Turns out this cat does not take kindly to others felines.
Even if said intruder is a picture of a cat.

All this week, i've watched the writing team here valiantly put in their best effort to convince the world how funny we are, all for the sake of the 2008 Weblog Awards, for which we found ourselves in the "Best Humor Blog" category. There have been some really great pieces posted by Echowood, Miss Cellania, Bigus Dickus and Baierman. And behind the scenes a flurry of emails have gone around discussing strategy, ideas, tactics to persuade readers to get out and vote. And each day, as our standing sunk lower and lower, it was a little heartbreaking to see how much effort they were putting in for such little reward. i almost started to feel sorry for Sarah Palin (almost).

Winning awards has never been our priority. I didn't even know we'd been entered, let alone made it through to the finals until Miss C sent me the link. "Funny" is a really subjective thing, and as I looked at the competition, it was really hard to say who was 'funnier". That's such a matter of personal taste, and there were some interesting candidates.

But these awards are not judged by a panel - they're a people's choice, the American Idol of web awards. The audience votes, and the most votes takes it. And YBNBY gets very good traffic - I mean, we're not the Huff Post, but we're of a decent size. in fact, I would guess that of the ten blogs in contention, we're possibly the second or third largest in terms of audience. So while I didn't expect to win, I thought we'd at least put up a good showing, just on the numbers.

And then... a funny thing started to happen.