The Hackey-Sack-Playing Chiba-Monkey Trivia Zombie Awards, 2004 Edition
The Hackey-Sack-Playing Chiba-Monkey Trivia Zombie Awards, 2004 Edition - This year's award goes to...
...the envelope, please...
This year's award goes to Fraters Libertas, for their award post!
We teed off with:
Blogger Whose Mouth Wrote Checks Their Ass Couldn't Cash
RUNNER UP: James Lileks, the Bleat. He gets cut some slack...
WINNER: Mitch Berg, Shot in the Dark. If Mitch did nothing for the next six months but blog he still wouldn't make up for all the promised material that never showed up.
I guess I should be flattered that anyone cares I "promise" things that I can't get around to.
And I DID spend six months doing almost nothing but blogging in 2003. But I'm thinking - besides my piece of "Urban Conservatives" (which still lurks in my "Drafts" on Blogger), what didn't I deliver?
But again, I shoudn't complain - it's the only time I'll ever beat Lileks for an award. As opposed to a game of one on one.
Then, there was:
Blogger Whose Unchecked Navel Gazing Reached Egomaniacal Levels
RUNNER UP: Mitch Berg, Shot in the Dark. For referring to himself in the third person while setting his personal tastes as the standard for cinematic excellence:
it's not easy to take books that Mitch Berg found completely unreadable (I made it through about 20 pages of "Fellowship" before I put it down for good), and turn them into movies that are not only monumental and epic, but genuinely touching on a human as well as philosophical level.
Jeez, fellas, pay attention: Mitch Berg wasn't using his tastes to set the standard for cinematic excellence. He did it to define literary tedium.
However, many of the awards were dead-on:
Worst Color Scheme in a Blog
WINNER: SCSU Scholars. Sunlight may be the best disinfectant, but that yellow background color looks like the phlegm a malaria victim might cough up.
Hear hear.
King - if you can't get a student to do it for extra credit, gimme a call. You're in the NAOB, and you need to join the big leagues in the design department. Like Fraters, with their current layout, "Tribute to the Italian Flag". Brava!
Finally:
Blogger Who Just Can't Decide To Stick Or Stay Away for Good
RUNNER UP: Sedalina. We love her and all and are very happy she's back, but all this dramatic departure and return stuff is killing us. However, it's not killing us as much as the fact that she's able to get more chicks in six weeks than Saint Paul has gotten in two years.
I'd laugh - but I'm too busy crying.
And then, the winner:
WINNER: Rachel Lucas - whose tortured, self-absorbed deliberations about whether or not to hang up her keyboard got old very fast. And continues to age with each passing week. Verne Gagne didn't quit and come back as many times as Lucas did this year. And he did it with much more dignity.
Careful. You might run afoul of the Knights Who Say Assclown.
Next year, I guarantee...
...er, no. I don't.
Posted by Mitch at
December 31, 2003 09:36 PM
