Electoral Scam

I initially thought Sheriff of Nothing was kidding this morning when she left a comment congratulating me for my nomination for Best Victorian Blog. And I thought Jobe was joking last week when he was talking about being nominated under the wrong name.

Shame on me, but I'd never heard of the Blog Awards.

A quick Google search to see what Sheriff was talking about, however, quickly led me to this site, which is where the 2006 Australian Blog Awards is being hosted.

A search in the site's search function revealed that Sheriff wasn't dropping acid.

Or that she wasn't this morning.

At least not about this.

There I am, listed under Best Victorian Blog: I blogged myself

So how did this happen? I'm very thrilled and touched and honoured and I feel very warm and fuzzy inside - don't get me wrong. But I'm up against some very stiff competition so I know I won't win anything, and frankly I don't understand how I was nominated.

Who nominated me?

But even forgetting that for the moment, how does one compete with sites such as Reasons You Will Hate Me (which gets around 4,000 hits an hour, by my reckoning), LadyCrackerLand (another brilliant bloggy friend of mine), and a heap of others that I confess to not reading myself, but I've heard their blog names being thrown around by many people this past year? It's all so inconceivable.

I guess if I'm going to be nominated, I should at least do whoever it was who nominated me the service of trying to win. Otherwise I'm just slapping that one, solitary person in the face. Cyber-slapping them, probably.

So here goes:

VOTE FOR ME! VOTE FOR ME!



(Click on the image to vote - you need to create a new account first, on the left-hand menu, and apparently you may have to wait a bit after registering before returning to the site to vote. But any votes would be very much appreciated!)

I like winning stuff.