Blogosphere

Chuck Conroy (writer of zombiesdontrun.blogspot.com) was nice enough to name-drop us in his announcement of the Mr. Horror Blogger Contest that he just made up.

With an emotionally daring lapse of commas and grammar, Chuck writes, "Also as I said before, I myself will NOT be in this contest because lets face it, if I was and I somehow won with the contest being on MY blog you just know someone would get all Super Heidi on me and we don't want that now do we?"

Chuck, I guess, is assuming we'd be upset that he was having a male writing/looks pageant. We want Chuck to know that we give him our blessing. So he can go ahead without fear. After all, we require all Scary Studs to provide pictures, right? We do this to parody the ridiculousness of many interview layouts in Maxim Magazine, Playboy, and the like. In fact, I am hoping he requires at least 5 pictures from each blogger who enters, preferably shirtless, for my sexist perusal...

In a truly nauseating attempt at attention grabbing and women-judging, a blog called The Vault of Horror has started something called the 2009 Ms. Horror Blogosphere Contest, which pits female horror bloggers against one another in a popularity voting exploitationsplosion.

"The winner of the contest not only gets bragging rights and the right to display the nifty Ms. Horror Blogosphere 2009 on her site-she will also get to choose an honest-to-goodnes prize," claims Brian Solomon, who thought up the contest. Despite being a contest amongst bloggers, who are writers and journalists, each entry requires a photo of the lady and a bio. Which begs the question - why aren't they just being judged on the quality of their blog and writing? Answer: because it is never too late to judge women based on their looks...