Awards, C/D?

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I nominated myself for an award a few months ago. The shortlist is being announced today.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm really nervous that I'm not going to be on it. Even though it doesn't really mean anything, but I know that I'm very very good at what I do, esp. in this part of the world, and I really fucking deserve some goddamn recognition, even though I'm diametrically opposed to what the awarding organization represents.

I'm all, uh, butterflies.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

nominations are posted. I didn't fucking make the motherfucking cut. Fuck them.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

bah. nobody cares about my professional humiliation but me. even more humiliating.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

BEST THREAD EVAH! lock it now before it goes down the shitter!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Er, at the risk of sending it crapwards... I like winning awards. It's always nice to get a little "good boy" pat on the head, even if it's sometimes from people you don't much like or respect. It can be weird to win one year for something that you think isn't as good as something that didn't even get nominated the year before, but whatever. (I used to be all proud that Christopher Hitchens was on a judging panel that gave me an award, and he even sent me a nice note about it, but then he went bonkers so I don't brag about it anymore. Except that I just did, obviously...See, awards are insidious...)

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

(which is to say, Horace, fuck 'em.)

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Last award won - Daughters of the American Revolution award, 5th grade.

Hoo-ha!

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Awards are stupid and meaningless until you win one.

― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Best use of Digital Video, Documentary. My only post college award so far.

― ModJ, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I just, y'know, wanted to be recognized and all.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

So, and I'm sure this was very bad protocol, but I honestly think I deserved to be on the shortlist and dammit I want answers (I am a fucking journalist, after all), so I sent the awarding-org the following:

I noticed that I am not on the, ahem, shortlist for media person of the year and would like to know why.
I'm not meaning to harangue or harass, but would honestly like to know what criteria I failed to meet in comparison with those who did make the cut.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

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