Imagine how excited we were to hear this morning through the PR Newswire that your humble little -ist website had been nominated for a prestigious "Pubby" Award! A "Pubby"! For best Bay Area blog! The competition was stiff (SiliconValleyWatcher.org, DaveyD.com, splendora.com, and travelblog.org) -- but we were hopeful that we'd be invited to the 9th Annual SF Bay Area Publicity Club Pubby Awards lunch ceremony to pick up our prize!

So we were all excitedly planning on what we were going to wear to the lunch ceremony at the Argent Hotel, practicing batting our eyelashes for lunch MC Liam Mayclem from channel 5 -- when SFist Eve (always the most eagle-eyed among us) noticed -- hey, this lunch is scheduled for ! Guess we didn't win, huh? Well, fine! We didn't want to win anyways! We've never even heard of the Bay Area Publicity Club! What's a "Pubby," anyways?

No, it's okay, we're fine -- but, well, shoot, Bay Area Publicity Club -- you guys could have at least told us we were nominated a little bit earlier, so we'd at least have had our concession speech to, say, DaveyD.com all prepared and ready to go. (note: we actually have no idea who won, since we get no actual communication from the BAPC.) A little harsh to issue a press release to us that basically says we've already lost, too!

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