Yeah We Won Best Law Blog. No Big Deal.
I have always wanted to be cool. Tommy Lee Jones cool. Jack Nicholson cool. Lauren Bacall cool. Phil Jackson cool. Kwai Chang Caine cool. You know what I mean. Been there done that cool. I mean so cool that when I win or lose an Oscar or win or lose an NBA Championship you cannot tell by looking at me whether I have just won or just lost. That's cool.
I ain't that cool. No way.
I have to confess to being delighted/ecstatic/thrilled/overjoyed/elated/euphoric at our having just won the ABA (American Bar Association -- that's bar as in lawyers, not as in taverns or pubs!) Journal's Top Black Letter Law Blog award. The ABA Journal editors started it off by choosing our blog as one of the top 100 law blogs (out of countless thousands of law blogs) and then you, our loyal readers, voted us to the top.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Comments (21)
Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endPiPi - January 4, 2008 8:19 PM
'grats.
Shanghaiist - January 4, 2008 8:36 PM
Congratulations from Shanghaiist! And yay for CLB!
Neddy - January 5, 2008 1:52 AM
No big deal... hehe! A good beginning of 2008 for you, and you earned it. Congratulations!
ABQ Middle Kingdom - January 5, 2008 8:59 AM
KUDOS to both Dan and Steve - You are read and appreciated even in Albuquerque
Fili - January 5, 2008 8:59 AM
You've taken Chinalyst China Blog Awards and this one without a sweat.
You rUlE!
Lauren Robel - January 5, 2008 9:11 AM
Great job, Dan! We are all proud back in Bloomignton. Lauren
Jeremiah - January 6, 2008 1:15 AM
Congratulations, you definitely deserve it. Such indefatigable and informative blogging demands recognition.
SourceJuice - January 6, 2008 2:13 AM
Congratulations from SourceJuice! Excellent blog, keep up the good work.
Aaron Daniels - January 6, 2008 9:50 AM
Congratulations!
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:39 PM
JohnT,
Thank you. Much appreciated.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:40 PM
PiPi,
Thank you for the 'grats and for all your help. My comment clarifying the bars was just for you.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:41 PM
Shanghaiist,
Thank you. I will be rooting (and voting) for you as best Asian blog. I don't have the chutzpah to implore either my readers or my friends and relatives for that one. And it would be nice to see an excellent China blog like yours win that thing for once.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:42 PM
Neddy,
Thanks.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:43 PM
ABQ Middle Kingdom,
Thanks. We write many of our posts expressly for Albuquerque.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:43 PM
Fili,
Actually, I was sweating buckets during both of them.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:45 PM
Lauren,
Why thank you. When you, the Dean of my law school (Indiana University), express pride in the victory, it becomes a big deal.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:46 PM
Jeremiah,
Thanks. I will become more demanding from here on out.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:47 PM
SourceJuice,
Thank you very much.
China Law Blog - January 7, 2008 4:47 PM
Aaron Daniels,
Thanks. Much appreciated.
Jeff Lane - January 11, 2008 7:37 AM
Way to go bro. You always were a Dandy in my book.
China Law Blog - January 11, 2008 8:43 AM
Jeff Lane,
And then Danny.
Editor's Note: Jeff lived three houses away from me when we were kids growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Most importantly, Jeff had the best basketball court in the neighborhood and we would spend at least 5 hours a day on it playing ball. Once, Rudy T (while a student at the University of Michigan) walked by and shot with us for a spell. Ah, hoops.
Jeff was the last person to call me Dandy and also the last person to call me Danny, much to my great resentment.