What, the Damn Hell Ass Kings aren't enough for you? Fine. try these:

Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who writes books and articles and, yes, comics, too.

Artbomb will help you figure out what comics to buy.

Bob Geldof is the guy behind The Boomtown Rats and Live Aid and, oddly enough, Survivor.

Cheapass Games sells games. That are cheap. But not ass! They are cheapass. Dice games, board games, card games. Even a few computer games! They're cheap because (with the board games) you supply your own dice and pawns, basically. The games are clever and fun -- even the rulebooks are entertaining. I've mentioned quite a few over in the MediaLog, but if you can't decide, go for Kill Doctor Lucky.

A Commonplace Book is something I found recently after spending half an hour trying to remember the term "commonplace book." Don't ask. Anyway, I like what I've read so far.

Dangerous Universe reviews music, movies, TV shows... . They came to my attention with their hiliarious/horrifying rundown of the pilots for the 2003-04 TV season (it looks like bounty hunters are the next big thing) but there's all kinds of good stuff there.

The Esoteric Science Resource Center collects whatever Paul Riddell is finding interesting at the moment. Which often involves dinosaurs. And carnivorous plants. And NASA. (And I'm hoping this will move up to the "Produced Things I've Paid For" list if he gets that book together.)

IMHO is a blog about politics & news with a lot of sharp analysis.

Joe Bob Briggs writes a weekly news summary that everyone should read. His site also collects his movie reviews, columns for UPI, interviews, contests, and there's even a book club. Sort of. And he's called me "hon" a few times.

Magnatune is an iTunes alternative using the shareware model. Download the songs first, pay if you like it. You can check out individual songs, but purchases are by the album. If you buy, you can select how much to pay (within a range; usually between $5 and $20), and the artist gets 50%.

Mark Anderson is consistently funny. Actually, he doesn't update his weblog regularly, so maybe he's sporadically funny. How about this: he's consistently funny when he updates, which he does sporadically. All I'm saying is, where else are you going to see excerpts of dirigible accident reports?

Mark Morford writes for SFGate, and writes even more in his email newsletter, The Morning Fix.

Matt Fraction writes comics, and writes about comics, and writes about other things, too.

Mperia is similar to Magnatune, except they say "Damn the Man" a lot, which amuses me. The artist gets 70% of what you're paying, but the costs are a lot lower -- $1 per song looks pretty common, but I've seen prices as low as 25 cents for a song. (And you don't have to buy a whole album if you just liked one track.) You can't download whole songs without paying, but they offer previews.

I won't waste your time explaining who Neil Gaiman is.

Penn & Teller haven't called me "hon" yet, but I like them a lot anyway.

Sometimes Robyn Hitchcock releases albums faster than I can listen to them. Okay, maybe I don't listen quickly enough.

I've fallen horribly behind in my attempt at reading The Diary of Samuel Pepys. But I still feel the urge to end paragraphs with "And so to bed."

SciScoop is basically Slashdot for science-types.

Tinderbox is the nifty software I'm using for this site. And which I've wished I could use at work on several occasions. (It's still Mac-only.)

Warren Ellis has a website where he collects anything he's interested in, and a livejournal where he collects some as-yet-unpublished writing. Sometimes they duplicate each other, but not always. Oh: his site is frequently not safe for work. And trust me, if he says "Don't click on this link," don't.

Weirdsmobile is a collection of blogs and sites. I particularly recommend the Fiction Bitch.

Yohoho Puzzle Pirates isn't sucking quite as much of my time as it used to, but it's still a good way to accidentally stay up for hours past bedtime.

Ziesing Books is especially good for SF stuff, but they carry (and publish) all kinds of fabulously strange items, and have provided more than a few excellent presents for people. Go ask for a copy of their hard copy catalog; they're happy to send it out, and t's more fun to browse through than the website.