Every week I’ll be updating The Webb with a little ditty about my most recent blogcrush – a blog that I follow frequently and find inspiration, laughter and deep thoughts from. You know who they are, those bloggers that you’ve never even met but you feel a strange connection…you almost have a little crush on them? These are most definitely folks on my blog roll, and if you are reading and subscribing to The Webb they should be on yours, too.

I’ve spent the past couple weeks fielding questions about the gushing and sweetness of the #BlogCrush series. Which is not ever what I wanted. While many of the people featured have become online “friends,” it is mostly because of the collaborative work we do together, the Twitter conversations that we have and the admiration we have for each other’s work.

That is why I was so very excited to start researching for and reading about my #BlogCrush this week. I have never been very quiet about my discontent with Penelope Trunk’s blog, Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist (herein after referred to as PTBC.) It’s a site that many in the blogosphere followed, told me I should follow, and spoke so well of. Frequently when I logged on, however, I came across posts that I didn’t like and disagreed with. But it’s kinda like when my parents told me I HAD to eat onions in my dinners and I fought and screamed and went to bed many a time without dessert. In my wise old age, I’ve actually learned to like onions and the taste and diversity they offer to many a dish. Course sometimes they’re still gross…

Penelope writes about career advice. But not your average everyday “What Color is Your Parachute” career advice. Penelope has made her career following one of the most brazen of paths (get it…she’s a Brazen Careerist?!) and her ideas are rogue at best. One cannot argue, however, with that career path that she has made for herself. A former professional beach volleyball player, turned marketing executive in the software industry, turned columnist at a magazine, turned blogger, turned syndicated columnist in over 200 newspapers, turned entrepreneur of one of my favorite start-ups out there – Brazen Careerist. You know the old phrase, how can something so wrong feel so right? Yeah, Penelope OOZES it!

The brazen and beautiful and bad and bold thing about Penelope’s posts is that she isn’t afraid to write what she thinks and put out there what she feels. It makes you angry cause she writes so matter of factly and some people blindly follow “because Penelope said so.” I don’t know Penelope, but I’m pretty sure she would say you are full of it if you are going to do stuff just cause ANYONE told you to. In fact her book, Brazen Careerist, is centered around the idea of “the new rules for success.” Her start-up website, Brazen Careerist launched an awesome new look today (8/25) where the premise is that “ideas are your resume” and that community is one of the greatest tools you can use to be successful as a “next generation worker.” No longer does “business as usual” apply to the modern workplace.

Perhaps one of the most engaging things about PTBC is not only the career advice that she offers, but the extremely open and transparent way in which she shares her life. Someone once described her personal posts as reality TV…even if you are horrified by what’s going on and feel like there’s no way you could ever agree with it, you still can’t bring yourself to change the channel. You continue watching, you want to see what happens.

So, I guess what I’m saying is Penelope (aka Adrienne Greenheart aka Adrienne Roston) is my “onion blogger.” And if you aren’t eating this blog with the mac & cheese and steak & potatoes you’ve come to love in your Google Reader, then you are SERIOUSLY missing out on some of the most thought-provoking, push you outside of your box, make you laugh/cry/throw your computer across the room in frustration writing available on the world wide web. And my Mom would be horribly disappointed in you.

Who is your #BlogCrush in the blogosphere? Make sure to check out the upcoming #BrazenBlogCrush contest to win a signed copy of Penelope’s book, Brazen Careerist, and be featured in the #BlogCrush series.