My Favourite ESI Posts

My favourite postings of the Chair:

• The story of M Bonus comment from: The Independent Alvina Ruprecht Observer
• Dorothy and Judy Fine scholarship, well illustrated
• Top 6 reasons why the 5M hasn't posted of late By J.P. Sartre The Chair at his urbane wittiest
• 5M, where are you? Great photoshop wit
• Of Heisenberg and 5M's behaviour One of the Chair's most influential pieces
• Hard Wired for the Artist The Chair puts all that TV viewing to use for an insightful piece

My favourite postings of Agatha:

• Sultry... Aggie bringing the blog back on track with some good research and a fine illustration
• Six Reasons to Love an Asexual Once again, Agatha raises the bar for standards of scholarship on the metablog
• Birthday gifts for the 5M Even if she'd made no other contribution, the image of Coyote with the 5M alone is enough to justify Aggie's presence on the metablog
• Music for the 5M A good example of how metabloggers can engage with their blogger subject even when the subject is away and not descend into self-referential wanking
• Omigod! Sometimes eight words are all that are needed
• Our Gravest Fears as to Why 5M has not posted... I have a co-author credit on this, but it's really Aggie's work; her first try at illustration and it's a tour de force!
• What in the name of God is going on with Tom Cruise? When Aggie first posted this, I thought, what is up with this off-topic bit of celebrity trivia? But then it garners 11 comments on the metablog and turns out to be an early citing of one of the major pop culture topics of the early summer, with many relevent connections to the 5M, the metablog, our lives and of course, our new friend Francis Heaney

My favourite postings of Conch Shell:

• Where is my painted stick? With her long voyage to deep waters, Conchie has not been able to start many threads, yet she has been a strong presence in the comment section. Her first posting set the tone for the metablog and demonstrated the thoughtfulness and wisdom she brings to us

My favourite postings of Coyote:

• Happy Birthday! Coyote shows his almost psychic ability to understand 5M by clipping a horoscope that 5M missed in her own birthday posting
• Rage and fury, revisited... To a simple dwarf with pirate inclinations, a Coyote posting can strain the attention span, but in this posting Coyote keeps the attention of even the most ADHD among us as he delves into aspects of the 5M's personality that we'd all been avoiding.
• Disaster... An interesting dream analsyis
• Waidaminnit...! Coyote asks an important question about the poet and double standards
• M*ses, p*ets & the vortices of Brownian motion Coyote demonstrates why he is one of the ESIs top field operatives

My favourite postings of My Own:

• Between 4 and 6 Every one of my posts have been invaluable contributions to our efforts to understand the 5M and ourselves, so I'd have to list all of them. But if there is one that rises above the others it has to be the one that got the famous Francis Heaney to mention our metablog on his blog. (I have a secret hope that Minty finds it someday and puts the part that she inspired up on her fridge.)
• What Really Happened to the Kitties Okay, the above was true until this one. My expose of M's true evilness is my all-time favourite 4th Dwarf Posting.