I like the 'off the cuff' style writeup that Nads had received - Though it is nice to have a listing of background threads, any of us unfamiliar with the poster's work can hit up the forum's built-in search function easily enough.
I probably shouldn't reveal this, but
all of them are off-the-cuff, first and only drafts, written in about forty-five minutes or an hour each. (This will probably explain why I'm burned out on the primitives by New Year's Eve, just really burned out, wiped out, drained.)
Formerly, the awards were written with just a couple of paragraphs describing the individual primitive, and then a long list of threads. That's the way it was always done, but I never liked doing that.
Last year, I experimented some, with the #02 top primitive of 2010, the
generalissimo dude, writing several paragraphs of commentary, and a much shorter list of links. I always thought that was the best one I wrote for that year, 2010, although I got scant or no gratitude from the
generalissimo primitive for it.
The award for the top primitive of 2010, the
Die alte Sau, was one that was truly written right off-the-cuff, in utter haste. I'd been out helping the neighbor bring in cattle in a raging blizzard, and when I returned home, it was very late on New Year's Eve--and the award
had to get out really soon, like within minutes--I was cold, wet, and damp, and so just on the spot punched out a "stream-of-consciousness" thing.
I recall that chris_ liked it, but was never sure if anybody else did.
For 2012, I'm leaning towards (a) more commentary, (b) fewer quotes and links, but I'm not sure that's what the People want. True, I have 49 weeks yet to worry about it, but it's never too soon to refine.
