehisi credited J Starr for an Ebony cover on "The Twenty-five Coolest Brothers of All Time" and of course, you know who was on the cover as the coolest of the cool. So I clicked on J Starr's blog and went to his home page and noticed that he had Hendrick Hertzberg on his blogroll list. J Starr's blogroll is selective - something I always have trouble with. It includes several of my daily blog reads which made me look more closely at the other two he chose to list: Chapati Mystery and Enigmakaty.

Chapati Mystery has a very interesting pedigree and anyone who takes the time to translate Dr. A.Q. Khan's latest literary effort into English for the rest of us, deserves some note in my book. Scrolling through the rest of the posts currently up on the front page gives me the urge to collect this nugget of a blog.

Onto J Starr's next entry.

Wow.

Enigmakaty is an artist with words and colors and images. She puts your head in a completely separate place from politics and economics. Having lived in the Madison area for a while when I was in high school, her remembrances strike a special chord for me. But even if you've never been there, her vivid posts bring it alive. And the food sounds really good too.

Deep breath. Go get some tea.

Back to J Starr ... scrolling down. The rest of the pictures and the text in the post Ta-Nehisi linked to underscore something we discussed at the dinner table the other night -- that Obama makes being smart cool again for lots of kids -- adults too, for that matter. J Starr then mentions Attackerman's post on Obama and Iran. [Do go read it for its own value. It's good.]

Which leads me to Spencer Ackerman's Attackerman blog and his blogroll which is eclectic and longer and may take a few days to process.

At which time I began to realize that I could spend hours surfing from one blog list to another, finding new nuggets. But it raises another question. How do I decide which to add to my blogroll? And how do I avoid losing track of the nuggets that I find? And ultimately, I must admit that that's one reason I started my own blog -- so I would have some place to put all these interesting places to wander.

Where do you like to wander? What draws your eye?