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What was your favourite Word Blog "Thread" of 2009?
I've been logging on to this blog for a mere 15 weeks. In that time it has covered a hugely diverse number of topics from music and life in general. I can only imagine what went on before I joined up.
My favourite thread was this http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/the-word-guide-babies It is a wonderful example of why this is such a great site. Advice was asked for and given in spades with humour, sincerity and wonderful insight into the joys of parenthood. As a father of teenagers it was great to read that so many others went through the same highs and lows that I did as a father of young children. I still believe that if this thread was published as a book, warts and all it would sell in bucket loads. Brilliant.
So please good members of The Word family tell me which was your favourite "Thread" of 2009?
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I'm with you on the babies
As a soon-to-be first time dad, it's been both reassuring and educational, and I don't think anything else has prepared me as well for the bomb that's about to go off in my life.
I did, however, also like www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/my-night-of-shame-with-a-fray-bentos-pie
Mmmmm, tasty...
Best of this year
Everything Pat Crowther starts has been well worth it, but I used pop stars as food stuffs in one of my lecture/seminar groups on journalism the other day and the class went mad for it. Everything he has touched has turned to gold.
Personal favourites: Jan Moir, especially Markiechops cutting to the chase and the peerless My Night of Shame with a Fray Bentos.
Also any strand when me (Celts) and Dougie J and Billyous (Gers) agreed.
Most enjoyable personally, being given a booze and TV pass for Glastonbury by Mrs H and commenting on Neil Young and Springsteen et al. That was a great weekend writing and reading. Fraser put me in my place from the side of the Pyramid stage in real time and rightly so.
Ta everyone
*Splurts* You did what?!
Oh gawd, I'm going to be an influence on the dumbing down of journalism! :-)
Thanks Paddy. I like writing nonsense at times. I think it's medicinal. And perhaps out of an enormous, steaming pile of bollocks a grain of truth will emerge...
No need to fret
Steady on Patrick, stop apologising for things you've never done.
I was demonstrating that the internet is a conversation rather than the old style of uni-directional journalism.
You should be producing for Danny Baker.
I should have put a big smiley face on my above post...
I am truly flattered that you should have used a thread I started in this way!
As for Danny Baker, I'm not sure anyone could stop him talking for long enough to suggest anything to him!
The Glastonbury thread for me
The thread where we chatted and bickered gently about our thoughts on the performances, the coverage, what we were drinking, etc was a lot of fun - like being in a virtual pub with lots of bright opinionated people, all interested in and enthusiastic about music.
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/glastonburyare-we-starting-now
The babies thread was great too, as was the stupid band names.
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/bloody-stupid-fantasy-musical-part...
I'm finding it difficult to answer that question...
as I love the diversity of topics on this site more than focusing on one particular thread.
But I must say that I really enjoyed David Wright's 'Simple Pleasures' and David Hepworth's 'What would you tell your sixteen-year-old self?'
I initiated the Glastonbury thread
and have to agree with Paddy H and Elhombre that it was a really enjoyable thread.Got to be an annual event from now on, yes?
I also enjoyed the life-affirming support we all gave Danmac when he 'fessed up to having a rough time of late
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/i-hate-admit-but
I enjoyed the Hepster's "What would you tell" as well as some of the exchanges I've had with Mr Blast over the merits of "Left-Field" recording artistes.
Ah, bollocks, I've loved it all.
Except the Rob Fitzpatrick weirdness, felt like I was watching parents arguing in the bedroom.
Fray bentos
Really enjoyed that one. Was greatly amused by the thread title 'Jet Black has piles' too.
This one.
I really like lists.
Especially at this time of year.
;-)
The comic one
My favourite was the one about lies told in comics. The fray bentos was a classic too.
My least favourite was the Rob Fitzpatrick one where that numpty drove Archie away.
What Twang said
I was going to give another vote to the Fray Bentos thread, but Twang has reminded me that Andrew Collins (no less) described my contribution to the 'comics' thread as "genius" on the podcast.
Ahem.
So it has to be the Comics thread for me.