Voting has commenced for this year's Koufax Awards. I'm nominated for Best Blog (Non pro) and I'm saying this in all honesty, don't vote for me!
This is not the best blog. Not even close. I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for yet. There are so many great candidates just from my blog rolls.
Vote for one of them.
But...
I am also nominated for Best Writing, Best Post, and Blog Most Deserving of Wider Recognition, and I think I can ask you in good conscience to vote for me in any and all of those categories.
Please?
Pretty please?
Actually, there's lots of competition in all those categories. You're going to have fun reading them all. Or trying to. It's a lot of reading.
Go get started.
And what the heck, vote for me for Best Blog too.
My mother will be so proud! Do it for her.
OK -- I'll do it, but only for Nana Mannion. Throw in Pop and I might even check off best blog.
You said not to, but I am after all a well-known troublemaker (Non pro division).
Posted by: velvet goldmine | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 10:42 AM
Sure I'd do it for your mother, but hearing the great and powerful Lance actually beg was enough for me.
Posted by: Jennifer | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 11:03 AM
Damn you Mannion!
(Say it like Jon Stewart in a mortician's suit waving his fist in the air.)
Posted by: blue girl | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 11:06 AM
Sheeesh! What we blogging fans must do to keep our bloggers happy! :)
But, something we're happy to do.
Vote early and vote often!
Posted by: Chrys | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 11:47 AM
I'm way too modest to say that I'm in that "Wider Recognition" category as well, and I'm not gonna vote for me there. I'm just too self-effacing to say any such thing. I hide my light under a bushel, and it's nice and quiet under there. Yup, yup, yup.
Posted by: Linkmeister | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 01:49 PM
I'm so glad you showed up Linkmeister! I was worried that Mannion was thinking there was way too much cleavage in this comment thread.
We all know how much he hates it when that happens.
Posted by: blue girl | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 02:18 PM
Linkmeister- Smell you!
Posted by: Jennifer | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 02:35 PM
As a staunch contrarian, I decided not to not vote for you for Best Blog. Take that, Mannion!
Posted by: Matt | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 03:54 PM
Blue Girl, I'm all in favor of cleavage. I could tell you stories about cleavage. Why, I even have cleavage! I'm not telling you where I have it, though; some things should be left to the imagination.
Posted by: Linkmeister | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 04:31 PM
Hey, after pseudonymously voting for myself for Best Writing, I found my self-respect! Right here, in Linkmeister's cleavage!
Posted by: Neddie Jingo | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 09:54 PM
Lance, I think you were the inspiration for this whole category here.
Posted by: Cleavon Little | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 10:29 PM
Parse a little Billy Sherman, Lance. If nominated, I will not run; if elected I will not serve.
Maybe I got that wrong; maybe that was Vanessa Williams.
Posted by: Exiled in NJ | Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 08:07 AM
Cleavon, loved you in Blazing Saddles! But aren't you dead, man?
The Stengel Awards are a great idea. The Heretik is a god. Offhand, I'd nominate Blue Girl, Nancy Nall, Rana, Norbizness, The Linkmeister, The Viscount, Neddie, Wolf...
Matt, you contrarian, don't vote for me for a Stengel Award either.
VG, Jennifer, Chrys, Thank you.
BG, what's with the cross-dressing?
Ned, loved you in Blazing Saddles! But aren't you dead, man?
Posted by: Lance | Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 08:09 AM
I have no idea what on earth you are talking about. I never ever leave the house in anything but chiffon from head to toe.
Posted by: blue girl | Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 08:45 AM
Sorry Lance, but I am going along with Matt on this one...
Posted by: Night Bird | Saturday, March 11, 2006 at 11:19 AM