1) Vote Berube! 2) We’re Sorry 3) Vote Berube!
The glitz, the glamour, the gift bags …
We flew a little too close to the sun.
We apologize: We handled the 2006 Weblog Awards all wrong. Encouraging you guys to vote for us, then asking again, then undoing another button and leaning forward to ask yet again — we tainted this blog, a well-tended quad of pristine sarcasm, with the stench of earnestness.
And frankly, we’re ashamed. It’s a little like waking up after a bender to realize what you’ve wrought. (Suffice it to say that we once got up and sleep-peed in our sock drawer at like 8 in the morning, in full view of two stunned friends visiting from high school — and this post-Bloggies nausea feels even worse.)
To quote a role model: I was wack. Today we leave those posts behind as The Sincerity That Shall Not Be Named, and fully endorse Prof. Michael Berube for Best Educational Blog 2006. He’s neck-and-neck with SpunkyHomeSchool — a blog that’s actually defunct but has rabid acolytes with adept at getting out the vote. Berube seems like a funny guy (and half of us are alums of the same hockey team), but mainly we just want to see the tension play out between the academy and the homeschooling army.
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December 14th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
alumNI
alumNI!!
http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=2823#comment15474
December 14th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
I just can’t believe the hockey team has an athletic department van to crash into other vans and drinks on game buses. Why, in my day, we had to push our own rickshaws all the way up to Riverdale in the Bronx and then hose down a vacant lot just to have a practice. And we were grateful for the privilege, let me tell ye! Today’s Columbia hockey players are just a bunch of . . .
Oh. Sorry. What were we talking about again? Right. Thanks for the generous endorsement! I accept the baton; I will overlook your brief and misguided flirtation with The Sincerity That Shall Not Be Named; and I hope that my blog will carry the day. For I am locked in a vicious struggle between Good and Evil, and I cannot countenance the thought that Good might win.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
I hope you realize that if Bérubé loses by less than the 2200+ votes you have, that you’ll be blamed for his loss, that organizations with which you have been affiliated will be roundly mocked and lose their influence, that people who voted for you because they actually thought that you were the best candidate will be mocked, criticized, and yelled at for (at least) six years hence, and that you will destroy any hope your party had in smaller elections.
Of course, some people will blame the Bérubé campaign for not allowing its most prominent and popular supporter to campaign publically, for running a poor campaign in its home state (hey Bérubé, why don’t you make sure you win in Pennsylvania, huh?), and for being an uninspiring candidate. But those people are either naifs or paid off by the homeschoolers, so we can ignore them. It’s all your and your supporters’ fault.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
The Jesus people are currently in the lead by a narrow margin…
December 14th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Since your endorsement of yourself caused you to slide to several THOUSAND votes behind Spunky, I wholeheartedly applaud your support of Bérubé. You will end up tainting his blog as well, and Spunky will win! And it will be on your head. How will you ever have the courage to blog in public ever again?
The (not really an) army marches on!
(for those elitists who don’t have a sense of humor, the preceding post was completely in fun)
December 14th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Actually, I get this even less than the unbridled self-promotion of yore, by which I mean two days ago. Throwing the election to an opponent for no good reason other than that your overzealousness has played a part in your losing? I suggest that next year you go for something in the untapped middle.
December 14th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Jacob says: hey Bérubé, why don’t you make sure you win in Pennsylvania, huh?
________
Well, I did make sure. My state campaign manager is the Secretary of State, and my brother is the governor, and I nailed down the “swing” vote by arguing that all fetuses should have the right to bear arms so that, if the need arises, they can shoot their way out.
What more do I have to do?
December 15th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Sweet bejeezus, the home school blog is ahead!! But wait…according to berube’s blog he noticed 100 votes in 10 minutes. He should demand a recount immediately! Look! It happened during last year’s awards:
http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/summary_of_poll_changes.php
Leave it to far-right conservatives to rig every damned election they come near.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:31 am
Because of the awards I visited the blog for the first time. It is funny.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:32 am
Long live Wash U :)
December 15th, 2006 at 1:09 am
Jess, the initial response to this whole awards thing should have been apathy followed by some kind of scorn for plebeian contests with commoners like their competitors.
But anyway, speaking of The Sincerity That Shall Not Be Named, did you guys forget to run the earnest-check on about half of your posts from the past two weeks?
December 15th, 2006 at 1:21 am
Something dirty is going on over at Spunkyhomeschool. Between 11:30 pm and 1:30 am EST they surged like 200 votes.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:54 am
Yep – The Jesus people are, in fact, cheating. Here’s how they’re doing it:
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/12/14/82323/518/37#c37
It’s pretty easy to remove the cookie-esque thing from your computer and keep voting over and over…. so in true Ivy fashion, lets find an end around the problem and tell ourselves its not cheating because the goal is good.
Allons citoyens!
December 15th, 2006 at 3:12 am
from the homeschoolers’ blog: “IvyGate is self-described as an Ivy League College gossip and s*x blog.”
“s*x”? do they think they’ll go to hell for typing out such a dirty, dirty word descring such a dirty, dirty thing?
December 15th, 2006 at 4:35 am
No, they were not sure what it is, so they just decided to play it safe in case s*x turns out to be something horrible.
December 15th, 2006 at 7:03 am
So, cheating instructions get posted on Bérubé’s site, and then get posted here, and the accusations fly that the homeschoolers must be cheating?? What kind of logic do they teach in the Ivy League?
*ring*
“Hello, Kettle? This is Pot. You’re black.”
December 15th, 2006 at 8:08 am
I tampered with those cheating directions in my comments section, actually. But I don’t see what’s wrong with being a gossip and sox blog. Unless someone sleep-pees in the sox drawer, of course.
December 15th, 2006 at 9:38 am
where’s the six?
December 15th, 2006 at 9:59 am
I had s*x s*x times last night with my s*x on.
December 15th, 2006 at 11:12 am
As fun as Berube’s blog is to read, does anyone else think his comments section is hard to read? Send him a quote, Kyle Jaster Studio.
December 15th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
damn you, Berube, and your funny, witty charm! Don’t you know that Ivy League elitists are programmed to hate people automatically if they are in competition with us? Then you came along with your intelligent and humorous banter and turned my heart from stone to something warm and gooey. I hate it when people do that. It shows weakness. And since now I’m all weak and vulnerable… what are you doing next Saturday?
December 16th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
y’all got your asses kicked by berube AND the homeschoolers. ouch.
December 16th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
dear stubborn girl,
just in case you may not have noticed….this here is IvyGate. There isn’t any intelligent and humorous banter in sight. At least not any that would make girls get all gooey and warm and stuff. Just between me and you, you might want to post your desparate and anonymous pleas for affection over there on Berube’s blog where there is a chance he may actually read it. Just a thought…
December 17th, 2006 at 1:20 am
and yeah i know i spellt desperate wrong. how embarrassing….i don’t even want to say which ivy I goto.
December 18th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Cornell, naturally.
December 19th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
um, hello, it wasn’t a plea for affection, you idiot. it’s called a Joke. Sarcasm. perhaps you should follow in the footsteps of your more illustrious alumni and throw yourself into one of those silly gorges.