Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 19:35:00 -0500 From: "the rags of time..." Subject: [WRITERS] INT: And the interviews drone on...(7) So we are now considering nominations for the various categories. Today, perhaps we should consider the favorites and the list labels: Favorite Essayist(s) Favorite Poet(s) Favorite Short Story Writer(s) List Conservative List Liberal [Incidentally, I'm not quite sure I understand. We have conservative and liberal, but we seem to have missed radical, bored, anarchist, totalitarian, libertarian, and probably quite a few other shades of political jockeying. Is there some significance to selecting these two rather overused categories?] List Curmudgeon List Diplomat (most agreeable) List Daddy List Mommy List Flirt (Award for Male and Female) List Kid List Oldster (either chronologically or behaviorally) [something of an impoverished family... no uncle or aunt? No grandparents? Perhaps the big brother/sister or the runt of the litter should be included?] List "Gandalf" or Sage/The Merlin Award List Lurker Again, feel free to pick one or more of these categories, climb the steps to the top of the molehill, and proclaim your candidates for these positions. Just don't be surprised if the list curmudgeon disagrees with you -- that's what curmudgeons do. "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion." Robert Burns tink