Another Award

I got another award this past week from K. D. Storm of "A Coffee Driven & Adventure Bound Life".

Here is the award:

To accept I have to answer 10 questions about me, 10 Random facts about me and pick 7 other bloggers to get this award.

Since I am all about building a community online I think it is a great idea.

The Ten Questions

1. What is your fave song? So many.  I love Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".  Whenever Kansas' "Carry On Wayward Son" comes on I have to blast it.
2. Favorite Dessert? I am not a big dessert guy. But I love lemon flavored things.
3. What ticks you off? So much....but mostly People that waste my time.
4. When you're upset what do you do? I talk to my wife.  She is a great person to talk to and bring me back to reality.
5. What is your favorite pet? I am deathly allergic to animals. So no pets.
6. Which do you prefer black or white? Black. 
7. What is your biggest fear? Anything happening to my kids..
8. What is your attitude? Generally optimistic. 
9. What is perfection? An interesting concept, but nothing is ever perfect. 
10. What is your guilty pleasure? Playing 80s music in my car turned up to 11.

Ten Random Facts

1. My wife and I met out first week of college and were friends all throughout college.  We did not start dating till she moved 300 miles away.
2. In high school I hated writing. Now look at me.
3. And I was editor of my highschool news paper.
4. I am afraid of heights.  I am not too fond of rats either.
5. When I was younger I would sleep with my eyes open.
6. I learned the alphabet frontwards and backwards when I was 3, I can still recite it backwards as fast as frontwards.
7. Cottage Cheese makes me gag and I will throw up if I get too close to it.
8. I am in a Metalica video.
9. I am no longer allowed to play Star Wars Trivial Pursuit. 
10. I knew at a very early age I wanted to be a father, now I am and it is great!

Now Seven bloggers.  The trouble with this one is there are so many good ones out there.  I wanted to choose ones that were good, that I thought would appreciate this award and would in turn send it out to others.  Also I want to pick out blogs that I felt could use some extra exposure.  Plus they are an ecletic bunch.

*Pixies Don't Have Wings - Writer Buffy Armstrong's site.  It has been a great resource in looking at fae creatures a different way.

The Groovy Age of Horror - Horror movies and comics from a funkier time.  I love the overall feel of this blog and I come here for inspiration on my own horror themed games.

Space 1970 - A great site dedicated to SciFi of the 70s (well till 1983 with Return of the Jedi).  I grew up in the 70s and this site is a constant trip down Memory Lane-if Memory Lane was really a Hyperspace wormhole thing.

Propnomicon - pictures and posts on the creepiest props you will ever see.  Focused on the Lovecraft mythos, everything is here.

Precious Monsters - there are a lot of Paranormal/Urban Horror review sites out there, but I like this one the best.  Very edgy and has stuff the other sites don't.

Vibrant Oxymoron - A great Doctor Who and Star Trek site focusing on the classic series.  Awesome blog.

Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm - Ever wonder where your food comes from?  Not the folks at CVSF, they grow it, raise it and eat it all on their own.  Follow the story of what happens when two suburban professionals leave the Chicago suburbs to go live off the land.  I could not do what they do, but I do find it all very interesting.

There they are!  Please enjoy!

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Awards

Back when the Other Side was just a website and not a blog, I used to get a lot of awards.

Sure they were really just means of getting someone to link back to your site, but I still treated them all like they  were special.  After-all, someone took the time to read through my site and thought it was good enough for an award or a least a link back.  I also had an award of my own I gave out (no, you can't sign up for it anymore).

Today's blog awards are not much different really, and that is fine.
But I did get this one and in a twist I am supposed to also give it to 15 other bloggers.  So in a way it is like an award chain letter.  I opted to go ahead and give it out, but with a twist of my own.  I wanted sites that were appealing to me either for their content, their design or some combination of the two.  I also was going to focus on blogs outside of the OSR/Gamin sphere since, well to be blunt, we all link to each other anyway.

I chose a lot of sites from writers of Paranormal Fiction or Young Adult Fiction.  I feel that these authors have the most to offer me in my own game-related writing.  I don't pretend to be, nor do I aspire to be, a novelist.  I write games.  I am a game designer.  But these sites help me think about how my games can be viewed from the character's perspective, and thus the player's.

So here is the One Lovely Blog Award.  Given to me by S. L. Hennessy at Pensuasion (BTW she got it from here, who got it from here, who got it from here...you get the idea.)

Here are the rules.  I'll give it 15 more people who in turn will link back to me and give to 15 others. Please post a comment in the person's blog to let them know they got the award, just as I am doing with you.

I am not sure why I got a "Lovely" award; the aesthetics of my site tend more towards pragmatic rather than attractive.  But hey. I am not complaining.  These sites do look nice, or at lease they appeal to me.

1. Bobert the Hoosier expatriate - Bob is a long time friend and YA author. 
2. Space 1970 - one of the most awesome sites on the net.  Love the late 70s and SciFi? Then go here, now.
3. Propnomicon - Lovecraft inspired props. Creepycool!
4. Stargazer's World - A great looking RPG site.  The author has spent a lot of time to make it look good.
5. Rather Gamey - quirky game site with some great art and commentary. 
6. Unedited by Jennifer Daiker - Author and Blogger with a lot to say.  Love how her site looks.
7. Creepy Query Girl - Mother, Author and creepy stalker?  Maybe not yet, but a cool blog about getting your books published.
8. A Writer's Journey - Melissa Cunningham is an author and book reviewer.  
9. Ciara Knight - is another author with a great looking site. Plenty of guest posters keep the blog fresh.
10. Susan Fields - Great writer, but don't touch her coffee.
11. Nicki Elson - Interviews, review and author commentary.
12. Bang out the Prose - Suz Korb is newer to the writing scene but she is working getting her rough draft done.
13. Who can Turn the World off With Her Smile - one of my favorite names for a blog. Great movie love here. 
14. That's All She Wrote! - Julie is a new writer working on her first book.  She is also a high school classmate of mine so I want to give her encouragement to keep on writing!
15. The Last Witch series - Elizabeth Kolodziej's blog dedicated to her books in the Last Witch series. 

There they are!  Please visit them and have a look at what they have to say.

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