Hooray, I have won an award!

Actually, two different bloggers have bestowed the same award on me in the past week, Flo from Mama Flo’s Place and Henson from Henson’s Hell.

The award is the Arte y Pico Award. This award was created to be given to bloggers who inspire others with their creative energy and their talents, whether it be writing or artwork, in all medias. When you receive this award it is considered a “special honor”.

And so, following the rules of this award, I shall now pass along this prestigious award to five of my favorite blogs. There are also a bunch of other tiresome rules that you can read at the Arte y Pico blog (my Spanish is a bit rusty and seeing as the entire site is in Spanish I’m not exactly sure what it is about. However the rules for the contest are in English).

So, without further ado, I hereby bestow the Arte y Pico award to the following five blogs:

Zeitheist

Mini-Obs

Deb on the Rocks

Cromley’s World

Monkey Fables and Tales

Feel free to pass along the award to five other blogs, or not, as you see fit. Congratulations and keep on blogging the good blog!

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Newsflash! The RollerBlog has won the Arte & Pico Award yet another time, this time from Buddy’s Fitness News. Thanks Buddy!

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I’m not a big fan of memes. For those of you that aren’t familiar with the concept, memes are basically chain letters for bloggers. One blog links to a number of other blogs, and then they are supposed to in turn link to other blogs, and so on and so forth.

This week I was tagged in a quasi-meme by Turnip of Power in a response to a meme originated by Sam Freedom’s Blog. (Correction: Turnip tells me that the originator of this particular meme is ChainDrop.com - Sam’s meme is a similar but unrelated one. Mass meme confusion!)

Granted, Turnip isn’t a fan of memes either, and eloquently sums up why they are so annoying:

First of all you have the obligation to the person that just praised you and included your site, providing you with the ever beloved back-link. Then you have to link back to the originator of the list. Finally you have to link to 8 more people to pass the Meme on. A pyramid scheme preying on the politeness of others to return a favor.

Rather than perpetuating the meme, Turnip took the opportunity to just link to some favorite blogs. An inspired idea. And I’m doing the same…. but with a 70s twist. This is a seventies blog after all.

I’ve taken the liberty of “seventy-izing” 8 of my favorite blogs for your edification. All of the blogs listed below are worth checking out and have the RollerBlog stamp of approval.

(Please note: this is not intended to be a “meme”. This is simply a collection of some of my favorite blogs. The blogs named below are under no obligation to link back to me, or to listen to Saturday Night Fever. Really.)

Turnip of Power
The culprit behind this quasi-meme.
Also an interesting blog on technology, Internet marketing, and all things Entrecard.

Herb Urban
What would John Oates blog?

Cromely’s World
A collection of random thoughts, rants, raves and trivia.

A Strange Life
Tastes like silly.

Station Atomica!
An attempt to sort the junk from the gems on our shiny new Web 2.0 Internet. There’s a whole lot of junk.

Movie Cat
Because you love movies and you love cats!

JoeTech.com
It’s about technology.

Gorilla Sushi
We Eat Blogs.

Tags seventies . 1970s . 70s . meme . anti-meme . RollerBlog Sunday Surprise

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