All Other Drink Bloggers Must Be Destroyed!
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
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While minding my own business yesterday, checking out free Dilbert cartoons and looking for sexy Pilates vlogs, I was rudely interrupted by Cate O’Malley of the Well Fed Network with the following announcement:
Just a heads up that your site is officially in the running for the 2007 Food Blog Awards - head on over to www.wellfed.net for the news.
I clicked my mouse or whatever on the blue words to download my trophy when I discovered that I was not alone: apparently there are others out there who write about beverages and such! Teeth gnarled, fists clenched and toes curled, I decided to check out the competition.
First off, there’s the teenage boy who lives in his parents’ basement and blogs to the internet under the alias “Paul Clarke“. Paul is a regular contributor to Imbibe (kind of a magazine about robots and stuff), and during his summer vacations Paul travels to huge geek conventions in New Orleans.
It takes the entire Long Island High School debate team (Go, Chargers!) to make the wine-dork website over at Lenndevours, yet not a single member is old enough to drink alcohol. The comments on the site often break out into flame wars over who would win in a fight: Captain America or Cyclops from X-Men.
Speaking of comic books, high-schooler Tyler Colman posts his wine stuff under the internet handle “Dr. Vino”, a thinly-veiled reference to “Dr. Octopus” from the Spiderman comics. Tyler was nominated for a James Beard award earlier this year. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with James Beard, he played “Scotty” on the television show Star Trek.)
San Francisco is home to two things: computer nerds, and people who smell like garlic. Cameron and Anita from Married… With Dinner are covering both bases with a website about food. When two dorks find each other, it’s a beautiful thing - but when they can get a computer involved, it’s poetry in motion, people. And you know there were lightsabers at that wedding.
So that’s the crowd I’m up against. Should be a no-brainer, but just in case, head on over to the polls and help me crush the competition.
11 Dec 2007 at 11:02 am 1. PFinn
I just started reading your blog over the weekend, im not even really sure how i found it, never-the-less i love it… just voted, good luck.
Any idea on the rules for voting (once per computer ever, once per computer per day, etc)?
11 Dec 2007 at 11:28 am 2. Jeffrey Morgenthaler
Thanks, PFinn, it’s nice to know that at least one person reads this crap!
I don’t know the rules for voting, but I’d rather play fair than suggest anything ungentlemanly.
11 Dec 2007 at 12:21 pm 3. Anita
I feel compelled to confess that although there were no lightsabers at our nuptials, our officiant unexpectedly quoted “The Princess Bride”… and -everyone- laughed.
But mostly, our dorkiness is pretty well confined to food obsession. I think… [checks pants for too-short cuffs]
11 Dec 2007 at 12:33 pm 4. Cate O'Malley
Thanks for my laugh of the day - too funny! One vote per computer.
11 Dec 2007 at 1:08 pm 5. Marleigh
One of the reasons I love coming here is the humble grace with which you imbue each post.
Nevertheless, I will tell you congratulations, and good luck against that Paul kid. He seems like he might be kind of sneaky.
11 Dec 2007 at 1:42 pm 6. Alex
Cangrats! Have had your blog on my must read list for some time now.
It’s certainly a tough group to chose from. Given, however, your current resident status in my former home town it’s clear that you are the greatest blogger since Plato. Besides, everybody knows the essential question of our time is who would win in a fight between Superman and Might Mouse.
11 Dec 2007 at 3:09 pm 7. erik_flannestad
Hey buddy, don’t go picking on my friends like that! And I resent the implication that I am a garlic eating computer nerd.
Oh, wait, I am a garlic eating computer nerd. “One vote per computer,” though, hmmm. I am beginning to see an advantage in being a computer nerd…
12 Dec 2007 at 12:42 am 8. Jeffrey Morgenthaler
Thanks, everyone. I figured that with my snowball’s-chance-in-hell of beating out that echelon of competition, I might as well post something completely ridiculous.
But Anita, I’m going to keep the vision of lightsabers at your wedding close to my heart for all time.
12 Dec 2007 at 4:46 am 9. Chip and Andy
You made me laugh so hard I lost my morning coffee through my nose
…… you bastard.
12 Dec 2007 at 10:59 am 10. Count Silvio
Since your blog is the only blog of the blogs mentioned that I read and enjoy, I might as well give you my vote.
On behalf of Refined Vices I give you my support. Godspeed.
- Silvio
14 Dec 2007 at 11:58 am 11. Rob Combs
Howdy-Ho, Jeff. Your Blog has to be one of the best ones on the internet. Love it. I voted for ya…twice. Kick those minors derriers’.
Have Fun!
14 Dec 2007 at 4:35 pm 12. jimmy
I’m voting for you! And if you read anything over there on that Paul Clarke’s website that says any different, I’m just lying to him to make him feel better.
15 Dec 2007 at 8:33 am 13. Ouroboros
Congratulations! this finalists list includes four of my ten “go-to” cocktail blogs. I’m completely torn!
16 Dec 2007 at 11:46 pm 14. Adam
Gah, I missed the voting and nothing has been announced. I cannot count the number of recipes of yours I have used with great results - keep it up!
17 Dec 2007 at 10:12 pm 15. Natalie - The Liquid Muse
Check you out - up for awards and trotting around the country drinking cocktails.
Welcome to the Big Leagues sucka.
(and, let me send you a million congrats and good luck, my friend!)
Though all the contenders are worthy ones, my money is on you.
xoxo
The Liquid Muse
04 Jan 2008 at 6:14 pm 16. Sarah
And the winner is… ???
04 Jan 2008 at 6:27 pm 17. Jeffrey Morgenthaler
Oops! The fine folks at Married… With Dinner took it away, and deservedly so:
http://marriedwithdinner.com/2007/12/18/speechless/