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pecuniumI've been given an award.
The details can be found here
It's a meme, of sorts.
This makes the second time Writing Wrongs has had this sort of affect on me. The first was after I made a comment about food on her blog. She thinks me a better cook than I am (though she's free to let me know she's stopping by for dinner, if she want's to test this theory), and she said so, in head-swelling terms.
Which was nice, but sort of surprising (she was amazed I was reading her blog, it's a nice blog, mostly about writing, I commend it, and have reccomended it to those who are looking at writing).
But books, nor even food, are not how I came to find her. It was riding my hobbyhorse. I was googling for something, and a link came up. I followed it to this post We have a point of common experience, and that was, in a dark time, a ray of hope.
I could have chosen a golden version of the logo. I didn't think I deserved it. Not out of some sense of false modesty. I write for three reasons.
1: To share things, and to keep in touch with my friends.
2: To inform, or teach something (food porn is like that)
3: To make people think.
Since I am trying to do that, I succeeded. Medals, to make an analogy, ought not be inflated. If one does something ordinary, awards aren't in order. If one does it well, then some recognition is merited (even desirable). But a Legion of Merit for seeing to it the REDTRAIN missions are all filled, for three years running, is a bit beyond the pale, and AAM will do just fine.
So, now it's time for me to name my five nominees (they don't have to accept), blogs which make me think. I could post some of the bigger blogs I read every day (some of which spark comment here), but I'm going to aim for less well known members of the blogging world.
In no order of merit.
Steve Barnes
Feminism Wihout Clothes(NWS)
Habeas Brulee
The Slacktivist
News for Curious Cooks
The details can be found here
It's a meme, of sorts.
This makes the second time Writing Wrongs has had this sort of affect on me. The first was after I made a comment about food on her blog. She thinks me a better cook than I am (though she's free to let me know she's stopping by for dinner, if she want's to test this theory), and she said so, in head-swelling terms.
Which was nice, but sort of surprising (she was amazed I was reading her blog, it's a nice blog, mostly about writing, I commend it, and have reccomended it to those who are looking at writing).
But books, nor even food, are not how I came to find her. It was riding my hobbyhorse. I was googling for something, and a link came up. I followed it to this post We have a point of common experience, and that was, in a dark time, a ray of hope.
I could have chosen a golden version of the logo. I didn't think I deserved it. Not out of some sense of false modesty. I write for three reasons.
1: To share things, and to keep in touch with my friends.
2: To inform, or teach something (food porn is like that)
3: To make people think.
Since I am trying to do that, I succeeded. Medals, to make an analogy, ought not be inflated. If one does something ordinary, awards aren't in order. If one does it well, then some recognition is merited (even desirable). But a Legion of Merit for seeing to it the REDTRAIN missions are all filled, for three years running, is a bit beyond the pale, and AAM will do just fine.
So, now it's time for me to name my five nominees (they don't have to accept), blogs which make me think. I could post some of the bigger blogs I read every day (some of which spark comment here), but I'm going to aim for less well known members of the blogging world.
In no order of merit.
Steve Barnes
Feminism Wihout Clothes(NWS)
Habeas Brulee
The Slacktivist
News for Curious Cooks
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Date: 2007-04-11 02:48 pm (UTC)For me, the only surprise is someone hadn't nominated you sooner.
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Date: 2007-04-11 03:53 pm (UTC)But I don't think of myself an exeptional cook. I just like it, and as with most things, passion shows. That I am a decent hand with a typewriter probably has as much to do with people thinking me a really good cook as what I put on the table does.
I'm not so surprised. It's the first I'd heard of the award (though it seems someone of my acquaintance has also been given one), and my readership is small, (the hitcounter says about 400).
TK