Oh Snap! My Blog is Fabulous!

A special shout out to Plinydogg of Speculative Fiction Junkie and Dave of Dave Brendon's Fantasy and Sci-Fi Weblog for showing remarkably good taste and nominating Blood of the Muse for a "Your Blog is Fabulous" award.


But the award comes with some ground rules. Recipients are to list five happy little obsessions they can't live without. (Only five...I'm much more obsessed than that.) And I'll follow the wise tradition of not listing people.

1) Books--This one's obvious. If I couldn't read and collect books, I'd have to go out and have normal human interactions. And we can't have that.

2) Computers--Captain Obvious strikes again! Pretty general, too. That's because I wanted to pick a few computer related activities, and have it only count once in the list. Sort of like a three-for-one. So the three: programming, the Internet, and video games.

3) Pizza from New York--I love New York pizza. I'm absolutely obsessed with it. The coal-fired ovens. Char on the crust. It's heaven on a plate. The problem: I live in California, the Land of Crappy Pizza. (Look closely at the state flag, you'll see the motto there.) No wonder I'm seriously considering building a brick pizza oven in my backyard.

4) Playing the guitar--Nothing compares to being able to pick up an instrument and make music. It's a special type of joy.

5) Basketball--Three words: Los Angeles Lakers. Win or lose, they'll always be my team.

Now I'm supposed to nominate five blogs for this award. Most have been picked previously. But I'm going to pick them again; just to show my respect. Call it a re-pick.

1) Pat's Fantasy Hotlist

2) Fantasy Book Critic

3) The Wertzone

4) Graeme's Fantasy Book Review

5) Neth Space

And now that I'm in the making list spirit, I'll list five authors whose next book I'm obsessively looking forward to.

1) Peter V. Brett

2) Joe Abercrombie

3) Charlie Huston

4) Cherie Priest

5) Patrick Rothfuss

And just to keep my head from becoming too big, I've nominated myself for the "Your Blog...Sucks" award. It'll keep me humble.