Hey Congrats to all! Especially you newcomers - bravo!

and a special little shoutout to the MondoBoys - you know who you are - good job!

In the spirit of Academy Awards week (is Oscar still King?): It's an honor just to be nominated, (but this is better). Thanks.--GH

Aw, Joan, that's so nice. Thanks!

Outstanding work putting this together Lisa, the state of editors' picks is strong indeed !

Thanks, diana! I'm so glad you liked my article -- I didn't think anyone read it.

Thank you Connie and thank you Mark. I don't like writing negative reviews about stuff, but that disc was just such a waste of great music.

In the letter, I tried to make it from a friend pointing out some problems another friend is having, and being hopeful that they would take it that way. I hope that's how it came across, and judgeing by your balance comment, Mark, it may just have done that.

Thanks again to both of you, and well done everyone else...

If anyone who has been selected,would like, or maybe Lisa you and I could work something out that it could be grabbed from here, I've resurected Temple's old banners that he had made which people could use as links on the post that was pick of the week. It's a one by two box black with red border box and two gold stars, that simple says, Blog Critic Editors Pick of the Week/ the week in question, and enough room for you to add in your title.

I'm hosting the images at Flickr for myself, but what I could do for others would be just to send them the jpeg and they could host it like a photo and put it on their homepages and build in a link back to their post on B.C. It's good publicity for everyone involved.

Lisa I could do a generic one up which you would only have to add the date to each week and than people could download it straight from this page.

Damn I do go on and on don't I.

gypsyman

Thanks so much, Eric--I had a ball commenting back and forth with you (and others who took time to comment as well)!

Thank you for the pick DJ Radiohead.

I've only been a BlogCritic for a week and I already feel the love.

Things weren't quite so warm and fuzzy when I published the story on Bruce Springsteen's decision to make his next record a folk music tribute to Pete Seeger titled The Seeger Sessions over at BTX... a message board for the Springsteen fan publication and website. In fact, it triggered an avalanche of comments and over 600 views at last count.

Most of the posters there disagreed with my opinion that Bruce's decision to record an album of covers by the folk icon...which would be his second folk influenced album in just over a year if the expected May release date holds...is ill-advised, with the clock ticking rapidly down on the possibilty of a final tour and album with The E Street band.

Many of the comments we're also pretty nasty, which actually surprised me as being a little out of character for Springsteen fans.

And just for the record, yes I know who Pete Seeger is, I did attend college (though I admit I never graduated), and I will be 50 years old in May okay?

But I'm definitely feeling the love here at BlogCritics...so again, many thanks from this humble, if aging, scribe.

Glen Boyd

#23 on the DayPop Top 40 for 03/01/06 !!!!!

Natalie-
Thanks for picking my work. I do appreciate it.
js

Thanks for the mention, Dave! :)

Thank you for the Editor's Pick, Sussman. I didn't know about it until I was mailed a comment spam for an article I didn't even write.

About that "dumb and clichéd" bit: I couldn't think of a format that'd be any better for the article - Headline-style one-sentence overviews would seem rushed and other formats came across as too dry. I'm well aware that self-knowing cliché isn't much better than regular cliché, but I try to make something work any way I can.

DJ, thank you for the nod, good sir! and what a great, diverse range of opinions and exceptional writin done wound up in this wee corner o' the web!

For what it's worth, editors, I just clicked on editor's picks from the leaderboard page and was taken on a time machine back to Nov. 4

Congrats to those picked this week.

This may be a dumb question but does anyone know else have a problem when printing out B.C. items with it cutting off on the sides? Is there a way around that?

Anyone?

My dear Connie,

Where is that, now famous, thanks to you, dear Connie, comment on, "Thank god for Radical Islam" gone? I wanted to see it myself to believe your surprise at it or its bland content, also as to why a simple comment by this simpleton, yours truly, reached the stratosphere?

Sid