My Top Secret Recipe for Caper-Smoked-Salmon-Tiramisu

In a couple of places I’d mentioned that in response to various surveys of librarian blogs, I’d make my own list of my top 25 “favorite” blogs.

On consideration, I won’t do any such thing, simply because I don’t have a list of 3, 25, 50, or even 100 “favorite” library blogs.

Blogs become more or less important to me for vastly different reasons, depending on my needs, whims, and mise en scene.

I read some library blogs to stay current on library technology, others for the quality of their writing, and some because other people read them. I read several library blogs because they are written by friends, and others because they are written by vendors.
There are also at least three library blogs I occasionally peek at because I’m an imperfect person and I can’t help myself… blogs I should avoid at all costs, but I sneak up on and read anyway. See, I get to be a half-century old and I’m still 11 in some respects.

Finally are all those blogs I read that are not “library” blogs — blogs about Florida, or writing, or food (or sometimes all three) — though I wish more librarians read them.

The other problem is that, in truth, I have trouble with “favorite” lists. I have read so many great books in my life that the best I might do is list my five least favorite; however, loathing James Fenimore Cooper is not even original. (You might be more interested in my take on Who Moved My Cheese, which I find appalling anti-worker propaganda garbed in “pro-change” rhetoric.)

I have the same inability to narrow my “favorites” in regard to movies, dog breeds, or roses. The one exception I can think of is color. I love any color, as long as it’s green. Yet another birthday idea was jettisoned when KitchenAid advised me that they no longer make the Artisan mixer in empire green. I finally get to a point in my life when I am ready to buy a stand mixer, and I can’t get the color I want. I have news for you, KitchenAid: you can’t make me buy the wrong color. I’ll stick with my brave little hand mixer purchased lo these decades ago in some far-away Air Force Base Exchange, hours after its aged predecessor hiccuped, passed dark gas, and died.

Anyhoo. I don’t begrudge anyone a survey on anything. Meredith’s survey has the advantage of asking non-bloggers what blogs they read (though that has its own quantitative problems — to start with, potential respondents have to read her blog or a blog linking to it — which, take note, I have done in this post).

But in the end, though I like capers, smoked salmon, and tiramisu, I won’t claim I like them mixed together. Those are the three foods that came to mind right now, but tomorrow, that might change, depending on where I am and what I hunger for — and if I only had these three foods to enjoy, I’d get tired of them mighty quickly.