Trophies

It seems that when you blog, you gather awards — rather like non-rolling stones gather graffiti.

So here are my awards, and the names of those foolish enough to give them to me.

The Premier Meme Award

The Premiere Meme Award

From Nonamedufus on August 18, 2009. Except he didn’t so much give it to me as he did NOT give it to me. You’d have to read his post for that to make sense: 7 Deadly Memes. My response was: Seven Memes for Seven Bloggers (August 24, 2009).

The Superior Scribbler Award

Again from Nonamedufus, I received The Superior Scribbler Award on August 31, 2009 in his post The Time Is at Hand (near the end of the post). And before I could acknowledge it, I received it again from MikeMJ at Too Many Mornings on September 22, 2009: I Almost Hate to Mention this, But I Won A Friggin’ Award!” My response was delayed due to circumstances involving many factors, so I acknowledged both awards in one post, I Scribble Good, on October 11, 2009.

The Your Blog Is Fabulous Award

On October 3, 2009, Skye at Weekly Injection of Chuckles, honoured me with the “Your Blog is Fabulous” award in her post “Just Another Award! D Updated.” My acceptance speech can be found in “Plus? I’m Fabulous,” October 11, 2009.

Ask And Ye Shall Receive (not really an award)

Ask and Ye Shall Receive.Three stars. That's good, right? Is it out of ten?

Ask and Ye Shall Receive is a place that will review your blog — if you ask them. They have a reputation for being somewhat cutting in their criticism, so they don’t review anyone unless invited. Apparently I invited them to review I Probably Don’t Like You. If so, it must have been close to a year ago. In any event, they did their review (The Salty Professor), and overall it wasn’t bad. Quite good, actually. The reviewer, Rassles, especially liked my introductions: “[I]t’s like during each introduction he’s taking a slow, deliberate, annoying-ass cruuuuuuunch from a fresh apple right behind my fucking ear, and my neck trembles and locks in aggravation and I want to swing around and drive the whole royal gala up his nose with the heel of my palm.”

On the down side, he seems to think that my somewhat frequent (and always completely appropriate) inclusion of Avril Lavigne photos is “unhealthy.” But since he says she looks like his sister, maybe he has reason to feel this way.

And of course, he thinks my posts are too long. Ah, Thurber, you wouldn’t believe how much the attention span has dwindled since your time.

The Sunshine Award

Say what?

This was given to me by Nicky at We Work for Cheese on May 7, 2010. It’s an award given “to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspires others in the blog world.”

I kid you not.

My dazed response can be found in “Is this irony? Or what?” May 10, 2010.