14 June 2005For your considerationThe eleventh item on the Oklahoma Gazette's "The Best of OKC" ballot is "Best blog," a category they didn't even have [link requires Adobe Reader] last year. Now I've read the Gazette long enough to know that they pull in some extra ads during the issues the ballots are circulated, ads from firms and services hoping you'll remember their names when you complete your ballot, and, if you're really lucky, explaining why you should. You won't find this sort of thing here, not because I'm a shoo-in, which I'm not, but because for every reason I could think of why you should vote for dustbury.com for Best Blog well, here are the Top Ten reasons why you shouldn't: 10. Does anybody understand those damn category names? 9. Inadequate coverage of busty lesbian ninja pirates. 8. Gets enough free publicity already. 7. Lamest post title in the history of blogdom. 6. Has the temerity to invent forms of profanity instead of sticking to the tried and true. 5. Constantly whining. 4. Can't pronounce a simple name like "Xrlq". 3. Hardly an inimitable style. 2. Still hasn't gotten around to naming She Who Is Not To Be Named. 1. 750,000 people can so be wrong. Posted at 7:07 AM to Blogorrhea , City Scene , Listing to One SideWe all must try to learn the blogging way from the great Dustbury. I voted for you. Good luck! Posted by: Kurt at 9:31 PM on 16 June 2005Well, since I didn't, that makes one so far. First of all, the "best of" thing is stupid. If I were going to vote, which I'm not, I would definitely vote for Dwayne the Canoe Guy, as opposed to the man who accused someone near and dear to me of being a stalker, something some of us don't find particularly funny. Men claiming that some woman is stalking them because she posts on their thing is rather pathetic and falls under the category of wishful thinking most of the time. I do appreciate Mr. Canoe man NOT calling me a stalker over on his thing because I posted something. A big breakthrough. I'd also like to point out how refreshing it is not to have some man tell me One of the reasons I wouldn't vote for you is you always seem a little smug. That sort of turns me off, not that you'd care, but I thought you might find it amusing on some level. Also, I'm sort of sick and tired of hearing about your sewer line problems. I hate the word blogosphere and even though some guy on the "tv" said the blogosphere was "magical", I haven't really gotten that "magical" thing going on yet. Also, I'm still waiting for an answer about gorgeous male librarians not wearing miniskirts, and can only hope you'll do the right thing and answer the question. Who knows? If I had gotten one earlier, Also, everyone is so sickeningly sweet in the okie blogosphere that it gets a little sickening. Everybody seems so "palsy I do like the bird though. Posted by: mary,queen of scots at 2:29 PM on 19 June 2005Well, that's how I avoid the sickeningly-sweet stuff: by being smug. It's not working. I did like your use of the colon, though I'm not
Also, thanks for not posting something nasty, like, Let me be specific. I posted something in the afternoon because I felt like it and, plus, my internet service provider hasn't told me yet to only post between 12am and 3am in the morning unlike a previous provider which will rename nameless. And no, they weren't the ones who told me that things don't work when it's too sunny. And, no, they weren't the ones who told me that It's nice to finally have discovered that |