my army of remote control drones
...has enabled this humble blog to reach the podium in the Canadian Blog Awards. felix hominum has been awarded 2nd place in the best religious blogs category. Thanks to all who were looking forward to the haggis. To those who are visiting for the first time, you can find either the ridiculous or the sublime in the best and worst of felix hominum.
As a means of celebrating, we will be giving the children an extra helping of turnips tomorrow.
Happy Advent.
update: ooohh here it comes:
and thanks to Robert at my blahg for hosting the awards.
Must obey Joseph. Must say congratulations!
Posted by: Ian McKenzie | December 03, 2006 at 09:29 PM
Thanks, Ian. As the first to congratulate me, I'll be sending an extra cabbage to you...
Posted by: joseph | December 03, 2006 at 09:38 PM
Please, sir, may I have a cabbage too?
Posted by: The Sheepcat | December 03, 2006 at 10:12 PM
Do I still get my scotch?
Posted by: Tim Chesterton | December 03, 2006 at 10:32 PM
turnips???
anyways, as a fellow placer in the awards i thought i'd pop by all the sites to offer congratulations....it's a lot of fun work, so way to go!
Posted by: scout | December 04, 2006 at 01:12 AM
well done that man :-)
Posted by: Peter | December 04, 2006 at 08:57 AM
Yes, congratulations!
Posted by: Leslie | December 04, 2006 at 12:04 PM
More congrats.
I hope you'll be able to recruit a larger army of drones before next year's awards.
Posted by: Scott Gilbreath | December 04, 2006 at 04:30 PM
Joe - where are you - I'm getting anxious about my scotch...
Posted by: Tim Chesterton | December 04, 2006 at 06:00 PM
I'll say "I used to know him when he was but a baby blogger."
Posted by: Steve | December 04, 2006 at 09:38 PM
...Justin is doing some more teething, so blogging is restricted to those hours between 11 pm and 3 am when he seems to want to wake up the household... thanks all for voting.
tim - it's second place, so will you setttle for a blend rather than a single malt
scout - thanks for dropping by, it's all a bit of a lark
steve - I'm sure the google cache of my first blog is still around somewhere - on the old Trellix platform, but that's just double speak to a newbie like yourself...
Posted by: joseph | December 04, 2006 at 10:58 PM
Can somebody please explain to me what a "religious blog" is?
Turnip hooch, now that's what I'm talking about.
Posted by: ahab | December 05, 2006 at 08:03 AM
Good point, Ahab. Joe, I think you'cw been operating under false pretenses. I don't think you're really a religious blogger. Follower of Jesus - yes. Religious - nah.
For that, I get single malt scotch.
Posted by: Tim Chesterton | December 05, 2006 at 09:30 AM
Ahab - it's the leftover inheritance of Aristotle; everything must fit in a category, or it is not real.
Tim, there is a wee bottle of something up in the back of "daddy's cupboard"; maybe we'll pull it out and blow the dust off it...
Posted by: joseph | December 05, 2006 at 11:14 AM
ps - as if the turnips aren't enough, I thought I'd let you know I intend to liveblog General Synod in Winnipeg next spring...
Posted by: joseph | December 05, 2006 at 07:50 PM
"Religious" is not a real category.
Posted by: ahab | December 06, 2006 at 08:08 AM
Joe, congrats are indeed in order, and I think I too could use a wee dram.
Posted by: Poul | December 06, 2006 at 09:37 AM
ahab - in our neo-aristotelian world (the late form of the scientific enlightenment) everything is thought to fit into a category. "Religious" has to be a category - after all, there is a department of it's "Studies" in every major secular university. Once it becomes the object of our study, it then becomes real, but only in the way that the ruins of Athenian culture became real when they were imported into the British Museum...
Posted by: joseph | December 06, 2006 at 11:04 AM
Congratulations on the award for felix hominum the blog, it is well deserved. I don't ever mean my blog comments to be rude, or even so terse, and apologize for that. I think I thought I was quipping.
First, a blogger might be religious, but a blog not.
Second, I wrote ""religious" is not a real category" as an admittedly bad comeback to "everything must fit in a category, or it is not real".
Third, there are major secular university studies that are not categories: like "interdisciplinary studies".
On the other (fourth) hand, every word we use is a category. Categorically.
But at root, the purist in me would still like to argue against the categorization of "religious" (especially by the ordained) because true religion is at once comprehensive and irreducible. Religious is Life; which I consider too, um, too real to be a category. I guess I just don't jive with ol' Aristotle.
Posted by: ahab | December 06, 2006 at 07:46 PM
Quip taken and returned. My sense of category as it is commonly used is akin to our (hubristic?) desire to "name" everything like Adam. As if to say, if we can categorize it, we can have dominion over it. Which is what got me started on the Advent thing.
Posted by: joseph | December 06, 2006 at 08:27 PM