Drew McManus of Adapdistration awarded DecSimp a Premios Dardo Award – which Google Translator tells me means Award Dart Award – and I’d like to thank all the people who worked so hard and without whom I wouldn’t be standing here today. I won for being “the intersection of clever and hip,” and combine that with this, I’m pretty much king of the world until the other shoe drops.
The rules are:
- Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person that has granted the award and his or her blog link.
- Pass the award to five blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment. Remember to contact each of them to let them know they have been chosen for this award.
Leaving journalism almost a year ago and joining the non-profit world resulted in me reading far fewer blogs than I had been. (Although journalism is also part of the non-profit world these days…) There are only so many hours a day, and I don’t feel compelled to keep up with every last concert report from Saskatchewan. But I still do read, and my awards are in no particular order and go to:
- Nico Muhly, who writes about Icelandic cooking and English polyphony, also new music.
- Matthew Guerrieri’s Soho the Dog, on which music and economics are written about with hilarity and insight.
- Michael Hovnanian’s Bass Blog, because it’s fun to know about what goes on in an orchestra I don’t work for.
- Gawker, because it’s important that I maintain contact with pop culture in case someone says, “Brangelina.”
- Fail Blog, which allows me to believe I’m not in humanity’s lowest percentile, all evidence to the contrary.
- The “anniet” who writes here, and whose posts are consistenly the deftest writing out there. She doesn’t post often, but every post is exquisite.
I know that’s six blogs, and the limit is five. Mom always said I acted as if the rules didn’t apply to me, and I will not be bound by your arbitrary blog-awards strictures.