Feb 25

An imperfect ten of bodacious blogs

Tag: Blogging — doug @ 11:28 pm

excellentblog-awardFeb08 I’ve found blogging (well, life really, but don’t talk to me about life, me with a pain in all the diodes down my left side — AKA and IRL a trapped nerve in my shoulder) a real struggle for energy and ideas over the last few days, so it’s an encouragement to get any kind of praise or recognition. That means I’m really cheered as well as honoured to have been inoculated by James McGrath with another meme, this time for excellence in blogging.

As he observes, however, if this meme runs its course “you then pass it on to ten other blogs, and so on until the word “excellent” in reference to blogs eventually loses all meaning.” So for all I know, he was running out of blogs to infect! As Dash says in The Incredibles “When everyone’s special, no-one is”.(Actually, mocking aside, I am genuinely flattered to be named in such august company.)

The real problem is picking ten blogs to tag in turn as most excellent and bodacious ones. Do I name ones that haven’t been named? Or can I name some of James’ for example? There don’t seem to be any rules. So here are mine. I will name a personal top ten, whether someone else has named them or not. And on another day I might well have come up with a different list, ‘cos you’re all special to me really. But if you’re on the list below (in no particular order), consider yourselves most excellent, and well tagged.

  • Mark Goodacre for being consistently useful, always reasonable, and getting me blogging in the first place.
  • Dave Walker for making me laugh
  • Ben Myers for nearly making me like Milton but being far sounder on everything else
  • James McGrath for most of his posts except memes like this and waffle about Lost.
  • John Hobbins for teaching me more about the Hebrew Bible than I ever thought I wanted to know
  • David Ker for being amiably off-the-wall on the Bible
  • April DeConick for guiding me into the maze of alternative scripture
  • Alan Wilson for a consistently stimulating, amusing and gently prophetic pastoralia.
  • Chris Heard for combining shrewd reflection with sci-fi and comic fanboy enthusiasm
  • The dynamic duo (and making my last entry a shared award is almost cheating) of biblioblogdom’s double act, the Laurel and Hardy, the Bonnie and Clyde, the Bultmann and Wright of blogging: West and Tilling.

6 Responses to “An imperfect ten of bodacious blogs”

  1. Mark Goodacre says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    Thanks, Doug. Nice to know I got you “bogging”! Sympathies for the ailments; I have a raging toothache, so I’m united with you in suffering!

  2. Jim says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 1:54 am

    Tilling is clearly Bonnie!

  3. Lingamish says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 6:14 am

    Thanks, Doug!

    I think the last time I heard the word “bodacious” was in Bill and Ted’s Most Excellent Adventure.

  4. Chris Tilling says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 7:20 am

    Dang, Jim got in the clever comment about the other being Bonnie first.

    Thanks for the honourable mention, Doug.

  5. doug says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Oh dear, Mark! I have decided to correct that typo for fear of all sorts of misconstruals.

  6. MetaCatholic » The rhetoric of Athens and Jerusalem says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

    [...] Prompted by reading James McGrath’s post (and expanding a comment I left there) I make a brief contribution to the Blog Co-op requested by April DeConick (who I hope will yet respond to being tagged with the Excellent meme). [...]

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