- Shortlist for week ending 29 February, 2008
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The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.
If you (yes, YOU) would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week (and really, why wouldn’t you?), please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and send your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night. Go on then, you know you want to.
And without further ado, here’s this week’s list:
1. Brad and His Blog: Smiles are free
Nominated by Ben.
There was a small pause here, because I was surprised at the cleverness of this rude man. In just a few words he’d shown me that he likens my position to one at a fast food restaurant. In his own audacious way he had reduced me to a pimply teenaged burger flipper.
2. Sometimes Funny is All I Have: That Time
Nominated by nuttycow.
A train is hitting me in the mornings. I can’t think in straight lines, and I feel constantly guilty and anxious. Suddenly lots of seeds I sowed months ago are becoming green shoots and are wiggling their way upwards, but, just as suddenly, I have been rendered completely incapable of doing anything to nurture them.
3. Steakhouse Blues: “do not despair of life …”
Nominated by Lyle.
Underlying those spikes though is a more persistent unease, as I worry about losing a few on my staff, “angels” all, who seem fixated on the negative and are obviously connecting me personally with mostly imagined problems. If my “angels” become hopeless, I’m just plain fucked.
4. Todger Talk: Mr Sex: If you need and explanation on how depressing this is, then we got a LONG day ahead of us
Nominated by peach.
Lovely bit of snobbery here. It’s a bit like viewing child porn in an ornate frame in a country mansion, and looking down your nose at people who watch it on the internet.
5. Trauma Queen: Adopt a caring and confident manner
Nominated by karen.
A simple enough bread and butter job, 1 year old male with what looks like bronchiolitis. His Mum holds him as she parrots the standard history - wee bit of a cold, awfy snottery, tired, pale.
6. Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Blog: A Letter to the Girl in the Red Skirt Dancing on McFadden’s Bar on Saturday
Nominated by Boy.
Let’s just launch right into it. I would like to express how thankful I am for getting the opportunity to stare at your vagina for a better part of Saturday night at McFadden’s. It was more than I could’ve asked for on an evening where I was just looking to relax.
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Number Six has got to be a mistake. If she was wearing underwear then he clearly wasn’t looking at her vagina, was he, despite his repeated claims. Aside from which, anyone that refers to an adult woman’s underwear as “panties” has got to go. This one is wrong on so many levels. Post of the Week, your standards are dropping. I’m disappointed in you.
Hey Mono, I’m sorry the post offended you. POTW’s going to keep it in the shortlist because, well, you know, freedom of expression and all that, but specifically because after someone saw fit to write it, someone else saw fit to nominate it and a third person saw fit to shortlist it.
I’m sad you see that as dropping standards.
peach
based on that line of logic, i have never been caught staring at a girl’s tits in public.
“don’t be mad, sweetie. i wasn’t looking at her tits. i was looking at her shirt. someone named ‘monozygote’ presented this line of reasoning to me once in a comment on a blog, and i think it’s airtight. i couldn’t be looking at her tits if she has a shirt on, now could i? now take off your panties.”
Cheers, peach.
As you will see from my comment, I’m not critiquing the procedure for a moment. I don’t see the writing/nominating/shortlisting process as dropping standards, and neither did I say so, so no-one needs to be sorry about that.
What I do see as dropping standards is the inclusion of this particular piece in the category of “great writing”, that’s all (for the reasons I have mentioned). Just exercising my freedom of expression.
Of course, what constitutes “great writing” is a matter of opinion, to which everyone is entitled. Including the shortlister, and including me. I’m just surprised and saddened that the people at POTW see this piece as meeting that criterion. That’s what I mean by dropping standards IMHO
As for people seeing fit to write stuff, well that’s really a non-argument: the internet is awash with drivel, hate-speech, inaccuracies and untruths which people have “seen fit to write” - but that doesn’t make it “great writing”, does it? And this is partly what I thought the point of POTW was about: to highlight the good stuff.
I’m just saying I way way disagree with the shortlister on this one, that’s all. I think I’m within my rights. It’s just an opinion.
So which is it to be then lozo? Make up your mind.
Oops, clearly I’ve caused some controversy! I’ll get my coat…
As far as the arguement about great writing, in the end of the day the post may not be earth shattering but it was bloody funny and made me laugh out loud. So in my eyes, it’s a great post.
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