If you frequent some of the same blogs I do, you may have noticed that a friend has founded the order. The order is dedicated to allowing all of us to acknowledge the excellence of our peers.

The awards are Best Dramatic Post and Best Dramatic Blogsite, Best Comedic Post and Blogsite, Best Photoblog Post and Blogsite, Best Series of Posts, and Best Comment Trail. All eight of these awards are month to month, with votes currently being accepted for the month of August. Voting ends September 5th at 11:59pm EDT.

There are also two other awards, Best Historic Post and Best Historic Blogsite, to recognize our work from before August 1st.

I'm honored to say that this blog has received six nominations.

In the Best Comedic Post category, my posts Create-A-Caption Not-A-Contest II (the one with the three Saudi princes) and Weekend Weirdness (the post where I talked about the mall) have both been nominated. If you vote for either of those, I'd prefer you'd vote for Weekend Weirdness. I'm honored by both nominations, but this award is for me, and it's really your comments that made the picture post funny.

In the Best Comedic Blogsite category, I was not nominated, but also made a few nominations.

Unsurprisingly, I wasn't nominated for anything in the Dramatic or Photoblog categories. But by all means, check out those nominees.

And now the big prize, at least in my opinion. My series The Legend of Fat Indian Bitch has been nominated for the Best Series award. FIB is 15 posts (including six submissions from all of you) that took three months to complete. It's nice to see someone recognizing my efforts. And in all honesty, I really want to win this one.

In the Best Comment Trail category, I've been nominated twice, but the award is about your comments, not my posts. The first nomination is for August 12th's Cartoon Friday (the shooting gallery cartoon). Those comments were great fun, but nothing compares with the comments for the second nominee, The Legend of Fat Indian Bitch, part 15. If you haven't already, I urge you to go check out those comments.

In the last two categories, Best Historic Post and Blogsite, my post The Cornrowed Hottie has been nominated. I'm really pleased at this nomination. That post just might be my all-time favorite.