Please accept my thanks and my apology

I've been a bad monkey. I forgot to thank all the generous, wise, smart and great looking people who named me a "Kick Ass Blogger." So please accept my apology for not thanking you sooner and please join

this Ann Murray single,

Bristol Palin's body double,

Mr. Pipe,
Delta Dawn,

and the late Huey Newtonin expressing my undying gratitude to all those who gave me this award:
I especially want to single out the lovely Fredia Bee for her "kick assedness" in giving me this kick ass award.

Thank you for singling me out the way you did Ms. Bee. You kick ass.

I am doubly honored

My good friends Blueberry and Delia Guzman have seen fit to award me the fine award you see here. This award means the world to me especially since it's coming from two blogging women who I admire and respect so much. It's always nice to be recognized for one's work and it's even nicer when people as intelligent and progressive as these two gals do it. Thanks ladies for your kind words about me and my blog, it's a pleasure to write this stuff when I know that people like you are reading it.

I get to pass this along to others who I think are worthy. Delia already gave one to one of my blogging idols, Vikkitikkitavi, but there's a slew of others out there who need one of these as well. But before I give it away I need to post the rules, so here they are:

1) Pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award which is here: Arte y Pico.

Okay, now that we got that out of the way let's get on with the glittering award giving:

1) Rev. John Shuck of Shuck and Jive gets one for his creative use of religion and his work on behalf of teh gays and teh peace. Organized religion is not my bag at all but if there were more people like John in it then I might change my mind, maybe.
2) Chris of Some Guy's Blog gets one for his creative use of poop jokes and all the other stuff he does that makes me laugh.
3) The couplets alone qualify Splotchy for one of these awards so he gets one too.
4) No one is more creative than Becca, she draws, she blogs, and she's quite the cutie as well, so I'm proud to award one of these to her.
5) My friend Snad doesn't blog much but she has us over to her house all the time, she got us involved in local activism, and she introduced us to our other friends Brian and June so for all that and much more I'm awarding her one of these thingys as well.

Thanks for all your great blogging you five who I chose, and thanks again to Blueberry and Delia for giving me one of these.

The honors keep rolling in

The lovely and talented Fran of Franiam awarded me one of these. As I have said before I love getting these awards from fellow bloggers because it means that people are not only reading my stuff, they are responding to it. I feel like Fran is my little sister because she started her blog after mine and I was one of the first few bloggers she blog rolled, well Princess Sparkle Pony and Matty Boy were the first but why quibble when it's my feckin' blog. Fran and I have different views of religion but we agree almost 100 % when it comes to politics. Thanks so much Fran for the honor.

I in turn am supposed to award this now to five other bloggers. My choices are:

1) My brother from another mother Samurai Frog. He's not as political as most but when he writes about politics I think he's dead on. He's also the most provocative pop culture observer and reporter ever.

2) Johnny Yen may not write as much about politics and history as he used to but when he does it's a thing of beauty.

3) I think Pam at Musings of Working Mom and I were either related to one another in a past life or we were the same person. I love her take on the dirty deeds going on in DC and in the Middle East.

4) I just started reading Hill Country Gal, I have a prejudice against Texans that I am working through so no wonder I'm late to her anti Bush party. The woman is by turns mean, funny, and dazzling.

5) Angry Ballerina may not think she is a political writer but she in fact is one. All politics are local and the personal is political, as they say. No one writes better rants about addiction, body image, and life in general than the Peeved Terpsichorean girl. She's got a wisdom way beyond her years.

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.

It's an honor

Once again I am being honored with glittering prizes and awards. This of course should come as no shock to my loyal readers because they recognized my genius right away. Unfortunately for the rest of mankind it's taken them a bit longer to discover the brilliance of me.


In the past few days I have been awarded the following prizes and awards:

The Nobel Prize for blogging. (Suck on that Michelle Malkin!)
A slice of the prized Pie of Discontentment. (Eat that Bill O'Reilly, oh wait you can't because it's mine!)
A Green "Good Job" Ribbon just for taking a 1974 Impala on a test drive at a local used car lot. (Top that you NASCAR geeks!)

A set of Hitler stamps. (I threw them away.)


The Man Booker Prize for my novel Trouble De Ville. (And I'm not even British!)

The Chartreuse Ribbon of Idiocy and Banality.

While those prizes were nice, these are the two I am most proud of:

The lovely and talented Becca , who's blog is one of the blogs that inspired me to start this blog by the way, and the young but getting smarter every day since he is recognizing my genius JD both have seen fit to give me this award:

I consider this, all jokes aside, a high honor. To be recognized by someone like Becca who I so admire is really gratifying. And to be honored by someone so much younger than me is an incredibly nice thing as well, I have long harbored the dark desire to corrupt young minds and it looks like I am succeeding.

In accepting this great honor from these two fine human beings I must display the rules about the honor and I will do so now:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.

2. Link to this post so that people can find the exact origin of the meme.

3. Optional: Proudly display the Thinking Blogger Award on your site with a link to the post that you wrote.

So now I get pick ten bloggers, since I got the award twice I get ten, so there, nah nah nah, to give this honor to and I choose the following people:

1) Boxer Rebellion-He's a newbie but he's a goodie.

2) Katie Schwartz-She's not been posting much lately but when she does she makes me howl with laughter most of the time. If you ever need a quick laugh go through her archives, mmm, how dirty does that sound? "Hey Katie, you sit still and I'll go through your archives baby. Trust me you'll love it!"

3) Amy Guth-She's Katies BFF, a novelist, a literary hostess with the mostess, and an all around pretty darn cute gal.

4) Death Wore a Feathered Mullet-Funny, smart, funny as hell, intelligent, and did I mention how funny this guy is? Go, read, and enjoy.

5) Cap'n Dyke-Oh Cap'n my Cap'n, how much do I love your blog? Some would say too much, but then those people would be wrong. Sail on Cap'n and I eagerly await every new installment of your adventures.

6) Jess Wundrun-Another new blogger. She's a gal after my own heart though because she blogs so much and it's all drenched in cheesy Wisconsin goodness.

7)Liberality-I love her takes on politics, life, and most everything in general. What with her and Evil Spock, I think Indiana may be producing some of the best bloggers in the land.

8)Pam the working mom who muses-I think she and I may have been related in a past life. Her sense of outrage over this mess the Chickenhawk in Chief has gotten us into rivals mine. And if the her political writings weren't enough to keep you going back day after day, now she's posting pictures of her off the scale cute kids now.

9) Pissed off Patricia-Oh how I love a gal who titles her blog "Morning Martini." She has great takes on most everything and it seems like everyone in the world reads and comments on her blog.

10) Kelsi-This won't take a while to say that she's funny, smart, and quite the good read even with her ee cummings style of not using any capital letters if she can help it. She's also prone to posting pictures of her cute as a button neice on her blog too. Thank good ness Kelsi is off the wall but not quite on on the floor either.

I could have given the award to bloggers like Evil Spock, who I love, Dr. Zaius, and to D Cup, who I love and adore, but they've won it before but I think they know how much I appreciate their blogs.

The other award I got recently is this:
Splotchy tossed this back in my face after I gave him the award. Thanks Splotchy, I am honored you like my comments on your blog, and just so you know, that story about your daughter's wet fart killed me. She's a kid after my own heart.

Now I get to turn around and award the following people this schmooze award for their comments on my blog:

1. Bubs-You rock, your comments rock, and your blog rocks harder than granite.

2. Fran-Oy what comments she gives. Thanks for spending so much time here Fran.

3. Not Soccer Mom-While her comments may be spare at times on here, I forgive her because she's got a young son to look after.

4. Greensunflower-My new BFF out in Cali. She is sweeter than sugar, most of the time, in her comments here.

5. PJ-Hands down my favorite Brit. Her comments always make me smile or laugh.

Thanks to all of you who honored me. And to all of you who read me, you honor me every time you read one of my posts.