The green counter-insurgency
The environmentalists must have got wind of the spike’s plot to conquer the green category in the SA Blog Awards 2008. It does not make it to the green blog shortlist, despite said shortlist being shorter than that of most other categories.
The silver lining on this ominous cloud is that ivo.co.za has been nominated in three categories: best political blog, best original writing, and best new blog. Those nominations are much appreciated, indeed. Voting is now open.
Tough luck for that cheetah cub, though. Guess I’ll have to set my sights on some new promo technique. Stuff the cute fluffy animals. Sorry, are the puns a little off-target?
You have my votes. And would’ve had one on the “green” category too.
I swear I saw and voted for your blog in the green category yesterday. I notice it’s gone now. Oh well, my votes are in too…
That is odd indeed. It’s not like I don’t frequently post about the environment, or make arguments that I believe are better for the environment than orthodox fear-mongering, taxation and central planning.
Thanks for the votes, though.
For what it’s worth, you have my votes too. This place is one of the first stops on my daily reading list.
Pity you missed out on the green category. But I guess since you believe in protecting the environment through rational means and aren’t an extreme left-wing, anti-development, stone-age loving, hemp-wearing, braided-hair hippie your nomination was rejected. Seriously though, the green blogs are pretty well-organised, with some of them clearly fulfilling a PR role for one or more of the established environmentalist groups. It was always going to be hard to get in amongst them.
Hey, who says I don’t wear hemp?
You wear hemp? Oh dear, I just might have to reconsider my support of your site. This is bad.
Well, you see, it’s like this. A girl who insisted I don’t wear cardigans (despite the fact they’re haute couture) made me a present of a hemp shirt on her return from an overseas business trip.
Not only did I feel obliged to wear it, but I quite enjoyed the irony. For what it’s worth, the shirt quickly developed a hole, along with stains from simple red soil that refuse to be washed out. It has now been reduced to a winter work shirt, rather than being a neat conversation piece at right-wing lizard conventions.
Heh, ok as it’s a gift I’m willing to let that slide. At least you didn’t buy it, right?
I’m not surprised the shirt hasn’t held up too well though. For all the environmentalist hype, hemp’s actually a pretty poor material for clothing because the fibres retain liquid and tend to rot as a result. It has legitimate uses elsewhere, but the whole concept of hemp clothing is flawed and irrational. Which of course is why environmentalist hippies love it.
I’m beginning to have serious doubts about the average intelligence quotient in the SA blogosphere. Look at the choices in the funniest blog so-called: unless I missed something there isn’t even one satirical site there, just puerile slapstick garbage. A sad, sad, day.