Best Blogs of 2012!

I was bumbling around the internet today and came across Time Magazine's 25 Best Blogs of 2012 and wanted to share a few of my favorites from their list.

1.  Awesome People Hanging Out Together is pretty self-explanatory. Ever wonder what Lucile Ball and Eleanor Roosevelt might chat about if they were in a room together?  Or how about Mohammed Ali and The Beatles? I'm not sure where people are finding some of the photos that have been posted, but they are just fantastic.  Who wouldn't want to be a fly on the wall when Shaq and Dr. Ruth are hanging out? Or how about Betty White and Slash? Now that's got to be an interesting conversation! Stranger still - Lady Diana and Michael Jackson! Those two icons shouldn't even be in the same city, let alone the same room! There's a truly amazing photo of a laughing Martin Luther King, Jr. with a very young and handsome Harry Belafonte.  It's not often we see photos of MLK laughing, so this photo alone is worth the visit to the site! APHOT is definitely on my top 10 list of blogs!

2.  Awkward Family Photos is always good for a laugh or two. "Childhood friends Mike and Doug began the blog after Mike saw an awkward vacation photo hung in his parents’ house. Realizing there were probably plenty of other people out there with their own awkward family images, the two friends decided to create a friendly place where everyone could come together and share their uncomfortable family moments. Thus, Awkward Family Photos was born." I'm sure I have dozens of photos from my youth that could be on this website, but I still have my dignity left.  But I certainly don't mind chuckling at someone else's photos.

3.  Another favorite of mine is Bookshelf Porn.  If you love books as much as I do, these photos are amazing! "Bookshelf Porn is a photoblog created to allow people to indulge their love of books, libraries, bookstores and bookcases by showcasing the best bookshelf photos from around the world." For me, this is definitely the kind of porn I can wrap my brain around. Ahhhhhhh, so many books, so little time!!  I found a TARDIS bookshelf that I would love to have!  Talk about two nerd worlds of mine colliding!

An honorable mention which did not make Time's top 25, but I love, is Underground New York Public Library, which is "is a visual library featuring the Reading-Riders of the NYC subways". What an interesting assortment of readers and books. A truly fun photoblog for book lovers. Perhaps if I still lived in New York, I would have finally gotten my 15 minutes of fame as I was always reading on the subway.  Pooh, a missed opportunity.   

I've listed my top three from Time's list, but feel free to check out the rest of Time's list of 25 Best Blogs for 2012.  There are some excellent blogs out there!

Oh yyyyeah! That's the good stuff!