---
title: 'Once Again, Ignored by the Academy'
date: '2004-01-19T12:20:03-05:00'
permalink: /once-again-ignored-by-the-academy/
tags:
    - blogging
    - internets
---

The nominations for the [2004 Bloggies](http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=awards2004) are out.

Here’s where I invoke Don DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen on the ways that an artist is cheapened by the presence of an audience.

Or perhaps here’s where I sulk about never being able to elbow my way onto the A-list. (Damn [power law](http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html).)

Or perhaps here’s where I merely shrug and begin another year of toiling in relative anonymity, content just to get the work done.