04 March 2009

Best of! Charleston City Paper

Byron - Best Street Character, Joan Perry - Best Local Interest Blog.

Andre' Guillet - McCrady's Restaurant GM, Sean Brock - Best Chef, Tanya Brock, Clint Sloan - Best Sommelier, David Howard - Buccaneer Restaurant - Best Place to Take Country Kin Folk.

Sean Brock, Andre' Guillet, Joan Perry

Marjorie & Lori - Best Day Care, Roper St. Francis Learning Center

A few year's ago, when I had a baby blog called Walk this Way, my sister Shirley in Edmonton submitted it in the Best of Canada Blog awards. It was a great joke, since I live in the lowcountry of South Carolina. But, I am Canadian so I was eligible, and although there were some rumblings in Canadian blog circles about American influences, I won second place in the Photo/Art category. It was good fun.

Tonight I won the Charleston City Paper's "Best Of" category for Best Local Interest Blog. Woohoo! This is even better since most of my audience and commenters are not from Charleston. I tend to attract readers who used to live here and have pangs of homesickness, wished they lived here or who have visited here. This is quite an honor to get the local vote and I thank everyone who took the trouble to vote for me. Picture me blowing kisses.

The party was at the Joe Riley Stadium and had a mustache theme. I stopped by Hokus Pokus on the way home from work the other day and bought up a supply of mustaches.

Best Local Interest Blog
Joan Perry's photo collection is a daily affirmation that we live in, "the most beautiful city in the world."

My health care system cleaned up as well. Roper St. Francis Healthcare won Best Hospital, Best Place to Have a Baby and Best Learning Center. Tonight I am allowed more than one daily photo. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to the Charleston City Paper for a fantastically hairy event!

20 comments:

  1. Congrats, Joan! I'm also glad Byron won Best Street Character again. He always gives me great advice!

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  2. Anonymous9:43 PM

    Congratulations to all!

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  3. Cullen - does he? He cleaned up well, didn't he? This is a regular event for him.

    Mike - Thank you! Fun night.

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  4. You look mah-vel-ous!!! Even in a moustache! Congratulations!

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  5. Catalyst - I just saw your latest picture! You belonged at this party :))

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  6. Wow! Cool, congrats and love the moustache.

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  7. Anonymous5:46 AM

    Congratulations!!! Your blog is truly award worthy.

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  8. Major congratulations, Joan!!! Just goes to show, you (JournalSpace, that is) can't keep a good woman down!

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  9. Anonymous6:55 AM

    Way to go.
    -Joe

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  10. Anonymous1:36 PM

    congrats Joan
    Bob

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  11. Very cool, Joan. Congrats!

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  12. Thank you folks, for all the fun comments!

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  13. Congratulations!

    You deserve it!

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  14. Anonymous11:10 AM

    Hey - Congratulations! Looks like you're having alot of fun.

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  15. Anonymous4:55 PM

    Hoorah for you! Your blog is great fun to check in on...you inspired me to take my (dreadfully ancient) camera on walks and to look more closely at my world - of course you also inspire me to vast amounts of warm weather envy and you feed my moving to the South fantasy with nearly every photograph!
    They picked the right blogger -cheers encore!!!

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  17. Love the mustaches!

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  18. Doesn't this look like a bunch of fun!?

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