Ernie doesn’t want a Bloggie?
“The ungayest gay whose ever gayed” is what he calls himself. After being nominated yet again this year for another Bloggie, Ernie of little.yellow.different says he doesn’t want to win this year. He has won 3 out of the last 4 Bloggie awards in the “Best GLBT Weblog” category.
Here is one of the reasons he stated on his blog as to why he doesn’t want it this year:
Here’s what happens when you win a Bloggie, LGBT divison: if you’re fortunate enough, you get to attend the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, where you’re asked to participate in the Bloggies awards ceremony. This usually consists of standing on a stage in front of a giant screen that’s has IRC running, while dozens of IRC trolls make fun of you, literally, behind your back. When you win, there is polite applause (since 95% of all attendees are heterosexual anyway) and you’re given a piece of cardstock that basically says, “Congratulations! You’re the GAYEST BLOGGER EVAR!!1!” (Although I did also receive a rainbow chain necklace and an inverted Burger King cardboard crown one year. That was pretty nice.)
And it’s all fairly ironic, because while I’m gay, I don’t think of myself as that gay - you can’t really be gay when you have a condo in the suburbs, in the Silicon Valley, no less. What, am I going to bump house music while the Indian neighbors light firecrackers when it’s Divali? They’re scared of me enough. (Actually… that’s not half a bad idea. Hrm.)
So while Ernie doesn’t want the Best GLBT Weblog award this year. Joe of JoeMyGOD thinks it was “Fantastic” that he was a finalist this year. In an email interview he told me:
I was nominated for some of the other blogging awards too, (none of which I won), but to be honest, it’s the Bloggies that I was the most interested in this year. I have a friend who just moved to Austin, so if by chance I do win, yeah I’ll probably attend The SXSW festival.
Move over Ernie! Set your title of “Best GLBT Weblog” on the mantle, there are people out there that actually care about winning!
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on February 10, 2006 at 3:40 pm Matt wrote:
Doesn’t say much for the award that a past winner doesn’t even want to win it. Or maybe he’s just to GLBT Weblogs what Lance Armstrong is to the Tour de France. He’s shown the world that he owns it and has nothing left to prove!