Best Urban Food Blog, said Gridskipper
So Chez Pim just won an award. The 2005 URBS, Urban Blogging Awards, over at Gawker Media's travel blog extraodinaire Gridskipper. That GridPerson was happily skipping by quite a few times this year, so it's nice that his readers found Chez Pim worthy of being part of the, um, URBS.
That's not enough to stop me feeling so cranky today however. Not even with a mention in the CS Monitor yesterday. Why, you asked? Well, as it turned out, that super generous $5,000 donation to the Menu for Hope II was a fake. This was someone's idea of a joke apparently. I wonder who in their right mind would find it funny though. Someone's got to find better things to occupy their time than messing with other people's ernest effort to do something good for a change. We still ended up raising over $17,000 -which is no peanuts mind you- but that sound of $22,000 was so, so, so, so nice. Oh well, à chacun son Karma and all that, I guess.
If you stop by Gridskipper to see the list of award recipients, make sure you check out The Beloved Universe, the winner of World's Best Urban Photoblog, my favorite find from that entire list. Congrats all around and happy holidays to everyone, whatever holiday you chose to celebrate.
P.S. Don't forget to check back here on January 1st for the raffle results. Cheers.
Pim, congratulations on The 2005 URBS!!! Tha sounds great! What doesn´t sound great is the fake donation. I guess they were jaleous of the succsess of the event. Happy New Year from Panama! Hugs :)
Posted by: melissa_cookingdiva | Dec 29, 2005 6:20:47 PM
CONGRATULATIONS! :D Have a GREAT year ahead as this one ends. ;)
Posted by: Richard Lee | Dec 29, 2005 6:24:24 PM
Congratulations on your award and blub Pim! I can't believe someone pulled some bullshit like that for the fake donation tho- what a jerk! Oh well, 17k is still completely amazing!
Posted by: Alicat | Dec 29, 2005 7:07:06 PM
Congrats on the award! It attests to your clever writing that we all enjoy reading.
While the fake donation is terrible--really, it is a sick sick person to pull crap like that--the fact that we raised 17,000 dollars is still totally, like, WOW!
You've done an amazing job Pim.
Posted by: Rose | Dec 29, 2005 8:48:30 PM
Pim--I wondered why the total had gone down so far, and I began to wonder about that five thousand dollar donation.
I wondered about it when I saw it, but then, I thought, maybe it was for real.
Some people are really small inside. Really, really small.
I am sorry for them, but not sorry for the fact that the rest of the earnest folks who participated raised seventeen thousand dollars for an absolutely worthy cause.
Thank you again, Pim for your work.
And congratulations on the award!
Posted by: Barbara Fisher | Dec 29, 2005 9:11:47 PM
Congrats Pim and $17,000 is still an amazing total!
Posted by: Gerald | Dec 29, 2005 10:24:59 PM
Congratulations on both counts!!! As for the donation prankster, don't let it get under your skin. You've still orchestrated something amazing that is going to impact many, many people's lives.
Posted by: Melissa | Dec 30, 2005 5:09:16 AM
congrats pim!! totally award worthy!!
can't believe someone pulled such a trick, but hey, you have done a absolutely fabulous and great job so don't let it get to you...
happy new year!
Posted by: Lil | Dec 30, 2005 5:33:27 AM
"a chacun son karma" - best new phrase of 2005 and 2006 combined. excellent.
Posted by: dq | Dec 30, 2005 9:02:05 AM
17k is amazing...and well done on the URBS Award.
Namaste
Al
ps let me know who won the City Hippy raffle prize and I will post it off.
Posted by: City Hippy | Dec 30, 2005 5:27:18 PM
Thanks everyone. We all did a great job, this campaign is not something any one person could take credit for. We all did a tremendous job. Thank you.
Losing the $5,000 fake donation is annoying, yes, but I know it has no negative impact on our campaign. We'll just have to outdo ourselves again next year, won't we?
cheers,
Pim
Posted by: Pim | Jan 1, 2006 8:44:55 AM