I haven’t exactly been putting up tons of content lately, and as someone who follows other blogs I know that probably leaves a huge, immense, devastating, heart-breaking hole in your life.

My answer to that — other than obviously posting more of my own stuff — is to share some sites from my creative/quirky friends.

You know all about AV’s website from an earlier post, so I don’t have to badger you again to check it out (though you should).

I’ll start with Jen(n)a (@jenaardell) whose name I have spelled that way since roughly 2003. We went to college together, and at some point I was really unsure of how many Ns were in here name, so I just made the one sort of optional. She’s a photographer who specializes in retro pictures (shot today, look vintage) as well as Polaroids. She also happens to end up with super cool gigs covering her favorite band and mine for LA Weekly.

Keeping in the college crowd, let’s move on to Jason’s blog. First I want to acknowledge the great pun at work here. Jason lives in Denver, the Mile High City, where one may experience altitude sickness. He’s also very opinionated, and putting those together arrived at Attitude Sickness. I remember him consulting the Facebook world and considering a number of titles in the same punny spirit, but I’m glad he settled on this one. Lately, most of the content has been about an extended trip he made to the Philippines and Vietnam. But this is a blog that has as one of its categories “Uncategorized Rambling” and thus is worthy of a read.

What’s that? You want more from the Susquehanna University classes of 2005/06? Fine.

Brooke went there too, and has a blog I would describe using the words snarky, nerdy, occasionally about her upcoming wedding, and ultimately entertaining. I did have to actually Google the blog title on this one to find out what it was actually referencing and I’m proud to report it appears to be a character in “Pride and Prejudice.” I was worried it was something far, far girlier.

Just so you think I read things other than those written by my fellow Crusaders, I’ll share one more.

For anyone interested in filmmaking or any creative process/endeavor, check out Camden’s blog about her experience creating a documentary “about the Montagnard people who served as American allies during the Vietnam War.” She has chronicled big-picture stuff like finding out about the history behind the story, as well as really specific posts about technical challenges in the editing process. She also shares a lot of tips about time management and the things she has learned about herself, which I think really translate to a lot of facets of life. I don’t actually know her, my brother does, but we were introduced through Twitter when she was looking for old Vietnam footage and figuring out how to capture 8mm film to video just as I was doing the same process at my old job. Good times.