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[Warning: Misdirected bitterness lies ahead]

Now, this is where it really hits me that I started a webeite more than a year ago. The Weblog Awards are round about again.

Last year, I was lucky enough to be nominated (by, I presume, all five of my regular readers submitting like ten nominations a day) for Best New Weblog of 2002, which was fun. You may remember I lost to Wil Wheaton. Yeah, you know. Wesley Crusher? You probably heard about it. It was a big to-do. Lots of people thought the awards were rigged, conspiracy theories were spewn about. It was all over the web news. My mother was ripshit. Damn Trekkies. I need a fan club.

Do you like that I used the word "ripshit"?

Anyways. The categories for this year's awards are no surprise (really like the design, though). Not that I don't want to win something, mind you. Maybe I could be the Susan Lucci of the Bloggies. Though that would mean I'd have to keep up the site for like, eight years, at least. I don't have a webcam so I can't really get in on that cat's action. That's just a shonda. "Best American Weblog"? "Lifetime Achievement"? Don't make me choke. ...Ooo! Maybe "Best Topical Weblog"? Or, "Best-kept-secret weblog"? You wouldn't really expect a hussy to be nominated for that, I guess. Though, stranger things/dumber awards have happened/been awarded. Like Cuba Gooding, Jr. winning an Oscar for showing us the money, or being shown the money, or asking to have the money shown to him or whatever. (This year the Academy realized they'd better give something to Denzel, Halle and Poitier 'cause the Cuba thing wasn't gonna cut it.) But I digress.

Maybe I'd have a chance in the "Best European or African Weblog". I'm black and Jewish. I'm the Black Jewish Lady. Does that qualify? No? That is so racist.