The winners of the 2008 Okie Blog Awards have been announced. If you remember, we were named a finalist in the following three categories:
• Best Overall Blog
• Best Humor Blog
• Best Looking Blog
Well…just like last year, we didn’t win anything. That blows. However, we were the runner-up in two categories: “Best Overall” and “Best Humor”. That’s probably a good thing, because now we’ll get links and publicity but we won’t be forced to display a purple banner on our sidebar that uses Broadway font and features the weird-looking shield from our state flag.
The Pioneer Women won the “Best Overall” and “Best Looking” categories. That’s as surprising as learning Kelly Ogle is a Republican. She’s essentially the Oprah Winfrey of Oklahoma bloggers. She’s female, housewives love her, and she’ll totally kick your ass if your competing against her in anything.
In the “Best Humor” category we were defeated by some blog called Decisionally Challenged. The blog is so funny that it’s name isn’t even in it’s web address (http://georgienba.blogspot.com). I would suggest you visit it and laugh your ass off. When you do, please promptly send us an email and explain why.
Anyway, we’d like to congratulate all the winners. We’d also like to thank everyone who nominated and voted for us. We are sorry that we let you down and weren’t able to win. So we’ll have a better chance to win next year, we are going to include a ♥ in every paragraph, post some pictures of Clark Pup, and give out the occasional lasagna recipe.
We’re also going to hire some older stay-at-home mom to write for us and help capture that ellusive 40-year-old women vote. That should make us winners, guaranteed!
Ah, the middle-aged-housewife-with-too-much-time-on-their-hands demographic, also known as the reason no one good ever wins on big awards shows (I’m looking at you, grammys), we have to put up with lame halftime shows (thanks, Janet Jackson’s boob), and I have to listen to my mom try to sell me on “the Secret.” You can now add snubbing my favorite OKC-related website to your list of annoying accomplishments.
It was probably a honor just to be nominated. Today’s sarcastic remark and grammatical errors are brought to you by Oklahoma’s “Best Humor” blog, which is HILARIOUS. That may just be because I like to read things written by 38yr old mothers who still refer to their fathers as “Daddy”.
TLO, when RDK was first nominated as a finalist and we thought that the Okie Blog Awards were actually somewhat important, we went and checked out the other sites … Complete. Suck. Assedness.
Those awards are akin to winning best watermelon at the Gotebo County Fair … and 99 percent only won because all their neighbors, family and friends voted.
It’s probably better that we didn’t win anything. We were going to go scorched earth like you’d never seen.
Some of the winners and runner-up selections are just, well, yeah. We were going to denounce the awards. I’m still hoping we win next year so I can still do it.
Perhaps if The Lost Ogle writers would misspell more words (a challenge, to be sure!), you could win next year.
She’s kind of like Erma Bombeck with no talent!
I feel your pain. I lost too! What a disgrace! Maybe if you gave away more stuff like her you’d win.
wow Harsh…
“We didn’t win, so these awards suck.”
Technically, I don’t think the awards themselves suck. I actually think it’s a good idea. The sites/content themselves, and the voting process/racket, suck.
So, idea = good. Execution = suck.
It’s funny when guys say “suck” like it’s a BAD thing.
Congrats to the winners, but – wow – never underestimate the voting power of moms. I, too, was beaten out by a “40 yr. young single mom” with a non-conforming blogspot domain name. Clearly, I’ve got to fit some tips on removing grass stains into all of the indie rock nonsense I cover in 2009…
You’ve hit the nail on the proverbial head. I’ve been nominated in two and three categories every year and have yet to win. I don’t even care anymore and I wonder why I ever did, considering the voting is based on popularity amongst the mommies and housewives. What Mike needs to do is set a rule (like other awards have) that once a site wins three times in a row, it cannot be a nominee for a year.
Love this post — glad someone spoke up.
Is Georgie “decisionally challenged” or “differently abled?” There is just something all kinds of wrong about a woman on the cusp of menopause who uses the word “prolly” unironically. Perhaps the voters weren’t laughing with her but laughing at her?
I feel your pain, Pat. I remember losing the Gazette Best of OKC blog award to Phil and Drew (and Kaci, too). Talk about the shame. And I didn’t take it as well as you:
“It was a pleasure to be even nominated
August 18th, 2005
Who am I kidding? This sucks. People who read blogs have poor taste, bad judgment, and therefore don’t think like me.”
But what really bothers me: You really think Kelly Ogle is a Republican?
Everyone: Honestly, I wasn’t trying to come off as a sore loser. And if you read my post, it isn’t very disrespectful.
Mike: Much like the Gazette’s awards were infiltrated by morning radio listeners, your awards have been infiltrated by 40 year old moms whose favorite thing in life is the affair of the heart.
Thank God I lost. Positive recognition frightens me.
Maybe we should look at the Okie Blog Awards as what they are…a recognition of what bloggers like. [sucking up to readers]Personally, it would mean more if the voting were opened up to the people who read blogs, because their opinion is all I care about[/sucking up to readers] unless they’re the people who make nasty comments after my posts, in which case they can suck it.
Get real guys, enough with the hating on 40 year old Moms, her site is eons beyond this thing in usefulness and traffic. You catch way more flies with honey. I bet advertisers are knocking down your doors with your 380,000+ alexa rating meanwhile she’s around 25,000. You got beat by a much better site, move on.
I’ve been there. They didn’t.
“You got beat by a much better site, move on.”
That is *exactly* what I thought when I read blog post that doubled as a cut and pasted “25 random things” from facebook.
I can’t believe I’m getting dragged down to this level, but screw it…
Krull: According to Alexa, we have a rank of 383,959. Not bad for a local blog that isn’t even 2-years old. We also have loyal advertisers.
Decisionally Challenged, or whatever it is, seems to have a page rank of 1,139,262. I’m not sure why you would lie and say it’s in the top 25,000. Maybe you’re one of her mom readers, or maybe you know something I don’t know.
Anyway, on that note I’m going to shut down the comments on this one. Once again, congrats to all the sites who won an Okie Blog Award. Good luck next year, y’all.