ah yes, the suspense for round 1 is over at My Blahg’s Canadian Blog awards. Here’s a breakdown of the top four in each category from ROUND ONE, with emphasis of those on my blog roll:
Best Blog:
Raymi the Minx (317) 8%
Debaucherous and Dishevelled (163) 4%
oRadio (158) 4%
Smart Canucks (105) 3%
* Peace Order and Good Government, eh? (POGGE), still has a chance to move up in the rankings, placing at (81), 2%.
Best Conservative Blog:
Small Dead Animals (128) 14%
The Prairie Wranglers (96) 10%
Stephen Taylor (81) 9%
The Canadian Sentinel (65) 7%
*while I don’t link Chucker Canuk , he’s a good sort and can be seen around at some of the progressive blogs with his humour. He has the chance to make it into the top three with (58), 6%
Best Progressive Blog
Calgary Grit (149) 10%
Matthew Good (109) 7%
Peace, Order and Good Government, Eh (88) 6% (there’s one for the HV blogroll)
The Next Agenda (82) 5%
Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy (67) 4%
Best New Blog
Meg Fowler (168) 7%
oRadio (156) 6%
Harper-valley (145) 6%
Gay Persons of Color (113) 4%
* hey, paying everyone off was a good idea! this one was unexpected.
Best Group Blog
oRadio (152) 9%
Peace, Order and Good Government, Eh (145) 9%
The Stroumboulopouli (140) 8%
The Galloping Beaver (131) 8%
* Pogge or the Galloping Beaver could be bumped up by your votes!
Best Humour Blog
Rick Mercer’s Blog (345) 19%
Raymi the Minx (294) 16%
Harper-valley (194) 10%
The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns (94) 5%
* I’m going to ask for a show on CBC! well, keep voting for me, I won’t catch up to Mercer but he doesn’t link to anyone here 
Best photo/art Blog:
Photo-persistence (132) 9%
Parvum Opus (115) 8%
Photojunkie (108) 8%
Walk This Way (104) 7%
* i confess, i haven’t seen these sites…yet! pathetic for someone who’s been involved in the arts since grade 8…gulp!!!
Best Entertainment Blog
oRadio (157) 14%
Bow. James Bow (82) 7%
Popped Culture (81) 7%
Bookninja (70) 6%
*not my thing, haven’t checked then out…yet!
Best Personal Blog
Raymi the Minx (301) 10%
Resistance to Persistence (134) 4%
Meg Fowler (119) 4%
SheenaVision (106) 4%
* come on, come on, let’s bump Sheena up there!!!
Best Media Blog:
Inkless Wells (215) 18%
Azerbic (181) 15%
Montreal City Weblog (160) 14%
CBC Radio 3 (137) 12%
Inside The CBC (107) 9%
* am i the only one who doesn’t vote in this category???
Best Business Blog
Vancouver Housing Market Blog (631) 59%
My Name Is Kate (60) 6%
Uninstalled (45) 4%
The Other Bloke’s Blog (40) 4%
*ya got me, guess i’ll be checking these out!
Best Religious Blog:
(e)mergent Voyagers (95) 16%
Jesus Drives An SUV (81) 13%
Felix Hominum (72) 12%
Aaron’s Head (63) 10%
*i guess everyone deserves a place….Aarons Head??? poor guy doesn’t know it sounds like shades of haggart.
Best Sports Blog
RaptorBlog (286) 27%
The Battle of Alberta (157) 15%
The Joy of Sox (101) 10%
Nascar Ranting and Raving Blog (77) 7%
*if it ain’t lacrosse why should i bother?
Best Blog Post:
Idealistic Pragmatist: Jack Layton’s sinister mind control experiment (80) 6%
Peace, Order and Good Government, Eh: Fly on the Wall (72) 5%
The Next Agenda: Terry Fox (71) 5%
Nascar Ranting and Raving Blog: A Touching Greg Moore Story – In My Opinion Anyway (64) 5%
* go Pogge,go! The Galloping Beaver still has a chance to move up with (54) 4%
Best Blog Series:
Harper-valley: If Only They Were Normal (184) 21%
Sunshine Scribe: Flashback Fridays (156) 18%
Stageleft: Conucopia (77) 9%
Blork Blog: Of People and Places (74) 8%
* ahhhh! who’da thunk a little photoshopping would have done this? keep voting, i’m scared of people behind me!!!
Best Actitivities Blog:
You Grow Girl: The Dirt (122) 19%
My Dinner Table (76) 12%
Blork Blog (76) 12%
The Silent K (75) 12%
*i’m stumped…what is a blog activity? guess i’ll find out now.
Best Cultural Blog:
Gay Persons of Color (144) 22%
Slap Upside The Head (100) 15%
Somena Media (80) 12%
The Internationalist (70) 11%
*our friend jeff of African Perspective should be way up further then he is….it’s a damned fine site. please vote for jeff and pass this on to your friends.
Best Family Blog:
Postcards from the Mothership (105) 9%
Her Bad Mother (100) 9%
Debaucherous and Dishevelled (100) 9%
Metro Mama (98) 8%
*when your kid’s grown up , well, they’re just not blogs i would gravitate to.
Best Local Blog:
Vancouver Housing Market Blog (588) 39%
The East-End Underground (131) 9%
Torontoist (121) 8%
Freddybeach Cabbie (88) 6%
*i don’t live in these places , so…..
Best Sci/TechBlog:
Off The Grid (107) 19%
Amber Mac (89) 16%
Gecko Bloggle (53) 10%
The Homely Scientist (48) 9%
*well these are going to be interesting to check out….hope they’re layman’s terms!!!
I’m surprised by some of the placings, but asides from having 1. been nominated (and many werent that could/should have been), a lot of it, as we know, is how many friends you can round up to vote for you. i have one friend , an imaginary one, but i did spend all my allowance on bribes to group therapy participants listed on the web. there’s going to be a lot of rubber cheques bouncing around the banks.
It’s all in fun, yet even so, if you look at the amount of Canadian blogs nominated, there’s an aspect that’s quite deep…so many people are not going by mainstream media anymore and the numbers are growing. So good for My Blahg for doing all this work, and let’s all keep on a’blogging becaue it’s more then just a personal outlet , IT’S IMPORTANT. Awards or not, I stay loyal to my blogroll as they’re damn fine people with great blogs!
oh, and keep voting for me, the cracks about rubber cheques was just joking, honest….the money’s in the mail and the paper’s good. heh, um, think i’ll slink out of the room now…..
PAYPAL
Congratulations, Scout! I didn’t even know this was going on. The only other blog I’ve heard of in your lists is The Strouboulopouli, who I link to, too.
Comment by Wandering Coyote — November 22, 2006 @ 4:12 pm
Congrats, Scoutyone! You deserve it. You obviously had more dead people on your side, or at least ones that were better mummified.
As I said back at my place, I have some freakin’ hilarous ideas for an ad campaign against that Mercer bastard. I’ll get you a TV show by the time we are done. Is cable access okay? And, will you let me do the movie reviews?
Comment by havril — November 22, 2006 @ 4:16 pm
coyote….well, i haven’t been the best promoter in the world…but ah, now that ya know VOTE!!! once a day…tell your friends and i’ll send them rubber, er, i mean, certified cheques
havril, thanks. i already conceded to you though. that means you’re in it with me now to put mercer and that rami the minx in their place. we don’t have tv shows, we don’t sell products with our blog on it…..and most of all YOU CAN COMMENT ON OUR SITES!!!
however, we can still do an ad campaign against them and cable access is fine…..what, i’ll be on channel 340 or something? you can do the movie reviews plus co-star….how about producing, do you smoke cigars???
Comment by harpervalley — November 22, 2006 @ 4:27 pm
Congrats scout, excellent first round! Pretty good for having fun?
I know her poor mom.
That raymi’s a little brat
Comment by Q — November 22, 2006 @ 5:11 pm
Yabbut Scout, after we wipe the floor with the awards, we can START selling stuff on our sites… right?
Comment by Sheena — November 22, 2006 @ 5:38 pm
Congratulations scout, that’s awesome! You and Sheenavision were the only ones I voted for that made it:( Is this it? Do we vote for the top 5 or whatever now?
Comment by JJ — November 22, 2006 @ 5:57 pm
Q, thanks…..and all in many a day’s fun
ya, who knows what could happen in round two??? oh no, i checked out raymi’s blog and hoo , wouldn’t want to be her mom….mind you i wouldn’t have wanted to have been my mom 
Sheena, oh, er, right of course!!! let’s see….we have to be a bit ‘differnt’ how about butt plugs?
JJ, thanks, i have no idea what takes place now….i dont know, the number six keeps leaping at me but maybe because i like a half dozen. i posted four here as that’s a special number.
Comment by harpervalley — November 22, 2006 @ 6:47 pm
I feel like Amber in Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Comment by Sheena — November 22, 2006 @ 7:12 pm
Congrats Scout! Looks like we’ll both be in round 2 in different categories. Way to go! I’ll be pushing for you in both your categories.
Comment by Dave — November 22, 2006 @ 7:53 pm
I’ve endorsed you for Humour, and maybe we can work out some kind of over the top cross blog promotion for the coming week?
Comment by Saskboy — November 22, 2006 @ 9:08 pm
I won’t catch up to Mercer
Round 2 is a completely new vote. So right now you’re tied with Mercer.
Comment by Robert McClelland — November 22, 2006 @ 9:37 pm
sheena…..i don’t know what movie or tv show you’re talking about….does this mean i’m fired?
dave….thanks, and congrats to you too….i’ll keep pumping for you….was that ‘best religious blog’? joking, joking!!!
saskboy, whooooo….coress blog promo….is that like cross dressing, if so, count me in…….and i still think you should have won the new fridge. seriously, it still bothers me.
robert……well, interesting perspective!!!! can you make it so i’m tied-up with mercer….he’s kinda cute. thanks for all the work on this….i’m sure you’ve been in html hell.
Comment by harpervalley — November 22, 2006 @ 10:08 pm
An email is headed your way Scout with details on how we’ll beat Mercer
In the competition, not with clubs.
Comment by Saskboy — November 22, 2006 @ 10:13 pm
I confess to being a bit bummed out in the light of day. I mean, Raymi is the main competition in the personal blog category, and well, I’m just getting too old for titty pictures of my self and stories about my twat. Sigh. Maybe I should just pack it in. Or maybe challenge the others to an all-candidates debate.
Comment by Sheena — November 23, 2006 @ 10:42 am
Sheena – It’s easy — just get yourself a myspace page, round up 2 or 3,000 “myspace friends”, and post a message at the top telling them to vote for you. Seems to work. {eye-roll}
Seriously, I know myblahg puts in a lot of work on it and that’s great, but the voting process needs to be revisited.
Comment by JJ — November 23, 2006 @ 3:35 pm
No way, JJ. Every new myspace page is a nickel in the jar of the Rupert Murdoch retirement fund.
I’ll just have to do this the old fashioned way and hire a hacker.
Comment by Sheena — November 23, 2006 @ 5:30 pm
saskboy,no clubs? i thought, you know, maybe we could have a few nights out on the town.
sheena, don’t mind rami the gerbil. with our scheme of steve autographed butt plugs, we’re bound to pull it off for sure. plus i’ve got a tatoo of che guevera done in cuba and that beats out her twat anyday. i’m sure you told me once you have castro tatooed on your butt, didn’t you?
what’s this myspace stuff? jj, you and sheena know scout is slow on the draw. ok, i think i got it now. hmmm. i think saskboy said he hacks for blowjobs, but i retired my lips after 25 years of marriage…in fact their hanging over there on the wall. that’s why i blog, i can’t talk.
Comment by harpervalley — November 23, 2006 @ 10:57 pm
This is Dohraymi the Gerbil. I just smoked some crack and a joint and shot a deer. I checked out all your blogs and you’re lame ass middle age retards. I have product, do you hear me, PRODUCT. And my twat rules.
I put a lot of effort into exploiting myself and my fan base. Try catering to the pubescent crowd, they love to vote. And quit talking politics, as though that’s important. HAH, not when you’ve got szie 38 DD’s ready to pull your back out of shape and make you a cripple by the time I’m your age.
Eat my tasty shit.
Comment by Doh!raymi — November 23, 2006 @ 11:08 pm
Well, I’m not ready to tell stories about my twat, so I’m talking about Barbara Bush’s snatch instead over at sheenavision.
Comment by Sheena — November 24, 2006 @ 3:26 am
MySpace is awesome. If you don’t have a MySpace page, I’ve heard it on go authority that you’re “gay”, a “loser”, ” or even a “square”.
I made a MySpace page because I didn’t want to be a square. It’s so good, it’s baddd
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/09/26/myspace/
Comment by Saskboy — November 24, 2006 @ 6:37 am
saskboy, i don’t know….i may remainan L 7, or not.
Comment by harpervalley — November 25, 2006 @ 7:52 pm