A big "Thank You"

for the very kind thought to melina, cheyanne and Anonymous for dropping my rolled up socks into the Great Barrel of Consideration over at the Weblog Awards



and my continuous, ongoing and too-infrequently mentioned thanks to the wonderful blasphemers and sweet-smelling fellow America-haters who read, comment so insightfully, and say altogether too-nice things about the words I string together over here at my pie wagon.

I am deeply agnostic about awards in general -- realizing at once how important it is to shine a big light on those who till the digital soil so tirelessly, beautifully and usually uncompensatedly, how simply and greedily cool it feels to win stuff, and how easily contests of any kind can intrude as a source of unwanted and unasked for competition among people who should think of themselves as peers -- but I recognize and deeply appreciate the sentiments behind them.

Thank you.