If the spike wins the green category…

The annual SA Blog Awards, organised by the good folks at Cherryflava, Ideate and WebAddiCT(s), are upon us, and nominations are open. I’m not hinting, of course. I would never.

Nor do I have a sordid fascination with the intricacies of competition rules, but after selflessly researching the matter in some depth, I can disclose the very interesting fact that there are a range of categories, such as best post, best original writing, best politics blog, best new blog, most controversial and most humorous blog, and most bestest blog of all. I’m no expert, but my reading of the rules is that multiple blogs can be nominated in each category, and the top-ten nominated blogs in each category go on to general voting and judging. Also, the overall winner gets R20.08 in prize money, which I hear goes a long way towards buying a beer in Cape Town. The colourful button on the right is just something colourful I put up there because it’s colourful, and on this site colourful things, like most things, tend to end up on the right.

If the spike wins in the best green blog category, I’ll fall off my chair, and immediately make a donation, exceeding any prize purse, but not exceeding my means, to the little fellow on the (ahem) right. I do, after all, advocate private charity in pursuit of one’s social and environmental goals, and as a life-long fan of some of the rarer wild felines and canines, I think the De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust does good work, and is worth a few farthings.

So make this colonialist warmonger lizard king free-market nutter fluffy kitten happy, and go vote. In the green category. But check out the other categories too. They may be surer bets and after all, you might detest small furry animals.

Update: The button on the right was wrong. Now, now, no sniping from the left, please. There was an extra http tag in there that hundreds, or possibly thousands, of fluffy furball fans have had to remove manually since the nomination button went up two days ago. My thanks (and that of the cheetah cub) to Wouter J for pointing out the problem. Teach me not to proofread widget code.