T.A.G.G.I.N.G. - Sat Dec 10

For those who set store in such things – i.e. Brian! – I’ve tallied up the Blog Tags for 2011 to see what the year has been about.

Traditionally I am the most tagged thing on the Blog in any one year, and this one has been no different (29 tags in ’11). But whatcha expect, innit. Blogs are self-centred outbursts online, why wouldn't I be my own primary concern?

Second place in previous years has traditionally gone to my main artistic outputs: Monkey Kettle in 2009, TFAO Vodka Boy in 2010. This year it would appear my most important creative output has been the 101 in 1001 project (11 tags). Hmmm. I’m not sure I’m entirely comfortable with that. Didn’t I used to be a creative writer? An artistic man about town? An incisive voice declaiming in the wilderness. Ah well. There’s another year just around the corner I expect.

Brian’s third. Well done Brian (10 tags). You’re higher up the charts than last year, but with less tags. I’ll leave you to decipher whether this is good news or bad news for you and your brain there, fella.

It’s been an uppy-downy kind of year all in all, a year where things have often felt upside down and out of order. A year where Crime received more tags than Art. Where Buses got more than Poetry. And where both Dinosaurs and Suggs got as many as Helen. Or maybe that’s just life...

And last but not least, the awards for ‘oddest tags’ of the year? Zanzibar, Optimism and Charlie Sheen. Yes. I hereby declare List Season™ open.


1. Matthew - 29

2. 101 in 1001 -11

3. Brian - 10

4. Diane - 8
4. Walking - 8

6. Monkey Kettle - 6
6. Phil - 6

8. Local bands - 5
8. Milton Keynes - 5

10. London - 4
10. TFAO Vodka Boy - 4