Benjibopper

As you can see in my sidebar, I've received two new awards, the I'm Original from CrashDummie and the Awesome Guy Blogger from Eric313. Both major honours.

It's tough to decide who to give the original award to because everybody's original, especially in Blogland [a term I deem to be superior to 'the blogosphere']. That's the joy of the medium, we aren't restricted by any gatekeeper BS norms. But anyway, I'm giving it to Ivan because I never know what'll come up at that guy's url, and he says what he says with great style. To paraphrase the great Justin Rutledge, even when he's full of shit it's music to my ears.

For the Awesome Guy one, that's easy. I give it to my long time (well over a year now) blogger buddy Ultra Toast Mosha God. He's got to be the friendliest blogger out there. Yeah I've seen him go into attack mode, but that's only because he was defending somebody. He's loyal like that, and he's as nice in person as online.

That's how it is.

-BB

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I've been tagged by sweet Eric with the Thoughtful/Creative blogger awards [see sidebar]. This makes me happy because creative and thoughtful are two of my favourite adjectives. Now I gotta pass this honour on to some deserving suspects, so here goes.

Ultra Toast Mosha God has a most creative and thoughtful form of expression, which is both dazzling and deserving.

Honeysmack always seems to twist my brain into pleasing new pretzels of poignancy, so she gets a nod.

Okami's 20 questions were brilliant, particularly an answer she gave me about fear, which was very different from the words of Nelson Mandela, but equally prophetic and perhaps more personal.

Naturally, there are many others equally deserving, but 3 is a magic number.

What I like about these awards is they are without committee. They are reviewed by a peer committee of one. So, while they lack the prestige of, I dunno, the Pulitzer, and the glam of the Oscars, they are more community-based.

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Ivan has awarded me the Schmoozer Award. I'm not exactly sure what it's for, but it has something to do with this:

Schmooze: etymology: Yiddish shmuesn, intransitive verb : to converse informally : CHAT; also : to chat in a friendly and persuasive manner... transitive verb : to engage in schmoozing.

Strangely, the award itself has a Mr. Clean-like bycep and a ribbon saying 'community involvement.' Now I'm supposed to pass this award to five other bloggers. I'm a bit sick of the tagging thing, but since it's an award and a chance to recognize some good blogs, I'll do it.

Specifically, I'm choosing blogs of people who seem to have good and strong hearts, based on the nature of their writing. These are people who seem likely to be involved, in positive ways, with their respective communities:

1. Red Jenny: Not even sure if she's ever come by here but I enjoy her blog; she's got some righteous anger that I'm guessing leads to positive action, and her writing is nicely accessible.

2. Trevor Record: For being a vegetarian, and also for writing (very well) about the underdog.

3. Eric1313: Also for writing (very well) about the underdog.

4. Enemy of the Republic: She's a righteous and spiritual mother who has a definite political perspective, but also makes it personal, and community-based, and seems very honest and genuine in her writing.

5. Andy Kaufman: Staying on the parental theme, the rumour's of AK's demise are slightly exaggerated. He's a new dad and I admire that his priorities are straight. He also writes with twisted elegance.

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