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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Your A-List: Best Local Blogger
A note of full disclosure: I used to be the co-editor of Austinist, and Craig is a freind of mine, so my opinions may be slightly biased. A note of even more disclosure: I never really edited Craig. Neither did my co-editor, Austinist head honcho Allen Y. Chen. One, it took a lot of commitment to carve out time from our regular jobs to read and edit 6,000 words about a night of debauchery or TC’s unruly neighbors. Furthermore, why would you ever want to edit or limit the brilliance that is Craig McCullough? Furtherfurthermore, Craig has a tendency to make up words (deliciously brilliant words), so the fact of the matter is, vis-a-vis editing, I may not even have known where to start.
Craig’s columns, posted under the title ‘Truesday’ (some of which may not be safe for work, depending on your office), have become one of the most read, recommended and discussed features in the three years of Austinist’s existence, and his love (and disdain for) the local music and arts scene, city government, self-destruction, and general cultural anthropological ramblings have left the interdigitubes, as Craig likes to call them, in these here parts a better place. Regardless of the title of Craig’s wonderful book of essays, ‘I Am an Idiot (But there is Nothing Wrong with You),’ the dude is no fool. Five it out, bro-ham.
Update: I had not checked the backlog of write-in votes, but have since added them. I apologize for the error. A nod of the cap to Rachel Farris of MeanRachel.com, who received enough write-in votes to finish 4th in the voting. Congrats.
Others receiving votes
- Austin Tidbits, 29 percent
- Michael Barnes’ Out & About, 11 percent
- Rachel Farris of MeanRachel.com (Write-in), 4 percent
- Harry Knowles’ Ain’t It Cool News, 3 percent
- Austinist’s Allen Y. Chen, 3 percent
- Matthew Odam’s The M.O., 3 percent
- Diane Holloway’s TV blog, 2 percent
- Austin Chronicle’s Earache, 2 percent
- Showlist Austin, 2 percent
- Kirk Bohls’ Bohl Games, < 1 percent
- Matt Dentler’s indieWIRE blog, < 1 percent
- Done Waiting, < 1 percent
- Kat Candler’s blog, < 1 percent
- Bryan Poyser’s Austin Film Society blog, < 1 percent
Write-Ins: Dancin’ Down Congress Avenue, Eugene Sepulveda’s Community Matters, Scott Henson of Grits for Breakfast, John Gross of Party Ends, Translucence, Random Neural Misfirings, Catchy Name, Eileen of In the Pink Texas, Pink Dome, Burnt Orange Report
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