Comments on: Recommend anonymous, frank, journal-like blogs.

Question: Recommend anonymous, frank, journal-like blogs.

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:23:36 -0800

Can anyone recommend any brutally honest, diary/journal blogs? Ones where people talk about most aspects of their lives: emotions, friendships, relationships, sex, hobbies, politics. Ones where the posts are so private that they can only be kept secret, or shared with strangers.

By: pseudostrabismus

pseudostrabismus — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:31:09 -0800

SugarMonster.

By: Antidisestablishmentarianist

Antidisestablishmentarianist — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:50:57 -0800

thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:53:57 -0800

Nice Jewish Girl has basically stopped updating, but what she has written is what you're looking for, I think. She's a 34-year-old orthodox Jew. By the laws of her religion, she cannot be touched by men until she's married, and she has never been married. She wants a sexual relationship, but she struggles with the conflict with her religion.

By: lunasol

lunasol — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:29:05 -0800

I really liked Barmaid Blog, chronicling the life of a Manhattan bartender. She stopped updating when she got promoted to bar manager, but there are a few years of archives that are very honest* about her life (sexuality, depression, conflicts with friends, problems at work, etc) and quite well-written.

*Some people seem convinced that the entire blog was fiction, but I personally just think that she's a really good writer.

By: Alterscape

Alterscape — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:58:29 -0800

Are you familiar with PostSecret? It doesn't have the linear narrative of a blog, since the secrets are anonymously contributed on postcards, but some of the content has the kind of rawness you're asking for.

By: Jaltcoh

Jaltcoh — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:00:43 -0800

Penelope Trunk has some ultra-personal posts like this, though she usually writes about more professional topics.

(Why in the world is this question anonymous?)

By: ishotjr

ishotjr — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:13:04 -0800

collegecallgirl was pretty serious about only sharing with strangers, but doesn't update anymore. You might guess what the blog is about... I think some of the links on her blogroll are also of a private nature.

By: mmascolino

mmascolino — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:56:49 -0800

The question was anonymous because the poster originally included their anonymously written blog as an example of what they were looking for in a secret confessional blog.

By: Neofelis

Neofelis — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:32:14 -0800

Seconding Livejournal's thesugarmonster. In addition to the brutal honesty I find Heidi an engaging, funny, and informative writer. I secretly hope she writes a book and gets it published; I would so buy that.

By: messylissa

messylissa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:43:39 -0800

nthing thesugarmonster; I've read Heidi since her pre-LJ, pre-WLS days, and her writing is so intense and wonderful.

More about parenting, Sundry is a favorite of mine who gets brutally honest.

By: messylissa

messylissa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:49:46 -0800

Oh, and sweet|salty is good, too.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:28:07 -0800

Ramblings from an ER intern - "The transition from civilian to doctor is an ugly and painful process. Here's your front row seat to watch someone lose their humanity and themselves."

By: permafrost

permafrost — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:09:49 -0800

Pandora Blake is a UK adult/BDSM model who writes about sexuality, kink and related issues under her work name. She gets pretty personal at times. NSFW unless you work in porn, obv.

By: roomthreeseventeen

roomthreeseventeen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:20:37 -0800

Also, 6 Year Med is a wonderful writer.

By: GraceCathedral

GraceCathedral — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:57:31 -0800

She Never Shuts Up is a personal blog about someone working in the publishing industry that meets the brutal honesty criterion (especially when she writes about her job).

By: Kattiara17

Kattiara17 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:22:05 -0800

I like Forksplit, though the updates are a bit sporadic.

By: Locative

Locative — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:50:36 -0800

I read One D at a Time by the Jezebel writer formerly known as Slut Machine. She is pretty shameless in the things she'll write about -- off the top of my head, I remember an entry where she describes a fight with her boyfriend where she pees on his beloved guitar and accounts of multiple sexual encounters with different men, including the time a guy with a small penis wore a Magnum and it came off inside her and she thought she had a prolapsed uterus. She's candid about everything, which has the odd effect of being repellent and endearing at the same time.

By: po

po — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:33:08 -0800

Late to the party... Violent Acres is the first thing that comes to mind for me. Don't know if this counts, though, because I'm pretty sure the writer is no longer totally anonymous, and last I heard (haven't kept up with it for a few months now) had "sold out," letting somebody else deal with design of the site and such.