I don't read much, but from what I have managed to absorb, Time magazine's decision to honor me (and you, and you, and all of you, and you, too!) as its Person of the Year has been greeted with either hostility or indifference, with even the most kind remarks being tepid in their endorsement of the idea of the shiny plastic mirror-covered non-story.
Apparently, there is no idea so lame that it can't be ripped off by others who can't quite be convinced of the feebleness of the initial idea.
Thus, we have Ad Age's proclamation of the Ad Agency of the Year as...
Yes, YOU! And ME! Now we have TWO things to put on our resumes!
Anyway, in the spirit of things, I hereby announce the Blogger of the Year as YOU!
The Scientist of the Year?
YOU!
Truck of the Year?
YOU!
Horse Breed of the Year?
YOU!
Planar Lattice Walks in Restricted Regions of the Year?
That's right--YOU!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 9, 2007 02:14 PMI was mightily impressed with me in 2006. Why, I don't know but to keep up with "Time" I must have been.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at January 9, 2007 02:48 PMThere wouldn't be any sort of remuneration connected to all these honorifics, would there? Not even a gift bag?
Posted by: skinnydan at January 9, 2007 02:58 PMWe're ALL impressed with you, Larry. And not just in 2006, either. I remember '02 was pretty good, as was late '05.
As for money--let's not cheapen things, Skinnydan.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 9, 2007 03:07 PMI too noticed a falloff in my impressiveness in 2003, 04 and most of 05. I attribute it to Global Warming.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at January 9, 2007 03:13 PMOh, come now--no false modesty here, sir!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 9, 2007 03:18 PMWho will they announce as Client of the Year? 'Your' mother? 'Your' cat? 'Your' aunt? The front door? The vicar?
Of course, the award is quite appropriate. Agencies have been plundering public content and plagiarising material for years.
Last year I worked with an art director who google-searched all her ideas and images. Now it's YouTube: people sit around all day in agencies trawling YouTube for ideas.
Posted by: kitchen hand at January 9, 2007 05:46 PMThen why in the world hasn't someone picked up on the scene where the younger Stuart Buck and his wife put their baby to bed, then sat down with their instruments to play the Ravel that they were both thinking about that day?
Still the most romantic and sexiest scene in American blogs.
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 9, 2007 05:58 PMShhhh, Miss Janis! I'm working on a podcast of that right now, and don't want word to get out before it's finished!
And Kitchen Hand, it's not so much the stealing I mind, it's that they keep stealing such bad ideas.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 10, 2007 08:27 AM