No prior WritAAR of the Week for
Storey? That's hard to believe: the man's an institution unto himself. One of the hallowed veterans from days of yore, when the Paradox forums comprised two whopping sub-fora: EU and EU2. He's been regaling us with tall tales since back when the 2000s were still in their infancy (and, you know, looked like they could be a good decade), when a gallon of gas cost about $1.25 in the US (oh, and the Dollar was actually
worth something) and no-one had yet heard of American Idol. Such innocent times, so very long gone...
And
Storery was already there, playing games of EU and offering his unique brand of AAR-writing. Was it his dogged determination never to submit to the AI, no matter the odds; or his prediliction for 'I-didn't-think-this-through-but-it-looked-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time' rash decisions that earned him his legions of loyal fans? Maybe it was his tendency to wax lyrical with epic stories from his childhood that, while never explicitly dated, sounded like they took place in the 1940s or 1950s...
Seeing how long
Storey's been around, it's really hard to fathom how he was not selected as WoW before. Perhaps it's because he's been raking up all those other awards (Fan of the Weeks, the OscAARs, in years of yore when they ran...).
Anyway, it's fitting that this giant of a forumite, with his breadth and depth of experience, and his wisdom of the ages, is finally awarded this particular feather for his cap.
Congratulations, good sir! Now come, regale us with another tale of men landing on the moon, of 10-cent-a-gallon gas, of Truman in the White House...