We returned from Kentucky a week or so ago, and had a very good time. All of us should get lake houses. And trust funds.

I don’t know who writes Yes. And?, but I think it’s someone I know. I suspect this because I don’t follow the Tumblr scene much, so I usually only bookmark folks I’ve met. Is this you? Is it!?

Anyway, here are some excellent things to check out:

Cilantro: Dialogue, synopsis
Vegas in one sentence
Glass-Winged Butterfly
Highlight of last night’s high schoool poetry reading

Bluishorange is written by Alison Headley, who lives in Austin and has been blogging since the dawn of time. I’ve meet Alison a few times at SxSW, and I feel a long-distance affection for her, though I hardly know her. I don’t read her site regularly, mostly because she doesn’t post very regularly, but I love to stop in every few months and root for her. She writes things like this:

“Sometimes I wish more people had affectionate nicknames for me.”

And shows you magic things like:

Intricate Snowglobes and
Storm Troopers at work; at play

Swiss Miss is published by Tina Roth Eisenburg, a Swiss graphic designer with a studio in Brooklyn. She’s a steady source of inspiration. Enjoy this excellent Dairy Queen sign:

And also:

Windrider Bicycle Clips
Food for Thought Lunchboxes
Wasara Paper Plates

Nothing But Bonfires is written by travel writer Holly Burns, who grew up all over the globe and landed here in San Francisco. We met at Blogher, during the Mighty Haus launch party, and I was too wine-soaked to insist that she sit down and relay her entire life story. Check out her about page first, as her life story is a good one. An excerpt:

“My favorite piece of punctuation is the parentheses, with the semi-colon taking a close second. Things I like include: oatmeal, going to the library, gold shoes, the word “brouhaha,” Trader Joe’s, beauty products with clever names, reliving scenes from My So Called Life in my head, black licorice, the page in Us Weekly where they say “Stars: They’re Just Like Us” and then show them looking zitty and doing laundry, San Pellegrino, Target, Mark Ruffalo, when people say things like “um, clean up in aisle three from all the names you just dropped,” German accents, free samples, people who can drive stick, hydrangeas, when the phone rings in the middle of the night and it’s just a wrong number and NOT someone on the other side of the world dying, men in pink shirts, and Nigella Lawson.“