You wouldn't believe how great is the graphic that our bud Lisset supplied for the Spanglemonkey Awards!
Personally, I believe we all deserve awards. Not just the people of my regular Army, whose praises I cannot sing too highly (how I love you! you're all promoted! soon we'll have Entertainment shipped in, just for you, my footsoldiers of liberal politics!)
But seriously, the New Technology allows everyone who has a connection and a bit of computer savvy to have a published presence on the net. I think it's wonderful. It's easy to dismiss because of its ordinary quality, or to dismiss it because it doesn't bear the imprimateur of money and publication, but I would have to contend that in some way it is then more a Noble Cause. Instead of each and every idea having to struggle its way into capitalist full-blown glory, it can exist parenthetically, it can be attempted, it can surface as a trial in the best postmodern sense, without having to be the Fullest Fruit of its Kind and Annointed by Money.
Am I making sense? What I'm saying is that this is the People's Internet. And of course we are people of a certain privilege, and of course I am not a homeless meth-addled woman in the bart station in downtown oakland publishing my monologue on the net, but still. We are able to put what we want into this word soup. It is community and it is worth admiring.
So the Spanglemonkeys will be soon, and they will, as ever, go to whomever wants one. I will look at your site if you want, and I will grant you words of admiration. Or if you want something specific, just award it! Go ahead! It's all about hedonism!
Oh what the hell. Here's the graphic. Award yourself, people.
I like awards! I like these awards! Could I have one?
Posted by: Lulu | January 05, 2006 at 10:40 AM
Yay! That's the best award ever!
Posted by: samirah | January 05, 2006 at 11:19 AM
Lulu! Have I given you yours yet? Lessee.
Bitter Greens: Winner of the 2005 Spanglemonkey Best Three-Framed Lifeblog with Subtle Dinner Tips!
Posted by: jo | January 06, 2006 at 10:57 AM
I think The Plumbutt Chronicles is the best out there..wait..that's my blog. Nevermind.
Cheers,
Billy Boy :)
Posted by: billy boy | January 27, 2006 at 09:18 AM
Well? Can I have one? Pleeeeeeeeease?
Posted by: billy boy | January 28, 2006 at 01:45 PM
How about the Spanglemonkey 2005 Butt of Plum Blogstrordinaire Award?
Posted by: Jo | January 28, 2006 at 02:06 PM
Perfect! I'll take it! Thank you :)
Billy Boy
Posted by: billy boy | January 31, 2006 at 07:38 AM
Glad to be of honorific help.
Posted by: Jo | January 31, 2006 at 07:49 AM
Thanks. I feel so much better about myself now that I have a Spanglemonkey Award. I'm not joking. Granted, mine has been late in coming.
Posted by: Marla | February 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Welcome to it! Congratulations!
Posted by: Jo | February 11, 2008 at 10:12 AM
i'm thinking you never did do molly...
Posted by: e | February 11, 2008 at 05:27 PM
Really? What an oversight!
Posted by: Jo | February 11, 2008 at 05:45 PM