16 Comments to “Call for nominations”

1. Lyle ~ October 1st at 2:31 pm #
   

   The joint posts by Karen and Pete on whether to have a second child make a good read, and an interesting pair of perspectives.

   
   
2. MisssyM ~ October 1st at 6:05 pm #
   

   Not the usual POTW fare but a potentially important news story that has gone unreported from The Scottish Patient:

   http://kevinwilliamson.blogspo.....sandy.html

   
   
3. Peter ~ October 1st at 10:34 pm #
   

   You rock girl! I’ve nominated news pieces myself in the past, but they’ve never made the shortlist. What a story! And just LOOK at Kevin’s blogroll!

   
   
4. Mike ~ October 1st at 11:08 pm #
   

   And as one of the original site creators, can I also just emphasise that anything else which might be considered “not the usual POTW fare” is more than welcome to be nominated. I’d love the scope of the shortlists to be widened out a bit further…

   
   
5. kate ~ October 2nd at 7:03 am #
   

   Greater love hath no man than that which he reserves for his newspaper.

   http://womanofexperience.blogs.....arted.html

   
   
6. Pete ~ October 2nd at 11:13 am #
   

   Sevitz has written an account of a battle with a spider. I’m not normally a fan of the mile-long paragraph, stream-of-consciousness style, but this one was strangely gripping.

   http://sevitz.com/2007/10/im_l.....so_massive

   
   
7. Kate Johnson ~ October 3rd at 12:43 am #
   

   I’d like to nominate a post titled Here and Now, at this site:

   http://willows95988.typepad.com/

   It is a reminder of the impermanence of the situations we find ourselves in, of our lives in general, and I love this woman’s photography and passion for antiques, as well as her stories of life in France (she is originally from California). This blog is not text-heavy, but photo-heavy with accompanying text.

   
   
8. Zinnia Cyclamen ~ October 3rd at 6:34 am #
   

   OK, here’s a ‘not the usual PotW fare’ nomination. The premise is this: Yellow aka Simon Stevens, Anglican chaplain at Southampton University (strapline: ‘one man’s lonely quest to become Britain’s first dooced vicar’), decided a year ago to raise money for Liberty Child (local charity providing holidays for children with disabilities) by doing a venture he called ‘The Big Tick’. This involved joining in for at least one session with every student society, from the contemporary dance society to the atheist society, and recording the experience on his blog with a photo of him and a ‘Big Tick’ certificate, endorsed by the society’s president or equivalent. He spent the whole of the last academic year doing this and has just put a summary on his blog, consisting of all the photos with a link to the (usually very entertaining) post for each one. So although it’s technically a photographic post, it does have embedded text. And I think it deserves a look for sheer creative lunacy and exuberant writing. (Obviously shortlisters and, if it reaches that stage, judges couldn’t read all 31 posts - try the Showstoppers Society and the Pagan Society for a flavour, then dip in elsewhere if you feel like it.) It’s here: http://darksidechaplaincy.blog.....-tick.html

   
   
9. kate ~ October 3rd at 7:10 am #
   

   I couldn’t resist this from Mr Chicken! (The Usual Shit Blog) but side splitting all the same,know what I mean?

   http://jerrychicken.blogspot.c.....ammes.html

   
   
10. Mike ~ October 3rd at 10:59 pm #
    

    Yes, yes, I know, celeb blogs is cheating.

    But, really, this is so good.

    Long (over 8000 words). But SO good.

    
    
11. James ~ October 4th at 12:05 pm #
    

    I like Zinnia’s nomination. Very funny. Thanks for sharing it.

    
    
12. Peach ~ October 4th at 1:34 pm #
    

    Isabelle at Letters To Ed:
    http://letterstoed.wordpress.c.....03/doosra/

    
    
13. Katy Newton ~ October 4th at 6:55 pm #
    

    I second the Stephen Fry nomination. I don’t think it is cheating, Mike - the fact that someone’s a sleb isn’t any guarantee that their blog is readable, although admittedly Stephen “brain the size of a planet” Fry’s blog was always going to be good.

    
    
14. Nick ~ October 4th at 7:30 pm #
    

    The impromptu discovery of somewhere that might feel like home at last, or at least a different take on the search for unconditional acceptance, unless it is simply a reflection on the nature of love… Whatever it may be, it deserves a read for the sheer energy those lines contain:

    http://fromfuckuptofab.blogspo.....magic.html

    
    
15. The Girl ~ October 5th at 3:41 pm #
    

    Bitchy Jones’s Diary Menswear

    “Men are pretty. You only think you aren’t pretty because you built this culture to be all about feminine prettiness. Ask me, I can list you a hundred reasons why men are the pretty ones. Some men love to say, Oh women get to dress up. Women get to wear the pretty things. Women get to dance and sparkle and shine. And actually, while we’re on the subject, you know it isn’t such a great deal to be the defining axis of pretty when you think that’s *all* we get to be.

    Or what happens to those of us who aren’t pretty.

    When we only get to be looked at and never get to look. Do you really want me to spell out how angry I get when a man laments he doesn’t get to wear pink flowers or gold lace, in the casual meaning-free way that women do. When you’re locked up inside the gilded fucking cage it’s really not heartening to hear the people who put you there whining about how come they don’t get to look cute in the purty prison.”

    
    
16. Mike ~ October 5th at 11:37 pm #
    

    NOMINATIONS FOR THIS WEEK ARE NOW CLOSED.

    The shortlist will appear on Saturday.

    
    

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