Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Lovin' that Liebster!



It is with extreme humility and utmost respect that I today accept this long overdue award presented to me by Marian Allen, author of the terrific blog Fantasies, Mysteries, Comedies, RecipesTo say I have been waiting a while for the Liebster Blog Award is a bit of an understatement; frankly even Susan Lucci calls me a loser and doesn't return my calls.  

What is the Liebster Blog Award?  Beats hell out of me! I thought I was getting a whole main lobster out of the deal,  but it looks like what you mostly get is so many follow-up requirements the last of them are way more likely to get accomplished by the executor of your estate rather than by you personally yourself.

I am, however, indeed proud to say that receipt of the Leibster Blog Award signals my achievement of the Triple Crown of Blogging! Were it the Triple Crown of Horse Racing I'd be a lot more famous but also expected to have sex with four legged creatures, and that's where I draw the line.  No, the Triple Crown of Blogging for me consists of the Liebster Blog Award and my two previous blogging awards, the coveted Versatile Blogger Award and the coveted but only if you're really into coveting Stylish Blogger Award.  Together these three  awards mean that for the first time I now have more awards than readers!  

And for that, I thank thee, Marian Allen. 

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The following are the many requirements and responsibilities attendant on copping the Leibster Blog Award which I shall complete in full but please don't rush me.
  
1) State Eleven Random Facts About Me
2) Answer Eleven Annoying Questions Posed to Me by Marian Allen
3) Nominate Eleven Bloggers for the Award and Stick Them with the Same Onerous Requirements You've Got
4) Ask the Eleven Bloggers Eleven Questions, and No Multiple Choice!

I will nominate the eleven winning bloggers in a upcoming blog post after I have the time to carefully and thoroughly select only the very finest and outstanding bloggers who are willing to pay off and pay big for this Leibster thing.  I'll pose their questions at that time as well; enough payola and I'll make 'em all softballs!

And now, my first two requirements completed in full and wrapped up all pretty-like:


Eleven Random Facts About Me 

1) I am a former professional nose model, specializing in the "after" picture.  I cannot understand why I went bankrupt.


2) In the event of the Zombie Apocalypse, I am a certified last responder.

3) I am actually "the Batman."  And when my career is finally over and I no longer have to worry about you being at risk of reprisals by my enemies, I'm going to sue the crap out of that Bruce Wayne guy!

4) Hello, young lovers, wherever you are .....  nothin', I just always wanted to say that.

5) I am terrified of spiders.  People say that spiders are beneficial because they get rid of other bugs, but I'm rooting for the other bugs!

6)  My breath is kissing sweet.

7) I think "blog" is the ugliest word in the English language. Calling someone a "blogger" sounds to me like an excellent way to insult an English guy. 

8)The best advice I've ever received about writing was given to me by my eleventh grade English teacher Mr. Barton.   It was "don't, you suck."   I've always remembered it.

9) I believe that you and I were married in a past life. What a damn shame all those migraines you used to have! 

10) I've never been able to snap my fingers, something that totally ruined my up-and-coming career as a doo-wop singer in the 1950's.

11)  I brake for animals.  But I'd speed up for you!


Marian's Questions Answered 


 1) How long have you been blogging?    
       About half an hour.  I'm due for a break.

2) Why did you choose the topic(s) for your blog?      
        You mean, the chronicles of an insecure Baby Boomer fraught  with aging angst and unsure of his next  moves in life? Gee, why did I choose that?

3) How do people find your blog?
       Somebody's found it?

4) Do you feel comfortable promoting/advertising your own stuff? 
        Oh yes, very comfortable as long as I'm doing it on a laptop sitting on the crapper.

5)  What’s your happiest earliest childhood memory?
            Same as yours!  Now do you think you could ask some questions with a little bit of taste and propriety?   

6) If you could have any critter, real or imaginary, as a pet, what would it be? 
           A flying monkey. 

7) What would you name it?
        Dorothy.  That would be poetic justice for the little bastard! 

8) Why would a woodchuck chuck wood?
         To get chicks.  If it works, lead me to the nearest woodpile!

9) Vegan, vegetarian, or omnivore?
           You!  C'mere, Ms. Delicious!

10) What are you reading (not these questions, silly! what book?)?
          Book?  No, just these questions.  (See, not so silly after all!)

11) What is your superpower?
          Flying,  of course.  But at all times under the supervision of Captain Sully Sullenberger.


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Impressed?  Of course you are!

After all, I'm a Leibster Blog Award Winner.  And I'm lovin' that Leibster! 

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12 comments:

Marian Allen said...

A flying monkey named Dorothy. My GOD, you and I think you're funny! I mean, seriously, that gets first place on my Funniernhell list.

Perry Block said...

Oh no, another award?! What do I have to do for that one, bring back the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West?!!

Marian Allen said...

When you pry it out of my cold, dead hand.

Perry Block said...

"The Funniernhell List" --- If that doesn't exist, it ought to. My luck, you and I will start it and I still won't be able to get on it!

Anonymous said...

Erm. Has anyone told you the definition of the word "fact"? ;)

Libby said...

On point #9 of your "State Eleven Random Facts About Me" were you talking about me?

Anonymous said...

You are truly award winning in my book!!!!

JK Rowling

Perry Block said...

Alright, so I'm not actually Batman, you got me. Who's going to come forward to question it?

Perry Block said...

No, Libby, that was a different life in which you and I were married.

We had eleven children.

Perry Block said...

JK, you promised you wouldn't follow me here. I told you it's over!

You have a successful book series, you'll forget me in time. True, you'll never have a better lover but if you find yourself a young Italian guy, you may come close.

Now wrap yourself in that Cloak of Invisibility and disappear!

Libby said...

So nice to read your about humor at the end of the day!

Perry Block said...

Thanks, Libby. Many people feel my humor pretty much ends their day whenever they read it!