Once again it's voting time at the order.

Comment trails. We've been nominated for both Weekend Weirdness II, continued and the mother of all comment trails, Shameless blog whoring, part 2. You remember that last one, right? 178 comments. I had a sick day and was challenged to respond to 61 consecutive comments… and did. There was poetry. There was short fiction. There was Photoshop. There was a falling out and a make-up. There was pimping. You know, the usual. But a lot of it. 178 comments for God's sake. That comment trail is a blog in and of itself. You know you want to vote for that one.

But now it's so late, all I have time for is the little post script that I was going to append to what I was going to write. Uh, if that makes any sense.

Today is the last day for October nominations at the order. As of this writing, there are four award categories that have no nominations and four more that have only one nomination. So go nominate something. People are writing some great stuff, all we have to do is point it out.

(So I'm a week late with this post. Shut up. I've been busy.)

Well the votes are in and this blog walked away with two awards for the month of September from the order. Quite unexpectedly, this blog won Best Comedic Blog. That one took me by surprise. There were very solid nominees with some very funny stuff. I'm tickled pink that my few loyal readers felt strongly enough to nominate and vote for me. Thank you, all of you.

And not entirely unexpectedly, this blog also tied for the win in the Best Comment Trail category. Once again, that award has nothing to do with my post but everything to do with your comments. So everyone pat yourselves on the back! Everyone who commented on the winning post, Vacanigans* part 9, shares in the award equally.

And everyone, thanks for voting and participating. Keep an eye open for material that needs to be recognized for next month.

The results are in at the order. After the dust settled, this blog had three awards.

One is for me. The Legend of Fat Indian Bitch won Best Series for August 2005. (Yes! Sweet victory!) Thank you to everyone who voted for me.

The other two awards are for you. Cartoon Friday (the shooting gallery cartoon) and FIB part 15 tied for Best Comment Trail. Although they're my posts, those awards are all about your comments. So under the rules, anyone who commented on the winning posts shares the prize.

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.