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You Like Us, You Really Like Us!

Jill

The 2005 Weblog Awards are up, and Feministe has been nominated in the Best Liberal Blog category! Exciting!!

It’s a huge compliment to be grouped with the other nominees — the list includes some of my favorite blogs, and it’s a pretty big ego boost to be placed in the same category as them. Check ’em out, they’re fantastic, and all very worthy of your votes. There are some great blogs nominated in other categories as well, so scroll through the whole thing. And as usual, there are a whole lot of excellent blogs that didn’t get nominated, or didn’t make the final cut — feel free to leave links here of blogs you think we should all check out, and keep them in mind for next year.

Voting begins Monday December 5th and ends December 15th. You can vote for one blog in each category every 24 hours. Happy voting!*

*(I don’t know why I’ve been using so many exclamation points lately. Annoying, isn’t it? I apologize, and I blame contracts outlining.)

23 thoughts on You Like Us, You Really Like Us!

  1. Don’t count your chickens…

    Feministe has been nominated for everything under the sun for the lat three years and has yet to score a win for anything but big tomatoes. But hey, those tomatoes were fucking big.

    Always a bridesmaid.

  3. Well, whoever nominated me need to have their head examined. And speaking of heads not working right, how the hell does one vote in that poll?

  5. Contract outlining? Is that where you learn to WRITE IN ALL CAPS like your average internet crank? Or is that contract implementation?

    I’m sorry I can’t vote for you, evil Macromedia won’t make a flash-player for my platform. You really deserve some credit.

  8. You may want to reconsider your enthusiasm; from my rundown of last year’s Weblog awards:

    “In the Best Overall Weblog category, the combined votes of Talking Points Memo and Political Animal, whose hits are in the millions, are approximately one-eleventh the total of The Corner at the National Review.”

    and

    “I really feel bad about extending the curse to Lauren at Feministe, who is up for recognition in Best of The 250-500 Range category… she’s losing by a 7-to-2 margin to somebody who just posted “David Frum (Bush’s former speechwriter of Canadian extraction– ed) says that Bush’s Canada visit was more of a success than it was portrayed in the American media.”

    Just a reminder to ration one’s excitement until the Koufax Awards comes along (donations here).

  9. Feministe has been nominated for everything under the sun for the lat three years and has yet to score a win for anything but big tomatoes. But hey, those tomatoes were fucking big.

    Always a bridesmaid.

    Eh. Maybe it is an honor just to be nominated. I recall getting a nomination for something or other when I first started blogging, but not since. I’ve pretty much given up on blogging awards.

    But look at it this way. Even if you’re always a bridesmaid, at least your invited to the wedding. 😉

  10. And there’s something punk about being nominated and losing. You get the honour of the nomination, but you stil get to bitch that the panel (or voters) are full of shit and will never understand you.

  12. Don’t worry about the exclamation points, Jill. Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball will do that to a person.

    I hope to be finished my Contracts outlining tonight. Then it’ll be time for Constitutional! Yay!

  13. Even if you’re always a bridesmaid, at least your invited to the wedding.

    And then you can, like, totally, hook up there. 😉

  19. Dude, those tomatoes were *huge.*

    But I think KnifeGhost’s onto something with the punk aspect of being nominated but not winning. Ya’ll can be like the punk little sister who wears lots of eye makeup and redandblack striped longsleeved shirts under black shortsleeved band shirts and sneaks cigarettes behind the garage and says things like, *snort,* whatever, I didn’t want to win anyway. Fucking losers.

    And can Matt Yglesias knit badass fingerless gloves? I don’t think so.

  20. Of course, it may backfire if she wins.

    I’ve always thought that, if by some bizarre sequence of events it ever becomes an issue, I’d look like a supreme hypocrite accepting an Oscar.

    I guess I’m more likely to win a Grammy, but I swear in front of the entire internet that I would refuse to accept that shit.

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  23. I’m voting for y’all; you tolerate “wingnuts” like me commenting here and nobody has ever been rude to me here. It’s the one of the few places “across the aisle” (also Rox, Trish Wilson, and a couple others) where I find common ground and am not shouted down, even though I’m never, ever rude to other blog hosts. Thanks for being you, Lauren and Jill. If there were more (on both sides) like you, think of what could be accomplished! I actually READ and think about what you two have to say, rather than being immediately turned off and repelled by the tone.
    I hope more people get a clue and give you their support before voting is over! Good luck!

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