Wow. This IS better than the glow of electric sex in the window…
The wonderful ladies atHome Ec 101 have nominated me for this Thinking Blogger Award that I’m so proudly displaying to your right.
They said a very nice thing or two about me. [Keep in mind that this was before I advocated a Tank in every garage and admitted to full-tilt gun nut boogie.]
I am of course going to pay it forward by nominating five additional recipients. And believe me, I’ve been stewing over whom I should nominate, because pretty much everyone on my b-roll is a “Thinking blogger”. If you’ve captured my attention enough to make the b-roll, chances are I think of you as a “thinking blogger.” So this is rough stuff here. A sort of Sophie’s Choice-lite kind of job for me. If I had my way I maybe would skip the nomination part, but it’s right there in the rules of acceptance, which are:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote
So, playing along, I give you my five nominees for the Thinking Blogger Award. (And yes, this was EXTREMELY difficult.)
1. Sarcastro
I’m wistful for the days when this newly-minted papa would post more regularly. Because no matter where you stand in respect to his positions, you must admit that he’s not only thought about his but is nearly fearless in his presentation of those ideas. Sometimes he says what I’m thinking. Sometimes he says what you hoped no one would ever say out loud. He’s always entertaining and more often than not he’ll challenge the status quo.
2. Tiny Cat Pants
This is almost a no-brainer. (The decision, not the blog…) Rarely does a day go by without some sort of metadiscussion popping up in Tiny Cat Pants land. Aunt B., the author and driving force, throws many ideas out there and opens the floor to conversation. It can be a rough-and-tumble playground, but it always requires a degree of earnest thought. And man, the posts that B. uses to kickstart you can be a whole lotta fun. It’s obvious at first glance that Aunt B. does a lot of thinking.
3. Mother Tongue Annoyances
There’s thinking for the fun of the thinking, and then there’s thinking to a direct purpose. Tim W. of Mother Tongue Annoyances has some of the most thoroughly-researched and informative posts I’ve ever seen on a blog. I’ve been reading MTA for years now, and I truly feel as though I’ve gotten the equivalent of a 3-hour college course in the Modern English language, its origins and proper current forms. Tim W. will often analyse a word or turn of phrase with the exquisite attention to detail usually found in watchmaking.
4. Newscoma
You never know from one day to the next. It could be Bigfoot, it could be politics, it could be religion. Newscoma and I agree on almost nothing politically and often have different approaches on the rest of life’s matters as well. I’m nominating her because she does make me truly think about her positions. When we agree on something it’s a happy accident, and when we disagree I come away the better for having her take the time and patience to explain her thought processes on the issue at hand.
5. Lavender Sparkles
I must admit something here. When I first saw the name of this blog I assumed that it would be dedicated fully to the discussion of unicorns, fairies and other sparkle-ish type things. I did not expect to have Amy Kannell be so consistently dedicated to writing eloquent and informative pieces about the state of modern Christianity and the devotion and lifestyle of Christians. There are beautiful ponderings about the Saviour and impassioned pleas for the persecuted church. Amy is also one of the many bloggers who is consistently dedicated to the Thankful Thursday project. Her lists of Thankful items is often a springboard to contemplation for me.
There are so many others I would nominate for so many reasons, and I hate that I’m stuck with only five.
I do want to add that there are many kinds of posts out there. For each time that I’ve been impressed by the thinking that went into a long, well-written discussion of religion, gender or politics, there have been three times that I’ve been motivated to deeper thought by someone’s brief take on this or that. I truly appreciate each and every blog I visit.
Gosh, I certainly agree with you on all your choices, and let me just say I am RIGHT THERE with you on Sarcastro’s lessened posting of late. I know he’s got a good excuse, poor guy, and I’ve been trying to hold my tongue and be patient and understanding because I know the new offspring’s not letting him get much beauty sleep, but I have been sorely missing his more frequent entries. My daily blogreading has been just a little bit dimmer daily without more of Sarcastro and Rex L. (who, if that one doesn’t resurrect himself pretty soon, I really am going to cry for the rest of the year).
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wow. I don’t even know what to say except, thanks…I feel surprised and humbled to be included on your list. and amused that the title suggested to you I’d be writing about unicorns…wonder how many other people get that impression??
now I’m off to go pay it forward…that, and write a new post so that anyone who clicks over from here today sees something thoughtful and not the food meme I was going to put up today 😉
There is simply not a better person at explaining her own position without belittling anyone else’s than newscoma.
But YOU! Anybody who advocates that I have the right to have a tank has got to be the greatest blogger ever.
I’ve never left here, not having been touched to think of an issue in a way I’ve never thought about it before.
Keep it up. I consider myself a student of Koblian thought.
Thanks, Kat; I appreciate your thinking of me.
Would you be offended if I ceded my “Thinking Blogger” nomination to Lynnster?
In my opinion, Lynn is always intelligent, articulate, and spot-on in her writing. Moreover, she (unlike yours truly) avoids knocking other people down with her words.
For some strange reason most of Lynn’s keen, accurate commentary appears in the comments portion of other peoples’ blogs rather than in her own weblog; not sure why that is. Unless I am missing something, Lynn seems to reserve The Lynnster Zone for more personal reflection (another reason why I enjoy her stuff so much). Nevertheless, there you have it.
Take care,
Tim
First of all, Katherine, thank you for your kindness and I sent you an e-mail about how much what you said meant to me.
Slartibartfast, your words were also very kind and sweet and I thank you as well.
Tim, I think you will make Lynn’s day with those kind words. She really has become such a wonderful part of the blogosphere and your hit it on the head, her comments are amazing.
I adore her on a personal level, but what you said is completely accurate.
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I was getting ready to respond to this just about the time the other thread broke Wed. morning, sorry for having let it lie so long now.
Tim, I was both shocked as well as being enormously humbled and touched by your suggestion. Those were all such truly nice things to say and I’m not sure I’m at all deserving of some of them but thank you for your kindness.
My feelings about MT Annoyances are much the same as KC’s and I nodded my head reading her choices last night. And (as I have told you personally) it still kind of blows my mind that you’re even a regular reader because I think you’re just such an exceptionally brilliant writer and I’m just kinda silly old me.
And the other reason I nodded my head when I read Kat’s choices last night and some others this morning was because I thought to myself I sure don’t belong on anyone’s list for “thinking bloggers” because I’m like the most fly by the seat of my pants, off the top of my head blogger I know and pretty much always have been. But as my better half often reminds me, I know my mirror’s broken and I don’t see myself as others do, so if you appreciate what I write, who am I to question it, you know… so thank you. I’m very humbled and extremely touched.
I’ll work on the passing it on on my day off today sometime later (except I think many of my picks have already been picked by others, eek) 🙂
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