I'm honoured!
Well, I've just been awarded one of these:
A Thinking Blogger Award. My award comes courtesy of an anonymous benefactor. OK, actually it was my wife Julia, but she was kind enough to say that "It's not nepotism if the blogger's work would blow you away even if you weren't married to him."
The rules state that I must now nominate five blogs that make me think, to bestow the award upon. So, in no order of preference, here are my nominees...
1. the ink pot
Paisley is a writer I have come to know of purely by random chance. Although she already has a Thinking Blogger Award for her main site ...why paisley???, I thought I would nominate her again, specifically for the always provocative pieces on the ink pot site, and also for her new project secret... secret... i've got a secret...
2. Strange but true...
Another random person, this time through the randomness that is Gumtree, where we were both members of the sadly defunct G-Team... The good Doctor, in her own words, is a "Misplaced Canuck living/working in London for the past three years, shares her rambles and tribulations with the masses..." and in the process has some pretty sharp observations on life in this city. When she's not tirelessly giving me shit about not recording podcasts...
3. If you're interested
OK, so a little bit of nepotism at work here, as this is my uncle's blog. That being said, go read his posts - again, another acute observer of life, with the slightly warped viewpoint you can only really achieve if you are a firebrand socialist revolutionary who wakes up and realises that you're married with kids. Laurie is also a writer, and one of the earliest influences that led me to believe I could do this, that writer's weren't just "other people" but that "people like us" could do it too.
And to prove that other people think his work is thought provoking too, how many other non-scientific people have their work featured in The Boneyard?
4. Ramblings of a Crazy English Girl
Fi has lived more lives than anyone I know. She's done more, seen more, been through more than anyone I know. It's like she's packed in several lifetimes. And despite (or perhaps because of) all this, she is one of the loveliest people you could ever hope to meet.
5. The Bitterest Pill
I hesitated about including Dan Klass in this. And not just because he's a huge, famous podcaster, and I'm just some unknown schmuck ("Paul who? He wants to give me a what award? Never heard of it. Or him!").
I hesitated firstly because he's probably had hundreds of these bestowed on him before from his numerous listeners. Secondly, because his podcast, The Bitterest Pill is often, by his own admission, a rambling monologue about what he has been doing that past week, tales from his career, or about his family, or simply reminiscing about his childhood and youth. Funny, yes. Entertaining, absolutely. But it's like a chat over a few beers with a good friend. So perhaps not quite in the spirit of the award. And I hope Dan takes no offence in what I've said.
However, I have included the Pill as my final recipient for the Thinking Blogger Award because like all good friends Dan occasionally takes us to one side and has a deep and meaningful talk with us. Stand out episodes for me include Dear God and more recently We are all Fairport, which more than any other is why I am nominating Dan. Maybe it is the fact that when that episode came out it was around the tenth anniversary of my leaving high school, and I was feeling nostalgic, but I suspect that it was because this episode was poignant, moving and universal. And for that, Dan Klass merits my final nomination.
Phew. I would of course have nominated the absolutely brilliant, witty and devastating insights that can be found in an amazing blog called On with my life..., written by an exceptionally clever and handsome young man...
... but somehow that seemed in violation of the spirit of the award!
The rules state that I must now nominate five blogs that make me think, to bestow the award upon. So, in no order of preference, here are my nominees...
1. the ink pot
Paisley is a writer I have come to know of purely by random chance. Although she already has a Thinking Blogger Award for her main site ...why paisley???, I thought I would nominate her again, specifically for the always provocative pieces on the ink pot site, and also for her new project secret... secret... i've got a secret...
2. Strange but true...
Another random person, this time through the randomness that is Gumtree, where we were both members of the sadly defunct G-Team... The good Doctor, in her own words, is a "Misplaced Canuck living/working in London for the past three years, shares her rambles and tribulations with the masses..." and in the process has some pretty sharp observations on life in this city. When she's not tirelessly giving me shit about not recording podcasts...
3. If you're interested
OK, so a little bit of nepotism at work here, as this is my uncle's blog. That being said, go read his posts - again, another acute observer of life, with the slightly warped viewpoint you can only really achieve if you are a firebrand socialist revolutionary who wakes up and realises that you're married with kids. Laurie is also a writer, and one of the earliest influences that led me to believe I could do this, that writer's weren't just "other people" but that "people like us" could do it too.
And to prove that other people think his work is thought provoking too, how many other non-scientific people have their work featured in The Boneyard?
4. Ramblings of a Crazy English Girl
Fi has lived more lives than anyone I know. She's done more, seen more, been through more than anyone I know. It's like she's packed in several lifetimes. And despite (or perhaps because of) all this, she is one of the loveliest people you could ever hope to meet.
5. The Bitterest Pill
I hesitated about including Dan Klass in this. And not just because he's a huge, famous podcaster, and I'm just some unknown schmuck ("Paul who? He wants to give me a what award? Never heard of it. Or him!").
I hesitated firstly because he's probably had hundreds of these bestowed on him before from his numerous listeners. Secondly, because his podcast, The Bitterest Pill is often, by his own admission, a rambling monologue about what he has been doing that past week, tales from his career, or about his family, or simply reminiscing about his childhood and youth. Funny, yes. Entertaining, absolutely. But it's like a chat over a few beers with a good friend. So perhaps not quite in the spirit of the award. And I hope Dan takes no offence in what I've said.
However, I have included the Pill as my final recipient for the Thinking Blogger Award because like all good friends Dan occasionally takes us to one side and has a deep and meaningful talk with us. Stand out episodes for me include Dear God and more recently We are all Fairport, which more than any other is why I am nominating Dan. Maybe it is the fact that when that episode came out it was around the tenth anniversary of my leaving high school, and I was feeling nostalgic, but I suspect that it was because this episode was poignant, moving and universal. And for that, Dan Klass merits my final nomination.
Phew. I would of course have nominated the absolutely brilliant, witty and devastating insights that can be found in an amazing blog called On with my life..., written by an exceptionally clever and handsome young man...
... but somehow that seemed in violation of the spirit of the award!
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