Blog of the Month, and stuff

It's the 6th of February, which means that (as usual) I'm a week late for announcing who has won the Blog of the Month award for January. Brilliant! I'm so shit it's not even worth discussing it. I have my excuses of course (busy with work from, err, work; bloody tired from staying up watching cricket and Superbowl, which aren't really excuses because that's just my own stupid fault, but anyway) as you should always make sure that you have excuses. They come in useful occasionally. For stuff. And other things. Fart.

I'm going to shut up and get on with it, otherwise I'm going to be here all night.

The winner of the Mighty And Incredibly Important Swampy Award For Blog Of The Month For January 2007 (cue extended drum roll due to unfeasibly extended award name) is....

AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS

Who, besides having a very cool and well-designed site (the design of which has also been utilised by others who might have a very very good blog too, and that's all I'm going to say on the matter before someone gets into an argument) quite possibly, and probably, writes more than any other blogger I've ever had the pleasure of stumbling across in a vaguely disinterested but ooh wait a minute what have we here kind of a way. His site has more nooks and crannies (that cannot be how you spell it; it's too close to trannies, surely?) than you have pet hamsters that could get lost in them. Reminds me of that time I got a girl called Hannah's pet hamster stuck in my trouser pocket during Pet Day at my old junior school, and had to go off to the toilets to take my trousers off so that the poor creature could be removed without permanently damaging it. I think that episode probably scarred me mentally for the next 15 years, which might explain my horribly withdrawn teenagerdom. Yes, that's probably it. Hamster related psychological meltdown. I knew there was something wrong with me.

Where was I? Oh yes, An Unreliable Witness. SO, as well as all that wonderful writing, which is more than enough to help secure this award on it's own (and there really is alot of writing, I can't stress this point enough) we have tons of excerpts from his old website, loads of witty post-it notes all over the place, something called the Twelve days of Christmas which is disturbing rather than twee (just how I like it), and also his lovely Animal Fables, which aren't conventionally lovely, more slightly fuckedupedly lovely, which again is right up my back alley, as it were.

Basically there's a shitting great truckload of brilliant writing in that there site, and I urge one and all to go and read it right now if you haven't already done so which I doubt seeing as it's apparently one of the most popular blogs in the country, as evidenced by him being nominated for a Bloggie (eurrgh!) for best UK and Ireland Blog, or something. Whatever it is it's not as supercool as these here Swampys wot I made.  So whether he wins that or not doesn't really matter now seeing as he's won this, so there you go Mr UW, you can die happy now. Your work is done. Actually please don't die, because then you'd have to work out a way of blogging from beyond the grave, and despite being an avid watcher of Most Haunted I don't think that that is actually possible. Plus it would be such a waste seeing as you've just gone and bought a nice shiny Macbook. Don't waste the Mac.

I rambled a bit there but the general gist of it all is that Mr UW has a lovely blog and is totally deserving of this. And he is the only person as of this moment to send me a direct message in Twitter offering lovely advice about web hosting companies. What a nice bloke!

And after all that I think I should add that I haven't just been reading that one blog all month. No, I have occasionally found a spare thirty seconds in which to skim read these other new lovelies:

Annie Rhiannon
Blogography (AKA Stuart)
Furtive Minx
Joella
LDNY (AKA Morgan)
Le Petit Hiboux (AKA Krissa)
Meish dot org (AKA Meg)
Mommy Has A Headache (AKA Emma)
Reasons to be Cheerful (AKA Cheerful One)
Running From Camera (megathankyous to Gordon for the linky love)

I don't know why I've included loads of AKA's. I've never felt the need to do that before. Oh well, who gives a shit? You're all people and you all have real names in real life so there. An extra special hello to Morgan who's blog is very very new indeed. It's just been born in fact. It is a tiny newborn blog that hasn't opened it's eyes yet and makes weird gurgly noises and waves it's legs about in a silly but cute way. Yes, as is very clear indeed now thanks to that last sentence, I would like children. Lots of them. But that's another post entirely.

Comments

[Mrs Charlotte Timmy Baggins]

Aww, he wants babies!! I find that amazing and cute and I live with the grumpy old bugger.

[oe]

Good call, I like the UW too.

[An Unreliable Witness]

I am overwhelmed. And stunned. Though not so overwhelmed and stunned that I won't accept the award. Because I like prizes. In my new guise as a mercenary, whoring trollop, I LOVE prizes. I think I'm overcompensating for never having won a sodding thing at school, you know.

Thanks again.

[Cheerful One]

Ooh!

Oh, and I'd like to mention that I knew UW before he had long hair :)

[Jack]

A delicious choice of which I approve wholeheartedly.

[Gordon]

Don't let him kid you, he's ALWAYS been a mercenary whoring trollop, he just hide it well or should I say "obfuscated" it...

Top choice.

[Hannah's Pet Hamster]

Ooh yes, well done and Hurrah and all that.

"I got a girl called Hannah's pet hamster stuck in my trouser pocket"

I read this as though you went to school with a girl called "Hannah's Pet Hamster", and got her stuck in your pocket...

It's great name though. I'd quite like to be called Hannah's Pet Hamster. In fact, I am. For the entire length of today (and possibly a bit longer, if I forget to change it back again, which is entirely likely) I will be called Hannah's Pet Hamster. Thankyou.

[Morgan]

Great call on Unreliable Witness - what a gem! And thanks for the shout-out; I am gurgling with my legs in the air as we speak.

(P.S. - nice new background).

[Annie Rhiannon]

Hello! Thanks for the mention.

And I love the name "AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS" for a blog title.