Commenter john_burke100! Here is the illustrious award in all its glittery, resplendent glory:
How did this mystery commenter win this amazing, shiny, and priceless award, you may wonder! Well dear readers, john_burke100, aka rootlesscosmo, was particularly awesome in last weekend’s open comment thread, wherein I said one lucky commenter would win the illustrious award. Weren’t paying attention? That’s OK, you’ll get your chance next week. If I remember. You never know with me, I can be kind of flaky. Anyway, back to extolling this week’s winning commenter’s many virtues!
JB100 took the time, in the comment box, to provide a long list of carefully-selected movie recommendations, which I thought was pretty darn thoughtful. Also? He knew the Medford, Oregon line from Double Indemnity! JB100 also one time put an entire chocolate cake recipe in a comment! I love me some cake, so you can’t go wrong with that.
Honorable mentions go to Lydia, who is doing a really cool series on her blog, and DZDZ, who came to my defense when some crazy person from 4chan or wherever dropped in to spew hate speech. Oh how I love the internets!
Many, many thanks. It's very nice to be "linked" (in the tabloid headline sense, like "Insurance salesman linked to murdered oil man's wife") to a unicorn. I think right away of the unicorn tapestries at the Cloisters in New York–museums used to be free (yes, free–hard to believe if you grew up post-Reagan, but true) so I'd cut high school and catch the subway over there and just spend the day looking at the collection, reading, standing on the battlements overlooking the Hudson trying to feel medieval. It's still a great place, and those tapestries recently underwent a very tricky restoration so they should be looking spiffy for a while. Seriously, thanks, Sarah. You've really opened the floodgates of my memory and opinions now; I hope you won't regret it.
Thank you for the honorable mention!And congratulations, John. (It's hard to believe museums used to be free. I'd visit one every week if they weren't so expensive.
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Museums used to be free?!? What was this, sumkinda yoo-taupe-eean hippie society? I won't stand for it!I'm pretty sure I would actively LOITER in museums if they were free. At least libraries are still free for the most part – I do a lot of loitering there.I'm going to NY next week and will try to find the unicorn tapestries – they sound kinda sorta awesome. As it is I'm planning on going to the Frick on Sunday, because that's the day they have a sliding scale entry!