Have a good cry. It’ll be alright.
Thanks for trying everyone! But we didn’t quite have enough to push us into the top five of any category at the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards. Even a last minute push of readers from The Enlightened Savage urging them to vote for my candidate for best blog post couldn’t put us high enough.
I’ve taken this devastating news as best as I can and “cried it out” for a couple hours. I hope you too, dear reader, will be okay and are capable of moving onward with me.
Maybe next year, as they say.
Whatever, as I say.
Some of my daily reads are still in the running however. Voting on round 2 begins on Wednesday so please, please, go and give them your support.
Best Blog
Daveberta.ca
Mike’s Bloggity Blog Blob
Best Blogosphere Citizen
Dave Cournoyer of Daveberta
Best Blog Post
Mike’s Bloggity Blog Blob: What’s the male of Feminism?
Best Political Blog
Calgary Grit
Daveberta.ca
Best progressive Blog
Calgary Grit
Daveberta.ca
Best Humour Blog
Mike’s Bloggity Blog Blob
Best Entertainment/Cultural Blog
Mike’s Bloggity Blog Blob
Best Media/Celebrity Blog
Michael Morrison
A full list of nominees can be found here. Good luck to you all.
Even though I hate you all for being better than me. You suck… sniff…
Rumour mill now slowly turning at Eau Claire
While we are on the topic of unsubstantiated rumours I might as well give all you fine looking readers out there another one.
I assume you’d like that because yesterday was a banner day for our little blog here – most visits since inception! Hot damn. That might be because I was asking everyone to vote for the djkelly.ca Blog at the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards (something I feel kinda dirty about doing) or because I finally directed all my Facebook friends to the blog for the first time. But I’m going to ignore that post and instead pretend we had so many visitors because you liked the post on the rumours about the Bow’s public space.
But don’t get too used to me feeding your regular gossip fix. I’m no Us Weekly (heck I’m no Star magazine either, so that’s not saying much about me). So here’s the poop:
Talking yesterday about the National Portrait Gallery got me thinking about the $500,000 Calgary city council approved for a “bid” to land the gallery. But I wouldn’t think you would just approve a half million dollars without having some idea as to where you’d put the darn thing.
So here’s the rumour: Mr. Mayor himself is eyeing the Eau Claire Market land for the National Portrait Gallery. This wouldn’t be too tough actually because the Market itself is slated for demolition and redevelopment. (Presumably to make way for another failed project.) Certainly this site would be prime real estate for a project of this kind. The Eau Claire area is a bit of a crown jewel – sitting right on the river in the heart of downtown – and as such any redevelopment to this area should be something we would be extremely proud of and would want to show off to visitors. If an art gallery were to be put in this place the architecture would have to be grand.
A little bit of info on the Eau Clair site for you: The market itself was sold in May 2004 to Harvard Developments and Synergy Properties who each own/are investors in several other Calgary shopping spots. In July 2007 they announced the new “market” would be a different kind of shopping centre with high rise condos as part of the project. The important thing to note in this is that the City has included a clause in their agreement that they must approve drawings for any redevelopment, meaning they’ll have their eye on the grander vision of the area.
Perhaps this is why I’m also hearing the rumour that Dave Bronconnier really has his heart set on an Opera House for this site. Although, why Calgary needs an opera house is beyond me. Certainly we don’t have the demand for opera to warrant an entire design specific building in the heart of downtown for this exclusive use, so the building would have to be multi-use. And we already have that in the Jubilee.
I don’t plan on calling the Mayor to ask him if the rumours are true. Unsubstantiated rumours are so much more fun. I doubt he’d take my calls anyway. But if you must know if its true perhaps the aldermen that read this blog could shed some light – or send Bronco a text asking. Or maybe the alderman that should read this blog could ask.
We made the long list! Only you can help us make the short list.
Well it looks as though our little blog here has been nominated for three 2007 Canadian Blog Awards!
It’s been nominated for:
- Best New Blog
- Best Blog Post
- Best Local Blog
So please vote! Everyone only gets one vote so yours counts! Please help me move up those rankings and place in the top five so I can make the final ballot.
Voting is open now and closes Monday, January 21 at 11:59 PM (Pacific).
So everyone please go and vote here: http://cdnba.wordpress.com
If you like you can always join the “Vote for the “djkelly.ca Blog” at the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards!” Facebook group here.
Thanks in advance for voting!
Also, if you like I’d also recommend voting for some of the other nominated blogs I read daily (who are probably more modest than me and might not even mention they’re nominated):
In other slightly off topic news I’ve been a little busy to post the past couple days. I guess I can stop trying to figure out how to join the Beltline community association (honestly, it shouldn’t be that hard to find contact details for your community association) because we bought a house this past Sunday in Winston Heights/Mountview (16 Ave and Edmonton Trail area).
We’re really pleased with the location although the walk downtown is a little longer.
- Our new Aldermand: Joe Ceci, Ward 9
- Our new MLA: Richard Magnus, Calgary North Hill (PC) – Who is retiring apparently.
- Our new MP: Jim Prentice, Calgary Centre-North (Conservative)
So look out neighbourhood, here we come!
Blogging about blogging (such introspection!)
In case you haven’t heard yet: the Canadian Blog Awards finally have a new home and will be presented this year after all.
I’m not suggesting you should vote for me – far from it. I’m not even sure what category this blog would be nominatable in. Best New Blog? Best Non-Partisan Blog? Maybe, Best Local Blog? Best made up word for the term “nominatable”? Either way, my goal is to provide even more/better quality on this blog and to be more like past recipients in the Best Religious Blog category.
I did want to draw your attention to a friend’s blog that I nominated: Mike’s Bloggity Blog Blob – who today informs us the People’s Choice Awards have been cancelled because of the Writers’ Guild strike. (Who knew we, the people, couldn’t be forced to choose when there were no writers in Hollywood? And what’s left, when we no longer have the power to choose? Chaos. And possibly the Blockbuster Awards. Although I think those were cancelled in 2002. They probably weren’t cancelled because of a writers strike; its more likely they were cancelled because of suckiness. Or pointlessness.) I nominated Mike’s blog in the Best Entertainment Blog and Best Humour Blog categories. If he makes the long list be sure to go vote for him!
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