It’s blog awards time again: voting for the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards
is open until this Wednesday, and The Adventures of Accordion Guy in
the 21st Century is nominated for “Best Blog”! Won’t you please vote
for this blog, which presented these goodies over the past year?:
- The Beer Hunter, the interactive map that displays beer, liquor and wine stores that are currently open in Toronto
- The “totally dismal and excellent” Archie comic in which Betty goes goth. It got picked up by Boing Boing.
- Blogacatmas, which made it into the Globe and Mail.
- My blogger-on-blogger officiated by bloggers wedding, which made it into both the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star
- Henry Rollins’ “William Shatner” Story
- The Quick Boys Moving story
- My photographic debunking of a Dateline NBC story (the “dingy alleys: of Liberty Village)
- A well-received article on the relics one gathers over time, and thinking about throwing them out
- I’m still the smoothest Asian on TV since Mr. Sulu.
- One of the best Archie comics double-entendres (which also got picked up by Boing Boing).
- The best “for rent” ad you’ll ever see for a place near downtown Toronto.
- I explain the three Canadian political parties in comic form, which could be useful in the next couple of months.
- I have performed accordion numbers at burlesque shows and was kind enough to share my photos and movies with you.
- Owner of a Lovely Butt
- The David Hasselhoff 2005 Calendar
- The best damned explanation of the Barong Tagalog anywhere.
- A programmer’s challenge which got mentioned in Wired
- Proof that “Jack” from Fight Club is really a grown-up “Calvin” from Calvin and Hobbes
- The Bloggers’ Prayer
- Batman vs. the boners
- A video showing the origin of the phrase “Jump the shark”
- The oddball Wendy’s training video from the eighties
- The first use of the word “blog” — in Superman comics, back in 1959!
