Salon decided to write a story about how Catherine and I won our respective categories in the Mediabistro FishbowlDC Hottest Media Types contest—namely, by cheating. But only by passive cheating. It's a critical distinction that you'd totally understand if you lived in the District. In any case, it's a fun article, to which lolcath and I respond here. Now I only need to figure out where this award goes in my CV.
All fun and games, though, at the end of the day, we truly may all rest easy knowing that Nedra Pickler—the Rita Skeeter of the muggle world—lost. Any negative referendum on Pickler is a positive outcome for the universe. The fact that the contest is entirely unrelated to what makes Pickler so horrible is appropriate, since stringing together unrelated concepts is Pickler's stock in trade.
Posted by Kriston at August 22, 2007 12:59 AMLast link: Although I prefer "a herf," an "href" would work better.
Posted by: FYI at August 22, 2007 9:52 AMThanks for the catch.
Posted by: Kriston at August 22, 2007 10:27 AMWow Kriston! I just checked Salon as I do regularly and thought, wow that guy looks like Kriston and clicked on the article. Rabble rousing at its finest.
Posted by: Keaton at August 22, 2007 5:31 PMGood lord, man, this is the seventh sign, the end is nigh! As I was telling Steveo:
"Being confronted by the 'Capps is hot' sentiment is like being confronted by a really earnest Holocaust denier: it's not that you think they are wrong so much as it is being struck dumb by just *how* wrong they are."
How the hell did you win even a rigged beauty contest?!? Aren't there rules of formal logic or parts of the Grand Unified Theory that prevent the impossible from being possible? Especially in an online poll; you would think that of all things computers, being such binary creatures, would simply cease to be should such a thing come to pass.
BTW, Steveo's got the pictures. I think he's gauging Salon's financial commitment/interest in doing a followup.
-B
Posted by: Brendan at August 23, 2007 7:36 PMyou are so hot.
Posted by: your secret admirer at August 24, 2007 11:27 AM