Wonkette
Let’s see, Oscar nominations, who cares … oh look, nominations for the 2009 Bloggies are out, and whoa, jesus christ, your Wonkette is nominated for Best Weblog About Politics, Most Humorous Weblog and Best Group Weblog. Yikes! Thank you, good peoples, for nominating us, for these magical invisible trophies.
Your Wonkette has won the Best Weblog About Politics award several times, most recently in 2006 and 2007, after Pareene and your current managing editor were left alone to do whatever we wanted with the site, as Gawker Media had pretty much written it off, as Dead.
But the “most humorous weblog” and “best group weblog,” those are rare & special prizes. Especially the comedy one, and especially the group one, because it is not always clear to the Wider World that Wonkette is basically a violent comedy troupe with an unfortunate fixation on American Politics — The Economist knows this, but that’s in London, and staffed by smart people. So, hooray.
Well, enough of this navel-gazing bullshit. Vote for us, friends! And if you’ve got another favorite blog in the categories in which Wonkette is nominated, just find another category where that favorite is also nominated, and vote for them over there. Example: If you like the fivethirtyeight.com, vote for Numberz Nate over in the Weblog of the Year category. If the LOLcats still make you laugh, vote for I Can Haz Cheezeburger in the Community Weblog category. So easy! We’ll see you in Austin at the SXSW sex orgy, where these award winners will be announced during a blizzard of cocaine and neon dildos, for America. UPDATE: If you didn’t get the verification email, you didn’t vote. Go try again, please.
always keeping in mind that even dogshit can be nominated for Best in Class…
Best “group” weblog? We’ll face still competition from http://www.swingers.net.
What do the losers, er, PUMAs have to say about it?
Is this a vote daily dealie?
Not to ruin a lovely post confirming the awesomeness and dominance of Wonkette, but you should know that the Pareene link isn’t working.
make wonks mobile friendly so i can vote from my mobile talking/surfing device.
And what fellow travelers should we vote for in non-Wonkette categories?
What? No category for Best Alt Text?
I voted for us, I mean, you, in all three!
Looks like one vote per email address. And looks like the PUMAs are not in the finals. Excepting Cake Wrecks which seems to pander to their experience of bad marriages and unhappy birthday parties.
Help me! I’m going blind! Either I’m the heroine of a cheesy soap opera or the Bloggie page won’t load right. There’s no up and down scroll bar and only the bottom of the Website shows. How can I vote if I can’t see-e-e-e?
Hey, my tubes have been down since the weekend. Did anything happen this week?
Robobot: Because PAREENE IS DEAD TO ME. Umm, fixed!
I am very happy I have never heard of any of the “Best Teen Blog” nominees.
chascates: Postsecret and 538 were good choices in a couple.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: In a surprising twist, Caroline Kennedy was sworn in as Preznet by Antonin Scalia and PUMAs got all the Cabinet positions.
Jukesgrrl: scroll to the right. It is horizontal.
Based on that Pareene link we need to start fucking with Tucker Carlson big time.
Isn’t Stuff White People Like and Wonkette rather a case of overkill? I mean RA-THER.
Where the FUCK is my ‘I Voted’ sticker???1/?/
Gawker Media had pretty much written it off, as Dead.
Does that mean all the buttsecks on Wonkette is, like, necrophilia with a pre-teen corpse? Because, while that’s hawt, it will also attract many, many Republicans.
Doglessliberal: I’m throwing Chocolate & Zucchini in because the editor is pretty cute & French and posts good food porn.
chascates: yes, true
Sorry, guys. There’s no way in hell that you’ll be able to beat I Can Haz Cheezburger? lolcats are the Borg of the interwebs. Resistance is futile.
Seeing that the group blog category nomination is the direct result of the tremendous steamy pile of talent (myself excluded) of the Wonkette commenters, I say it’s time we get a piece of the action. In other words my friends, it is union time! All in favor raise your hand.
Did anything happen this week?
Barack Obama was sworn in as president* on Tuesday, then was apparently eaten by pumas, requiring his replacement clone to be sworn in yesterday, and now he closed down Gitmo and had Cheney crippled.
*of the United States
WalnutsIsMyCo-Pilot: I already have mine, seeing as how I voted earlier today. We’re having a wingnut referendum to make English the official language of NashVegas.
Min: Fuck you, defeatist. The WARBLOG strikes back!
DListd for Gossip blog!!! Please don’t let fucking Perez win. DLISTED http://www.dlisted.com SeminoleinDior agrees so that makes two hot bitches who say so!
I sure hope this horizontal bloggin’ thing doesn’t become an industry standard.
Min: hah, I heard about that this a.m. on NPR! Apparently, you have some councilman who wants to arrest and jail Brown people only in English? Or something.
What do we get! What do we get! We haz a fuckin’ funny!
Beware, everyone, I never got a confirming email from the Bloggies site, and so have to go try to vote again. Be sure you confirm your vote or the PUMAs win.
Deepthroat: Yes. For the love of God people, do not let Perez Hilton win anything. The man is a PUMA blogger. A young woman on the internet told me so. And we all know that young women are the most reliable people when it comes to the internet.
Deepthroat: Make that three. That d-Listed guy (Michael something) makes Ken/Jim/Sara seem like fucking Mother Teresa. Ain’t nothing sacred or off limits to that boy (& me think he’s really funny!)
How lame am I that I’ve only heard of about 10 of those sites? (That’s a rhetorical question, people; no need to answer!).
I want Wonkette to win so the editors can come to TX & see that we’re not all mouth breathing, stupid Republicans.
Hey, since we aren’t in competition this time with The Confluence of Pumapac, shouldn’t someone go over there and drop a post asking them to support their fellow liberal blog, for unity’s sake?
Doglessliberal: Eric Crafton. He’s a bozo. Metro Legal has already opined that the English Only initiative is probably illegal, but he’s still willing to waste half a million taxpayer dollars being an asshole.
Not that is the first time.
I agree on blocking Perez, plus, Go Fug Yourself should win for Fashion Blog. That is some witty fashion policing there.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: WIN
Lionel Hutz Esq.:
You’re mean. I like you.
Ken Layne: When I saw the broken link, I assumed that the Bloggies were sort of like the christening scene in The Godfather, and today was the day that you were taking care of all the Family’s business. Oh well, it is good to know that Pareene is still awake with the fishes.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: If you enjoy putting a hot ember to your male bits, then yes.
So, that “Best Humor Blog” thing I won was pretty much a Golden Globe, wasn’t it? (sobs)
I felt like I was voting for Cook County judges on some of these. Whoever had the goofiest name received my vote.
And now you know how we picked Rod.
Josh Fruhlinger: You do have one more “Best Humor Blog” award then the rest of us. I will make one for myself, though, soon.
Also.
Doglessliberal: YES GoFugYourself for the win!
Deepthroat: I’m going to need more convincing. Say, my place, around eight? The two of you should show up in overcoats and heels only.
OK, I voted as ordered. Now back to my Psych PhD thesis: Emotional neediness for peer validation in selected political commenter subcultures.
Josh Fruhlinger: There, there. Maybe someday you’ll win a *real* meaningless award.
Ken Layne: You’re welcome. They selected me as one of their panelists. I am happy to say that DrudgeReport was on the list of top nominees for the “Teen Blogs” category; meaning those blogs authored by persons 17 and under. The hardest category to judge was the Arts/Crafts/DIY/Make Absurdities collection.
Doglessliberal: I know it’s horizontal but the entire top third of the screen is cut off, which eliminates Wonkette from sight, except for the Best Of category at the bottom. I’ve tried it on multiple browsers, but it loads the same on each browser. I know what it should look like since I copied the screen and place it in a Word doc, but I can’t vote that way.
I can’t be the only one having this problem. Designers are Communists.
JadedDIssonance: An insider! Thank you for Your Vote.
Has you seen what the ECONOMIST said about our Wonkettes?
“Wonkette, a satirical beltway blog,”
!!!!!!!
Does you sees that Wonketeers? Some scone slurper took time off from masturbating over his picture of the Queen to call us a “satirical beltway”, probably means they wants to spank us or something, you know what a pack a fruit loops those people are. They elected Bush’s sex slave as their primate minister for the love of baby Jeebus! Everybody knows apes need bananas, not the gospel according our ex-dictators snuggle bunny! Now they have the brass to attack the beloved Wonkette?
We have to respond, we can’t take this lying down (unless you prefer it lying down, though it’s actually easier if your bent over).
Jihad, my brother Hobos, we have no choice, they asked for it.
I’m outraged. Not one blog with a tilda in its name. These awards suck.
Oh! excuse me I just FARTED .
Damn, I nominated Wonkette as the best African and Latin American blogs. I really did.
THIS IS RIGGED PEOPLE!
THe WONKETTE IZ RUN BY JEWZ AND THE JEWZ CONTROL THE BLOGS!!!
It’s cool, cuz I have like ten email addresses. Why wasn’t bangbus nominated for anything?
Terry: Hmmm, me too. Somebody wasn’t fooled. We need to start commenting en Espanol more often. Where’s Mr.Serolf bin keeping himself?
Naked Bunny with a Whip: You mean President *to* the United States, according to CJ Roberts.
Well, okay I voted wonkette and then I got stuck in the cake place and got a little sick and then I tried the fug place and really liked it because of more voting. I just want to vote all the time now.I love americas voting stuff.
Origami: especially the part where they are telling you that they are young women,
Are you fucking kidding? I’ve got to waste more of my life voting for wonkette on meaningless conntests? When I registered, I figured I’d just get to hang out with a bunch of loserz like me. This is getting to be like a job. That I dont’ get paid for doing.
Okay, don’t get your knickers in a twist. I’ll go start voting.
DustBowlBlues: Oh dude you don’t have to vote in anything! There are no responsibilities associated with the privilege of a Wonkette commenter account. THERE WILL BE NO TEST AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER.
contest, obviously. And don’t.
But before the editors of this august piece of shit award-winning blog notice my typos and ban me, may I point out that I actually checked the link to the Economist, on the off chance they were inviting the wonkeratti on an all-expense paid junket to London?
If wonkette is mentioned, could you maybe point out the quote? Or is this just a fancy-ass way of showing us you’ve heard of a famous smart periodical (famous and smart is never just a magazine) so we’ll be so impressed we’ll start stuffing the ballot box for you again. I assume you figured we were either too lazy to follow the Economist link, or too busy voting for wonkette in the contest to do anything else.
Ken Layne: And now Layne plays the guilt card.
DustBowlBlues: Sorry, we only play the ban card. If you can’t read, or at least use Ctrl F, you really shouldn’t be advertising it here.
Sorry. It’s late and I’m also trying to remember what my password is to start receiving the Backbencher again.
And before you ban me, at least tell me if I can only vote once in the bloggies. I just voted all three categories and I’m waiting for my confirmation email, along with my guardian password reminder. I’m old and this is hard.
Are we square now?
Mea Culpa:
“Wonkette, a satirical beltway blog, put on its inaugural “ball” last Friday in a yoga studio.”
Oh funz…I likes votin. Only gots to do it twice for Obamaz.
chascates: The Rest is Noise for music blog, Danwei for Asian blog. Pioneer woman for food blog (if you like butter).
I was torn for a while between Wonkette and Stuff White People Like. But that guy has a book deal now so he’s OK. So a straight Wonkette ballot it is.
I’m not getting my confirmation email…anyone else?
If wonkette wins a thrid time in the political category, does that mean we have to start posting the odd recipe so we can nominate wonkette for the food blogs in addition to the other two?
Personally, I liked the sound of the third cagegory best, the one for a blog with “exclusive groups.”
But you can only vote once (or vote once again, and again, and again). Bummer.
just voted in most humorous. your headlines alone are enough to make me pee in my depends. which sucks if i’m on the subway.
also!