I'm a finalist! winner!

My Breitbart photoshop is a finalist for the TBogg contest.  (Entry Number 5).  If you're registered over at FDL, head on over and vote for your favorite.  Thanks to TBogg and all of you.
I'm a co-winner! The other winner, BreitBartCatCopter is definitely worth a look.

Photoshops for "The Brooks Meme"

Details at The Atlantic:

A Peek at My Weblog Awards Ballot.

The Weblog Awards voting starts later today. Here's how I'm voting. I don't choose to vote in all categories.

Best New Blog: Grace the Spot. It's an LGBT blog, and I don't mean to overlook the two nominated Dem/prog blogs, Democrashield and swimming freestyle, I just like Grace. Nicely written with lots of original content. They're blogrolled, too.

That said, I'm sorry group blogs get lumped in some categories with single shingles. It's hard to do this everyday by yourself.

Best Individual Blogger: Driftglass. There is nothing more to say. He's the best writer in the blogosphere, period. If you need to read more about how much I admire Driftglass, you can read this. And this. And this.

Best Humor Blog: Jon Swift. If only for his community building end of the year post, but wait, there's more: this post is one for the ages.

Best Liberal Blog: I'm voting for myself, but this year bloggers can embed the poll at their own sites, which means I'm screwed, since I have the smallest traffic of all the nominees. Again, it is an honor to be ranked with those with much more traffic, and good will come of this, I'm sure.

Best LGBT Blog: Susie Bright's Journal. She's just so fab. Amazing writing and a sense of humor about sex and life and love. I just love her.

Best Diarist: Blue Girl in a Red State (Blue State). She's been "the other one", or I have, for a while now. This FOBG gets a nod and a big congrats.

Best Very Large Blog: Jesus General. Again, nothing more to say. There is only one General.

Best Large Blog: I love love love Fafblog, but they don't post often enough. You have to be committed to this to get my vote. I'm voting for Skippy.

Best Midsize Blog: Susie at Suburban Guerrilla is a new colleague at Crooks and Liars. It's a shame I can't vote for Amato or David Neiwert as best liberal blogger, too, ha.

Best Small Blog: Wow, that looks like the guest list for a Hugh Hewitt cruise, except for Black Women Blow the Trumpet! and Rumproast. I wish Betty Cracker had been nominated, but she writes for Rumproast, so I'll vote there.

PS. If you're a political blogger, and I can't tell from the frontpage of your blog, or I have to look at your blogroll, to see whose side you're on? That's a fail. Blogging is for advocacy. Start again.

Best Science Blog: Choose between Pharyngula and Bad Astro? Honey, I'm too pretty to die.

The Euphemism Contest

Where you can win...the honor of winning.

I cracked up at a statement in a recent New Yorker about one of the "guests" at Obama's poker games when he was a State Senator in Springfield Illinois:

Yet, even with the beer drinking and cigarette smoking, there were unspoken rules of conduct. When a married lobbyist arrived at a Springfield game with a person described as

“an inebriated woman companion who did not acquit herself in a particularly wholesome fashion,”

Obama made a face indicating that he wasn’t pleased. Link says that the lobbyist and his date were “quickly whisked out of the place.”

Your mission for this contest is to write a sentence about the election race, Republican or Democrat or both, which is a complete euphemism. Leave your entry in comments below. The winner will be announced sometime on Wednesday, February 20.

photoshop this picture

Make it political. Have fun. Post it to your blog, post the link in comments.

Everyone wins.

The topic of velcro towel wraps came up at Salon. (No, honey, we were not talking about you, we were talking about the to-do list which is about you. I'll pick up your towel wrap at Penney's and make sure it gets to California in time for your shower.***)

***no that is not satire.

Poetry? Let's make it a contest!

“Sometimes I'm not poetic enough to describe what it's like to be in the presence of the Holy Father," Bush said.

Oh THANK YOU Mr. President, for taking our "caption this photo" dullness and transforming it to a whole new level of excitement!

Write a poem, limerick, haiku, you name it, for the President and the Pope. No more than one hundred words, please. Post it in comments. The best one (I'm the judge) will win a "vituperative, foul-mouthed, blogger of the Left" button from my Cafepress Store. (The phrase is David Broder's, not mine, but if the label fits...)


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Weekend photoshop contest?

OH, MAYBE NOT.



I mean, doesn't Donna Karan make brassieres? She does Babs, and some of them provide full coverage! Geez.

Oops, there went breakfast. Sorry about that folks.

I honestly don't think even Photoshop for IntelMac could help.

Update #1: Doctor Zaius in on a fembot jag:

Blue Gal contest - caption this photo

You can caption it or photoshop it. Winner in the photoshop category will get a write-in vote for Harvard University Board of Overseers, with a photocopy of the actual mailed-in ballot, with his/her name or blog name written in, sent via snail mail from Blue Gal her own self.

Winner in the caption category will get the same deal on the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association ballot.

Yeah, I know that as an alumna of a Prestigious Center of Learning I really should take these elections seriously and vote for the "professional resume padder" Gervaise Brook-Hampster or the "always available for one more committee meeting as long as there's plenty of Gimlets afterwards" Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith.

But I don't.

Made-up candidate's names from here, of course.

Deadline, oh, let's say noon Friday. Leave entries in comments.




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