Black Snob Wins Black Weblog Award for Third Year In A Row!
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 9:30AM
I won the judges' choice for Best Political Blog for the 2010 Black Weblog Awards! It's a three-peat! In previous years I won judges' choice for best new blog, best political blog and best writing in a blog. I'm special! YESSSSS!
If I knew how (or what) the "dougie" is I would do it. I think ... nah. I'm from the 90s. I'm doing the Roger Rabbit.
See a list of all the winners after the jump.
Ah ... the Roger Rabbit. Great story behind that.
It only took me two months to teach myself how to do it when I was 12. (I can dance, but I have to work at it.) I was learning it in preparation for Keeven Elementary's Sixth Grade Banquet to show off all my sweet dance moves no one knew I had.
You see? I was a tormented dork for almost all of my seven years (kindergarten through sixth) at Keeven, but in the sixth grade? Man, in the sixth grade I came into my own. For some reason, everyone stopped trying to change me and just accepted me as the classy nerd I was. And it was beautiful. It all culminated that night at the banquet, which was held at Hazelwood East High School ... the school my eldest sister went to and the one I longed to attend as well. (I wound up at Central.)
God, I killed that night. I had on an awesome black and white striped dress that made me look like a super hero and my mom FOR ONCE let me wear my extremely long hair down in these great feathered curls with a banana clip. And the night before I accidentally sat on my "cool" glasses, the black wire frames. So my mom was all, "Wear your old ones," but they were these HORRID pink n' purple plastic cheapo dork glasses so I was all "Heck no! I'll go there blind!" But me, without my glasses, worked like how it did in the movies that night! I went from Clark Kent to Superman!
Suddenly, I was the cutest girl at the party! So even though everything was blurry everyone was SUPER nice to me and told me how great I looked and my peers, for once, seemed shocked and amazed by my high level of awesome. Plus I got to give a great graduation speech I wrote all by myself. (Both myself and my rival/friend Allen Thompson were chosen to give speeches ... quite possibly because we were the two biggest overachieving nerds in the history of Keeven). My speech was inspired by Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation album (the song "The Knowledge" in particular ... OMG, this story is soooo 1990) and everyone who made fun of me suddenly thought I was the coolest girl in the world. And then ... and then the dance started and I BUSTED OUT THAT ROGER RABBIT AND IT WAS THE HOTTEST THING EVER! Everyone was all "oh shit!" I did the Running Man! I did the Wop! I RoboCopped! And everyone who was a jerk to me was all "Danielle! I didn't know you could dance!" And there was an ice sculpture shaped like a lion! And my parents were all like THAT'S OUR DAUGHTER! And I got to take a picture with both my parents for once instead of just my mom, but in the picture with my dad my classmate Anthony Hall photo bombed us and he did this back before photo bombing was a thing! But who cares because I looked AWESOME, right?
Greatest. Night. Ever!
But I digress!
The 2010 Black Weblog Winners include:
Best Blog Design
Popular Vote: The Young, Black, and Fabulous
Judges’ Vote: Mostbeautifullest
Best Blog Network
Popular Vote: Global Grind Network
Judges’ Vote: theFreshXpress Blog Network
Best Blog Post Series
Popular Vote: “I Love Black Men” on Black ‘n Bougie
Judges’ Vote: “Michael Jackson and the Five Stages of Grief” on What Would Thembi Do?
Best Business Blog
Popular Vote: Young, Fabulous & Self-Employed
Judges’ Vote: kiss my black ads
Best Cooking or Food Blog
Popular Vote: Yes, Divas Can Cook
Judges’ Vote: My Life Runs on Food
Best Culture Blog
Popular Vote: Black Girl with Long Hair
Judges’ Vote: Socialtik Mag
Best Faith-Based Blog
Popular Vote: The Old Black Church!
Judges’ Vote: The Secular Parent
Best Fashion or Beauty Blog
Popular Vote: Afrobella
Judges’ Vote: Afrobella
Best Film Blog
Popular Vote: Black Box Office
Judges’ Vote: Shadow and Act
Best Gaming or Comics Blog
Popular Vote: Black Nerd Comedy
Judges’ Vote: Black Comix
Best Gossip Blog
Popular Vote: The Young, Black, and Fabulous
Judges’ Vote: Necole Bitchie
Best Group Blog
Popular Vote: Very Smart Brothas
Judges’ Vote: Very Smart Brothas
Best Health or Wellness Blog
Popular Vote: A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss
Judges’ Vote: A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss
Best Hip-Hop Blog
Popular Vote: AllHipHop
Judges’ Vote: Hip Hop Blog
Best Humor Blog
Popular Vote: O Hell Nawl
Judges’ Vote: Very Smart Brothas
Best International Blog
Popular Vote: Catch a Vibe
Judges’ Vote: Catch a Vibe
Best LGBT Blog
Popular Vote: The Skorpion Show
Judges’ Vote: TransGriot
Best Microblog
Popular Vote: Sister Toldja
Judges’ Vote: The Smithian
Best Music Blog
Popular Vote: SoulBounce
Judges’ Vote: SoulBounce
Best New Blog
Popular Vote: The Dithering of a District Diva
Judges’ Vote: The Dithering of a District Diva
Best Parenting or Family Blog
Popular Vote: Black and Married with Kids
Judges’ Vote: African American Dad
Best Personal Blog
Popular Vote: A Belle in Brooklyn and Until I Get Married
Judges’ Vote: Sassy Wife Chronicles
Best Photography Blog
Popular Vote: My Damn Blog
Judges’ Vote: Chookooloonks
Best Podcast Series
Popular Vote: HBCU Digest Radio
Judges’ Vote: Friday Favecast
Best Political or News Blog
Popular Vote: The Urban Politico
Judges’ Vote: Black Snob
Best Science or Technology Blog
Popular Vote: Black Web 2.0
Judges’ Vote: Black Web 2.0
Best Sex or Relationships Blog
Popular Vote: Until I Get Married
Judges’ Vote: The Relationship Playbook
Best Sports Blog
Popular Vote: Hardwood Diva
Judges’ Vote: Black Sports Online
Best Teen Blog
Popular Vote: Teen Savvy
Judges’ Vote: DamierDesigns MMX
Best Travel Blog
Popular Vote: Black in Cairo
Judges’ Vote: Jay Travels
Best Video Blog Series
Popular Vote: The Skorpion Show
Judges’ Vote: Ill Doctrine
Best Writing in a Blog
Popular Vote: Until I Get Married
Judges’ Vote: Uptown Notes
Blog of the Year
Popular Vote: Miss Jia
Judges’ Vote: O Hell Nawl
Blog to Watch
Popular Vote: Angry Black Lady Chronicles
Judges’ Vote: The Gentlemen’s Standard
And the winner of the Aaron Hawkins Award is…
Reader Comments (17)
Congratulations! I will have to check out some of the fellow award winners.
Congratulations! You deserve it. I love reading your blog. Glad to see your awesomeness acknowledged.
Woot! Congrats!!! :)
Congratulations!
It was at that dance that my surveillance began...Your Robo-Chopping was suis generis.
Congrats!
You deserve it! Congratulations!
Congratulations, Snob!!
You rock
congrats.
Congratulations Danielle! You deserve it. I love your blog. :-)
Congratulations Danielle. You do a wonderful job with this blog. It's always informative and entertaining, with just the right amount of snark. ;-)
congrats, snob!
Do yo' thing girl! Do it! (a little Love Jones reflection)
Justice
I voted :). You didn't even need a badge on the site.
Congrats! I find it funny that my first inclination was to do the running man upon hearing the news that I won. :)
Much deserved congratulations!
Congratulations Danielle! You deserve it!