40 Rivers to Freedom just announced the winners of his prestigious 2009 Fly Fishing Blog Awards – normally a source of great angst and suffering among us callow journalism types.
We were stunned to find the Trout Underground Writer’s Network took home three “Floggers.”
Trout Underground, the 800 pound gorilla of temperance and snark took a rare second fiddle to us boorish Brownliners – who took home the “There’s no real Journalism Allowed on Fly Fishing Blogs” and the Best Blog of 2009 awards.
(Tom, it takes more than a case of Scotch and the promise of Moonpies to take the overall title, the field is now crowded with talented blog authors. Think Jungle Cock, small denominations from non consecutive birds..)
I showed for the ceremony in a stunning strapless, V-cut Simm’s shorty, but Alex and the staff at Hatches Magazine suggested that formal attire wasn’t consistent with family programming.
I did have the chance to chat with the Judges, a rare opportunity to inquire of their scoring methodology. Naturally, I assumed real investigative journalism coupled with outstanding content had carried the day …
Naw, your posts aren’t funny, but the misspellings and bad punctuation are a hoot! In fact, the local English professor is writing a treatise on your apostrophe use, it’s fresh, complex, and usually wrong …
W’ell take it.
I’d like to thank Mom and Dad, and Timmy – the guy that I cut English class with in High School ..
Congratulations.You deserve the flogging!
Congratulations on the award! I was going to say that this just proves the blind squirrel theory, but on 2nd thought it is a well deserved honor. Kudos to Tom also.
I think singlebarbed is the “Whore of All Media”.
nice going there KB
To sum the above:
“Even a blind squirrel gets flogged by a whore now and then.”
I accept my destiny.
Boy am I glad I asked for those samples before you got all famous n’ stuff.
If this kind of thing keeps up, brownlining could become all respectable. Then what?
Then we invite Dick Cheney to speak at our dinner – only the menu will be Vegetable Naturale, featuring baskets of sodden tomatoes at each table.
May you have eternal consciousness on your deathbed.