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.
Not many places left on Earth where a man can wonder to himself and have it come true a few minutes later. I'm thinking Internet and maybe refrigerator, if you're lucky). Congratulations on your award!
I'm sad to report that the authenticity of my own award has come under some suspicion. Scroll up and you'll see for yourself that I in fact won a Spanglemoney award, rather than a coveted Spanglemonkey.
Spanglemoney? Where am I going to be able to spend that without getting arrested?
Posted by: Keith | January 02, 2006 at 08:57 AM
Oh, wow! Thanks! Cool! I've always wanted to be a secret cabal.
Posted by: elswhere | January 02, 2006 at 09:46 AM
Oh! Pick me, pick me! I'm feeling a midlife crisis comeing on and I could use the boost to my ego. Would also be honored to be in such great company.
Posted by: Kris | January 02, 2006 at 10:14 AM
Nu? And what about Mother-out-law the second?
Posted by: savtadotty | January 02, 2006 at 01:33 PM
Kris! Mom on a Mission: Winner of the Spanglemonkey What's Her Mission? It's Love, Baby. LOVE! Award 2005. WOOOOO! Give it up people!
Oy! Savtadotty! My Mom-out-law!
Winner of the Spanglemonkey OY! I Live How Far Away? Excellent Grandmothering Award, 2005!
Or if you want something more racey, maybe something with stripes, let me know.
Posted by: jo | January 02, 2006 at 08:28 PM
Thank you! Thank you! You like me, you really like me! I'll be Sally Fields is really sorry she said that now that everyone else is saying it.
Posted by: Stephanie | January 02, 2006 at 11:49 PM
Thank you! Thank you! You like me, you really like me! I'll bet Sally Fields is really sorry she said that now that everyone else is saying it.
Posted by: Stephanie | January 02, 2006 at 11:50 PM
Thank you! Basic Black is always best, with Good Jew-ellery.
It will take a few days for me to figure out where to put it in my template, which needs Spring Cleaning already.
Posted by: savtadotty | January 03, 2006 at 04:08 AM
DaSkinnyBlackMan Brokeleg Award.
The ability to strain the same hamstring twice in one year and still run faster then 90% of your coworkers.
Posted by: Mikey | January 03, 2006 at 10:33 AM
Okay, put me in for another one, since I'm so fond of my award for last year... :)
Posted by: Jennifer | January 03, 2006 at 01:18 PM
Cool! Chaos Theory!
Winner of the Spanglemonkey Award for Best Internet Variety Show (and Good Luck Getting Anything Done, Ever) in 2005! WOOOOO!
Posted by: Jo | January 03, 2006 at 01:21 PM
And did I say? Mikey, it's yours! The 2005 Spanglemonkey Hamstring Award is also up for grabs, if you want it.
Posted by: Jo | January 03, 2006 at 01:22 PM
Ya darn tootin
Posted by: Mikey | January 03, 2006 at 05:45 PM
Okay, I'm in. Award me oh Monkey One, and I shall share my tiny livejournal with all. Okay, you can click on the link, but you know what I mean - the "blog" may be dead, but my words live on somewhere. My tiny little part of cyberspace that may or may not return to the big screen again.
Posted by: Lisset | January 03, 2006 at 11:28 PM
Dear spanglemonkey award person,
Can I have a spanglemonkey award? I have no idea what it is but it sounds like something I want to be a part of. And hey will you look at my site and grant me words of admiration? Because that would be fantastic. Thanks.
The end.
Posted by: samirah | January 03, 2006 at 11:33 PM
samirah: can't load your site! Try again with the URL.
As for you, Lisset. What to say! You're special amongst Spanglemonkey Award Recipients, as our resident graphic designer.
Lisset: Winner of the Spanglemonkey Blogging from an Island and Seeking Adventure Award of Excellence, 2005
Posted by: jo | January 04, 2006 at 08:18 AM
I stole my award yesterday! Now I got the chutzpah to ask you to name it....
Posted by: molly | January 04, 2006 at 01:19 PM
Molly, I have to think. In fact, I need to nap, because all I can think of, and I've been here staring at the screen for a few minutes, is "MOLLY GOATWAX: She's AWESOME.She has a BAR. She PAINTS STUFF. Look at her FEET! She lives in a DENTIST'S OFFICE! How COOL!"
See, and that does not an appropriate Spanglemonkey Award make. I'll come back to it fresh because you deserve a great one.
Posted by: jo | January 04, 2006 at 01:30 PM
You know what? It would have helped immensely if I had spelled my own page correctly. So try it now and give me an award. Please.
Posted by: samirah | January 04, 2006 at 08:46 PM
YAY! I love it! It's perfect. Thanks for taking the time to award me, O Gracious One!
Posted by: Lisset | January 05, 2006 at 01:43 AM
Oooh please please please give me an award. Pleeeeeze? I'll be your best friend! No wait, I already am. I'll marry you! Ooops, did that too. I'll (bursting into song) paint my face bright blue! Anything! Anything at all!
Posted by: Ms. Jane | January 05, 2006 at 08:56 AM
Oooh please please please give me an award. Pleeeeeze? I'll be your best friend! No wait, I already am. I'll marry you! Ooops, did that too. I'll (bursting into song) paint my face bright blue! Anything! Anything at all!
Posted by: Ms. Jane | January 05, 2006 at 08:59 AM
can i have one too?
i'll do a litle dance for it.
Posted by: minnie | January 05, 2006 at 09:08 AM
Oh Samirah! How nice to meet you! I read your first page and I am pleased to award you. You are the recipient of the 2005 Spanglemonkey Cherub-Faced Hope for an Interesting and Fulfilling Future Award! WOOO!
It's difficult, Ms Jane! What can I find of the awards that remain! What would pay homage to your magnificence! Okay. We'll give it a try. You are the recipient of the 2005 Spanglemonkey Cute Feet, Neat to Eat Treat (with Singalong Ball) Award!
And minnie. O Minnie! Winner of the 2005 Spanglemonkey Splendiferous Crafty Sponteneity and Birdwatching Award!
Posted by: jo | January 05, 2006 at 09:27 AM
I still need to do Molly Goatwax. But right now I'm going to take a shower.
Posted by: jo | January 05, 2006 at 09:31 AM