Imagine my surprise yesterday when I found out that cleveland.com had discovered my little bloggy blog.Yes, apparently a few of my non-pithy words about the inauguration appeared on the site's "political blog" ... along with a link right back here!
And it happened one day after a 2 friends of mine had their blogs linked to the same website.
Of course, I mercilessly teased one of them, who made sure we all knew about her achievement. (I still love you Mom2Amara!)
Turns out ... somehow, someway, the same honor was then tossed my way. So, following her lead, I bragged about it as well!
After making the discovery ... I had a couple initial thoughts.
1. I sure wish I had taken a little more time on the post. It wasn't one of my finer works, but I did manage to get a "nice work" from a commenter who I assume worked for the website. So, I guess I wasn't too bad.
2. I'm amazed that people are actually reading this. So many times, I really think I'm just writing this stuff for about 3-4 friends that bother to come by and humor me. To see a major media source print a few of my words and link here, honestly, stuns me a bit.
So, to anyone who might have discovered this blog through cleveland.com, welcome, and I can't promise I'll ever write anything interesting again. But, I promise to try.
Also, since I mentioned the Academy in the title ... a jeer today to the folks who vote for Oscar nominations.
Somehow, Bruce Springsteen's "The Wrestler" failed to get nominated, after winning the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
While I haven't seen the film yet (culture is apparently taking longer to reach NE Ohio), the song is simply incredible, one of Bruce's best tunes in years.
It's a shame the Oscar folks failed to realize this, especially considering they nominated just 3 songs, 2 from the same movie.
The only good news for this music fan, is hopefully, it improves the chances of Peter Gabriel's "Down To Earth", from Wall-E, winning the award.
It's another simply fantastic tune, that makes me wish Mr. Gabriel could put out an album more than once every 10 years.
And if you haven't heard either, give them a listen!
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