I originally divided these links into categories, but too many of them fit into more or less than one category. (Where to put Delicious Coma, a blog that focuses on food, Japan, and Los Angeles?) Now they are in alphabetical order.
- Artificialia: documenting the brilliant scholarship of Dr. Morgan Pitelka.
- Beer Advocate: the world’s best online craft beer resource site.
- The Brick Testament: I probably wouldn’t have defected from the Catholic church if it had been presented to me like this.
- Cagle.com: an extensive database of political cartoonists, including several from around the world.
- CAMRA: the UK’s largest, most important, and most cantankerous real ale faction.
- Delicious Coma: an interesting and insightful blog on Japanese and Los Angelean food featuring great writing and some rather beautiful photography.
- Displaying Japan: a group blog organized by Pitelka-sensei critiquing the exhibition of Japanese culture. Currently defunct.
- Eat Wisconsin Cheese: I’m telling you, it’s delicious.
- eGullet: the food forum to end all food forums.
- The Food Timeline: a compendium of online articles on the world history of cuisine.
- Frog in a Well: Japan: another group blog with contributions from Japan scholars across the United States.
- Fukuoka Now: a free monthly digest focused on Fukuoka and vicinity, offering local news, bar and restaurant reviews, and an event calendar.
- Futile Sniff: Meg Leidy’s LA-based food blog written from the unique perspective of someone with anosmia!
- Gastronomica: the only journal of food studies you’ll ever really need.
- The Grumpy Professor: “the historico-metaphysical preditermination of my subjectivity creates problematic intentionalities.”
- Hey Ben: Ben Nyberg’s awesome roundup of awesome designers.
- Japanese Kat: my oldest friend’s blog of Japanese junk food reviews. Be sure to check out his YouTube channel for “JT’s J-Treats.”
- Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC: with a number of convenient translation tools, including the almighty multiradical kanji search engine.
- La Luz de Jesus Gallery: hub of the pop surrealist movement.
- Marita Says: Bordeaux Martin’s food, craft, and travel blog. Awesome recipes here.
- National Headquarters: extraordinary Chicago-based art and design collective helmed by Angeline Gragasin.
- The Pavilion for Japanese Art at LACMA: featuring a very comprehensive online collection.
- Primitive Culture: easily my favorite travel blog, with gorgeous photography and food journalism covering dozens of countries in at least four continents.
- Ramen Kyushu: the reason I came to Japan (Japanese). This is an amazingly useful Kyushu-only ramen shop database and search engine.
- The Reality Institute: the brainchild of Michael Molitch-Hou, a group site to help you deal with reality.
- Shag: the art of Josh Agle. If you don’t know the name, you’ll recognize it when you see it.
- Simply Breakfast: the title says it all.
- Taco: your source for all things taco in Los Angeles.
- Tiny Sepuku: hilariously illustrated love advice.
- Tokyo Food Page: not just for Tokyo anymore!
- Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra: the other reason I came to Japan.
- World Ramen: hands-down the most passionate and informative site on ramen out there.
- Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries: multilingual Murakami-esque jazz-based Flash-animated web art.
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