Obrien's First Annual Local Blog Awards

Well, here's something I've been working on for a bit. Of course, those bloggers included are only those that I know about and read on a regular basis. I certainly hope there are other bloggers out there and that they somehow let themselves be known and don't feel left out.

So, without further delay, let's begin:

Interesting Bloggers Who Don't Blog Frequent Enough

Polly Peoria
Krisser Prisser
Emtronics
Cruise Control
Common Sense Peoria
BJ Aberle's Blog
INTP
Angie's Drama

Bloggers Who Have Disappeared Without A Trace

P-Town Snarker
Give Me a Bouncy "C"
A Storm In the Port
Good Year For The Outlaw
Peoria Life

Best Visual Chronicler of Peoria

The Peoria Illinoisan and his website Name This Peoria Landmark

Blogger With the Thickest Skin

The Peoria Pundit. When it comes to opinion or point of view, he dishes it out like no other and takes it like no other and without changing either. It says a lot about a person who not only posts his picture for all to see, but is out there in the community where all sorts of darts can be thrown. And I've thrown a few myself.

Blogger Most Likely To Be Able To Start A Fist Fight in a Room Full of Nuns

Vonster

Bloggers Who Do Not Get A Treat Until Blogging More Frequent

Krisser Prisser
Polly Peoria

Blogger Best Able To Have a Non-Judgemental Religious Debate/Conversation With

BJ Aberle

Blogger With The Best Smile

Krisser Prisser - Her smile could lighten up a dreary winter day during a full solar eclipse.

Blogger With Best Ability To Take A Complex Subject And Turn It Into An Interesting, Readable Entry With A Folksy Slant

No contest - Lollygaggin. And this is not to say she "dumbs" down complex topics at all. What she consistently does is take a complex topic and put a human and common sense touch on it and make people go, "hm, never thought of it that way."

Blogger Who Should Try A Posting After Having A Couple Glasses of Wine

Eyebrows McGee. This is not to say she is uptight at all, only that it'd be curious to read an entry where she metaphorically let's her hair down after a few glasses of wine.

Two Bloggers I'd Like to See in A Room Together

Willy Nilly and Vonster

Best Researched Local Blogs

Peoria Watch and The Peoria Chronicle

Blog Most Resembling A Mosquito

Vonster. Ever had a mosquito flying around in a room? You can hear it, dread it and what to desperately get it the hell out of there even though a mosquito is really just a tiny irritant.

Bloggers Who Would Probably Be The Most Fun To Have a Beer With

Scott Janz and Lollygaggin.

Bloggers With Best Insight On Local Media

Ahl Thing's Considered
Market 117
The Peoria Pundit

People To Have A Round Table Discussion About Peoria With

The Peoria Pundit.
Ahl Thing's Considered
Peoria Watch
The Peoria Chronicle
The Peoria Illinoisan

Bloggers to Have a Long Dinner With

Chef Kevin
Eyebrows Mcgee
Emtronics
Scott Janz
Peoria Watch
The Peoria Illinoisan
BJ Aberle
The Peoria Chronicle

Blogger To Have A McDonald's Burger With - And Only if In The Drive Thru Lane and in Separate Cars

Vonster.

Group of Bloggers To Have a Backyard Crabfest With

Lollygaggin
Scott Janz
Krisser Prisser (only if loud music is played)
Chef Kevin
Willy Nilly
Emtronics

Blogger Who Purposely Added A Picture Because Someone Said It Made Him Look Like Tony Soprano

Come on, this is an easy one.

Blogger Who We Sexist Males Want To Have Set Up Strip Poker Game With His Female Friends, Only He Isn't Invited To Play

Scott Janz

Blogger Who Is Not Afraid To Sincerely Tackle Tough Issues

Emtronics

Honorable Mentions

Burl's Blog
Knight In Dragonland
Coffee And a Cubicle
In Flux
Out on a Limb
Blue Ollie
Willy Nilly
Pasghetti Place

And any other blogger out there who has not been recognized, noticed or added to the blog rolls yet.