Sonofagun

Well, well. Fancy that.

The Morning News, one of the most venerable and widely-read online daily magazines on the Web, just published its 2005 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence, and guess what we found there.

This:

Favorite Treatment of the Classical Musical World as Vital Sport

Erudite, widely read and passionately listened, and argumentative until the last glass is broken — it’s how we’d love to describe ourselves, but it’s better fit for A.C. Douglas who writes Sounds & Fury, a blog that makes the classical music world seem like a soap opera with better background music. Anthony Tommasini should take self-defense classes.

We don't know whether to proffer our thanks to editors Andrew Womack and Rosecrans Baldwin, or — in the spirit of that famous composer (either Verdi or Berlioz; we can't quite remember which) who on being told that a number or movement of his newest work was met with such wild applause, shouts of Bravo!, and calls for an encore that it brought the performance of the entire work to a halt, declared, "How could I have gone so wrong!" — reassess our past writings here with a careful and critical editorial eye to determine what we can do in future to prevent any further such honors.

On reflection, we choose the former rather than the latter.

Thanks, guys. Our honor.