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Crohn’s disease

Sadly, there are close to zero independent, conversational websites about Crohn’s disease.  Most sites either openly or clandestinely attempt to sell a pharmaceutical product or diet method to Crohn’s sufferers.  This list is an attempt to compile the genuinely useful.

• Tom Humberstone’s  Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Crohns Disease, a comic by a talented gentleman with Crohn’s.

• The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America’s  About Crohn’s Disease, perhaps unsurprisingly the best topical introduction to Crohn’s.  It is directed towards the newly diagnosed Crohn’s sufferer, which lends a nice concerned, frank feel to it.

• The American Academy of Family Physicians’  Management of Crohn’s Disease - A Practical Approach, an in-depth but readable breakdown of how the severity of Crohn’s is determined as well as drug therapies.  I believe the article is aimed at doctors who have never heard of Crohn’s, but it’s useful for curious patients as well.

• The New York Times’  Patient Voices: Crohn’s Disease, an audio and photographic introduction to seven people living with Crohn’s disease.  A nice range of the very sick to the well-managed.

• Sunday’s Crohn’s-a-Thon, my own tedious thorough overview of the disease.

Food

Food blogs are born and die faster than exotic particles in European accelerators, so my food links are limited to those I actually read on a daily basis.

• Georgia On My Thighs, wherein classically trained cook and destined-to-be-famous foodwriter Michele Humes attempts to wade her way through a Paula Deen cookbook, to the entertainment of everyone.

• Fine Furious Life, what Ms. Humes did before Paula Deen’s lurid, glistening piles of mayonnaise distracted her.

• Michele Humes, the lady of the above dead blogs who migrates faster than the West Nile Virus.

• Blue Lotus, or what happens when a Canadian woman moves to Japan and discovers they don’t make jeans to fit Caucasians.  Not always about food, but when it is my tummy starts to rumble.

• Candy Blog, the website that has sent me on fervent searches for sugar I never would have heard of if it weren’t for Cybele’s thoughful, almost clinical reviews of everything from super-luxe truffles to cheap-ass Easter candy.

• gas•tron•o•my, who lured me in as they shared the experience of being Americans living in Vietnam, and now share the experience of being Americans living in Pasadena.

• Smitten Kitchen, yes, we all know about Smitten Kitchen, but I just get so excited when she appears in my reader.

• bread & honey, furthering my suspicion that everyone in Portland is cute, talented and eating a hell of a lot better than I am.

• Dave’s Cupboard, a friendly-sounding greybeard who expertly mixes up junkfood reviews, personal observations, recipes and general bloggery.

• Tamarind and Thyme, because you need a trustworthy friend in London who can tell you exactly where to eat.

• me HUNGRY!, in which Phyllis busts out amateur blogging mastery: lots of photos, candid reviews and Weird Food Wednesdays.

• Friday Gourmet, who needs to slow down with the good recipes because I’m having trouble catching up.

• Tasty Island, who repeatedly confuses my ethnic self-identification by making me think I might actually be a Japanese-Hawaiian and not a Scottish-Melungeon?

• Goldentooth, Epic Quest Eating!  Why didn’t I think of this?!

• Cooking for Assholes, well, I mean, look at the title.

• Thursday Night Smackdown, who I want on my team when the Food Network decides to film my idea for Food Blogger Thunderdome.

Greatness

People and websites of unique excellence.  In other words: websites I’d like to share a beer with if beer didn’t turn my abdomen into the physiological equivalent of the Diet Coke and Mentos trick.

• GalacticMu, the sister website to this one, specializing in science fiction fandom.

• The 700 Hoboes Project, the astounding collection of art inspired by John Hodgman’s book The Areas of My Expertise.

• No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons, the personal blog of writer Peter Watts; part man, part squid, all delightful.

• Dispatches from the Island, a charming and addictive blog by Lost star Jorge Garcia.

• Further Dispatches, in the absence of Lost, Garcia continues his blog, though at a disappointingly slower clip.

• Door Sixteen, the exception to my aversion to design and home improvement blogs – this one almost makes me want to tile something.

• Catastrophysicist, while full of top-notch storytelling, had me at a post titled “I Ate a Goose Egg, Yo!” that includes no further text.

• Terrible/Perfect, wherein some smarties embark on a gene-fusing experiment not once, but twice!

• Junko Yamamoto, for when your jaws are tired of chewing and your eyes are in need of some gazing.

• Simultaneously in First and Last Place, an old friend of mine who occasionally travels but when he does, he brings it.

• Project Waldo, the place where artists go to realize that they fail and Nathaniel Simpson wins.

• The Midwest Girl, a study in the art form of blogging; what if a blogger were just quietly excellent and entertaining without a gimmick?

• Advanced Style, because we might be fashion-bereft now, but there’s hope for us yet.

• Little Big, you know that sinking feeling you get when a long-admired, intelligent, creative, hilarious friend of yours starts a blog that you suspect is going to be way more popular than your own?

• Cheap Shit Condos, in which what you’re thinking about modern architecture gets said out loud.

• Needled, a.k.a. how to be a gracious human being — also: knitting!

• The Leesa Leva Blog, because yes, she’s my best friend, but for very good reasons.

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