The Fredösphere

Some entity named "Radish" has me on a list of favorite blogs over at Kinja.  I'm quite flattered, since the list has only nine blogs on it, and includes luminaries like Terry Teachout (recently confirmed by the Senate as our new Secretary of Amusement), and Alex Ross (who writes for some magazine; I think it's called the Newarker) and other sites I've enjoyed a lot, like Musical Perceptions and aworks and Jessica Duchen and even Superfluities (who gives us another peek at the creative process by telling us about the birthing of a new play).

There are a couple other sites new to me.  Using a kind of crude collaborative filtering, I assume that I should like anything liked by anyone sensible enough to like me.  So I looked at the new sites:  uTopianTurtleTop is an expert on the subject of -- brace yourself -- the Baby Jesus Christmas episode of Dragnet.  Why didn't you people tell me Dragnet had a baby Jesus episode?  What good are you?  The Standing Room is a singer and CD junkie in San Fransisco who is an expert on cantatas about cannibalism.

I don't know who or what Radish is; if you worked your way to the center of the matrix you might find a flesh & blood human there, but I prefer to think it might be a Voyager satellite with vastly expanded intelligence, or better yet, one of those silicon-based life forms that periodically organize themselves spontaneously within the internet and become self-aware (a fact which our government ruthlessly supre*#)%)#>>>>>>>>