You know when you’re a little toad in huge ocean and someone notices that you exist and wants to reward your tireless, if relatively inconsequential work, you get excited about it. So, yeah, being nominated for the first time ever for a Blog award is a sort of validation.
But, if you’re Glenn Reynolds and you’re the Great Whale of the blogosphere, these silly little contests mean nothing. You’re above the fray. Or in this sad analogy, so deep into the real issues, that awards are frivolous.
That’s OK. I get it. Since you’re too busy with important stuff to shill for yourself, Glenn, can you at least shill for me?
Just click here and vote every day on every computer in your tech den. I’d like to be a contest winner since my winning status isn’t presumed quite yet!
Cross-posted at Dr. Melissa Clouthier, aka Nominee for a Weblog Award in the “Best of the Rest” Category
Congratulations on your nomination – I hope you win!
I don’t think Glenn is down on awards, per se – I suspect it has more to do with the way these awards are decided. It’s a popularity contest – but we already have popularity contests called “readership statistics”. A brilliant blog with 100 loyal readers in your category going up against a fairly crappy blog with 10,000 loyal readers is going to lose – because the big but crappy blog will get a lot more votes from its devotees.
I’d rather see an award where they take the top 100 bloggers, or some other discrete and credible group, and have them have a debate/discussion/roundtable and decide which blogs deserve recognition.
Is Dr. Melissa a medical site?
Hi Melissa, I gave you a vote on the strengh of your posts here at PW.
Checked out your blog…gotta say, personally, not my cup of tea. I’m just not interested in health related issues, sorry. It was difficult getting past child restraints for newborns, and give it a fair read!
I’m sure there is a strong segment of people very interested, I’m just different.
Hope you hang out here, until Jeff returns.
Ahhh, Jeff…you are returning, right?
My blog covers many of the same topics covered here, but since I’m a Chiropractor and I also have an autistic son, I include family and health issues. If I stuck to politics or tortured poetry or rhetorical conversations with yin and yang, like posted here at PW, my mother and all her friends would bail. Ha! Since they were my first and loyal readers, I try to keep them happy.
By the way, did Jeff give a final, final deadline for booting us and I missed it? (Not that I mind, it will be nice to have him back full time.) But what was that about losing the keys and squatters?
I most certainly won’t be returning until these awards are over.
When you take a couple of months off, the rest of your year disappears down the memory hole. Out of sight, out of mind.
I coulda been a contender…
I think that’s “condenduh”. And it’s your readership’s fault, really. We could have nominated you but we’re so consumed with narcissistic posting pursuits here, we forgot all about the Blog Master’s contributions.
Protein Wisdom has become our mirror of self-admiration. At least that’s Steve’s opinion.
I never forgot about Jeff’s contributions. My problem is that I didn’t even know these awards existed.
Is there prize money involved in these awards? Or do they pretty much do for blogs what the Oscar did for Marissa Tomei?
Melissa: You should have said, The Great ‘White’ Whale; it would have been accurate as well as inoffensive. Glenn is what they call–uh–phlegmatic.
Jeff: you are a contender, baby. In fact, you’re the man. There’s none better in my estimation. You’ve been very kind to allow us to keep the pot boiling for the last couple of months. And it’s the least we could do for all the enjoyment you’ve given us.
Now, of course, you have to get back to the grindstone so PW will be a finalist next year–as it so richly deserves to be.
Lee wonders:
Jeff who?
May Bee,
I’m thinking Marissa Tomei will have better acting career than I’ll have blogging no matter the outcome.
OK, I’m gonna tell ya! You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark!
Ahem, Jeff doesn’t give a shit about that stuff. Now, if you’re talking “Best Jewish Humor Blog…..”
I’m thinking Marissa Tomei will have better acting career than I’ll have blogging no matter the outcome.
I don’t know, Melissa. Her resume has a definite Best of the Rest-ness about it. I say you win.
You’re prettier and smarter anyway.
Let’s not forget Marissa was nominated for another Oscar.
She hasn’t done huge big budget vehicles since her Oscar win, but she’s done some pretty good flicks.
And for those of you who watch “Rescue Me,” she still looks DAMNED good. Just don’t think about camera angles and lighting.
I guess I should have said, “For those of you who don’t watch ‘Rescue Me’.”
My wife rented My Cousin Vinny via Netflix a couple of weeks ago.
I’ll let that be the Marisa I remember, thank yout’ very much.