Gazette Blogathon Contest Winners
Category: Blogathon...
Posted Monday, August 08, 2005 at 08:40 PM [GMT-6]

OK, the entries have been forged, the judges bribed, the results hacked and the excuses wordsmithed, and we're ready to announce the list of winners of Fabulous Prizes™ arising from the seemingly endless and endlessly lame Fire Ant Gazette Blogathon 2005 contests (otherwise referred to as "don't you people have anything better to do?").

• Music Quiz #1 - Cindy wins a Fabulous Coaster™ for uncovering the identity of "The Game" by Queen


• Music Quiz #2 - Jen (a fellow Blogathoner and proprietess of Lintefiniel Musing) also wins a Fabulous Coaster™ for identifying Beethoven's "Symphony #6"


• Music Quiz #3 - Cowtown Pattie (head buckaroo over at Texas Trifles) wins yet another Fabulous Coaster™ for recognizing ZZ Tops "Tres Hombres" (barely edging out Denise, who might have lost the battle but won the war)


• Music Quiz #4 - Julie (sitting behind the wheel of The Yellow Bug News) wins -- all together now -- a Fabulous Coaster™ for identifying The Butterfield Blues Band's rendition of "Love March"


• Album Cover Quiz - Jimmy (Windex wielder at Sticky Doorknobs) scores a $10 iTunes Music Store gift certificate for his high school band geek-derived ability to identify the cover of Jean-Luc Ponty's "Imaginary Voyage" LP


• Header Graphic Contest (Level 1) - Jim (who alters moods over at Serotoninrain) wins the last Fabulous Coaster™


• Header Graphic Contest (Level 2) - SSG. Will (who proudly serves his country in southern Iraq) wins an Ultra-Fabulous Large Gazette Coffee Mug. He also gets the award for the most geographically remote winner!


• Header Graphic Contest (Level 3) & Grand Prize winner - Denise (who is constantly scanning Blue Sky in Texas, and who came this close to winning Music Quiz #3 (she'll never again forget "Tres Hombres," I suspect)) finds redemption and widespread adulation as the Gazette's Blogathon Grand Prize winner. Denise has chosen as her prize...well, actually, I'm still waiting to hear from Denise. I hope she didn't swoon from emotion upon hearing of her great fortune.

Update (8/9): Denise had the good sense to go for the $30 ITMS Gift Certificate. I trust that she'll use it to shore up her ZZ Top collection! ;-)

Knowing how much you enjoying the statistical dissection of these lists, you'll be interested to realize that our list of esteemed winners includes folks from six cities, three states and two countries. All but two are bloggers, and every last one of 'em is good people.

I very much appreciate everyone's participation in the Gazette's contests. I wish I had more prizes to give (and more creativity to generate interesting contests), but those things ain't cheap, you know. Well, they are cheap; they're just not inexpensive!