I have a pretty long piece on the inauguration almost ready to go - it should be up tonight. But, for now, please go read Sara K. Smith's articles on NBC New York. Sara is one of the editors at Wonkette, one of my favorite websites, and her NBC New York editorials have been wonderfully biting satire/snark. It's all made better by the absolutely clueless and humorless comments that were apparently written by bat-shit insane liberals who never believed in Santa Claus, rainbows, or puppies.

Anyway, go there. Subscribe. Do whatever it is you do.

Labels: plug, politics

I'm going to try to get a Bloggie nomination this year. I feel like I've been putting up some good stuff and I can use the extra traffic. So, if you would, please go over to the bloggies website and nominate The Moose in the Closet (http://www.jasonrodriguez.com) for "Best-Kept Secret Weblog." If you'd like to nominate this site for something else go right ahead but I'm concentrating my efforts there. Please be advised that the site scrolls to the right, not down, so the nomination area is on that page.

There are other categories for you to fill out and whereas you can leave them blank I figured I'd offer up some suggestions by plugging some of the blogs I nominated this year.

Starting with the big one, Weblog of the Year, I nominated the Big 4 of my RSS feed: Wonkette, Consumerist, Boing-Boing, and Threat Level. I love those sites and read everything they post.

Along with this site I nominated The Reverse Cowgirl and Sully Baseball for Best-Kept Secret Weblog. I also nominated Sully Baseball for Best Sports Weblog along with Awful Announcing and Rob Neyer's blog.

Best Food Weblog was the toughest category for me. I read a lot of food blogs this year which might be the reason behind my weight gain. I finally settled on Cake Wrecks, the Amateur Gourmet, and I Heart Bacon. I did manage to sneak another food blog in the Best Teen Weblog category with a vote for Foodie at Fifteen (now 16). I only nominated one other blog in that category, The Kid's Comic Book Reviews.

For Best Fashion Weblog I went with Go Fug Yourself and Death By T-Shirt. Gawker, What Would Tyler Durden Do, and The Superficial got my votes for Best Gossip Blog.

Labels: news, plug

Northern Virginia Magazine is hosting a live chat with VA senator hopeful and DNC keynote speaker Mark Warner today at 10:30AM. Head on over and get your questions answered!

Labels: plug, politics

I've been a fan of Perry Bible Fellowship for quite some time. If you go back to the archives I first pimped Nicholas Gurewitch's excellent comic back on February 14th, 2005. He has since published a chunk of new webcomics, been nominated for (and won) Harveys,Ignatzes and Eisners, and has seen his archive published by Dark Horse. It's been a good three years for Mr. Gurewitch but there's a problem - his PBF production has slowed down considerably. I'm constantly waiting for a four-panel strip to be posted. Weeks turn into months and I tend to feel the hole in my heart growing. I'm incomplete, I long, I yearn for that sublime humor that's the heir apparent to The Far Side.

And then I saw a comic that I originally mistook for a new Gurewitch strip. It was posted on the Brian Michael Bendis message board. I went to the PBF website to see if it has been updated but, alas, nothing. I went back to the Bendis board and asked the original poster where that strip came from and I was introduced to the work of Lee Healey. The wait for a new PBF has just become slightly more bearable. Feast your eyes on the genius, and then go to his site for more:

Labels: plug, review

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