Opening the Brodie nominations and closing the X-Mormon of the Year Nominations!

chanson,

We’ve got some great nominations for X-Mormon of the Year — you can continue to add nominations until we begin voting on Wednesday, January 2.

And now it’s that time of year again to start collecting the nominations for the Brodie Awards!!!

This is the fourth year of the Brodie Awards. Just have a look at the winners from the last three years to see which excellent sites and works have already won!!!

I’ll start with the proposed categories, and then I’ll follow up with the proposed guidelines:

Year-long awards for people and websites:

  • Best New Blog
  • Best Discussion Forum
  • Best Humor/Satire Site or Blog
  • Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog
  • Best LDS-Interest Audio/Video Channel/Series
  • Best LDS-Interest Photo Blog

Awards for Individual Works:

  • Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)
  • Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction)
  • Funniest Humor Piece
  • Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image
  • Best Poem
  • Most Amusing Vignette or Personal Anecdote
  • Most Poignant Personal Story
  • Best Deconversion/Exit Story
  • Best “Mormon Life Journey” Post
  • Most Insightful Discussion of Mormon Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
  • Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion
  • Best Response to Apologetics
  • Best Discussion of Mormon (or former-Mormon) Community
  • Most Interesting Interfaith Interaction
  • Best Chat with the Bishop, Mishies, or Other Church Leaders
  • Best LDS Church Watch
  • Best News Reporting
  • Best LDS-Related Political Commentary
  • Best Religion-and-Gender Discussion
  • Best Religion-and-Homosexuality Discussion
  • Best Religion-and-Race Discussion
  • Best Religion-and-Parenting Discussion
  • Best Erotic or Sexual Piece
  • Best History Piece
  • Best Science Piece
  • Best Review
  • Best Post Title

As you know, the idea behind the Brodies is to highlight excellent work from all over the LDS-interest Internet, and introduce as many people as possible to great blogs they may not be aware of. Last year’s guidelines worked pretty well, so let’s use them again this year:

  • Please nominate as many people, sites, and articles as you want. However, please do not nominate more than two individual works by any one author.
  • You are allowed (even encouraged!) to nominate your own works. No more than two, though.
  • Please nominate works that first appeared during 2012.
  • Please try to nominate people and works that have some connection with Mormonism or with Outer Blogness (eg. either the work touches on Mormonism, or the author is a current or former Mormon and/or is an active participant in our community).
  • A category must have at least three nominations in order to be included in the voting and awards phase.
  • You may suggest your own categories — however please do it as early as possible in the nominations process, to give others plenty of time to add nominations in your proposed categories.
  • Any other proposed changes to the categories or to the guidelines are welcome — feel free to discuss it in the comments.
  • The nominations will be open for two weeks. (And I’ll add my own nominations when I make the polls.)

I can’t wait to review all of the best works from 2012!!!

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Comments (72)

  12. Excellent — keep ’em coming!!!

    Thanks for including the links in your comments. Note that making comments with lots of links can cause our software to flag your comments as spam. If that happens to you, please follow up with a comment that contains no links, alerting the admins to fish your comment out of limbo — thanks!!

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  13. Most Poignant Personal Story
    And Suddenly Life Imploded by Natalie about her mom’s death
    Most Insightful Discussion of Mormon Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
    Watch where you’re walking

    Best Response to Apologetics
    Runtu’s response here and
    here

    Best LDS Church Watch
    Hold your breath Caffeine watch!
     Best News Reporting
    Runtu’s Do not ever slap or poke an elder

    Best Religion-and-Gender Discussion (There’s a lot for this category, lots of good stuff this year).

    Zelophehad’s Daughters Everything I know about feminism I learned from the 1970s
    The peacewriter’s A Woman’s Place parts 1, 2, 3 and
    4

    The dignity of your womanhood the mormon child bride’s call to feminist action (starting the pants’ thing)

    Best Religion-and-Parenting Discussion
    What will I teach my kids?

    Best History Piece
    Circling the wagons

    I don’t know what category to put this in. Best mormon social science research?
    Mormon emotionality compared to other contructions of emotions

    I don’t know which category to put this in either. Are you experiencing Ex mormon stereotype threat?

    I still have more to go, but that’s what I have this morning.

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  18. We don’t necessarily get that much — it’s just the way the software works. If you post a comment that’s full of links, it generally gets flagged as spam. Another solution — as 4blockhead has discovered — is to post each nomination in a separate comment.

    BTW, the link on “Watch where you’re walking” @13 is broken.

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  27. For most poignant story, I would like to nominate Paul Senzee’s “Let The Dead Bury The Dead”

    http://paulsenzee.blogspot.com/2012/10/dead-bury-dead.html

    Paul Senzee also did a guest post for my blog on male sexuality in Mormonism that I would like to nominate for the Best Sexual Piece Category

    http://postmormongirl.blogspot.com/2012/09/guest-post-male-sexuality-mormon-church.html

    Given some of the discussion topics from the past year we might do well to have a Best Discussion of Mormonism And Sexuality category

    I will come up with more nominations in a little bit.

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  35. Most Poignant Personal Story

    I’d also like to nominate the post entitled “Horseback Riding with My Dad” dated 4/15/2012. Not only poignant, but a very sad discussion of his dad’s “Final Dismissal.” This sentence in particular struck me: “…it wasn’t so much that I was afraid of the animal, but that I was afraid of doing something wrong that would elicit a verbal and abusive tirade from my dad.”

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  37. http://mormonismschism.blogspot.com

    I’d like to nominate 3 posts from this blog (self-nomination):

    Have You Studied Beliefs of the Mormon Church? LDS Hymn Parody #68 (dated 6/11/2012).

    City Creek Center in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah (dated 4/3/2012) – contains LDS Hymn Parody entitled, “They, the Builders of the Mall.”

    Oh, Holy Crap, It’s Filled with Lies – LDS Hymn Parody #60 (dated 2/29/2012)

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  40. @33 I think the best bet would be to change the “photography blog” category (which is generally a small one) and have a category for blogs that are specialized to showcase a particular type of artistic work. So the blog of Hymn parodies would fit, as would a blog that is just artwork, etc.

    Does that seem reasonable? Any other suggestions…?

    I am absolutely thrilled to see how many people are getting excited about these awards and getting in their nominations early!! I think this is the liveliest year so far!

    (However, I would like to remind people that — as per the guidelines — each person should only nominate two works by any one author, including self-nominations.)

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  46. I’d like to nominate for best new blog:

    Ex-Mormon Mavens
    Post Mormon Girl

    Best Discussion Forum:

    Feminist Mormon Housewives Society facebook group
    New Order Mormon Discussion Boards
    Mormon Expressions VIP Lounge facebook group

    Best Satire Blog:

    Paternoster (but alas that has ended and I am sad)
    Runtu’s Blog

    Best Faithful Perspective Blog:

    Feminist Mormon Housewives
    Doves and Serpents
    C. Jane Kendrick’s blog

    Best Audio/Visual Channel or Series:

    Mr. Deity for sure!
    Mormon Expositor
    FMH Podcast

    Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction):

    Chaste by Angela Felsted

    Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction):

    Understanding the Tao Te Ching by Spencer K. Wright
    Mormon Diaries by Sophia L. Stone

    And while I’m not sure what category they fall under, Bart’s Mormon infographics definitely deserve to be nominated for something. They are just too good!

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  48. Shoot, I hit the post button too soon. This is the title of the Laura C. article–“Why Language Matters: A Side-by-Side Look at a Lesson from the New YW/YM Manuals”

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  49. @43 Excellent idea! It makes perfect sense to group Mormon Infographics with the ExMormon Hymnbook because they’re different from traditional blogs in kind of the same way. “Best Specialized Blog” it is!

    @44 If there were at least three good videos in 2012, then there should definitely be a category for “Best Video”.

    @46 – 48 Excellent choices! Of course you can second other people’s nominations if you like.

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  50. If there’s a video category, could there be a music category as well. I think it’d be really cool to have Cate Rawson’s pants song on there. And the one that’s a tongue-in-cheek response to it.

    Cate: http://youtu.be/GPYtQna1VYA
    milliemontag: http://youtu.be/Vmze01JJj3Y

    I’ve got one too, but it’s more satirical and is set to the words of “called to serve him.”

    http://youtu.be/SEVE1rRlJas

    Oh, gosh, this is so going to be flagged as spam. Too many links.

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  52. @50 There should absolutely be a music category, if we have enough nominations! For example, the album by Ordinary Van that I put in the sidebar could be nominated.

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  53. I second the nominations for:

    Best Audio/Visual Channel or Series:

    Mr. Deity

    Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction):

    Chaste by Angela Felsted

    Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction):

    Understanding the Tao Te Ching by Spencer K. Wright
    Mormon Diaries by Sophia L. Stone

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  55. Cool!

    It just hit me that lots of people in Outer Blogness have posted recipes this past year. Maybe it would be fun to add a “Best Recipe” category… 🙂

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  56. Okay, I’d like to nominate chanson’s review of Johnny Townsend’s Marginal Mormons for best review. http://mainstreetplaza.com/2012/11/02/one-size-does-not-fit-all-johnny-townsends-marginal-mormons/

    I’d also like to nominate Marginal Mormons for best fiction book.

    And, of course, I’d like to nominate The Girls from Fourth Ward for best fiction book. (If I do say so myself)

    I’ll come up with more. When do the nominations end?

    Also, I like the best recipe category. Does it have to be something that actually tastes good?

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  57. Well, of course you can nominate any recipe posted to an exmo blog in 2012, but if it doesn’t taste good, it probably won’t win. ;p

    My intention was to leave the nominations open for two weeks.

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  59. @58 Ah, cool, another nomination for the non-fiction category. I was worried there wouldn’t be enough non-fiction candidates, and we’d have to recombine the two book categories…

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  61. For

    Best LDS Interest Audio/Video Series, I’d like to nominate/second

    1) Mormon Expositor (via [http://www.mormonexpositor.com])
    2) Infants on Thrones (via [http://www.infantsonthrones.com])

    Best Faithful perspective Mormon Blog
    1) Wheat & Tares (via [http://www.wheatandtares.org])

    Additionally, I second or third every nomination that has been made to this point.

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  67. @63 Your two pieces are nominated in the same category. I don’t want people to have to compete against themselves. Would you like me to move one of them to a different category, or would you prefer to have them combined (so people can vote for the pair of stories as “most poignant personal story”)?

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  68. @67 I’m not really attached to what the categories are so I’ll leave you to figure it out. But one did explicitly tie it to Mormonism where the other one didn’t mention it. That might suggest category placement. But when it comes to the most poignant personal story for me it would I would nominate myself for the “but I was only 5” story.

    I would like to nominate myself for the “horseback riding with my dad” but I don’t know what other category it would fit under.

    Honestly, I don’t really have a strong preference. I’m just glad that Diane noticed me. 🙂

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  69. @68 They’re both great, and I’m glad they were nominated!

    Maybe I could put the horse one in the “Best Mormon Life Journey” category…? It’s not specifically LDS, but I think that’s the closest fit, and I’d really prefer not to create a situation where your two posts have to compete with each other for the same award.

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  72. @71 Excellent, looks great!

    And you got it in just under the wire, too. I meant to finish the polls yesterday, but I got so caught up re-reading all these cool old posts that I didn’t have time to finish. I’ll be putting up the polls this morning.

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