So what's the deal with all these web site awards, anyway? I see some people proudly displaying 52 bazillion of them, and others none at all. Is there a protocol? Does anyone besides the winner of the award care? I know I tend to glaze over when I stumble across a page of the things. It's very cool to have recognition for your hard work. I just don't know how cool it is to have to nominate yourself for an award.
I think that's how it works, basically. You look at a site which has won awards, scoff heartily at how lameola and naff their site is compared to your wonderful collection of Jenny McCarthy links, and head on over to the nearest awards URL to nominate your own fine self. Call me gothic, but I think an award from an admirerer of your site has more value if they instigated the process. I want someone to spontaneously notice my art, and applaud.
Maybe I'm still suffering from never getting noticed enough as a child at school. Maybe I'm hoping someone from my past will stumble upon my site and be filled with admiration, envy, and regret. Maybe I consider anything I can do is easy, and anything I can't do is hard, and that is a really stupid equation that I'd like to be talked out of.
I'm clearly doomed, anyway. Eventually, I won't be able to stand it, and I'll nominate my own site for something. I'm going to be really picky, the way I was with web rings. Call it award-shopping. I want the ones that are hard to get. If anyone gives me one that I didn't ask for, though, I'll be especially gratified.
Maybe then I can get over my false modesty about my 'art.' Ahahahahaha.