The spin-off:

Shame-Faced - Plugging the holes in a spotty education

Shame-Faced podcasts

Blogs of note:

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine

Contemporary Nomad

Do The Math - The Bad Plus

Faust Fatale - Writer Christa Faust

i find your lack of faith disturbing - Screenwriter Josh Friedman

Lee Goldberg's A Writer's Life

Ed Gorman

If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger, There'd Be A Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Kung Fu Monkey

Ken Levine

Looking for the Next Best Thing - Paul Herzberg

News From Me - Mark Evanier on comics and culture

Pop Culture Petri Dish by Tony Kay

Rough Edges - Author James Reasoner

The Saturday Boy - Author Ray Banks

scrubbles.net - Pop culture and design findings from Matt Hinrichs

Something Old, Nothing New

Thrilling Days of Yesteryear

2 Blowhards

Crime fiction:

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind - Sarah Weinman

Crimespace

CrimeSpot.net

Mystery*File

Mystery*File blog

The Rap Sheet

Writers you should be reading:

Lawrence Block - Grand Master, creator of Matt Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr, the man I think of as my spiritual father (only don't tell him that)

Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale

Eddie Muller - Film noir historian and damn fine novelist

Donald E. Westlake - Light and dark, print and screen. The man can do it all.

Movie news:

Movie City News

GreenCine Daily

The Film Noir Foundation

Miscellaneous goodies:

Mets Fan Club - Dedicated to the finest team in the history of athletic competition

Scott Randall's website - The man. The myth. The artist. The ukulele enthusiast.