Good Stodge

Good stodge is stodginess in it's purest form: unfettered by evil motivation, undisturbed by it's inherent frumpiness. Good stodge not only becomes cool despite it's outward signs to the contrary, but it can enlighten and inform us. Good stodge can even inspire us with its sublime heights where it's obvious lack of concern of being seen as hip or stylish. Good Stodginess should be celebrated, reveled in, and it's glory should be spread throughout the world.

There's also the added bonus with all things good and stodgy that we can invariably learn from them. We can see the trials and tribulations that good stodgy people sometimes had to endure in order to persevere against the hip majority. We can learn tricks, secrets and anecdotes that can aid us in our own lives. We can also see just how cool stodgy people really can be.

Below is the current Good Stodge Hall Of Fame. Some of these people have links. As we progress, we will expand the Hall of Fame, but with new inductees and with additional information and pages on those already inducted.

 

The Good Stodge Hall of Fame

Annie - One of our own editors is stodgy enough to make this list. We are honored

James Burke - Scientific stodge gone mainstream

Umberto Eco - Stodgy novelist and semiotics professor

Brian Eno - Undeniably the most stodgy producer ever to go multiplatinum

Sir John Gielgud - Possibly the king of stodge in our time. Has played over 110 diffrernt stodgy roles!

Lilian Gish - Megan's take on Lilian's stodginess

Piers Handling - Head of the Toronto International Film Festival

Jeremy Irons - Consistently stodgy through the years

Gertrude Kaiseber - 19th century photographer

Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Scottish architect and designer. Painted flowers in his retirement!

The William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones families

Vladimir Nabokov - Despite some rumors, he's stodgy

Jim O'Rourke - He may seem hip, but he's really stodgy. Nick explains

The Sitwells - Stodgy english family

Philip Webb - Architect to William Morris