Yesterday I got an email from southofboston.com about the Battle of the Blogs. Guess who won? Well, it wasn't me. It was this one. I still get $250, so at least I'm slightly less broke. So I've got that going fo me, which is nice.
Anyway, congratulations to Jolianne Chaffee, and thanks to all the readers from southofboston.com. I hope you enjoyed reading my stuff and decide to keep coming back. I got this really nice comment from someone named Nicole a while back:
"This entry has finally compelled me to post a comment. I stumbled upon your site via the Battle of the Blogs and I'm hooked. If you don't win, there is no justice in the world. Anyway- I had to write because oddly enough I knew exactly what 'Scooter my daisy heads' meant when I read it. For some reason I found that commercial to be hysterical- as I do the shiny spoons story. My mother should have married your father, she can't get a story right to save her life."
That was pretty cool. Not only was it a ringing endorsement from my potential sister, but she actually remembered that commercial. So special thanks to Nicole and everyone that wrote to the judges and supported me. Unless you wrote something derogatory about the judges' mothers. Thanks for costing me the contest, jerkwads!
The weekend of the deadline, the Patriot Ledger printed samples of the finalists' blogs. Here's what they ran from mine:
Anyone who rides it with any regularity should know that if they need to be somewhere, they need to leave at least two hours early to account for the inevitable delays, switching problems, out-of-service trains, and other intangibles that make up the T experience. Sometimes I feel like I'm Mario, work is the Princess, and the MBTA is Donkey Kong, hurling barrel after barrel at me to keep me from my destination.
I thought that was sort of a dubious choice, considering the very next line I wrote was "That probably wasn't the best metaphor." I would have went with my slogan for the T, "Why be late for work, when you can be late for work AND smell like three hundred other people?" Oh well, it's not that bad. Although now I've got that damn song in my head again.
So what now? Well, the Bloggies aren't until next year, but I've got a feeling that next year will be the year. I can almost taste the twenty dollars. And it's delicious. In the meantime, there's always Blog Rankings. Earlier this year, I got as far as number nine, before falling to fourteen. I've been at fourteen for months, but I just noticed I'm back up to thirteen now. Woo-hoo! So if you haven't done so already (you can only do it once) head on over there and rank my blog! I'm not actually sure how it works, honestly. The top-ranked blog only has a rating of 6.59 out of 10, so I think they go by number of hits. Or not. Let's see if I can get at least ranked higher than "The Lesbian Lifestyle."
