Announcing the 2008 3rd Annual Spicy Cauldron Awards - now open for entries!
- Image by Stéfan via Flickr
Long time readers of this blog may recall the previous two awards competitions I ran, last year and in 2006. You might have thought I’d either forgotten to run the awards this year, or perhaps that I had decided not to go ahead with a third promotion and celebration of the work of other bloggers, but no—I didn’t forget. This year I decided to hold off on running the awards until the month of December (October in 2007, September in 2006) because I wanted to make Yule (or, if you prefer, Christmas) the subject.
tags: agnosticism, atheism, awards, ceremony, Christmas, competition, creative writing, Holidays and Special Days, People and Society, prizes, solstice, spirituality, Twitter, YuleThe Eastern European Eurovision Song Contest
I didn’t watch the Eurovision Song Contest last night for three reasons: one, the BBC chose not to air Doctor Who this week to make way for it—and has been playing fast-and-loose with its greatest asset throughout this year’s fourth series already in terms of scheduling—and two, because the songs get worse every year. But my third reason is because Eurovision has become a political battleground in which the new gang of Eastern European states consistently club together and have now ensured that no Western European nation is likely to ever win the competition again.
tags: choons, community, competition, Eurovision, politics, rivalry, tactical voting
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