It's an annual tradition here on The Crescat, five years in the making, where I celebrate being completely under appreciated and snubbed in favor of that dude, what's his name, Peters-something-or-another.
It's a Blog Award for all us under appreciated types, and you are strictly forbidden from nominating anyone that has written a book... and that Peters guy. And fanciful cooking bird watching priests. And anybody else who has a blog better than me. So good luck with that.
Updated 9/2/11: Nominations are now closed!
The categories are:
Best Blog By A Religious
Standing On My Head
Orthometer
Reverend Know It All
Hell Burns
The Deacon's Bench
Katholikos Diakonos
Whosoever Desires
Adam's Ale
Dating God
Monks And Mermaids
Catholic Under The Hood
Msgr. Charles Pope
Best Political Blog
Adrienne's Catholic Corner
Opinionated Catholic
Truth Forward
The American Catholic
More Catholic Than The Pope
Cleansing Fire
Black Sheepdog
Real Catholic TV
Eponymous Flower
Best Armchair Theologian
Cleansing Fire
Abbey Roads
Ask Sister Mary Martha
Dorian Speed
Quiet Dignity and Grace
Puffs Stuff
No Wealth But Life
Truth Forward
Accepting Abundance
Little Catholic Bubble
Pray Tell
Idle Speculations
Best Visual Treat
Orbis Catholicus Secondus
Betty Beguiles
Mary Mother Church
Spirit's Sword
Enlarging The Heart
View From The Back Pew
Rome Of The West
Way Of Beauty
Sancte Pater
Corpus Immobilis Errantem Animum
Drawn To Catholicism
Gladuis Spiritus
Dust On The Shelves
Idle Speculations
Art & Design by Jim LePage
Most Church Militant
Cleansing Fire
Orthometer
V For Victory
Defend Us In Battle
Best New Kid on The Block
That Strangest of Wars
Catholic Drinkie
Secret Vatican Spy
Accepting Abundance
Marc Cardaronella
Barefoot And Pregnant
Heart For God
With Eager Feet
Steve Gershom
Coffee and Canticles
Reverend Know It All
Best Blog By A Heretic
Bridget Mary's Blog
Ray Grosswirth
Bad Vestments
It Came From Allen's Brain
Black Sheepdog
Pithless Thoughts
Dust On The Shelves
Faith in the 21st Century
Best Under Appreciated Blog
Fallen Sparrow
Heirs in Hope
These Stone Walls
Alive and Young
The Heresy Hunter
Korrektiv
Wynken Blynkn and Nod
Shoved To Them
Reverenced Reading
Kissing The Leper
No Wealth But Life
These Stone Walls
Darwin Catholic
Smaller Manhattans
View From The Back Pew
Barefoot And Pregnant
Our Word & Welcome To It
B-Movie Catechism
Perpetual Jubilee
Blessed Is The Kingdom
Catholic Laboratory
Magpie Collective
Best Spiritual Treat
Heirs in Hope
A Friar Minor
The Wine Dark Sea
Mary Mother Church
Joe Versus The Volcano
Betty Duffy
Defend Us In Battle
Adoro Te Devote
Finding Grace Within
Monks And Mermaids
Catholic By Grace
Blessed Is The Kingdom
Best Bat Shit Crazy
Orthometer
I Have To Sit Down
B-Movie Catechism
Digital Hairshirt
Redneck Reflections
Best Potpourri of Popery
Happy Catholic
The Curt Jester
The Hell With It
Darwin Catholic
Shirt Of Flame
Shoved To Them
Ten Thousand Places
Charlotte Was Both
Snarkiest Catholic Blog
Abbey Roads
Patrick Vandapool
The Recovering Dissident Catholic
Saint Kitsch
The Hell With It
Acts of The Apostasy
Lisa Graas
Most Hifreakinlarious
Acts Of The Apostasy
Patrick Vandapool
Belinda's Brain
Ironic Catholic
Bad Catholic
Redneck Reflections
House Unseen. Life Unscripted.
Best Blog That Needs to be Updated More Often
St. Monica's Kneelers
Catholic Beer Review
Catholic Culture and Society
Alive and Young
Recovering Dissident Catholic
Catholic Drinkie
Our Lady's Tears
St. Anthony's Walnut Tree
Deny The Cat
*Rules, disclaimers, fine print and legalese: When making nominations please indicate category, blog name and include blog link. If you don't, I will not mark the nomination. Please do not email me nominations. Leave them in the comment box. In the past, I have excepted email nominations but it got too damn confusing. Also, try to avoid duplicate nominations. If you see some one already made the nomination you intended; spare us.
If you were nominated but wish to disassociate yourself as far away from me as possible, email me at the_crescat@yahoo.com. I will understand perfectly.
Nominees and winners of the 2011 Catholic Cannonball Awards™© receive no prizes, just the sweet sweet satisfaction that they were only slightly better than no one else really all that special. They reserve bragging rights and the distinction of being fantastical ordinary! Yay! You're an awesome average blogger. Enjoy your victory.
Voting will begin in a special poll on September 17, 2011. Remember, do NOT leave your votes in this comment box.
78 comments:
I'd like to nominate Cleansing Fire (www.cleansingfiredor.com) for "Most Church Militant."
I'd like to nominate Fallen Sparrow (www.sparrowfallen.blogspot.com) for Best Under Appreciated Blog and Best Spiritual Treat.
I'd also like to nominate Heirs in Hope (www.heirsinhope.blogspot.com) for Best Spiritual Treat and Best Blog That Needs to be Updated More Often.
Cleansing Fire for More Catholic Than The Pope and Best Armchair Theologian!
cleansingfiredor.com
I nominate my husband's blog (That Strangest of Wars) for Best New Kid on the Block.
Thanks, you lovely hostess, you. I look forward to these every year.
I nominate Terry for Best Armchair Theologian.
For Snarkiest - Abbey Roads http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/
For by a Religious - Standing on my Head http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/
For Hifreakinlarious - Acts Of The Apostasy - http://actsoftheapostasy.blogspot.com/
In the best spirit of these fine awards I nominate myself for best political blog - Adrienne's Corner
http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/
I'll be back for more nominations.
Nominations:
Best blog by a heretic:
Bridget Mary's Blog (bridgetmarys.blogspot.com) or grosswirth.blogspot.com
Snarkiest Catholic Blog - I'm nominating my husband: Patrick Vandapool's blog (patrickvandapool.com)
Also qualifies for Most Hifreakinlarious...
Oops. Sorry about that. I guess I messed up the link. I suck at HTML. At the risk of making a fool of myself, I'll try again...
That Strangest of Wars
Most Hifreakinlarious
Belinda's Brain
http://belindabensonsbrain.blogspot.com/
Best Bat Shit Crazy
Belinda's Brain
http://belindabensonsbrain.blogspot.com/
Best Visual Treat
Orbis Catholicus Secundus
http://orbiscatholicussecundus.blogspot.com/
Best Blog That Needs to be Updated More Often
St. Monica's Kneeler
http://st-monicas-kneeler.blogspot.com/
Best Spiritual Treat
Loved Sinner
http://lovedsinner.blogspot.com/
Most Church Militant
Orthometer
http://orthometer.blogspot.com/
Best Under Appreciated Blog
These Stone Walls
http://www.thesestonewalls.com/
Best Blog By A Religious
Orthometer
http://orthometer.blogspot.com/
Snarkiest Catholic Blog
The Recovering Dissident Catholic
http://therecoveringdissidentcatholic.blogspot.com/
Alive and Young for most Under Appreciated. http://www.aliveandyoung.net/
Best blog that needs to be updated.
Catholic Beer Review
http://catholic-beer-review.blogspot.com/
Everybody links to it even though he only updates once a year.
I nominate Owen for best Visual Treat.
V for Victory for Most Church Militant:
http://v-forvictory.blogspot.com/
Catholic Culture and Society for Best Blog That Needs to be Updated More Often:
http://catholiccultureandsociety.blogspot.com/
The Heresy Hunter for Best Under Appreciated Blog:
http://heresy-hunter.blogspot.com/
Reverend Know-It-All for Best Blog By A Religious:
http://reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com/
Orthometer for Best Bat Shit Crazy:
http://orthometer.blogspot.com/
A Minor Friar for Best Spiritual Treat:
http://friarminor.blogspot.com/
Best Blog By a Religious
Hell Burns (Sr. Helena Burns)
http://hellburns.blogspot.com
&
The Deacon's Bench
http://www.patheos.com/community/deaconsbench/
&
Katholikos Diakonos
http://www.scottdodge.blogspot.com
Blog that needs to be updated more often : Alive and Young
http://www.aliveandyoung.blogspot.com
Best Bat Shit Crazy: I Have to Sit Down http://simchafisher.wordpress.com/
Best Popery of Potpourri: Happy Catholic
http://www.happycatholic.blogspot.com
and The Curt Jester, which didn't get nominated for anything in the other awards going on...crazy!
http://splendoroftruth.com/
Best visual treat: The Crescat
http://thecrescat.blogspot.com
Best Blog by a Heretic: since I think he/she is Anglican, but definitely a friend in Christ and satirical commentary: Bad Vestments
http://badvestments.blogspot.com/
also
It Came From Allen's Brain!
http://www.allens-brain.blogspot.com
Snarkiest Blog
Saint Kitsch
http://saintkitsch.blogspot.com/
Most Hifreakinlarious
um, The Ironic Catholic (moi), because I *love* that word
http://www.ironiccatholic.com
Best Under-appreciated Blog
Korrektiv
http://www.korrektivpress.com/blog
Best Armchair Theologian
Ask Sister Mary Martha
http://asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/
I know some of these blogs are "big" but I was trying to name ones inexplicably not in the running for the "Other" Catholic media awards....
I nominate the Holy Spirit as most unacknowledged source of inspirational posts by all bloggers ;)
for snarkiest: . . .the hell with it http://oxyparadoxy.blogspot.com/
I nominate the Ironic Catholic for Most Hifreakinlarious?
www.ironiccatholic.com
Best Armchair Theologian
Dorian Speed scrutinies.net
Best Visual Treat
Hallie Lord bettybeguiles.com
Best Spiritual Treat
Melanie Bettinelli thewinedarksea.com
Best Armchair Theologian
Dorian Speed scrutinies.net
Best Visual Treat
Hallie Lord bettybeguiles.com
Best Spiritual Treat
Melanie Bettinelli thewinedarksea.com
Most Church Militant:
Defend Us In Battle
http://defend-us-in-battle.blogspot.com/">
Snarkiest Catholic Blog:
Acts of the Apostasy
http://actsoftheapostasy.blogspot.com/
Best Armchair Theologian:
Abbey Roads
http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/
Best Bat Shit Crazy:
B-Movie Catechism
http://b-moviecat.blogspot.com/
Best Blog That Needs To Be Updated More Often:
Recovering Dissident Catholic
http://therecoveringdissidentcatholic.blogspot.com/
Best Underappreciated Blog: I nominate two
Wynken Blynken & Nod
http://blynken.blogspot.com/
and
Shoved To Them
http://shovedtothem.blogspot.com/
More Catholic Than The Pope:
Blacksheepdog
http://www.theblacksheepdog.us/black-sheepdog-blog/
What?
I mean no offence whatsoever, and please feel free to disregard and remove this comment but you wrote:
Rules, disclaimers, fine print and legalize:
I think you meant to write:
Rules, disclaimers, fine print and legalese:
I see that she has been nominated for one category, but I think the Ranter should be nominated for
Best Potporri of Popery Blog
http://oxyparadoxy.blogspot.com/
Best Blog by a Religious: Whosoever Desires
http://whosoeverdesires.wordpress.com/
Best Political Blog:Opinionated Catholic
http://www.opinionatedcatholic.blogspot.com/
Best Armchair Theologian: Quiet, Dignity, and Grace
http://lukearredondo.blogspot.com/
Best Visual Treat: Mary Mother Church
http://marymotherchurch.me/
Best New Kid on the Block: Catholic Drinkie
http://www.catholicdrinkie.com
Best Underappreciated Blog: Myself ;) Reverenced Reading
http://www.reverencedreading.blogspot.com
Best Spiritual Treat: Mary Mother Church
http://marymotherchurch.me/
Most Hifreakinlarious: The Crescat is the one that comes to mind first, (one can now call me the kiss up, and so I stand)
http://thecrescat.blogspot.com/
Best Blog That Needs to Be Updated More Often: Catholic Drinkie
http://www.catholicdrinkie.com
I was doing fine until I got to:
"If you were nominated but wish to disassociate yourself as far away from me as possible, email me at the_crescat@yahoo.com. I will understand perfectly."
...then I literally spew my tea all over my keyboard!
:)
Puff, I did. Good catch. Thanks. I will fix the grammatical error.
Best Armchair Theologian: http://puffsstuff.blogspot.com/
note to self: picking up with Jen Ambrose's nominations later.
ALL: Please be patient. I am editing this post and adding each nomination as they come in. It takes time. If you made your nomination above, after Jen's, I will come back over the weekend and add them.
Thanks for all the wonderful nominations. I always love the new blogs that get linked to.
Best Visual Treat
gladius-spiritus@blogspot.com
Drawn to Catholicism for Best Visual Treat:
http://owenswain.com/drawntocatholicism/
Best Visual Treat:
http://corpusimmobiliserrantemanimum.blogspot.com
He does religious clip-art that you can use for your personal use for free.
My heart is full to bursting. Korrektiv was actually nominated for something!!!!! I was going for "Best use of Walker Percy's tombstone as the background" or "least optimistic about human nature" but I see I don't even need to make up a category.
Best under-appreciated:
Smaller Manhattans
http://platytera.blogspot.com/
***
Though soon as you add "best catechist blog", just move him over to that. :-).
I want to know how I can even be nominated for anything since I've taken a hiatus all summer! Oh, wait, ok, I get it...
I suggest a new category:
Blog That Should Take a Longer Vacation: Recovering Dissident Catholic http://therecoveringdissidentcatholic.blogspot.com
I have some nominations:
Most Hifreakinlarious Blog:
I second Auntie A's nomination of Acts of the Apostacy
Bat Shit Crazy Blog:
I second Vincenzo's nomination of Belinda's Brain but also want to nominate Digital Hairshirt because no category of crazy can be without Digi http://digihairshirt.blogspot.com/
More Catholic Than the Pope:
For your consideration: Eponymous Flower http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/
Best Political Blog: Adrienne's Catholic Corner http://adriennescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/
Best Blog by a Religious:
Adam's Ale http://clevelandpriest.blogspot.com/
Best Armchair Theologian:
I second LarryD's nomination of:The notorious Terrance J Nelson of Abbey Roads http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/
Best Under Appreciated Blog:
For your consideration: Our Word and Welcome to It http://hadleyblog.blogspot.com/
Best Visual Treat:
Vincenzo at Sancte Pater http://www.sanctepater.com/
Best Spiritual Treat:
For your consideration: Defend Us in Battle http://defend-us-in-battle.blogspot.com/
Best New Kid on the Block: For your consideration: Heart for God http://intheirhearts.blogspot.com/ (she started in 2010 but was robbed last year)
Best Blog that Needs to Be Updated More Often: I second Vincenzo's nomination of Swissmiss at St. Monica's Kneeler but I also add for your consideration, Sanctus Belle at Our Lady's Tears http://ourladystears.blogspot.com/
Best Church Militant (and he could probably easily fit into Hifreakinlarious and Bat Shit Crazy): Redneck at Redneck Reflections http://sadcatholic.blogspot.com/
That's all I got!
Best blog by religious: Standing on my head
http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/
Visual treat: The Way of Beauty
http://thewayofbeauty.org/
How is this the first time I've seen your blog? So many hours of not-reading it wasted doing other lame things that don't even make me laugh!
As for the nominations, I tried to go through all the comments to make sure she hadn't already been nominated, but it's late. So I can't make any promises.
Anyway...
I'd like to nominate Calah at Barefoot and Pregnant ( http://barefootandpregnantblog.blogspot.com/ ) for Most Under a appreciated blog and/or Best New Kid on The Block .
I don't know if she's still considered new and I don't know if she's considered under appreciated, but I know I love her and I know she has no books written :)
Rome of the West for Best Visual Treat
www.romeofthewest.com
"Most Under-appreciated" and "Visual Treat": Snup's View from the Back Pew.
Jennifer Ambrose, you are too kind.
I second Jennifer Fitz' nomination of Smaller Manhattans..
I nominate Marc Cardaronella for Best New Kid on the Block.
Betty Duffy needs a category to herself for "Most Frequent Occasion of the Sin of Envy" because her writing is incredible. I see that's been left off, though, so I will just nominate her for "Best Spiritual Treat."
DarwinCatholic for Best Potpourri of Popery.
Thanks for doing this!
new kid on the block and/or arm chair theologian accepting abundance http://www.acceptingabundance.com/
under appreciated darwin catholic
http://darwincatholic.blogspot.com/
The Bridget Mary blog is the most heretical blog I have ever seen by a person claiming to be Catholic. Good nomination!
Fr. Dwight Longenecker and Julie Davis (Happy Catholic) have both written books. Fr. Dwight - LOTS of them.
Finn
I nominate www.thesestonewalls.com for Best Under Appreciated Blog for its orthodoxy / fidelity to the Magisterium
Truth Forward (http://truthforward.blogspot.com/) for Best Political Blog and Best Armchair Theologian.
I'd like to nominate http://www.kissingtheleper.com for the category of"
Best Under Appreciated Blog
Ok, here we go!
Best Armchair Theologian and Most Underappreciated Blog - There Is No Wealth But Life
http://nowealthbutlife.com/
Best Visual Treat - Enlarging the Heart
http://enlargingtheheart.wordpress.com/
Best Spiritual Treat - Joe Versus the Volcano
http://joeversusthevolcano.blogspot.com/
Best New Kid on the Block - Secret Vatican Spy
http://secretvaticanspy.com/
Most Hifreakinlarious - Bad Catholic
http://badcatholicblog.blogspot.com/
Thanks for hosting the awards again!
I would like to nominate kissingtheleper.com as Best Underappreciated Blog.
I am nominating Kissingtheleper.com for Best Underappreciated Blog. I certainly appreciate this one lots!
One more that I needed permission for since I don't really consider him a heretic, but he is outside the Catholic Church.....so with his permission....
Best Blog By a Heretic....Pithless Thoughts
http://pithlessthoughts.blogspot.com/
need to pick up with Karyn's nominations, after Dorian Speed.
Am a serious lapased catholic but follow and love this blog : http://www.kissingtheleper.com/
so lovely to see someone with such pure faith, and who can separate out her faith from the politics of the vatican
I would like to nominate it for under appreciated blogs , how you do well sweetie , love the blog
Today is a new day, and I would like to vote again for kissingtheleper.com for best underappreciated blog. I read it every day, and love it.
Mariel, FYI I am only taking nominations @ this point. Voting will begin in a few weeks.
Hey, no one has nominated Adam's Ale? He needs to update more often and he's in my Best Blog by a Religious Category. http://clevelandpriest.blogspot.com/
For Best Potpouri of Popery...
Shirt of Flame
http://Shirtofflame.blogspot.com
Best New Kid on the Block:
With Eager Feet
http://witheagerfeet.wordpress.com
Thanks for adding my nominees Crescat. One correction under Best New Kid. Kassie's blog is called Secret Vatican Spy.
Because it would just be sad to be underappreciated 2 years in a row, I nominate myself, Shoved to Them, for Potpourri of Popery.
I also nominate Little Catholic Bubble littlecatholicbubble.blogspot.com for Best Armchair Theologian
Shoved to Them http://shovedtothem.blogpsot.com Best Potpourri of Popery
Little Catholic Bubble
http://littlecatholicbubble.blogspot.com
Best Armchair Theologian
what sort of Religious is Deacon Kandra?
My nominee for New Kid On the Block:
http://www.stevegershom.com
Catholic/gay/faithful to church as in celibate...great sense of humor.
Hey - Please spell the B-Movie Catechism blog correctly He's nominated under Best Bat Shit Crazy . It's almost spelled B-movie cateschism! Too funny!
http://b-moviecat.blogspot.com/
For Best Blog By A Heretic:
Faith in the 21st Century
http://faithc21.blogspot.com/
I also wanted to nominate a birdwatching priest for "Most Bat Shit Crazy", but I'm not allowed to :(
For the Best Blog By A Religious category (though it's equally well suited to the Best Spiritual Treat category) I'd like to nominate "Monks and Mermaids" by Dom David Bird OSB:
http://fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.com/
I see that a bunch of my nominations are already here ... that's what happens when you dilly dally around.
Here are the others:
Best Blog by a Religious
The New Theological Movement
http://newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com
Best Armchair Theologian
Idle Speculations
http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/
Best Visual Treat
Idle Speculations
http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/
Best Under Appreciated Blog
The B-Movie Catechism
http://b-moviecat.blogspot.com/
Best Spiritual Treat
Finding Grace Within
http://findinggracewithin.blogspot.com/
Best Popery of Potpourri
ten thousand places
http://wondrouspilgrim.blogspot.com/
for either Best Blog by a Heretic or Best Visual Treat I nominate
"Dust on the Shelves"
http://dustontheshelves.blogspot.com/
I appreciate Paul Stilwell's very nice compliment that I should update my blog more often.
But the internet online degree crawlers, (who are by far my most common and faithful readers), appear to be happy as clams accessing my older posts.
Not that I mind, in fact there's a certain pleasure in the irony of my most common readers being machines wholly incapable of understanding a word I write.
But I do wonder about the apparent requirement to constantly update since it appears to be part of the problem with our modern society of constantly renewing the gorging of our senses and appetites.
Best Spiritual Treat
Adoro te Devote
http://www.adorotedevote.blogspot.com
I nominate:
Best Blog by a Religious
Dating God
http://datinggod.org/
Best Armchair Theologian
Pray Tell
http://www.praytellblog.com/
Since no one has seen fit to nominate me yet, I will succumb to vanity and do it: For Most Under-Appreciated, "Magpie Collective" at http://1magpiecollective.blogspot.com
Most Hifreakinlarious Blog: Creative Minority Report: http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/
Best Underappreciated Blog:
The Crescat
Snarkiest Catholic Blog:
Lisa Graas: http://blog.lisagraas.com/
Best Blog By A Religious
Msgr. Charles Pope: http://blog.adw.org
Try as hard as I may, I just can't rationalize nominating my own blogs for anything ....
I cannot BELIEVE no one has nominated Catholic Under the Hood:
http://catholicunderthehood.com/
Best Political Blog
The American CatholicL
http://the-american-catholic.com/
Best Visual Treat
art & design by Jim LePage
http://jimlepage.com/category/blog/
Best New Kid on The Block
Reverend Know-it-all
http://reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com/
Best Under Appreciated Blog
The Catholic Laboratory
http://www.catholiclab.net
I would like to nominate Blessed Is the Kingdom for Best Spiritual Treat and Best Under Appreciated Blog.
http://www.blessedisthekingdom.com/
Sorry, forgot to specify category first time.
Best Blog By A Religious
Catholic Under the Hood:
http://catholicunderthehood.com/
Most Hifreakinlarious:
"House Unseen. Life unscripted"
http://www.houseunseen.com/
Best Potpourri of Popery
Charlotte Was Both
http://amywelborn.wordpress.com/
Best Blog That Needs to be Updated More Often
Deny the Cat:
http://denythecat.blogspot.com
Yes, it's mine...<;-)>
I would to nominate for Best Blog that Needs to be Updated more Often:
From St. Anthony's Walnut Tree
http://www.stanthonyswalnuttree.blogspot.com/
Best New Kid on The Block: Coffee and Canticles, http://dariasockey.blogspot.com/
Best Spiritual Treat: Catholic by Grace, http://catholicbygrace.blogspot.com/
Underappreciated:
A Perpetual Jubilee
http://celestebehe.blogspot.com/
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