The First Winner!
Manolo says, the Tylia of the San Carlos, California, (who may be known to some of you as the commentor BisNation) she is the first winner in the Manolo’s contest!
Her name it was selected at the random by the Manolo to receive the copy of the Jane Eldershaw’s very amusing book Heart and Sole : The Shoes of My Life. (The Jane Eldershaw she is of the course, one of the judges of the Manolo’s Super Fantastic Essay Contest.)
Over the next few weeks the Manolo will be giving away many more of the prizes, like the books and the shoe boxes and the various other fantastic things. So, make the Mama proud and enter the contest soon!
September 14th, 2005 at 11:15 am
Actually, now I’m the bloody munchkin! I won! I won! I actually won something! I said it before, I’ll say it again! The Manolo, he honors me!!!
September 14th, 2005 at 11:19 am
And so does the Jane Eldershaw, whose book I am now eagerly anticipating!!!
September 14th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Why not BisNation anymore? Bloody Munchkin brings up visions of … well, a munchkin covered in blood. Eeew. (Although you might using it in the British sense as a swear word, I suppose.)
September 14th, 2005 at 1:05 pm
Will the Manolo be publishing the essays of virtue? The Gidget wishes to partake of the wits and the wisdoms of the most clever readers of the Manolo.
September 14th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
Yeah, it’s not the most visually pleasing handle is it? I used Bis Nation because that was a lyric from one of my favorite bands. When I started my own blog, I had to come up with something different, I guess. And It’s an inside joke between the SO and myself, so I used it. Sorry if it has made anyone icky…
September 14th, 2005 at 3:02 pm
Bloody in this case being the quasi-expletive so loved by the British, as in your SO going “stop bouncing around like some bloody munchking already!” ?
September 14th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
er munchkin…although munchking is a rather amusing image in my head now…
September 14th, 2005 at 5:36 pm
Yeah, Manolo, are you going to post the winning essay? I’d really like to read it!
September 14th, 2005 at 6:30 pm
The Manolo he will be posting the winning essays at the end of the contest, and many of the runners up.
However, this prize, as with all of the small prizes until the announcement of the winners in the middle of the October, it was chosen at the random from among the various entries.
There was no judging of the entry involved. There was just the Manolo reaching his hand into the hat and pulling out the winner of the book.
September 14th, 2005 at 6:53 pm
Hmmmmm,
“the Manolo reaching his hand into the hat”………..
September 14th, 2005 at 7:15 pm
Aw, and here I thought I was being judged on my technical performance and artistry (of which I’d hoped I’d skated a perfect program) but now I find my prize wasn’t based on performance at all. I’m a little saddened by that. Alright. Sadness over. Gimme, gimme, gimme!
September 15th, 2005 at 6:55 am
Congratulations to Bloody Munchkin, and the Annalucia looks forward to reading her essay. The Annalucia is still working on hers (write, count the words, sigh, cross out a sentence, rewrite, count again…) so it may be awhile before the Manolo has the pleasure of reading it.
September 15th, 2005 at 8:39 am
An inside joke - that does make sense. Although now I like thinking of you in the guise of a Chucky-like doll, with a knife and blood spatters. Heh.
September 15th, 2005 at 10:53 am
Mazel tov!
It is enuff to make me kvell!
Enjoy the boxes!
September 15th, 2005 at 11:08 am
“The Annalucia is still working on hers (write, count the words, sigh, cross out a sentence, rewrite, count again…) so it may be awhile before the Manolo has the pleasure of reading it.” I’m hearing that. I went through about three draft with both the submissions I wrote. But if brevity is the soul of wit, then Manolo is just trying to make us really witty.
VeddyBeddyBadAng, it is kinda like that. Husband’s name is Fighting Nun, so when I visualize our name sakes, I see a nun with boxing gloves on facing a little five-year-old in a catholic school uniform with a blackened eye and a bloodied nose, crying. That sounds horrible doesn’t it?
September 15th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
Congrats to the Bloody Munchkin! And thank yous to the Manolo for affording us the opportunities to dwell on all that is shoeness. I’m having the fun writing the essays and cannot wait to read the essays! This is all so superfantastic that I am the delirious!