Last night The Arts Blog, a popular haven for intelligent blather on the higher things in life, the home of The Most Interesting Man in the World and this blogger’s outlet for 4.5 years, was named Best Blog by the O.C. Press Club.
The Arts Blog was shut down on July 10, causing a national scandal.
An inside source tells me that there were boos at the ceremony when it was announced that the blog had been canceled.
Congratulations to my fellow Arts Bloggers Paul Hodgins and Richard Chang.
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Love it! Congrats!
Congratulations, Tim! An honor well deserved.
Exquiste irony! Congratulations.
The William Bulter Yeats poem, Adam’s Curse, comes to mind. Here’s a portion:
…And you and I, and talked of poetry.
I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together
Is to work harder than all these, and yet
Be thought an idler by the noisy set
Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen
The martyrs call the world.’
Congrats to Tim, Paul, and Richard! Well deserved!
JB, that’s a fantastic choice for a poem.
HI MM,
It’s a long-time favorite poem of mine. It reminds me that art takes work, and is rarely appreciated by the “world” as work. Of course, Yeats said it better!
JB
Bravo, Tim! I’m curious what Ms. Deputy Editor Allen’s reaction was. Oh, the irony!
That’s classic!
Good for you guys!
Well-deserved Congratulations…NOW they know the error of their ways!
Thanks, everybody.
Congratulations! Well deserved, of course. And certainly a bit ironic. Now, I could be wrong but I haven’t seen anything on the Register website yet about this award. Was there something?
Congratulations! Well Deserved. I’m sure there were some pretty red faces at the OC Register table that night!