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
'grats.
Posted by: PiPi | January 4, 2008 8:19 PM
Congratulations from Shanghaiist! And yay for CLB!
Posted by: Shanghaiist | January 4, 2008 8:36 PM
No big deal... hehe! A good beginning of 2008 for you, and you earned it. Congratulations!
Posted by: Neddy | January 5, 2008 1:52 AM
KUDOS to both Dan and Steve - You are read and appreciated even in Albuquerque
Posted by: ABQ Middle Kingdom | January 5, 2008 8:59 AM
You've taken Chinalyst China Blog Awards and this one without a sweat.
You rUlE!
Posted by: Fili | January 5, 2008 8:59 AM
Great job, Dan! We are all proud back in Bloomignton. Lauren
Posted by: Lauren Robel | January 5, 2008 9:11 AM
Congratulations, you definitely deserve it. Such indefatigable and informative blogging demands recognition.
Posted by: Jeremiah | January 6, 2008 1:15 AM
Congratulations from SourceJuice! Excellent blog, keep up the good work.
Posted by: SourceJuice | January 6, 2008 2:13 AM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Aaron Daniels | January 6, 2008 9:50 AM
JohnT,
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:39 PM
PiPi,
Thank you for the 'grats and for all your help. My comment clarifying the bars was just for you.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:40 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.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:41 PM
Neddy,
Thanks.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:42 PM
ABQ Middle Kingdom,
Thanks. We write many of our posts expressly for Albuquerque.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:43 PM
Fili,
Actually, I was sweating buckets during both of them.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:43 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.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:45 PM
Jeremiah,
Thanks. I will become more demanding from here on out.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:46 PM
SourceJuice,
Thank you very much.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:47 PM
Aaron Daniels,
Thanks. Much appreciated.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 7, 2008 4:47 PM
Way to go bro. You always were a Dandy in my book.
Posted by: Jeff Lane | January 11, 2008 7:37 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.
Posted by: China Law Blog | January 11, 2008 8:43 AM