It turns out that Hooah Wife and I are not the only Cotillionites who have been nominated. So here's a handy-dandy cheat sheet of Cotillion candidates and their friends/allies:

Best Religious Blog
GodDivas

Best Diarist
Ruthlace
The Median Sib

Best Video Blog
HamNation
(Mary Katharine Ham)

Video of the Year
HamNation—Sopranos DC Edition (MKH)

TTLB ECOSYSTEM CATEGORIES

Best of the Top 250 Blogs
My Pet Jawa (Jane Novak, Guest Blogger)
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Blue Star Chronicles

Best of the Top 251 - 500 Blogs
Knowledge is Power (SondraK)
Baldilocks (Juliette—on hiatus, but still going great guns)
Fausta (Fausta, the premier blogger on issues Latin American)
PC Free Zone

Best of the Top 1001 - 1750 Blogs
Agent Bedhead
Merri Musings

Best of the Top 1751 - 2500 Blogs

Armies of Liberation (Jane)
Hooah Wife
Little Miss Attila (Joy)

Best of the Rest of the Blogs (8751+)
Kiss My Gumbo
Photos by Seawitch

Remember: voting for Cotillion candidates is a blow to the patriarchy. And it might get you laid. Plus, it wards off skin ailments.*

[Special thanks to Janette for compiling this list!]

* Promises not guaranteed, but deemed accurate.

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Apparently, I'm up for an award among the "Blogs Hardly Anyone Reads" (ranked 1751-2500), and I must choose among 1) my egomania, 2) my respect for Hooah Wife, and 3) my conviction that Jane at Armies of Liberation is the very best in this particular group.

Is there, uh, a financial prize if I win? Just askin'.

Well, you can vote every 24 hours up until 11/8. And it is cheaper than hitting our tip jars.

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I love Chris Muir's use of the title "Your Inevitableness" for Mrs. Clinton.

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Attila the Hub and I dropped by for a time last night. It was fun to see Ace again, even though he's cut his hair too short. (I did get to point out that he looks better on this coast versus the other, because he's got a healthy California glow going. He must have accidentally gotten some sun at some point, which is always a stunning achievement for any internet nerd/writer, including me.)

Baldilocks was there, enjoying her blog-hiatus. It was also great to see Patterico. It had been a while. And, of course, a lot of the Ace o' Spades regulars were present, though I probably don't know them all as well as I should.

I got to meet Clark Baker, who was a lot of fun to talk to. I got his card for my "LAPD-related" Rolodex (a crime novelist can never do too much research, even if she's not writing actual police procedurals—and even if Baker didn't do detective work while he was with the LAPD). Once Baker mentioned the USMC, however, I went off to get fresh drinks, figuring my husband (who also studied police science for a while, and was in the MP when he was with the Marines) would have plenty to talk to him about.

Also, they were close to the same height. I felt that my presence would give them cricks in their necks if I stuck around.

Bars aren't really necessarily my thing. But the Santa Monica Promenade is a great place to be on a weekend—albeit slightly crowded—and it's always nice to get back to my second hometown, no matter the excuse.

We were three blocks from the cliffs overlooking the ocean; how could it get better than that?

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1 I had a great time meeting you and the gang last night too. Had I'd known I chased you away by waxing military, I would have quickly switched subjects. Although you alluded to yourself as being less than tall, the fact that your feet reached the floor was tall enough for me. :-)

Posted by: Clark Baker at November 04, 2007 11:14 AM (puXcp)

2 It was blast to meet the people behind the blogs. I wasn't expecting to meet you there Attila girl, so it was a pleasant surprise to chat with you.

Posted by: Mr. Matamoros at November 04, 2007 12:46 PM (FODlD)

3 Hey! I love Marines! For example, I married one. But I was thirsty . . .

Posted by: Attila Girl at November 04, 2007 04:34 PM (aywD+)

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I mean, I know he was rude to the President once, but this is America: if you can't be rude to the President, whom can you be rude to?

And I really dug his work on Strangers with Candy. South Carolina is taking itself way too seriously. We should call for an investigation!

Also, there are only two other people on the planet who can do this sort of thing with their eyebrows:

Namely, Jack Black, and the Scanmaster, David Coons. As a matter of fact, Colbert looks like a sort of brunette—and, well, slightly younger—David Coons. I wonder if I have any pictures of Dave that are good, and feature him wearing clothing.

Here's a crappy pic of Coonsie:

But at least he is fixing his friend's pool while wearing swim trunks. This is a major concession, coming from the guy who inspired the title of Po Bronson's book The Nudist on the Late Shift.

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