Another article on classical bloggers?this time in the San Jose Mercury News. Not only that, but another mention of Trrill. Thanks, Dick! Who knew that anyone still gave a damn about opera?least of all, when it's being written about under the pretense of queer zealotry. The same tactic sure hasn't worked for liberals. In related news, I'd like to offer a belated welcome to a few new additions to the list of links on the sidebar. Beware: some of these have nothing to do with classical music or weblogs, but they all have to do with culture, and they're all tiny bridges to the same bit of gurgling pathos that I call [with a little bit of expectoration] "art."

• Bumrocks: a non-classical mp3 blog. The finest, most elegant out there. No commentary, just links to a dizzying variety of vinyl transfers from experimental to jazz to disco to house to newer, glitchier beats. Bands you forgot about and artists you've never heard of. For an electrofaggot like me, it's porn and paradise.
• Dozer: sitting between the light of day and "underground," Dozer gives you electronic things and stuff, always coupled with an evocative image.
• Emily Pothast Mannion: a Seattle-based artist, grad-student, writer. Almost my only friend in this city. We've been friends since high school in Texas, where we both found our muse and our reason for escape to the Pacific Northwest. Emily has recently written a lovely article entitled "Monopoly on Morality" in the youngish magazine Rivet. Read it, and you'll understand where we're both coming from in our thoughtful blasphemy.
• Jeremy Laing: Toronto-based fashion designer and artist friend. One half of performance outfit Virginia Puff-Paint. Up and left a corporate design position to start his own label, which he's just shown at New York Fashion week, to great acclaim. Have jodhpurs ever looked so divine?
• Latrillius Menses: a writer and friend. He probably wouldn't want me to say more than that.
• Manolo for the Men: blogging men's fashion, Manolo makes pronunciations and annunciations that combine journalism with gossip with photos… all in his very distinct, bespoke syntax.
• Oboeinsight: take a guess!
• Prima la Musica: finally, another opera blog. And none too soon. Sieglinde and I were getting a little wrecked trying to cover the entire operatic scene [the other Assolutas are always hung-over]. Sarah Noble is an avid listener of operatic recordings and excels in commentary on more recent singers [ones up at whom I, perhaps mistakenly, turn my nose]. Also don't miss Ms. Noble's offshoot blog, Antologia, a supplement of lyrics and pictures related and unrelated to her posts.
• Swound: more smart-tronica, more mp3s. Swounds rill nice!
• Terrence Koh: rabbit and man holes alike. Boing!
• Tom Meglioranza: a professional baritone with a life outside of singing. Ugh. As if!
• Will Munro: another Toronto artist freund, the receiving end of Virgina Puff-Paint, designer of fashion-punk skivvies.