Yowza! Yowza! And now a word on behalf of our friend and Liberally Drinking mainstay and patron and dancing fool… the Wege:

Sunday March 26th is the LAST DAY of VOTING for this year’s Koufax awards. [see upper-left column for all the finalists in all the categories]

Voting will end at midnight tonight!

I am asking you to please cast your vote today for Norwegianity in the category Most Deserving of Wider Recognition.

Okay, sure, he’s sometimes not the nicest of competitors, especially when taking swiftboat strategerie advice from fellow Norwegian-American Karl Rove, but it’s all so easy to forgive when the Wege goes into his killer merengue, and he is awfully cute shimmying in those skintight white short-shorts.

Won’t you make a wistful little Iowegian waif happy today?

Vote Wege!

And now we return to our all day, last voting day, Dancing For Koufaxes marathon, already in progress:

Posted: March 26th, 2006 under General.
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So. Here I am on hiatus, not posting much of anything, just enjoying the incredible luxury of having the time to read other people’s blogs and wallowing in the wondrous bloggy goodness of it all, when–

What’s this? Purely out of habit and certainly not expecting much, I happen to check how many visits the blog has been getting today, and Sitemeter is jumping up and down and barking at me like Timmmy’s fallen down a well or something. What is it, Sitey? Trouble at the old mill?
So I follow the yipping, hyperventilating Sitemeter over to Rox’s place and then to the Blogher conference site to see why I’m getting ping after ping after ping this evening.

Aha. One look at the cover of the current Austin [TX] Chronicle, and all becomes clear.

Yep, that’s some pretty nice Photoshop work. Too bad, I didn’t see where the name of the artist was given.

There seems to be some mixed feelings about the current cover. My name’s been invoked a couple of times, and comparisons drawn between the Austin Chron cover and the She-Blogger pictures I’ve been posting on my blog for the past year or two.

Updated 03/06/06 at 11:47 AM: Now that I’ve taken overnight to let that Austin Chronicle cover image percolate in my head, I think I understand why it’s rubbing some people the wrong way.

The movie poster really didn’t need much photoshop work, just 1) smoothing out some background, 2) pasting in a laptop, and 3) changing the text from “Queen of Outer Space” to “Queens of Cyberspace.” But that’s okay; I’ve needed to do that small an amount of PS work on some of my pictures. Sometimes even less. No, I think the problem with it may be, to boil it down to two syllables: Zsa Zsa. No, make that Zsa Zsa’s image. No, not her image in the movie poster; Zsa Zsa Gabor’s image in the real world.

For those of us of a certain age, the name “Zsa Zsa Gabor” instantly summons up a bevy of negative stereotypes. For starters: pampered, spoiled, husband-hunting, golddigger, rich bitch. Sis Eva did kind of the same schtick in Green Acres, but never seemed remotely as bitchy and awful as Zsa Zsa.

So. Here on the cover of the Austin Chronicle we have this year’s BlogHer conference being promoted with an image of the woman blogger depicted as a grasping, indolent, diamond-dripping, awful old floozy lounging around on the surface of Venus in a ballgown.
…Gosh, I don’t know why anybody would have a problem with that, do you?

Anyway. In hopes of being of service to anyone who happens to come wandering over here looking for those She-Blogger themed pictures, I’ve gathered them all together for a retrospective.

Enjoy, and please leave a comment if you’re so moved. Thenk yew!

The Return of She-Blogger

Sweet Savage She-Blogger

Behold the Power of Estrogen

A Tild Pictorial: Housekeeping Liberally

When Women Bloggers Go Jello Wrestling

She-Blogger Album Covers

Posted: March 5th, 2006 under General.
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