The Weblog Awards and I go way back, though not necessarily in a good way. Here’s a brief synopsis:

1. Three years ago, I was the Best Large Mammal.
2. Two years ago, I was a pretty crappy Large Mammal.
3. One year ago, I was a Sir Not Appearing In This Film. I also forgot my anniversary and had to be reminded by Mrs. X.
4. Zero years ago, I managed to forget my anniversary again, and also managed to forget that there is such a thing as a Weblog Award. My wife reminded me of my anniversary (again), and Patterico and QandO helped with the Weblog Awards.

Now that I have been reminded, below are my recommended votes.

1. Best Blog: The Corner at NRO
2. Best New Blog:

No recommendation - I haven’t heard of any of these! Help!

3. Best Individual Blog: Lileks. Who else was I going to pick Glenn Douchewald?!
4. Best Humor Blog: Blame Bush. Close seconds: IMAO and Scrappleface.
5. Best Comic Strip: Cox and Forkum.
6. Best Online Community: Fark. Close second: anything else except the Daily Kotze.
7. Besdt Liberal Blog: Bitch Ph.D. I know nothing about it, but it’s a cool name, and it’s not Pandagon.
8. Best Conservative Blog: Patterico’s Pontifications. Close second: Mary Katharine Ham.
9. Best Centrist Blog: QandO (but since when are they centrist?!)
10. Best Media Blog: Newsbusters. Close second: Tammy Bruce.
11. Best Technology Blog: No clue. I’ve never heard of any of them except Slashdot, and know next to nothing about it.
12. Best Sports Blog: Ditto. I was hoping to find Baseball Crank in there, but no dice. I know, it’s not really a sports blog, and besides, he roots for the wrong team, but still…
13. Best Military Blog: Smash. Close seconds: Blackfive and Michael Yon, who may actually be better than Smash, I just don’t read them often enough to know. Sgt. Hook ain’t half bad, either. [No, I'm not suggesting that any of the others are.]
14. Best Law Blog: Ya know, you’d really think that the blog that explained why parents and the District of Columbia would be somewhere on this list, but alas, it ain’t. I guess we’ll have to settle for the Volokhs instead. Close second: How Appealing.
15. Best Business Blog: Asymmetrical Information.
16. Best LGBT: Gay Patriot. Close second: anyone who doesn’t use PC abbreviations like LGBT. Next year, whoever calls {himself a fudgepacker | herself a carpet licker | himself/herself something even cooler I haven’t even thought of yet} will get my vote.
17. Best Parenting Blog: No clue. As a relatively new parent, I probably should familiarize myself with these guys but thus far, I haven’t.
18. Best Educational Blog: The Education Wonks. Close second: Joanne Jacobs. Everyone else: sorry, I’m sure you haven’t heard of me, either.
19. Best Science Blog: Anyone but Deltoid. Can just anyone be a scienceblogger?!
20. Best Medical/Health Issues Blog: No clue.
21. Best Photo Blog: Ditto.
22. Best Culture Blog: Megadittos. Who needs culture? This is America!
23. Best Diarist: Dunno, I lean toward Dooce, on the theory anyone who can make his/her name into a verb can’t be all bad. But see, Fisk, Robert.
24. Best Gossip Blog: Perez Hilton. If it weren’t for this guy, would anyone know for sure that Brit Spears is really a girl and Bill Maher is an asshole? I know, we “knew” that all along, but did we really know?
25. Best Music Blog: No clue. I didn’t even know David Gilmour had a blog. I really need to get out more. On second thought, no, I don’t, at least not “out” on the Internet. I spend too much time there as it is.
26. Best Podcast: No clue. I’m probably one of only three people on the planet who owns neither an Ipod nor a cast.
27. Best Video Blog: Hot Air. Yeah, I’ve bagged on them now and again, but that’s nibbling at the margins. As video-heavy blogs go, they’re head and shoulders above the rest.
28. Video of the Year: Mary Katharine Ham: Get Out the Vote. If only a few more lonely guys had seen it in time for the vote that really counted, Black Tuesday might not have been such a dark day after all.
29. Best Canadian Blog: Small dead animals. Also nominate for worst Canadian blog name, though I suppose anyone who calls himself Xrlq is in a lousy position to talk.
30. Best UK Blog: Samizdata.
31. Best European (Non-UK) Blog: Davids Medienkritik
32. Best Asian Blog: No clue.
33. Best Middle East or Africa Blog: Iraq the Model
34. Best Australia or New Zealand Blog: Tim Blair
35. Best Latino, Caribbean or South American Blog:
36. Best of the Top 150 Just One Minute. Close second: MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
37. Best of 251-500 Blogs: Flopping Aces
38. Best of 501-1000: Darleen’s Place
39. Best of 1001-1750: Boi From Troy
40. Best of 1751-2500: The Queen of All Evil
41. Best of 2501-3500: Colossus of Rhodey. Close second: Cobb.
42. Best of 3501-5000: No clue. Never heard of any of these guys. If you have, enlighten me.
43. Best of 5001-6750: Ditto.
44. Best of 6751-8750: A Keyboard and a .45. Close second: Lonewacko.
45. Best of the Rest: Color me clueless.