The others

No, it's not a preview of this week's "Lost," although I am looking forward to finding out just who that French chick is always talking about when she refers to "the others." Today, however, I'm talking about other blogs, those written by a few of my friends.

First up is a traditional blog, written by Geoff Schumacher. Dogsbody is Geoff's journal about politics, books, movies and various other topics from his Nevada perspective. Geoff recently published a book, "Sun, Sin and Suburbia," about the modern history of Las Vegas. It's a pretty good read, and very wide ranging.

Next is the postmodern blog, or the anti-blog, written by Scott Dickensheets. Scott's a great writer, but you will find no evidence of that whatever on his blog, as it contains no entries whatsoever. I hope we see something here soon, but until we do, you can read his stuff in the Las Vegas Weekly.

Finally, there's my friend Bryan Allison, who is part of a longtime online collective called pre2k.com. Here, you'll find all sorts of things, many posted by Las Vegas expatriate Geoff Carter, now a resident of Seattle. I envy him living in an actual city, and for the coffee. He envies us for living in a fake city, but still has us on the coffee.

Oh, and don't forget to check out my day job, Las Vegas CityLife, which is Las Vegas' oldest and, if I may brag, best alternative newsweekly. That site is updated every Thursday, and you can expect some interesting changes there as well in the near future.