Blog Awards: On to Round 2!

I just found out that I've made it to round 2 of the Canadian Blog Awards, thanks largely to all of you. I thought blogs with larger readerships would trounce me, but I guess it's not how large your readership is, but how loyal they are. So thank you. I'll try not to let it go to my head and ask you to start peeling grapes for me. :) (Batcabbage has been dutifully sending me packages of peeled grapes, so I don't need to recruit the rest of you yet.)

Round 2 has just begun and will go until December 19. Go here and scroll down to Popular Culture, and then you rank the candidates. I think you can vote once a day, if you so like. And if you're not sure if this Nikki Stafford person is worth voting for, allow me to post something from humanebean, who was allowed on a computer as part of his day pass from The Steve Jobs Hospital for the Mac-Induced Insane and posted this last week:

BEFORE I read Nikki's books, I was a 143 lb. nerd who lived in his mother's basement. The girls at the beach all laughed at me in my plaid swim trunks. I had sand kicked in my face by a 7-year-old with a Mohawk. My only friend was my hamster, Ben.

THEN a friend told me about Nikki Stafford's Finding LOST series and I borrowed some money from my mother so that I could go to the bookstore at the mall and buy myself a copy.

NOW I am a strapping 195 lbs. and the girls at the beach all comment on my buns of steel when I walk by in my Speedo. I buried the kid with a Mohawk in a sand pit and his mother not only thanked me, but asked me to come over and clean her gutters while she admires my washboard abs. Ben and I moved to a houseboat at the Marina and the guys at the boatyard invited me to join their weekly poker game.

THANKS, Nikki! I owe it all to you and your life-saving Finding LOST series. They are fun and affordable and I think everybody should own a complete set. They're SWELL!

*Actual mileage may vary. Offer void where prohibited by law. Please consult a physician before reading these books if you have a heart condition, are pregnant or think you may become pregnant or are easily spooked by jungle whispers, polar bears, smoke monsters or visions of deceased persons. Please do not operate the Frozen Donkey Wheel without the appropriate headgear. If your enjoyment of the series lasts longer than six seasons, please consult your doctor immediately.*

(By the way, for anyone wondering where my synopsis of Season 4 is on the other blog, I'm at my parents' for Christmas and I don't have access to my own computer, so I will post it tonight or first thing tomorrow morning.) ;)