Vote for me!

Creative Loafing is holding their annual "Best of the Bay" poll. You can vote on all kinds of things like best barbecue restaurant, best beach, best place to buy a bicycle and all sorts of nonsense like that. More importantly, you can vote for BEST LOCAL BLOG. I would like to take the opportunity to ask you to waste cast your vote for this one. Now, I have no delusions about thinking I'm going to win. That's an honor that will go to a good blog, an important blog, like one of the many listed in the sidebar over there to your right. In fact, I have no doubt one of them will win. But I still want votes. Call it an admirable commitment to hope and lost causes. Call it a desperate plea for attention and love. Call it whatever you want. Just vote. For me! I mean, this blog.
Now, the blogs that are listed in the sidebar are all very good. I'd encourage you to read them...later...much, much later...but don't vote for any of them. I'm not saying that every last one of those writers is a communist, illegal alien and/or a clogging enthusiast who wants to make health care coverage of any kind illegal, but I can't say with certainty that they aren't. And in this day and age and political climate, isn't that enough? You bet it it might be.
They're also selfish. They're not willing to give away an array of fabulous prizes. What's that? Did I say prizes? Yes, I said PRIZES! If I...I mean, if this blog wins Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay's category for Best local Blog, people who voted for me will have a chance to win* the following:

• My "I voted" sticker from last year's election
• A cardio workout session with Brian Blair
• A date with The 23-Year-Old
• A lap dance from Carl Crawford
• An empty trophy case from the Tampa Bay Lightning
• A delicious and shiny ham

So VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE and VOTE!

(NOTE: Odds of winning = a snowball's chance in hell. Some...okay, all...prizes may...okay, will...be unavailable due to various factors such as that permission was not granted, or even sought, from the people listed, the item has been sold on Craigslist or the item never existed in the first place. Honestly, you should know better by now.)

PS: Vote!