Friday, August 24, 2007
Awesomely Original
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
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
Sunday, July 29, 2007
My Latest Accolades
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.
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.
