Comments on: The Cannon Loud, the Flag So High

By: First to the Bridge, First to the City - The Run of Play

First to the Bridge, First to the City - The Run of Play — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:31:14 +0000

[...] Blog You've Never Heard Of" and "Best EPL Blog" and made a speech about revolutions, muskets, and souls), which made it all the more surprising when I woke up this morning to find that I'd won one: [...]

By: SpanglyPrincess

SpanglyPrincess — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:20:50 +0000

I find it a tragic feature of modern life that the use of squid is so culturally undervalued.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:05:49 +0000

Congratulations. Great blog, and good to see it recognized. They really should consider broadening the categories to include more of the behind-the-scenes technical ones, like the Oscars. You'd be front runner for Best Art Direction and, as you mentioned, Best Use of Squid.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:40:35 +0000

"Blog Whose Readers Are Most Likely to Compare Joe Cole to the Native American Trickster Figure Wakdjunkaga in Comments"

By: Erinti

Erinti — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:13:07 +0000

"best blog cobbled together from watercolor portraits of giant squid, Sleepy John Estes songs, and the letters of Beatrix Potter" category

Yes, please.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:41:03 +0000

Thanks, all. Really nice to find your comments.

I took the EPL categorization as a knowing wink toward the fact that there was no "best blog cobbled together from watercolor portraits of giant squid, Sleepy John Estes songs, and the letters of Beatrix Potter" category. Although maybe there should have been.

The plan now is to hire a bassist who cuts himself on stage, swiftly disband, then re-form twenty years later once people have stopped thinking the New York Dolls were important.

By: TrentToffee

TrentToffee — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:19:30 +0000

…thoroughly deserved. That piece about the Bulgarian lad who looked as if he'd just been told to go and fetch his aunties suitcases from the taxi desrved it alone.

Drink it in. The only way is down.

By: Duffman

Duffman — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:55:03 +0000

Yep, congratulations Brian. I look forward to your difficult second album

By: Mou

Mou — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:27:16 +0000

Congratulations Brian!

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:14:30 +0000

Congratulations from here too, Brian – thoroughly deserved!

By: Erinti

Erinti — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:57:19 +0000

Congratulations, dude. (Though I was with ursus making O_o face at you being in the EPL category.)

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:36:21 +0000

I assumed that the inclusion of the bit about Milan meant that the whole comment was to be read in the alternative . . .

Anyway, what they said. Even though I didn't vote for you for the "EPL" honour, as I thought that much too parochial a description of your oeuvre.

By: roswitha

roswitha — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:18:57 +0000

… I meant 'no more,' didn't I.

By: Chris O

Chris O — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:14:20 +0000

Congratulations, Brian – that's quite an achievement to be proud of!

By: spanglyprincess

spanglyprincess — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:11:32 +0000

Congratulations, Brian, richly deserved. Roswitha & I shall plot some kind of violent countercoup of the next few weeks.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:00:52 +0000

Very much deserved, Brian, good to see. At this rate you'll have no shot at "Best Blog You've Never Heard Of" for 2008.

By: roswitha

roswitha — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:58:48 +0000

Right behind you in the hopefully not much longer march to truth, freedom and Milan winning everything in sight undeservedly and gleefully. Congratulations! Laurels are no less than you deserve.