ODonnellWeb Blog Awards
April 10th, 2007 by COD
Voting is for sissies. Thereby I present the first ever ODonnellWeb Homeschool Blog awards. In keeping with the open and participatory nature of the Internet, feel free to add to the list.
Best Cow on a Blog that would likely serve me a very fine beer: The Gookins
Blogger most likely to haunt the nightmares of the HSB crowd: Doc
Bloggers most likely to restore my faith in Christian homeschoolers: Ron & Andrea
Scariest header: Cocking A Snook (the clown on the left gives me the heebie jeebies)
Blogger I’m most likely to run into at a hair metal concert: Stephanie
Blogger most likely to leave a forwarding address: Natalie
Blogger I’m most likely to bump into at the beer store: ImPerceptible
Blogger most likely to go postal if the Republicans somehow win the White House again in 2008: Daryl
Blogger most likely to worship the patron saint of quality footwear: These Go To Eleven
A few that got overlooked in my reverse jet lag fog this morning. The idea was that every active homeschool blog in my feed reader would get an award. I did this early Tues AM when I was wide awake on little sleep because my internal clock was insisting it was 9 AM, even thought the clock said it was 6 AM.
Blogger most likely to work The Sex Pistols into a homeschool lesson: Kim
Special achievement in artwork involving bipedal fish: Dawn
Best impersonation of a soccer mom: Samuel
Best achievement in cartoon avatars: PhatMommy (I was going to call it hottest cartoon avatar, but that would objectify a female ‘toon, and I’m totally opposed to that sort of thing)
Special achievement in crafty blogging award Mother Crone (because it’s the rare “crafty” blog I’ve ever enjoyed reading)
Blogger you most want on your side in war award: Carlotta, who led an aggressive defense that kept HSB out of England.
And from the careful what you ask for department…
Best homeschool blogger who doesn’t have his own blog and writes less than 10 posts per year on other blogs: Tim Haas
Best Real-Life Marxist Homeschool blogger:Audrey
For the record – any additional awards you see suggested in the comments are automatically approved. If somebody manages to really offend me, I’ll just delete the suggestion 
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115 Responses to “ODonnellWeb Blog Awards”
“I am as God made me, Sir.”
BTW, you have Doc’s blog in my link.
Love the list. I’m so happy to have won an award!
Sorry about that…it’s fixed.
I think Ron deserves an HM in the “beer” category.
Best “Not a Homeschool Blog” homeschool blog: COD
Ron, or Don?
And Natalie gets an HM for the footwear.
Blogger Dad Best at Hiding Shameful Secret Fear of Clowns (Until Now?)
Don. D’oh!
Well, I’ve done the Natalie footwear joke several times this year. Not June’s award is a specific reference to the title of her blog. I would have expected you to get that one!
That’s ok Daryl. I referred to Ron as Don in Andrea’s comments last week.
At the homeschool blogger’s award site, every time you vote, regardless of the “link”, the vote goes towards a predetermined ultra conservative candidate.
I couldn’t even find anyone “middle of the road” to vote for in the “thrifty” catagory.
Where’s our friggin’ winner’s icon to paste egotictically and prominately all the frick over our website? I’m pissed now. Sort of.
Yes! I won.
I’m heading out for a six pack of Monkey Ale to celebrate. See yah there.
Doc –
http://chromatoast.com/blog/wp.....award2.png
This is so freaky. Just last night Christine and I were talking about doing this exact type of award thing. You don’t have our house wiretapped or something do you?
And I answer to Don, Ron, and Dan, among other things.
Don, you stole my comments.
I refer to Don as “Postulio” in my head. Really.
Spiritbee’s trying to knock me out of the competition – see my latest blog entry. Seems she’s making up the rules as she goes. Probably because my blog is beating hers.
Hi Doc, I read your latest post and Don’s comment. Here is mine:
That was my first thought too — what about Valerie at HEM’s blog then? Here she has this wealth of (bi-continental!) homeschool experience. She IS a homeschooler, it’s part of her identity, just like she’s still a mom and they are always her children, and her kids are still homeschoolers even though they’ve finished graduate degrees and are parents themselves. You never stop being who you are and once homeschooling has helped define that, well — nobody gets to declare that null and void, the way the State cancelled my teaching certificate after a couple of decades, as if it had never been.
My unschooled daughter started taking college courses at 16 too and she’s taking a full load now, although legally she is “home-educated” under Florida’s dual-enrollment law. (This is why I DESPISE all the defining stuff, telling people they aren’t really homeschooling and they aren’t really homeschoolers unless they do what you do.) Her blog was nominated in the Teen category and is the top girl-teen-blog vote-getter so far — but it’s not religious, and so is she illegitimate for the purposes of this award set-up?
Did we empower (ANY!) corporate or government interest to make that call for us, and I just missed the memo?
Grrr, JJ
The real question is, how come they’re making the “rules” after they’ve taken the nominations?
*sniff* We’re so honored… Don and I, I mean Ron and I… oh whatever, I call him honey anyway.
The bunny/clown thing on Cocking a Snook doesn’t give me the heebie jeebies nearly as much as some of the TITLES of the nominated blogs. Yikes.
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Ooo! I thought of a couple more categories:
best homeschooling mom who gave cancer the smackdown
and
best homeschooling mom who blogged health problems whilst homeschooling
and also
best homeschooling blog who talked more about home reno than education
I think the run will be tight in those categories.
Thanks JJ.
I’ll just pretend I’ve evolved beyond caring.
I’d go assuage my feelings by perfecting my slowly evolving page at Evolved Homeschoolers, but, like, House is coming on.
Ciao. ;>
Shoot, all the clever asides I put between disappeared. I even put spaces in, for crying out loud, just so’s they show up.
Let’s see if the .. and .. shows up this time.
(and remember to type in Skip)
Don’t I get something? I know I’m new to the scence but maybe “Best asking if other people to stick letters in a Darwin fish?”
Maybe “Best new blog with pictures of pansies and references to comic books.”
To Valerie – glad it’s not just me! I tried to make the Gator Chomp graphically the other day here, so clever with the little carat thingies.
No luck getting them to show up. C’est la vie!
(We really ARE old you know . . .)
If somebody seconds Dawn’s self nomination, does that make her an automatic winner? Go Dawn! If it weren’t for you I wouldn’t have that cool fish on my site.
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Hmmph. Well I see where I stand now. Not even a ‘Best Blogger Who Types the word Skip so often that the keys are wearing off.” BTW, I don’t want to add to your conspiracies none, but I DID vote for you and you still register as 0%. At what point would my vote even create a fraction of a percent? I am saddened.
It’s because votes automatically post to predetermined winners. Duh! I’m so sure.
I think Doc is correct. I thought the percentages were goofy. And damn, now that you mention it, I see the letters of Skip are more worn than the others. Damn you COD.
Well, I’ll have to nominate Andrea and Ron as “The Best Couple to offer an Alternative to Alternative Homeschoolers”. They’ll have room for all the trophies in their newly renovated home, dontcha think?
I donated prizes to the other awards, based on the relatively diverse list of nominees (diverse meaning that some of the blogs I actually visit were on the list). It can’t be rigged – can it??
For the record, I don’t think it’s rigged. If I got one vote for best political blog and there are over 100 votes, it appears to round down to zero. And I think this little exercise shows that I’m not terribly concerned about winning best HS Dad, even though I was in second place last time I looked
I didn’t want to win until it looked like I was going to be prevented from even participating!
Y’all type “Skip”? I just doubleclick the empty box anf Firefox automagically inserts it.
Awesome!
Some of us use Opera. I imagine others are burdened with IE7. Poor, poor people.
I want one! I want one!
Well, (on the Skip topic), I only have to type “S” and “Skip” gets filled it.
But I do have to remember to click on the box. Senior moments, or something like that, eh JJ?
[and I guess we should use brackets for our sotto voce comments instead of > or ]
Some of us have unsocialized teenagers who inadvertantly keep clicking the OK button on the firefox closing “clear all cookies”? pop up. Or else they’ve been looking at PR0N and don’t want me to know.
Love the blog award’s logo.
Tim wrote; “I want one! I want one!”
Just follow my lead…
http://daybydayhsing.blogspot.com/
Tim wrote; “I want one! I want one!”
Just follow my lead…
http://daybydayhsing.blogspot.com/
Soccer mom? Can’t I make up my own and win it? Maybe Blogger Most Likely To Try To Talk You Out of Your Panties?
SAM suggests:
Maybe Blogger Most Likely To Try To Talk You Out of Your Panties?
Snook responds:
Now THAT is a scary clown!
Can I have one? I’m quite sure to lose in the “live-what-you-believe” category. It would be nice to have SOME kind of award for my pathetic blog.
Audrey, I’ve dumped my cookies and voted for you 39357575 times. Why aren’t you winning?
I hope Chris will enshrine all these titles as his new blogroll of honor? I am finding it VERY convenient for visiting all of you . . .
I could create a page and permanently enshrine the 2007 award winners.
Yay! It wasn’t dignified, but it worked. Mostly. Chris spelled my name wrong to punish my solipsism.
Favorite Daughter wants to win a prize too — her Cocking a Snook Too being crushed by the Rebelution Twins and the other boys over in the HSB voting, and she’d much rather feature the ambulatory amphibian on her site, anyway.
So how about, “Best Unschooling Girl Blog Among the One Blog Entered?”
Can I have Best Homeschool Blog Whose Address Is Kept Strictly Private and Not Shared With Anyone Outside the Family?
Ew, JJ typed “HSB”. I’m immediately removing CAS from my blogroll.
ACK! Somebody ‘splain the rules again!!
That’s some comment thread you got going here. I don’t have anything important to add, but thought maybe we’d get this puppy up to around 100 comments if we keep adding this kinda stuff.
btw – has anyone been back to the other blog awards since this started?
OK, I just checked back at the other homeschooling awards. Daryl’s still in first for the news and opinion blog.
COD – You’re in second for best homeschool dad blog, but still have 0% in news and opinions. So I guess that means you’re a good dad, but your opinions suck.
Michelle would probably agree with that assessment Don! BTW, the blog beating me is pretty damn good. I don’t feel bad at all about losing to him.
Andrea, you’re only allowed to win one. Don’t get greedy
I want to win just so I can tell that creepy Spiritbee to shove the award up her a&&. I think this will be blog fodder for at least a week.
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Haha! Fowarding address. Well, at least it’s funny now. I thank you, and my shoes thank you.
Honestly, I generally do not keep up with these blog award things, but after reading the comments I wished I’d kept up with this one. Good luck, Doc.
I am truly honored, and as such will make my next post about something entirely “un-crafty” just for you.
I’m not paying attention since Spunky pointed out that one of the organizers was just diagnosed with a brain tumor.
I’d just as soon they called it off.
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Pushing for the 100th comment. Thanks for grandfathering me in Chris! I’m mostly just psyched about being able to have the walking evolved homeschool fish on my sidebar now.
We can get this to 100 no problem.
I like Dawn’s idea of just grabbing the award and putting some funny category on your own blog. He’s right, voting is for sissies. Just grab and go!
I nominated myself for the “wrestling with a pig” award over at JJ’s site. Are we there (100 posts) yet?
Well, I think it’s nice that somebody nominated us for that other blog award, but the fact that we’re not winning shows something ain’t right. We’ve got to be the bestest cyber-buddies out there, and we’re in 8th. Must be rigged. And no, I’m not just being a sore loser.
I think the reason we’re not winning the “other” blog award is because we haven’t prayed enough about it. So come on, everybody, send your thoughts of us winning to an invisible old man in the sky.
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Don is so going to hell.
I hope Chris is happy now. He had to go and email me this morning, and rile me up, and I had to go and blog about some poor sap who was nominated but doesn’t homeschool, and that creepy Spiritbee had to read my blog, and now the poor sap has agreed to be disqualified – and there’s STILL no rule about blog author qualifications. What a crock of Skip poo.
Are we there yet?
This is post 73.
ImPerceptibility – thanks for the plug of my drawing blog. And guess what, someone wants to work with me on a graphic novel! Who knows if it will ever get published but I just can’t wait to get started. I tell you, if you want something, build a blog and it shall come to pass.
So this is what happens when I’m on the red-eye coming back east and I’m not on-line to babysit you people
“Are we there yet?”
no.
Are we ALMOST there yet?
I’m on pins and needles – oooo – it’s the last day of voting!!
If we can’t even get rid of Sanjaya by phone voting or choose a Congress concerned with anything but its own endless popularity contests, we won’t emerge from blog awards voting with any satisfying resolution either.
(Is mutual disrespect the de facto winner in all cases?)
I have nothing to say other than some blather about both this and that. Mostly I’d like to see the comments hit 100. This has been quite the week for comments in general, and it seems as though I’ve gotten more comments in the past week than in the past year.
And I’m nominating JJ for blogger most likely to not entirely not change the subject in the comments which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but only because it’s making me not not laugh.
I might have to go check the other awards and see if I’m still sitting at 2% behind the blogs that aren’t actually funny.
What? You’re still at 2%? Sheesh, how many times does a girl have to dump her cookies and vote for you???
Sam, it was totally worth signing up with AOL, cox, peoplepc, verizon, alltel, and mindspring just so I could vote for you multiple times.
What? You only signed up for 6 services to vote for Sam? I’ve visited every wi-fi hotspot and library in the metro area to vote for him. Guess I should have voted for myself too when I was doing that, but I didn’t want to cheat on my own behalf.
Favorite Daughter blogs about the conclusion of voting today (her category is being won in a runaway by twin boys in an apparently quite enterprising religious family ministry):
(What number comment are we up to now?)
Not there yet. Getting close though
I might be into the courtship thing if I can fix my 17 yr old son up with JJ’s daughter. Maybe his vocabulary would improve beyond the occasional shrug of the shouders and a rare “huh?”.
I could just kick myself. I should have driven 65 miles to the nearest cluster of wifi.
I say we up the bar to 120 posts. WTH, make it 200.
I can push it to 86!! I’m not overwhelmed by comments on my blog though. Quite the opposite. But that’s ok, cuz I’m used to my little fan club of 4. No surprise — I’m a boreblogger.
I’m a whoreblogger, but I think my comment record is like 37.
I know how to get this to 100 — a quiz!
What does the following represent?
I V vi iii IV I IV V
I know! I know!!
It means “You have a fish in your shoe!”
Or maybe it has something to do with Pachelbel.
Well, it’ll get us to 90 anyway.
Hmmm. OK — can we come up with five rock songs that use that progression? I’ll start:
“One Tin Soldier,” Coven
Gosh, well bless ya’ll’s hearts. I know that’s what you expect to hear from me, but I can only snark so loud all of a sudden.
By my count, I should be number 91 commentometer, though if we had the counter they’re using at the awards site we might could call it 503.
Tim, what your progression says to me is that I’m glad I haven’t gotten into the drinks just yet as that would likely have caused some mental consternation, a bit of vertigo and would have probably even made me tap my front tooth with the pint glass. And I still don’t know what it is.
Tim’s just trying to make our brains hurt. We’re getting darned close to 100 though, so how about U2 “With or Without You.”
I’m thinking music – rhythm n blues, maybe jazz? Some kind of progression?
OOH – with or without you, I like that! Didn’t know we were going with specific songs but hey, why not?
should’ve read every last comment very carefully, sorry all . . .um, Springsteen, Born in the USA? That country song about I’m Proud to Be an American?
“Hook,” Blues Traveler. Different key, though.
Okay I admit it, I was guessing from IMPUTED power of story, not musical knowledge!
Since I don’t want sam to lose any teeth, sober or not, the official answer to the original question (or, more accurately, the question to the original answer) is “What is the chord progression of Pachelbel’s Canon in D major?” But since NJC nailed it three minutes later, I had to get more devilish.
Thank you, thank you very much.
I thought I might win for the “Homeschool Blog That Rarely Discusses Homeschooling.”
#100!
“Basket Case,” Green Day. But without the second subdominant chord.
Aww, man, I wanted to be #100!
But you’re one louder than 100, so NJC likes you better.
“Blogger Dad Best at Hiding Shameful Secret Fear of Clowns (Until Now?)”
ROFL!
Hey, as far as the “must be rigged” stuff goes, it’s worth noting that many of the front-runners are from Catholic blog circles, while the organizers are from Protestant circles, and there isn’t as much crossover between them as you might think. I don’t think there was any pre-selection of candidates; if that were the case the pool of winners would be quite different.
Only if she’s one louder.
Fine, be that way. I had to leave, and drive 65 miles so I could vote 93747638687835783 more times. And get Ben and Jerry’s. I wanted to be 100.
Well, Doc, they must have found you out because Sam is only at 1%.
I take full responsibility for those who lost – I’m truly sorry.
If you’d like, I’ll buy you all a year’s subscription to TOS. That’s one of the great prizes you’ll be missing out on. Again, I’m so very sorry.
To me, all the Jesus prayers and crucifixes (crucifi?) are 101 “different” flavors carton to carton under the same counter. There are little labels in front of each one to tell them apart but it’s all ice cream, and too much numbs your tongue and isn’t good for you.
What’s a girl gotta do to get a “Most Likely To Have An ADD Moment In The Middle Of A Post” award? Yes, that’s a long name but if it was any shorter my shiny object syndrome would kick in and I’d never remember it.
“Shannon – PHAT Mommy
Thank you, thank you very much. I thought I might win for the “Homeschool Blog That Rarely Discusses Homeschooling.”
LMAO Shannon, that covers my HS blog too. I like what you post on your blog.
What about a “Funniest Bunch Of Bloggers” award. So many of you make me laugh constantly.
Dag nabbit! I’m always late to the party! I was happy to find out half way through the blog awards that I was nominated but I had a feeling I wasn’t going to be a winner but reading this thread made me feel winnerlicious all the same AND I discoved some great HS families who blog !!
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Lillian, I might give you a run for the Best HS Blog Kept Under Wraps.
I was surprised that my crafty Blog Kept Over Wraps was even nominated. I didn’t know there was a contest until I read my stats. I got 1%. One vote was mine. I didn’t bother in any other category. Most I had never heard of. In my category, the winner placed both 1st and 3rd with one blog but two URLs, taking 18% and 12% of the vote. She won in other categories, too.
I am a homeschooler, but the crafty blog doesn’t really address that. I was crafty when I wasn’t HSing.
I take the whole experience as a case study in socialization.
I, for one, am super bummed now that I’ve seen the yummy prizes they were awarding. Gosh darn it all!