So instead of doing yet another “Top Ten Books blah-blah-blah” post (BTW, I have been reading some of the posts on this Open Call, and I must say it has been one of the better ones), I decided to do mine on Open Salon bloggers who I read regularly and occasionally, but who never fail to deliver. Also most of these bloggers, like me, avoid the overly ripened, bug-infested, bird-pecked, rat-drool covered, low-hanging fruit and post what they want and when they want to. Except when we're really hungry for attention which is most of the time for me, at least.

So without much further ado, doobie-doobie do, Scooby-do, or yabba-dabba do, I present you with my Ten Open Salon Bloggers who have Influenced Me:

Monte Canfield: Our most revered and very reverend resident Reverend for helping me to better understand the teachings of the Bible and putting them in a modern perspective. Whether you believe, don’t’ believe, or believe in something completely different, you should drop by Monte’s Blog every now and then. If anything you will enjoy some really good quality writing.

Little Willie: Always funny. His out of this world stories are so-down-to-Earth you’d think they were real. Who knows maybe they are?

Caroline Hagood: Whether disseminating verse or deconstructing a film, a book or even fashion, keep an eye out for this young lady because she is going places. Derrida would be proud.

Robin Sneed: A great poet, humorist and observer of the human condition who seems to “get me”! And for looking ultra-chic and glamorous in those rosy-red shades.

Torman: A very funny writer with a heart as big as his ranch. He was the peacemaker when things got a little dicey during the last dust-up.

Tom Cordle: Whether it’s a social commentary, political viewpoint, story, poem or song this truth-seeker has done it all, and continues to do so.

Behind Blue Eyes: The first to comment on my very first blog and who actually knows what a tanuki is (he even told me that he owns (owned?) a couple. BBE, has strong political views which he delivers in a rapid-fire one-two combination of jaw-jarring punches. Maybe we all need a sock on the nose to wake us up from our apathetic, pathetic lethargy.

Xenonlit xl: Funny and not afraid to speak her mind, she too was one of my first true OS buds. One of my favorite male-beans.

Dorinda Fox: Well-read, well-mannered, this gift from academia writes well and she is one hard class-act to follow. Her musings on stand-up comics is both amusing and illuminating.

Leah Lane: Post after post this lady never fails to deliver funny anecdotes of her rather interesting life.

TinkerTink69: All I can say is “read his post.” To know him is to love him in the most platonic sense of the word.

BONUS BLOGGER:

Trudge164: Because it’s all about me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me,and ME! 

Disclaimer: (this place is starting to feel like work)

This list is not by all means complete nor written in stone.

This means, like most of these types of lists, they are subject to additions, revisions, submission and re-submissions based on the whim, sense and sensibility of the author. Like the author, it is in a state of flux.

This has been an almost blog-whore free post.

This has been a plagiarized-free post.

Who are yours?*

*Updated: This is now an Open Call.

(ty 4 the suggestion Bellwether Vance!)

© Trudge164, 2010