Everyone's Special

ETA: I have tried and tried to get the images and text to line up, but they just won't. My apologies.

Yesterday I wrote about an award I was nominated for, and it got me thinking about the whole awards process. It is an unfortunate fact that such award contests tend to come down to little more than a popularity contest. The person that can garnish the most votes isn't necessarily the one that's really the most worthy, though I'm sure all nominees go home in the end just glad they were nominated in the first place.

But there are so many unsung heroes out there, and I've decided to go ahead and award them for certain things that make them unique in the bloggy world.

Best Blog Buddy award goes to Jacki of Moving at the Speed of Life, one of the friendliest and most interactive bloggers I've come across. Make her your friend and she'll never let you down.

I can't visit The More, The Messier without craving a Creamsicle.

Jane of What About Mom? is surely the biggest Mountain Dew fan there is. She once described drinking one warm in the grocery store parking lot after a particularly strong craving and said it was like drinking a lemon meringue pie. And she met Dooce, which has nothing to do with Mountain Dew, but thought I'd mention it anyway. Jane was in my playgroup in Florida, and she's the one that got me to broaden my bloggy horizons in the first place.

Jeff of View From the Cloud was agape when he learned that I'm related to Dan Blocker, the guy that played Hoss. He also mentioned he'd never been nominated for anything in three years of blogging. Well Jeff, you didn't just get nominated, you won! How does it feel?

If I were an alien and had to choose a blogger to abduct, I'd pick Bee of Bee's Musings. Not only would she be an interesting subject for study, she'd blog about it later and people would have no idea if she was kidding or not. She'd probably take the whole anal probe thing to another level too.

There are a lot of perverted bloggers out there, sure. But Old Knudsen is the quintessential dirty old man and isn't afraid to say so. But he's also perverted in a perfectly acceptable, relatively inoffensive way.

There are a lot of good ex-patriate bloggers out there, but alas I can only honor those that I read. We have Lilac Specs, an American in Belgium; Debbie, an American in Japan; Dumdad, a Brit in France; and my brother, a Martian fugitive on Earth.

Maybe "perky" isn't quite the right word. The Playful Professional is the most positive blogger I know of, always looking at the bright side of life and seeing glasses half full. Maybe it's just because she doesn't have kids yet, time will tell.

The prestigious Greenest Hair award goes to Psychicgeek, who has more green hair than anyone I know. She swears it's dye, but I think it has more to do with the psychic waves radiating from her head. Or maybe it's ectoplasm?

And last but not least, the Most Flatulent Blogger is without a doubt Mr. Farty of Better Oot Than In. Take a bow Mr. Farty!

Enjoy your awards, they make excellent pen cups and spitoons!