The first round of voting for this year’s “Performance of the Year” begins tomorrow at The Public Blogger. As I mentioned earlier, it’s sort of like the blogging world’s version of The Oscars, with a little American Idle thrown in. Except none of our mothers are going to tell the judges how talented we are even when we stink. Anyway, there are 11 nominees, and one of us will be voted out each week until Dec. 30.
Between now and tomorrow evening at 7 p.m., when voting begins, I’m going to feature each nominee so folks get a chance to see their work. There are five genres represented — artists, writers, photographers and singers. Oh, and one humorist *smiles creepily*
Please take the opportunity to vote tomorrow, even if it’s not for me.
Details are at the bottom of this post.
There’s also a short, but sad story about how I’ve never won anything since Mrs. Flipendorf’s sixth-grade “Draw The Female Reproductive System” contest. (I got extra credit for including the placenta, which was actually a spagetti stain from working at the dinner table. But hey — a win’s a win…)
In the meantime, meet writer, producer and all-around talented guy Christian Marc. It’s just too bad he’s so *cough cough* homely…
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I met Racquel in the summer of 2000. She was hired as a server at the Olive Garden in Lynnwood, a suburb of Seattle, Wash., when she was 17, then in August she turned 18. Three weeks earlier, I had been hired as a server at the same Olive Garden after I turned down a job at Claim Jumper in Redmond. I knew Claim Jumper was a better restaurant, but the OG was closer to the place I was living, and I kind of felt like I needed to be there at that time in my life because A) I didn’t have a car, and B) I knew nothing about a la carte restaurants. Was it fate that I was meant to meet her? Yeah, I think it was. I remember the first time I saw her like it was yesterday.
There was a group of new servers in training that week, and Racquel was one of them. She had shoulder length black hair, striking green eyes, and she walked with a gait that commanded your immediate interest and attention. I opened the two-way door to the kitchen and I watched her pick up a tray of food and carry it out past me into the dining room. I don’t know if anyone else took notice of her as quickly as I did, but hey, 15 years have gone by since the night I watched her wait tables in high heels and couldn’t wrap my head around that fact. It seemed so odd to torture yourself while you’re constantly walking at work, but maybe she didn’t care. Maybe they made her more comfortable. It was her style and I liked that about her immediately. She had grace and easily glided through the dining room while wearing stilettos and serving soup, salad and breadsticks. Thought it was kind of cool…
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Hi Ned,
It’s been a while since I’ve been blogging, but I still read and enjoy your work regularly. I wish you best of luck this month…I tried to check out the link to ‘The Public Blogger’, but it doesn’t seem to work…could you show me where I can find more info? (and where I could vote)?
Best regards,
A. van Nerel (you know, the one with that blogging beaver, alien and Kim Jong-un writing his diary, in case your memory needs stirring;))
How great to see you again! I was just thinking about you the other day, and wondering what I must’ve said… 😉 No way coiuldI fotget the Kim Jong-un diaries or the blogging beaver and alien! Glad to know you’re still out there.
And thank you for the heads-up on the link. It’s now fixed. Here it is
https://www.facebook.com/Thepublicblogger
Take very good care and thanks for voting tomorrow!
Aw, you remembered me and all my personalities! Well, I haven’t stopped writing, but I put the whole blog thing on hold for a while. Thanks for the link and best of luck. I’ll be rooting for you (and I’ll have you know I was actually rooting for Julianne Moore to win an Oscar this year, which she subsequently did. Just saying…)
Very glad to hear you haven’t stopped writing! Keep me in the loop when you can. I’d like to know what you’re up to.
And it sounds like I have this thing in the bag now. What a relief…
Well, at the very least you got my vote. That’s more than I could ever do for Julianne Moore, actually;)
As for me, I’ve been busy turning the concept of Kim Jong-un’s diary into a book. It’s been a lot of fun working on that and who knows, it might even end up for sale somewhere someday, on Ebay perhaps;) It’s called ‘Humor at the speed of North Korean internet’ (Okay, it’s really called ‘Kim Jong-un – The Super Secret Diary of a Young Dictator’)
I’m nearly done working on it, after which I’ll probably return to blogging again, perhaps have an alien and a beaver promote my book for me:S
Hahaha! Maybe you’ll get a book tour in North Korea? Make sure it’s a round-trip ticket before you go.
Haha, I guess my tour of North Korea wouldn’t be as successful as Dennis Rodman’s:S
Thanks for the plug Ned. I may have lucked out in the gene pool, but the rest of my life and my mind is still a fucking mess.
My pleasure, Chrisian. And trust me, I know exactly how you feel. Except without the gene pool…
Haha “American Idle” cracked me up, although I’m not sure it was intensional. That should be a show. Good luck!
Thanks!
Christian Marc may be as you say “homely” but remember guys in Fireman gear, well there is a reason there is a calendar every year.
Ha! True. We do have big hoses…
Oh, indeed you do. 😉
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Ned Hickson Features Nominee Christian Marc “the gentle man”