December 08, 2003
The Bestofme Symphony, 1st edition
(Category:
Other People's Stuff
)
Welcome to the premiere performance of the Bestofme Symphony. Participation has been fantastic with 28 entries in this first edition. Like any good symphony, you'll find a lot of individual sounds that have been coalesced into one. I'm very happy to be offering some of the best stuff in the Blogosphere for your reading pleasure.
Comments on presentation and content, future Symphonies, etceteras are appreciated. If bloggers out there would link to this it would help enormously to get this meme launched in grand style and I'd be eternally grateful. Well, maybe not eternally, but at least until something really important pushed it out of the swiss cheese I like to call a brain.
Without further ado, the Symphony begins:
| Post | Author | Weblog |
| Some Of You May Remember This From A LONG Time Ago - The Long Distance Lesbian (Scroll down to November 19) | Ryan Rhodes (Submitted by Jim) | Rambling Rhodes |
| The post that inspired the Bestofme Symphony. Ryan writes about his relationship with a very troubled young lady. | ||
| Sex, drugs and Rock & Roll | Andrew | Dodgeblogium |
| Wrote it during the Dodgeblog days of old (well 2002) with a bit of a new twist...or rather enhancement? Why is it good? Well its about Sex, drugs and rock & roll...what else do you need? | ||
| Molech | The King | King of Fools |
| Why This Post? I felt it combined both creativity and history nicely. Plus it was completely overlooked when it was fresh - blogspot (former host) went down for several days just after I posted it. | ||
| Real-Life Operations Other than War Story, or The Coolest Kid I Ever Saw | Joe McNally | The Short Strange Trip |
| It's just one of my favorite not quite war stories, written when I was still in the irrational exuberance phase of blogging. | ||
| Separating the Art from the Artist | Dean Esmay | Dean's World |
| A photo-essay on the life of a genius, and the morality of art. | ||
| Fast Food Reflections | Jess | Apropos of Something |
| It's a somewhat random rant about ridiculous fast-food advertising that turned out quite a bit funnier than I expected. | ||
| Action Where Action is Required | Pietro | The SmarterCop |
| This post is being submitted as a 'best of' my blog because it's a heartfelt appeal to its readers to remember the choices our past leaders have made and the consequences of those choices. | ||
| That Thousand Words You Asked For | LeeAnn | The Cheese Stands Alone |
| It's concise, to the point, with visuals. Just like sex should be. | ||
| The Terrorist vector | J. Fielek | Quibbles-n-bits |
| This is an astute analogy for the way the War on Terror works, versus the way typical wars are fought. | ||
| Blog Wars | Don Watkins | Anger Management |
| This is my best-ever story describing the infamous war between Frank J. and InstaPundit. Not only is it funnier than anything ever written for the blogosphere, it is also very long. | ||
| Thanks Daddy | MojoMark | mojomark.com |
| Daddy displays superior skill and intellect when he comes to the late-night rescue of his recently-sleeping-now-screaming-hysterically 20 month old little girl. | ||
| What We Stand For | Matt | Overtaken by Events |
| A graphical fisking of Fisk himself. The post led to my highest traffic day ever, and an incredible amount of hate mail. | ||
| OverThought | Johnny Huh? | Intellectual Poison |
| One of my favorite posts of all time. | ||
| Rights and Power | Ilyka Damen | Ilyka Damen |
| In which I claim Rosemary Esmay is, um, wrongheaded about a few things, most notably about the concept of unalienable rights. I don't know if it's really, really my best but for some reason, I tend to get most fired up in responding to the musings of others, and I think that shows here. It definitely qualifies as (1) old and (2) overlooked (I had no comments on it at the time). | ||
| Bobby Bonds | Ted | Rocket Jones |
| My tribute to baseball in the 60's and what it meant to me as a kid growing up. | ||
| Customers | Publius | Publius & Co. |
| It's one of my better because I think it's well written, and the lesson to be learned is one a *lot* of people need to learn some day. | ||
| Invective Alert | Susie | Practical Penumbra |
| It's called "Invective Alert" because it's on one of the few topics that can make me swear--taxes+nannyism--and swear I do.... (well, they are only nickel swear words, not dollar ones like a lot of bloggers use, but I'm pretty mealy-mouthed and "Drat" is my most common epithet....) | ||
| Dreaming of Food | Nic (Submitted by Victor) | Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax |
| Well written, and it's about Ocean City food. | ||
| Pineapples for Peace | Heather | Angelweave |
| A Heather rant on "tax dissenters." I think it's damned funny. :) | ||
| FleshZilla | Glenn from GS-7 | GS-7 |
| This was one of my more creative posts. At the time it was really funny, and I think we need to see more movies like this in the mainstream besides just on Mystery Science Theatre 3000! | ||
| The Perfect Cup of Tea | Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Sumbitted by Shell) | Across the Atlantic |
| Lionel describes the setting and atmosphere of an English countryside perfectly. You can almost taste the cucumber sandwiches. He has converted me into a tea drinker. | ||
| Justification: A Post-War Review | Jon Henke | QandO |
| It's a postwar review of the official Justification for war, as codified in the "House Joint Resolution Authorizing Use of Force Against Iraq". Link-filled evidence that virtually every official claim in the authorization has been vindicated. Submitted, because I think it's a good, fact-based resource for analysing the justification for war. | ||
| Erections and Professionalism | Doc Shazam (Sumbitted by Ilyka) | Mr. Hassle's Long Underpants |
| If there were a dictionary entry for "too much of a good thing," I'm pretty sure "see: priapism" would be listed first under it. | ||
| Ancestor Worship | Kelley | Suburban Blight |
| The post is an opinion piece on the use of the confederate battle emblem on state property in Georgia. | ||
| The Ulitimate Martini | The Bartender | Madfish Willie's Cyber Saloon |
| The utlimate recipe for Martini drinkers. A customer of mine taught me how to make them this way and every Martini connoisseur who's ever tasted them tells me they are the best they have ever tasted! Plus it gave me the idea for my Ultimate Bloggers Recipe Contest! | ||
| Pastors for Peace | MJ Pechar | Interested-Participant |
| This post scratches at the veneer of an anti-American, pro-communist organization that uses a facade of religion to mask its true agenda, which is to promote the radical overthrowing of the US government and the American way of life. | ||
| Compromise, or Compromise? | Helen Adelaide (Submitted by Jim) | Everyday Stranger |
| Helen nails the "driving with the partner" dilemma in hilarious style. | ||
| Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July | Jim Peacock | Snooze Button Dreams |
| An SBD post about an encounter with a monster canine during a walk in the park. For newcomers, SBD (Snooze Button Dreams) posts are in the "tall tales" tradition but are often loosely based on real life happenings. | ||
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Across the Atlantic linked in BestofMe Symphony on December 8, 2003 08:34 AM
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the cheese stands alone under the mistletoe linked in Bestofme Symphony Debut! on December 8, 2003 09:06 AM
Anger Management linked in MORNING ROUND UP on December 8, 2003 09:24 AM
King of Fools linked in Best Of Me on December 8, 2003 09:34 AM
Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love linked in Monday Spin Through the 'Sphere on December 8, 2003 10:20 AM
Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love linked in Monday Spin Through the 'Sphere on December 8, 2003 10:30 AM
Interested-Participant linked in Bestofme Symphony - 1st Edition on December 8, 2003 10:38 AM
The Short Strange Trip linked in Hot Jambalaya! on December 8, 2003 10:52 AM
Dodgeblogium linked in BestofMe Symphony debuts on December 8, 2003 11:02 AM
Patriot Paradox linked in Quick Notes 12-8-03 on December 8, 2003 11:24 AM
The SmarterCop linked in IT'S THE BEST OF.... ME! on December 8, 2003 12:56 PM
Ilyka Damen linked in Would You Look at That? on December 8, 2003 07:01 PM
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Dean's World linked in Bestofme Symphony on December 9, 2003 05:15 AM
One Fine Jay linked in Best Of Me Symphony on December 9, 2003 12:46 PM
suburban blight linked in Whoops! on December 9, 2003 06:37 PM
apropos of something linked in Linkage on December 10, 2003 11:34 AM
apropos of something linked in Linkage on December 10, 2003 11:39 AM
I haven't read them yet, but the format is so great!
You're onto something here, alrighty.
Nice presentation. I'm working my through the list even as we speak. Nice repsonse too.
Just an awesome job Mr Jim!!
Hey, wow. I had no idea I was capable of inspiring anything. Thanks for the link.
You nominated me! Thanks, Jim, I just love you!
This is awesome, I've only scratched some of the other posts but what I've read is truly top notch stuff. Very, very cool!
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