Believe me, it really is an honor just being nominated
I came home from my regular Tuesday night boxing class at Blue Cat to discover that I had been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Yeah, welcome home to me. This being 2009, I found out via Twitter thanks to a message from Kim Pittaway. (She's nominated for three awards! I'm a total underachiever.) Here's the full list of nominees.
You can read my nominated story here. It was published in Maisonneuve magazine.
I'm really excited to be nominated in the Humour category, as I'm an extremely funny person. It's about time the world, or at least the magazine community, recognized how funny I am. Now you know. Why aren't you laughing?
Anyway, there are a lot of nominees in my category. One of them is probably funnier than me. Which means I probably won't win the gold medal. But as long as they have those insanely decadent chocolate fountains at the awards again this year, I'll be okay.
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Hey there. Thanks for stopping by. I'm a freelance journalist and author in Montreal, Canada. I serve as an associate editor for PBS MediaShift, a website that reports on trends in new media and journalism. I edit RegretTheError.com and wrote a book of the same name. I'm also the co-author, with Michael Calce, of Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet and Why It's Still Broken. Both books are listed to the right.
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I just learned the good news. Congrats! I hope you win. Then we’ll really get to see how funny you are when you’re hung-over and incoherent at the AGM the following morning :)
Yeah, I’m going to have to behave myself at the awards. I’ll be sitting at the front table at the AGM this year.
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