September 18, 2009, In Which Accolades Are Graciously Accepted
We know what you’re saying to yourself. You’re saying, “Oh, Doctors Kennedy and Bradley, how is it that you have not yet received the Nobel Prize for the enlightening work that you publish for free on your Internet website?”
Honestly, we’ve been asking ourselves the same question. Much like the origin of life itself, the lack of gratitude coming out of Sweden for all we do remains a mystery. What’s crystal clear, however, is that we have made a small splash in the good ol’ English-speaking biosphere! In other words, we got linked on Metafilter a few weeks back. If you go there and ignore the fact that half of the discussion veers off into some amusing rants about xenophobia, you’ll find at least twelve people who really like this site.
The other fun thing is that the oldest women’s magazine in the United States of America — yes, that would be Redbook — published a little notice about us in their October issue, calling Let’s Panic About Babies! their “favorite time-waster.” They go on to describe this site as,
a hilarious Onion-style website about parenting from all-star mommy blogger and soon-to-be REDBOOK columnist Alice Bradley and her cohort Eden Kennedy. Launched in June to crashing levels of traffic, Let’s Panic will soon be adding contests, giveaways, and reader Q&A’s.
Wikipedia defines cohort thusly:
Originally, the cohort was a sub-unit of a Roman legion. Each Roman legion would have ten cohorts. The first of ten cohorts had five double-sized centuries totaling 800 men whereas the other nine would usually consist of 480 legionaries including six centurions. The cohort itself was divided into six centuries of 80 men commanded each by a centurion.
So then I’m like some sort of legionnaire?
I need to go buy a fez!
Anyway, we didn’t want to brag, but somehow we managed to do it all the same.
Oh, and Alice is going to be a columnist in Redbook starting in January, did you catch that part?!
I have two associations with “cohort”:
1) Science. This is a vague familiarity at best, but I seem to recall reading things such as “Compliance amongst the chocolate-abstaining cohort was very poor.”
2) Freshman English: “The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in yellow and gold.” (Byron)
Either way, I think you should feel complimented.
posted September 18th, 2009 at 4:55 pmWell, when you put it that way! With Byron and all!
posted September 19th, 2009 at 12:13 pmCongratulations to both for the spotlight in Redbook!! Very cool that A.B. is going to be a regular in Redbook. Keep up the good work, I’ve been passing along your website to those pregnant and non-pregnant alike – everyone thinks is great.
posted September 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 amHmm…no edit button huh?? Well, I do apologize for my lack of proof-reading. I meant that everyone I send your website to thinks it is great. Sorry!
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