Nominations Are Open
By Mitch Berg
This year, for the Fourth Annual Shootie Awards – the annual award for the worst and (occasionally) best in Twin Cities blogging, I’m doing something different.
In addition to my own awards, I’ll be doing a Reader Participation award. Sort of like Rolling Stone magazine’s annual “Best Of” edition, which has always been divided into “Readers” and “Critics” polls, I’ll be doing “Readers” and “Mitch/Roosh/Doug” awards this year.
So if you have nominations for best/worst Twin Cities blogging moments since last January 1, drop ’em in this comment section between now and December 28.
The Shooties – a tradition unlike many others!
December 21st, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Best – all of what you wrote Mitch, on Charter Schools here on SitD
December 21st, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Worst – how can Peev not be a lock?
December 21st, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Bicycle Wars should be in there somewhere.
December 21st, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Kermit Says:
December 21st, 2009 at 2:55 pm
“Worst – how can Peev not be a lock?”
Are you speaking of Penigma the individual, or our blog? In either case,
the request is for “nominations for best/worst Twin Cities blogging moments since last January 1,”, so perhaps you might be more specific?
December 21st, 2009 at 5:32 pm
He’ll always be Peev to me. The venerable James Lileks (who knows a thing or two about writing) christened heim “Peevish Boy” several years ago.
Always the individual. I try not to judge people by the company they keep. Blogging at Anti-Strib makes me acutely aware of the whole glass houses thing.
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:54 am
Well, Kerm and DG, penigma has improved his writing a lot from those days. He used to pile adjective on adjective and have problems writing sentences with a clear Object-Subject-Verb. He’s gotten much better.
December 22nd, 2009 at 6:53 am
Terry’s right — Peev/Penigma has improved. And his blog is streets ahead of many of the other local portside commenters. He’s still a very peevish fellow, but he’s gained some discipline.
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:17 am
I’d like to nominate EricF at MPP for this recent gem-
1200 limos at Copenhagen actually showed how frugal the goofy global warming folks are, because over 15,000 people showed up, so that means less than 10 percent of the attendees had limos.
Seriously, he said it.
http://www.mnprogressiveproject.com/diary/4776/fun-with-debunking-the-right-the-answer-to-1200-limousines
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Oh, the low hanging fruit that I can see! How about this choice bit of “Don’t worry, Big Government can solve all your problems”: http://greatdivide.typepad.com/across_the_great_divide/2009/11/revenge-conservatives-and-de-facto-americans.html
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
On behalf of our blog, thank you Mr.D.
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
“put another nail in the coffin of the idea of Isreal – ” penigma 01.13.09 – 9:01 am