I am a finalist for a shorty award! No I am not quite sure what it is either but I am not going to win anyway. That honour will surely go to @yiyinglu who is the designer of the failwhale. Probably fair enough. No wait, what?!
You can see the shorty awards details here. Voting closes today!
I have been kindly nominated by the inscrutable Stilgherrian in the design category and have already racked up 55 votes! Hot diggety! @yiyinglu has 145 votes but I suspect it is rigged. Rigged in the way that the person who gets the most votes wins even though the person who comes second has a pair of angry underpants for their avatar. And anyway, @yiyinglu is twitter royalty and not even I can compete with that. Of course we don’t need to mention the other three people in the category who will be soundly trounced by the person who comes second because it is nice that people try to win or come second at these things even when it is hopeless because it can give some meaning to their otherwise empty lives. Empty other than spending time on Twitter of course.
The angry underpants look like this.
Avatar as Self Portrait - Angry Underpants
You can follow me on twitter by following @firstdogonmoon – but you have to sign up first.
I am not even sure if there is a prize. There is an awards ceremony in New York in February, which sounds exciting but unless Crikey want to fund me to travel to NY to not win I shall remain at home.
So there you have it.
I will have a moral victory, even if not an actual virtual one.
Meanwhile, I remain firmly on holiday on the NSW south coast until tomorrow. Here is a dog with a bone on its front lawn. It is kind of hard to see but it is very cute, I could only take one photo because a man came out of the house and I had to drive off, what with the internet and Bill Henson and so on, it’s just not safe to take unsolicited photos of people’s pets in small coastal towns these days.
nom nom nom
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I am not inscrutable. I’ve been scruted several times, and some of them were rather nice.
Also I did nominate you, but only because we agreed that you nominating yourself would look even more dodgy.
Dubious sort of house, really, and that’s never a lawn. There were some trees though, no doubt. What do we have to do to get you up for this award? As Heath Ledger is to “The Joker”, First Dog is to ….? My three legged cat playing cello? The chinchilla as shadow minister for Julie Bishop?