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Hey everyone.

Thanks, first of all, to all those who made nominations -- many winners wouldn't even have been on the ballot without noodges and nods from the good folks here at the CHFB all year long.

Thanks of course to all the advisers -- bidden and unbidden! -- who helped me prepare, winnow and sort through the ballots.

Thanks to all those who voted -- 2,933 of you and there would have been more except we ended the voting a week or two early because of our late start!

But thanks most of all to each and every nominee. There are hundreds of people, projects and lifetimes of effort represented on the Rondo ballot every year, and win or lose it is that work -- that effort, that enthusiasm, that craziness with a cause -- that makes the Rondos so very worthwhile and endlessly satisfying. So thanks to those who make the genre smarter and more fun every day. These awards are nothing but a reflection of you.

A great and zany time was had in the Blind Hermit's Hut chat room last night as the awards were announced. As I noted in the Rondo story, it was quite emotional when Joe Moe's name was revealed -- for him, for me, for many in the chatroom and most of all for the memory of Forry and Joe's role in all that. An unforgettable part of Rondo lore, last night will be.

I have many emails, a few with small corrections or tweaks and I'll get to those soon. The posting of the rondoaward.com website was a tedious effort early this morning as the software just slowed down incredibly, and I'm a bit bleary-eyed today at work. But keep the info coming in, including any brickbats, and know that none of this is possible without every lunatic here.

Thanks again for making Rondo VII such a success. And we hope the ceremony in Lousville in May will be one to remember as well.

david

Wow, I love that. Thanks for sharing, Ben. Again, this from Jeff Carlson of the Svengoolie Yahoo Group: