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We don’t discriminate here at The AA Blog and although we consider ourselves the premier Alcoholics Anonymous blog, we’ll always feature and recommend other AA Blogs that we think you’ll find interesting and helpful. However, according to Google, the top 5 AA Blogs aren’t very helpful at all (with one exception). 
 
Here are the top ranking websites (in order) for the term “AA Blog” from Google on this day, April 30, 2009. 
 

1. DickB’s AA Blog
This is a stagnant website that hasn’t been updated since 2005. However, the site is one of the top ranking web pages for the term “AA Blog”.  
http://dickb-blog.com
 

2. SoberGreetings.com (AA Blog)
Another stagnant blog, it’s a wonder why this website ranks so high for the term “AA Blog”. The website does nothing more than bombard visitors with Google ads and really doesn’t deserve such a high ranking for the AA Blog term.
http://www.sobergreetings.com/

 
3. SoberGreetings.com/Blog
This regularly updated AA blog is undoubtedly the reason for the popularity of the number 2 AA Blog position for the website of the same name.
http://sobergreetings.com/blog/

 
4. AA Live Chat at Blog Spot
Okay, it’s redundant at this point but true. The AA live Chat is another stagnant AA website that hasn’t been updated since June of 2007. Aside from that, the AA Live Chat is not live and it doesn’t have a chat. Instead, the site is a blog on blogspot.com that ranks as 2 in Google’s page rank.
http://aalivechatdotcom.blogspot.com/

 
5. The Dry Blog
The Dry Blog is a great example of what any blog should be; a regularly updated website with compelling information and plenty of links. In fact, The Dry Blog may have one of the largest recovery blogrolls on the Web!
http://dryblog.blogspot.com/

Make sure to keep visiting us here at The AA Blog for Alcoholics Anonymous  news, information, web reviews and more.

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It’s all fun and games until somebody gets shot.

A man who tried to rob a group of people in a South Carolina AA meeting at gun point was fatally shot by an AA member with a concealed weapon earlier this month. Kayson Helms, 18, died from the gunshot wound after being hospitalized shortly after the botched robbery.

Reports say Helms entered the Downtown South Carolina AA meeting brandishing a 25-caliber handgun and demanding the possessions of everyone in the Alcoholics Anonymous Center. That’s when an AA member with a concealed weapon opened fire on the man striking him in the chest and abdomen.

Helms was pronounced dead at the hospital only 35 minutes after the shooting. The man who shot Helms is a local lawyer named Jim who has carried a concealed weapon for several years. “I don’t think I did anything anybody else in the same circumstances wouldn’t have done. If I’d left my gun in the car, or at home, I might not be sitting here talking to you,” Jim said in a recent interview.

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Going out doesn’t always have to be about getting drunk, and no one seems to understand this concept better than the people at SoberNightLife.com. This site is a community of sober individuals who like to have fun just like everyone else… minus the drinking and drug use.

“Sobernightlife.com was created and started to be a complete nightlife and social network for the sober community.  People living in sobriety or who just like to go out and have fun sober, can now find and have access to sober music artists, businesses, parties, venues, events, & nightlife activities.

Sobernightlife.com has collaborated with different lounges, coffee shops, clubs & different sober events that specifically cater to the sober community.  Our main goal is to bring you the best nightlife that you can have living life sober!

THE SOBER LIFE IS THE GOOD LIFE!” – SoberNightLife.com

Check out Sober Night Life online at www.SoberNightLife.com

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With a great guitar tuning widget, a sober arcade and up-to-date news, SoberMusicians.com is not only one of the most prominent sober sites on the web, but undoubtedly one of the most entertaining as well. The following is straight form the Sober Musicians website:

“Our aim is to help one another. Although you will see here and there references and links to many recovery programs, it is our wish that this website, Sober Musicians remain non denominational. Meaning we don’t get into stupid arguements about which way is better to get and stay sober.

There are plenty of other forums and message boards on the Web to join and argue the merits of our recovery programs, if we have one. With that said, let this be our Mission Statement, for lack of a simpler term. My friend Gooch calls it our Tablature. A place for sober artists of every stripe, or those sobering up. A Sober Studio if you will, that our music and art may thrive beyond our addiction.

One more crucial thing, folks… You gotta be wanting to have fun if you visit the forums!

For years, we played music in bars, or Pete’s garage on Friday Nights, or on the corner of Portage and Main, watching the dimes and quarters drop in the case… Some of us played until our fingers lost their touch… Some of us played until the notes inside our minds exhausted themselves into staccato silences…

Most of us played loaded with alcohol and drugs, believing they were the fuel to express our passion, a way to transcribe that which we felt was our link to the cosmic, the divine, the undefinable… In these pages, in no particular order or organized fashion, are our stories, our hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows, past and present.

We’re Treating Life Well now…” – SoberMusicians.com

Check out Sober Musicians at www.SoberMusicians.com

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Many people feel strange when going to their first A.A. meeting. Some people think they are too young to be in alcoholics anonymous. Others feel embarrassed or haven’t been drinking for very long. There are even members of Alcoholics Anonymous who never really drank “hard” liquor.

At Alcoholics Anonymous, you soon learn that it really doesn’t matter how much you drink, where you drink or what you drink. The important thing is what alcohol does to you physically and psychologically; only you can decide whether or not you have a drinking problem.

Here are just some of the Myths & Truths about Alcohol and Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.):

Myth: A.A. is only for older people who have been drinking for several years.

Truth: Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship for anyone who thinks they may have a problem with alcohol abuse; no matter how long you have been drinking.

Myth: I can’t be an alcoholic, I can drink a lot and not get sick

Truth: Even people with large capacities for alcohol can become alcoholics

Myth: Joining A.A. means complying with a bunch of rules, regulations and people telling you what to do.

Truth: Joining Alcoholics Anonymous is always free and never requires forms to sign or dues to pay. The only “requirement” for joining Alcoholics Anonymous is a desire to stop drinking. People in A.A. tell stories and give suggestions on how to stop drinking and stay sober.

For more information on Alcoholics Anonymous including news, website reviews, meetings and more, keep visiting us here at www.TheAABlog.com

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It was a late night in Beverly Hills, California for Richie Supa and the gang at InTheRooms.com as they eagerly awaited the announcement of the 2009 Prism Awards “Song of the Year”.

The annual Prism Awards recognizes excellence in music, television and movies in the realm of addiction, recovery and mental health.

Richie Supa performed “In The Rooms” live at the awards ceremony which took place Thursday, April 23rd at the Beverly Hotel. Everyone in attendance also received a free C.D. of “In The Rooms”, along with a registration card for www.InTheRooms.com.

Other 2009 PRISM Award Winners Include:

Performance in a Feature Film:
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
(Sony Pictures Classics / Clinica Estetico)

Original DVD:
Flashbacks of a Fool
(Left Turn Films / LipSynch Productions / Anchor Bay Entertainment)

TALK SHOW EPISODE:
Dr. Phil – “The Bridge”
(CBS Paramount Domestic Television / Peteski Productions)

COMIC BOOK STORYLINE:
The Alcoholic
(Vertigo / DC Comics)

For a full list of 2009 Prism Award winners and categories check out the Prism Awards online at www.PrismAwards.com. If you want to hear the Award-Winning song by Richie Supa, “In The Rooms”, check out www.InTheRooms.com. Want to get to know Richie Supa? Check out his profile at www.InTheRooms.com/RichieSupa

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