December 02, 2005

Awards

Horizon has been nominated for "Best Group Blog" in the Cliopatria awards.

I find this a bit surprising, not least because our output has been so low lately. It would be easy to blame this on the intrusions of Real Life — books, babies, and travel — but I've got another theory. Fundamentally, we are all curmudgeons whose M.O. is to lie in wait for someone to make a positive statement we can pounce on. This really doesn't lend itself to vigorous editorial output.

Posted by Ben Brumfield at December 2, 2005 07:06 AM
Comments

Just when we'd been busted down to a "Multicellular Microorganism" and I was accordingly feeling small. Well, no accounting for tastes.

Posted by: Martha Bridegam at December 2, 2005 01:44 PM

The secret to your success is that your nominee is also a low-output blogger.

Posted by: Caleb at December 2, 2005 05:33 PM

Wow — a visit from one of our Crawly Amphibian betters!

Posted by: Ben Brumfield at December 2, 2005 07:46 PM

Er, a Crawly Amphibian who is a Crappy Grammarian. What I meant to say was that your nominator is a low-output blogger. You are the nominee, of course, and I the admirer.

Posted by: Caleb at December 2, 2005 08:26 PM

Which, in the spirit of seasonal non-curmudgeonhood, I had decided not to point out, but it did get me wondering why "nominor" isn't a word.

Posted by: Martha Bridegam at December 2, 2005 10:44 PM

I, on the other hand, had decided not to point it out in the spirit of brown-nosing.

Posted by: Ben Brumfield at December 3, 2005 05:58 AM

Looks like we've moved up to Crunchy Crustacean. As my mother-in-law would say, "Well, pin a rose on us."

Posted by: Martha Bridegam at December 4, 2005 09:25 PM