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You Know You Want Me

January 4, 2009 by WendyB

It’s like Chicago here — you get to vote early and often for moi. After sweeping the big ego and cussin’ categories in the prestigious Drysdale Awards thanks to you gorgeous bitches, I am now a finalist in the Best Fashion Blog category for the 2008 Weblog Awards*.

My competition is tough and it includes my own gorgeous blogging friends Winona of Daddy Likey; Craig of Altamira NYC; and Annie Spandex. There are also fabulous blogs like Manolo and The Sartorialist, but they’re mainstream media now, with their shit in the Washington Post and Vogues across the world. They don’t need your help! I do! I can’t live without your love! I can’t live if living is without you. I can’t live. I can’t give anymore. Harry, for God’s sake, tell them!

There are other reasons to vote for me besides my desperate need for affection. Consider the following:

  • I give great acceptance speeches.
  • I am the ruler of the planet Houston.
  • I will imprint a curse word on your face with my fist if I lose.
  • Voting for me means that a blogger can write about her interests other than fashion and still be considered a fashion blogger, which would be a nice “fuck you” to anyone who has told me otherwise.
  • If you don’t vote for me, the terrorists win.
  • Yes, we can!
  • I’m think I’m older than all three of the gorgeous blogger friends mentioned above. If so, I probably have fewer years left and, therefore, fewer opportunities to win a Weblog Award. My competitors are young and will have many more opportunities. In short, I am Jack Palance at the Oscars in 1992 and they are Tommy Lee Jones. Tommy just had to wait a couple of years to get his award. Plus I will be like Jack and do this for you if I win. And yeah, I’ll tape it.

So hop to it! My littlest fan, Danny Devito, is dying to open a celebratory bottle of booze.

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Do it for Danny! Click on the box below.

The 2008 Weblog Awards

*Special thanks to the shockingly handsome Micgar for nominating me. If George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron and Angelina Jolie all had a baby together, it would be Micgar. That’s how good-looking he is. Seriously, y’all. Don’t look directly at him; it’s like staring into the sun.

UPDATED TO ADD: For those of you who can’t figure out the how to vote: the awards website originally said voting was going to start on Jan. 5, but there’s a countdown on the voting page that says voting will start right about midnight, which I wouldn’t have really described as January 5. Hmmm. So check back tomorrow, I guess! Don’t worry, I’ll remind you.

UPDATED AGAIN TO ADD: The polls are open! Vote for me. A vote for me is a vote for Danny Devito. Show Danny the love.

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Comments

  1. Petra says

    January 4, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    Happy New year! I hope its a great one for you, and that you get everything you want xx

  2. Nina (femme rationale) says

    January 4, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    your recent comment seriously cracked me up. i love your sense of humor. happy 2009! and good luck w/the blog award! 😉

  3. Sharon Rose says

    January 5, 2009 at 1:00 am

    Hi there-you go girl!! You must win this at all costs!

  4. Fashion Therapist says

    January 5, 2009 at 4:34 am

    Congrats on the blog award nomination and good luck!

  5. Jen (MahaloFashion) says

    January 5, 2009 at 5:13 am

    I’ve never heard of Altamira, I i think got the picture off thefashionspot, I’ll link them as a source now though.

  6. Swell Vintage - Frankie says

    January 5, 2009 at 5:27 am

    You’ve got my vote! x

  7. Little Lj says

    January 5, 2009 at 5:45 am

    I am definitely voting for you!! After all those carefully explained arguements: how can I not! Hilarious!!

  8. Sandra @ Debutanteclothing.com says

    January 5, 2009 at 7:25 am

    Damn girl! You are on fire! But will you then become mainstream media and then start minding your Fs and Us? Oh and Ss?

    I vote for you, but on the condition you will keep it filthy mouthed and real!

    xx.

  9. CDP says

    January 5, 2009 at 7:28 am

    I just voted for you! And remember, my vote is a fucking valuable thing, I don’t normally just fucking give it away, but I’ll make an exception for you. Good luck!

  10. enc says

    January 5, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Being a native of Chicagoland, voting “early” and “often” is in my blood. I’ll be right there, stuffing the ballot box.

  11. pretty face says

    January 5, 2009 at 8:53 am

    I love that line: Don’t worry, I’ll remind you. As if that needed saying 😉

    I didn’t even realise this many blogs existed!

  12. ambika says

    January 5, 2009 at 10:41 am

    How awesome to have been nominated! I’m off to vote!

  13. She's Dressing Up says

    January 5, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Danny Devito is very persuading… =] Congrats on the nomination!

  14. She's Dressing Up says

    January 5, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Danny Devito is very persuading… =] Congrats on the nomination!

  15. Miss Janey says

    January 5, 2009 at 11:41 am

    So no, “It’s an honor just to be nominated” BS from WendyB, eh? Miss J loves a shamelss self-promoter so of course you have her vote.

  16. Grant Miller says

    January 5, 2009 at 11:51 am

    I will vote for you, but you gotta admit The Drysdale is a much nicer trophy.

  17. lisa says

    January 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    LOL you crack me up! I got this weird countdown thing when I clicked the link that said voting doesn’t open for another 13 hours, but I will vote for you as soon as it does! Congratulations on the nomination. 🙂

    P.S. I asked my friend Felix to take a pic of me in the squirrel necklace with his souped-up camera. He’ll probably send it to me sometime this week. BTW, have I mentioned how much I love it? Because I do… 😀

  18. petite and dynamite says

    January 5, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    TRouble at the voting booth!!

    just clicked on the box, to vote for your blog and it directed me to your blog ?? Are the votes counted now ?? or is there still a countdown to when we start voting ??? and I’m not even in Florida..

  19. TheSundayBest says

    January 5, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    If I have any pull in the blog world at all–I don’t–than you, or possibly Winona, will win!

    But not those other people. Because I don’t know them, or they are already way too famous.

  20. THE HOUSE OF STYLE says

    January 5, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    congrats on your nomination!!! y ou go girl,the post had me giggling right from your fab campaign song to your reasons why you deserve to be voted for :o)
    muah,
    marian

  21. Diabolina Da Fashionista says

    January 5, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    ugh. you are beautiful. And hilarious. You got my voteS. Yes, plural 😉

  22. Make Do Style says

    January 5, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Done – I have officially cast the first vote for you! Only Manolo had one other vote – you are joint first currently!!

  23. Gamutrice says

    January 5, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    From the Rhyme-O-Matic:

    You have my vote but, it don’t come cheap
    all I want
    is Obama’s old seat.

  24. copperoranges says

    January 5, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    i voted! 😉

  25. K.Line says

    January 5, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    OK, you got my vote. But only cuz you’re so old and profane 🙂

  26. La Belette Rouge says

    January 5, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Congratulations! And, as I am from Chicago I will vote early and often and see if I can get Blagojevich to help.

  27. Fashion Tidbits says

    January 5, 2009 at 9:13 pm

    i’m showing Danny THE love!!!! 😛 hope you win

  28. Nina (femme rationale) says

    January 5, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    i voted for you & danny! i hope you win!!

  29. G.G. says

    January 5, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    You had me at Jack Palance! Vote registered 🙂

  30. Songy says

    January 7, 2009 at 1:23 am

    Done and dusted.. I cannot believe fug yourself is leading the way.. what the!

  31. Moira says

    January 7, 2009 at 10:20 am

    Mission accomplished. But the Fugs are still leading : (

  32. Micgar says

    April 5, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Jeebus! How in the hell did I miss that compliment!? You like me…you really like me!
    (I know, I know, everybody’s used that line!)

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