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March 12, 2007

The Lidless Eye of Big Lizards

Hatched by Dafydd

Big Lizards has been granted the singular honor of being drafted into the Council of Watchers, as administered by the all-knowing, all-powerful Watcher of Weasels.

("Honor," ho! Actually it's a dreadful lot of work. Why do I do this to myself? Why do I ask rhetorical questions? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?)

Note how gallantly the Watcher words his post:

After careful consideration of all the applications I've received, I finally managed to reach a decision on the replacement... Big Lizards will be filling the vacancy left by American Future.

5 will get you 8 he received exactly one application... from one besotted reptile. Everyone else fled in horror at having to wade through even more blogposts every week than normal.

You can now look to the right of your screen and see the Watcher's Council blogroll. It should be easily identified by its label. (This sentence will only be operative for pages other than the main page when I get around to rebuilding the blog -- which will be very shortly. But it takes forever.)

I actually have an answer for why I do this to myself: Despite frequent shots on goal and more than $11 in bribes spread around, I have utterly failed to win a Watcher Council's award in the larger blogosphere (I think I qualify for the Susan Lucci Consolation Prize). Thus, I reasoned that I could improve my odds immeasurably if I only had to compete against 12 other bloggers, instead of a cast of thousands.

See? There's menthol in my mattress, or however that saying goes.

But here's where you come in (yes, you knew it had to happen): Since I don't have time to read every single post published in the entire blogosphere -- I have barely enough time for half of them! -- I rely upon you, my faithful followers, my right arms in battle, to suggest posts on sundry people's blogs (including, if you wish, your own) that you think qualify to win a Watcher's Council award.

I promise to at least take a look. But woe betide anyone who suggests a dog: If the first paragraph I read doesn't grab me, it will also be the last. I know how to do this; I was on the SFWA Nebula Short-Fiction Jury for two years... and I did less work than anyone else on that jury, let me tell you!

(I am the laziest person I know. Though actually, I don't have a very large sample set; hunting around for comparison lazy people is a bit too much effort, I'm afraid.)

Every week, I will post the winners of the Watcher's Council award, plus a link to the full voting results, so you can humiliate your enemies, or make new enemies by humiliating your friends.

So that's the solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short of it, I'm afraid. Well, what did you expect?

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, March 12, 2007, at the time of 4:20 AM

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Comments

The following hissed in response by: Navyvet

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck...if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

The above hissed in response by: Navyvet at March 12, 2007 6:48 AM

The following hissed in response by: charlotte

Congratulations, Dafyyd! Your readers have to be amazed at your self-description of “lazy,” given your wonderful and comprehensive take-downs of media malpractice, malfeasance, malevolency and malfunctioning. And of today's Donks, too.

Have no idea what criteria or categories your group has for acclaiming essays and posts, but I very much enjoyed “Some Reminiscing about Buffalo” (08 march 2007) by A. Jacksonian at ajacksonian.blogspot.com.

The above hissed in response by: charlotte at March 12, 2007 9:10 AM

The following hissed in response by: charlotte

Charllote misspelled Dafydd. Soory :)

The above hissed in response by: charlotte at March 12, 2007 9:19 AM

The following hissed in response by: Bookworm

Welcome to the Watcher's Council. My only problem, week after week, is the fact that, whether council authored or "other," I think the recommended articles are so excellent that each should be first or second place. Deciding on my top votes for both categories is emotionally wrenching, and often leaves me prostrate. I can see right away that you're going to add to my problems as yet another who forces me to say to myself "much as I want to, I can't rank all of them as first place."

The above hissed in response by: Bookworm at March 12, 2007 10:03 AM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

Bookworm:

I can see right away that you're going to add to my problems as yet another who forces me to say to myself "much as I want to, I can't rank all of them as first place."

Thanks, BW; any more snow in here, and we could go skiing!

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at March 12, 2007 2:01 PM

The following hissed in response by: Freedom Fighter

Well, hello, Dafydd,

Welcome aboard!

Based on what I've seen here, I think you will be a major asset to our group and I will add your link forthwith.

All Good Things,
ff

The above hissed in response by: Freedom Fighter at March 12, 2007 8:43 PM

The following hissed in response by: nk

Ok, I'll try anything once. Well, as long as it's not illegal or bad for my prostate.

The above hissed in response by: nk at March 14, 2007 2:50 PM

The following hissed in response by: nk

P.S. So do we e-mail you the link or what?

The above hissed in response by: nk at March 14, 2007 2:53 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

Nk:

P.S. So do we e-mail you the link or what?

Nah; just post the link as a comment in any handy post. Remember, I don't enforce any sort of topicality in comments.

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at March 14, 2007 4:38 PM

The following hissed in response by: nk

Okiedokie,

This post by my neighbor and your reader and commenter, Towering Barbarian, might not grab your attention in the first paragraph but it is a very useful tutorial on keyboard emoticons for use on sites, such as this one, which do not support smileys. -_~

The above hissed in response by: nk at March 15, 2007 6:38 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

Nk:

Interesting, but not quite award-worthy, I think... ^_^

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at March 15, 2007 8:16 PM

The following hissed in response by: nk

In that case, I think that you won't like my formula for nitrocellulose either. ~_~

The above hissed in response by: nk at March 15, 2007 8:55 PM