Swag Report

The incomparable Missy from the frozen wasteland that is Minnesota sent me some swag! She sent me this cool card with a Spock Monkey on it:
And inside that card was this button:
Yay! Yay Missy! Thanks for not getting arrested during the Republican convention and for thinking of yours truly. Thanks for the card and the button. As Elvis Costello says, "I'll wear it proudly."

Once again a maiden from the frozen north has showered me with swag. The rest of you in other parts of the country needs to ask yourselves, "Why have I been so selfish? Why have I not given Monkey a token of my affection? He does so much for me, why can't I do something nice for him?"

Uruguay is up

No, it's actually down.

Unless you're standing at the bottom of South America then it's up.

Well, if you're going to split hairs then I'm just going to shut up.

Good, you be quiet and go read my first full fledged country post on Missy's Belated Geography blog. I promise you that you will not find this gratuitous photo of Uruguayan actress Barbara Mori over there:

Nor will you see this one over there:

Howver, I can make no such claim about this photo of her:

Go, read, learn more about the other countries of the world.

I am pregnant with gratitude

Becca at No Smoking in the Skull Cave awarded me one of these

I am incredibly honored since she is one of the reasons why I began blogging in the first place. To recieve an award from someone as truly creative as she is leaves me almost speechless. If you want to see creative go to her place and look at her sketches and if she'll let you, dig through her archives and look at all her great writing and photos. Her series on under appreciated movies is astounding as is her Colin Farrell's House Party. Becca is the dream friend I always wanted and now I have, so what if we've never actually met and that we live hundreds of miles apart. I love everything she writes, photographs, sketches, and posts and I love it that she thinks highly of me and my blog o' terror.

From the bottom of my heart Becca I say, "Thank you!"

Now the other thing about getting this award is I get to turn around and give it to five bloggers. And to you five bloggers who are about to get this award from me, I don't care if you do memes or not, I want to give you this because you are funny, provocative, smart, talented, and a must read everyday. Now on with the my choices:

D Cup at Politits. No one writes about family life, popular culture, and politics more creatively than her. She is my hero and when I grow up I want to write like her and to have as rabid a following as she does.

Evil Spock at The Needs of the Few. I read his missives and I think to myself, how will I ever write as well as that? And then I remember that blogging is not a competition but I'm still jealous of the evil one.

Bubs at Sprawling Ramshackle Campground. I love how Bubs writes about his family, his cocktails, his love of Elvis, his job, and how he also tosses in features like Weenie Waver Wednesdays and Florida or Germany? I'm not gonna mention how much I like him because he sends me pictures of him and his lovely daughter holding Crunky bars. Maybe one day Miz Bubs will consent to hold some Crunky and I'll be able to complete the Bubs family trifecta.

Mad Haiku. Whats not to love? Cool collage art and haikus about everything. I'm convinced he's a feckin' genius.

And last but definitely not least, Missy from Minnesota, what is it about gals from the North country lately anway?

She's got two blogs. This one and this one. And I love them both.

So all five of my choices thanks to you for all you do and you can pass the honors along if you like. You are all great in your own way. However, the rest of you mugs on my blog roll had better shape up and start writing even better stuff than before. Who knows, maybe one day I'll toss you an honor on my way to the top.