That was good fun last night, wasn’t it?
I’m very proud to have won Most Humorous Post and the overall Best Blog prize for the second year running. The amount and variety of people there is a great testament to the Irish blogging scene. Short, tall, fat, thin, old, young, mohawky, bald, pregnant, not pregnant – they were all there. It showed that it’s not just a pastime for nerds (although there were some nerds there. You know who you are, oh yes).
The way it’s grown in the last 12 months has been remarkable and I’m sure that the awards last year did as much to give it a kick in the arse to help it expand as anything else. Hopefully this year’s awards will do the same.
I think what it’s shown is that anyone can blog (even fucking Grannymar) about anything they like as often or as little as they like. Forget bullshit posts about the ‘rules of blogging’. What’s great about it is that you just make of it what you want to make of it. Fuck convention.
Congratulations to everyone involved last night. To all the nominees, the winners, to Rick O’Shea for his presentation – although I never did get that fucking Um Bongo, you cunt – to the sponsors, Damien (very nice touch by Bernie to give the Best Contribution Award to Damien – thoroughly deserved too) and everyone else who worked so hard to make the night a success.
For me the whole thing was made complete by seeing Tom Raftery dance. That man has some moves, let me tell you.
Well done again to everyone. See you all next year.
I was catching up with the awards using twitter last night, and was impressed and glad that Bernie giving Damien that award – a ton of people had nominated him for that and he didn’t even longlist himself for it, the spanner.
Did Tom Raftery wear that slinky little Gucci number he’d been bragging about all week?
Congrats and stuff, Twenty!
I missed the whole thing – Saturday night being bathnight, I was washing my heir.
Is there a full list of winners posted anywhere yet so I get the congrats and stuff thing done with them too?
Winners here – http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=113
I’m sure Tom’s was a Chanel number, Kav.
Many Congratulations, Twenty Major.
It was a great relief to see you
in the flesh and see that
I do not have to post to your
official blog
with tips on
how to moisturize.
Well done, again!
Anouilh
Links got in a Twist there. Sorry.
Congrats Sir, I want video footage of any embarassing dance moves, falling over or fights. Colm Bracken was horsing into the whiskey so my money was on him causing trouble.
Congratulations Twenty – when you got up on that stage there was a collective intake of breath wondering if we’d have a Colin Farrell moment…shame we didn’t come to think of it. Your reputation is in tatters after last night cos you’re a very, very nice gentleman after all…;)
What’s a Colin Farrell moment?
Sinead – Tom’s dancing was awesome. Think of Christopher Walken in that Fat Boy Slim video crossed with the dwarf from Twin Peaks.
Well done Mister Major. It sounds like a great night although it is disappointing to hear you’re “a very, very nice gentleman after all” ;)
Well done on the awards Twenty, although I fear you may have let your angry bastard image slip a bit; punching someone in the face would have don’t it a world of good.
A colin farrell moment would have been a combination of liberal use of the C word and hit of what the slippery orange ballcock is suggesting ;) Like I said, you’re a lovely, lovely chap.
We apent the night talking about how buff you are. Sexy Major, mo’ like.
Well deserved, Twenty. Well deserved. :)
Congrats Twenty! You deserved the awards!
Congrats twenty on the wins, well deserved. And a pleasure to meet you in the flesh. I am working on the picture of you pooing in the alexander so your reputation remains intact.
Congratulations Twenty. Well deserved!
well done twenty. was there any photos taken??
just read toms sporting almanac….the one that won the sports blog award…what a load of toss. it is all about football…..fuck all else…..
well done twenty, long time reader. deserved.
coincidentally this weekend that spunk-rag of a magazine, the sunday independent’s “life” has a number of disparaging comments about bloggers including an entire article about them, calling us all nerds and idiots or something.
Now, this coming from a magazine who’s cover story is about south county dublin “bebo babes” and claims “rosanna davidson and her bebo crew scandalised the nation last week with their online antics”, is fucking rich.
incidentally i missed this national scandal. must have been to busy reading real news. doh!
Being insulted by the Sindo is like being bitten by a toothless dog, lots of mildly irritating dribble and no real pain inflicted.
No one else stood a chance! Well done Twenty, well done!
BTW Twenty is this the sort of Tom image that has been etched on your mind http://www.flickr.com/photos/81021515@N00/410178179/
Bravo, Mr. Connery.
Em, I mean Twenty, of course … yeah, well done.
Well Done
Good one Twenty well deserved and thanks for the word on “you pay taxes”, glad to hear someone liked it. Now, if I can only retrieve the ‘cam I secreted in the FF wash room in the Dail I could have some really good material for next year.
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Twenty. Who the hell are you knobgobbling in the Sunday Turbine??? They love you man. In fact the ST is how I heard about you in the first place, many moons ago…..
Well done Twenty, and good to talk to you briefly.
Cheers everyone.
Dogz – was there something in the Turbine?
McA – that picture is classic.
Thought you may like it, dont know how Tom may feel about it!
Sunday Tribune, FRONT page no less of the Business Section, Richard Delevan (the token yank reporter) headlines, “Blogging gold for potty mouthed Twenty Major”, with your chinaman picture (Mr. Poo?).
Gift eh? You’re part of the establishment now man. Might as well go order the convertible Bentley.
My favourite moment of the night is still the incredulity you were greeted with when you came up to accept your awards… They really were expecting someone with fangs, six legs and breathing pure evil ;-)
Brilliant to finally meet the face behind the pooing Chinaman…
If I’d known there was no Um Bongo it would all have been very different.
Good on ya T. Pity I didn’t get to have a natter, I was busy trying to figure out how to get the screwcap off a mini-bottle of wine. I shudda stuck to pints, might have lasted longer.
Cheers Conor. You deserve the award for your bravery!
7 pints in 7 hours – my head still hurts. Tom’s dancing was not as good as those second-lifers they danced all night – every DJ should have their own entourage on second life for when the real lifers wont dance like Tom! yiz were great.
Congrats Mr Major. So who’s got the pics of ya then? Spill or die!! :P
We’ll put a bounty on your noggin, so we will.
I was dancing?
Twenty turned up?
Awards?
Ohhhh my head. I’ll never touch the stuff again!
Congrats Twenty.
Well deserved!
Didn’t even one of you remember to take a camera!!?? D’oh! You’ve got to understand my frustration – I am whole hemisphere away, no pints, no dancing – just print media salt mines…
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Did anyone take a pic of twenty
post fuck and cunt a lot and win an award? could i not just post of 20 tokens from a corn flakes box?
twenty are you still gonna posts blogs when your rich and more famous from your book deals???