{"id":527,"date":"2008-12-12T16:57:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T14:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boblets.wordpress.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2008-12-12T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T14:57:59","slug":"an-award-for-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barebente.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/an-award-for-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"An award for silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been given a peer-award for my blog. Linda, over at The task at hand<\/a> found me a deserving recipient for the Arte Y Pico<\/a> award. I am of course honoured. That someone reads what I write is flabbergasting; an award is mystifying. At the risk of blowing my own horn, here is what she says about my raves and rants:\n<\/p>\n

“If you\u2019re looking for a daily dose of anything, boblet\u2019s wonderful blog isn\u2019t for you.\u00a0 This woman gives warning at the very top of her homepage: \u201cIf I have nothing to say, I won\u2019t say it.\u201d\u00a0 And sometimes she doesn\u2019t say anything, for weeks at a time.\u00a0 But I check regularly to see if there might be something new, because the new invariably is quirky, fun, dense with meaning, and absolutely guaranteed to keep me thinking, until the next post.\u00a0 She has written my single favorite blog entry of the last year, and when I get around to writing my response to her post, you\u2019ll know which one it is.\u00a0 In the meantime, where else can you find the adventures of Zapf Dingbats?”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"premioarteypico\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ah, Linda, the adventures of Zapf Dingbats and Comic Sans have been widely distributed \u2013 among the probably narrow bunch of font-freaks… <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But she is right, I don’t write for the sake of hits, I write for… well. Myself, some people I wish read my stuff (maybe they do), and the few that I know do. This blog is a little like firing pottery: the end result will last for longer than I care to think about, and to publish should not be a race (nothing should be a race, come to think of it). There is no winning on the net. I like to think of the award as an award for silence. The rubbish I have not posted hopefully places the few things I have written in a better light. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Linda herself writes some of the best stuff I have come across; she writes beautiful prose, intelligently on anything you care to think of, and then some. Part of the award is to nominate another five blogs of outstanding quality, and I can only say it is a shame it would be bad form to give the award back to her. The world if full of so much rubbish, it is balm to find coherence, intelligence, sense and acute observation.
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And that brings me over to the reason why it has taken me so long to publish this piece. I am not really a blogger, I am not a blog-reader, so to find five recipients was not such a simple task, yet one that deserved careful consideration. I have not been able to come up with five, so the magic number is three, and I shall count on being forgiven. Rather three excellent ones, than five not so. I shall maybe go a little outside the Arte Y Picos scope, but I will argue that writing is art, observation is true talent. To Linda, and to you three: thank you. Don’t stop.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here you go \u2013 my three thinkers. In no particular order. I leave it to you to explore.
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Drink design<\/a><\/p>\n

Stonehead<\/a><\/p>\n

Illusive joy<\/a><\/p>\n

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