February 14, 2005

Koufax Votes

We finally managed to make it over to the finalist voting for the Koufax Awards. There were an awful lot of tough decisions that had to be made. So here's who we finally decided to vote for:

Best Single Issue Blog:
This was a relatively easy one - almost no contest for the Daily Howler.

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition:
This was a tough category - most of these blogs should be on everybody's must read list. In the end we decided on Suburban Guerrilla because she is a daily read, while Dohiyi Mir, Bob Harris, Majikthise and Sisyphus Shrugged are almost daily reads.

Most Humorous Post:
Even though we can't see it anymore via Wampum's link, we have to go with Poker with Dick Cheney by the Poor Man. Although had one of Norbizness' funnier posts made the list, we probably would have voted for it...

Best New Blog.:
Gots to be Bob Harris. Nobody else has made as much of an impact right out of the gate.

Best Blog by a Professional :
Another tough category - we like a lot of these guys. But in the end, Political Animal usually gives us the widest variety of topics, gets to things fustest with the mostest, and introduced Friday Cat Blogging (which we fondly remember being a part of, and would still want to do - if only we still had a cat around the Funny Farm) to the Fashionable Left Bank of Blogistan.

Best Commenter:
We guess we're a little too, um, intense to be considered for this category (notwithstanding our nine month haiku duel with The Talking Dog over at Busy Busy Busy, our occasional caption contest entries over at Norby's zone, and our frequent comments at many many other blogs). So we voted for our good friend NTodd.

Best Post:
Another very tough category. In the end we had to go with Digby's Evolutionary Theology because it strikes a chord with us on a personal level. All of these posts should be required reading for any progressive. So get comfortable, and start perusing.

Best Expert Blog:
We seem to have run out of easy choices. All of these guys (and gals) are mondo excellent in their field of expertise. The main reason we're going with Orcinus this year is because we went with Talk Left last year and we like to spread the love...

Best Blog:
Aaarghhh! We can't vote for all of them, dangnabbit! So we have to say that the dart came up in Hullabaloo's part of the board.

Best Group Blog:
Welly well well. Pandagon is no longer into the group thang, so they're out as far as we're concerned. Tough choice amongst the rest has been made: we're voting for Corrente in this category.

Most Humorous Blog:
We value humor very highly here at The Funny Farm (coincidence? Sadly, No! we think not...) and we think all of these blogs are a laugh riot on a regular basis. We're throwing a monkey wrench in things (especially if somebody wins by one vote) and voting for Happy Furry Puppy Time with Norbizness here. The proffered bribes from Norby had nothing to do with our decision (especially considering that we know he'll never come through on them...).

Best Writing:
Tough tough tough - in the end we went with our first repeat vote: David Niewert of Orcinus

Best Series:
All very good series, but we really like the way Jeebus' General tweaks the noses of the powers that be, so we voted for him.

And that's all the finalist categories we could find. Let us know if we missed any (especially if you can provide a link to the missed post). And go vote yourself!

Posted by (: Tom :) at February 14, 2005 07:26 PM