Well it’s a new year and time to do some general cleaning and pruning here on the old blog. By that I mean it’s time to revamp my blogroll, (the list of other blogs I link to), in this case ones written in the Romanian language.

Do you know a good blog (in Romanian)? Are you yourself the author of a good blog? If so, tell me about it and I’ll check it out and potentially add a link to it here. Normally I don’t allow comments but for this post I’ve opened it up so you can tell me about some good places.

For sure Groparu will be in, because he’s a decent guy with a family and he bought me beer. Hey, that goes a long way with me. Secondly I will include Chinezu because he seems like a decent guy. But whom else should we all be reading? Frankly I have no idea because I spend about 90% of my day creating content rather than absorbing it from other sources and it’s been a long time since I read any blogs in Romanian.

For sure what I am not interested in is anyone who writes like Zoso, sneering, negative, cynical jabs at current events and famous people and then doing nothing whatsoever but what we call in English “snark”. Someone who puts a little time and effort into their writing gets my respect. I have no interest in two-second posts about jokes or sarcastic quips about what’s going on in the news. Nor frankly do I give a shit about “hilarious” pictures or ragging on “pitzipoance” or “manelisti” (etc, etc, etc) and all of that vicious Romanian-vs-Romanian stuff.

If possible, I’d also prefer either a) a website where the Romanian has all the right diacritics but not some crazy font that makes the writing look crooked or b) just skip the diacritics altogether. Even my own blog looks like shit when I use the proper Romanian letters, which is partly why I usually don’t use them.

Ok, have at it! What blogs in Romanian should I include on my blog roll?