In case you haven't heard, your now esteemed co-kossack, Me, has been named Person of the Year! Apparently, they are very impressed with my blogging and YouTuberyTM (Ask my soon to be best-bud Colby, once you have this kind of influence you coin words by accident!)
Here's part of the letter notifying me of this great honor, as posted on CNN:
You are Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet sites such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. You were chosen over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Kim Jong Il and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Congratulations.
I hate fake modesty, and my year and a half blogging here in obscurity was really pissing me off - It's about time I got a little attention.
I've heard some of you gutter-sniping about Time's decision. Selecting me was a cop out. Time didn't have the guts to name someone controversial. Whatever. That Iranian guy's been on the cover, like twice this year already.
And I don't think crazy people should be honored as I have. Dear Leader Kim Jung Ill is even crazier. Bush? Just today, certified insane! As for Rummy? You know he's getting the medal of freedom, so lets spread the honoring around a bit, right?
I think I deserve this because I've never been noticed before, to be honest. I'm not controversial at all - only our small minority of weirdos ever complain about anything I've written. Just the other day, I had a diary (the last one to EVER be ignored by you people) where one guy really took me on. I bet he had a feeling I was about to be officially more awesome than he'll ever be!
Anyways, use this space to talk about how I have impacted your own lives. Ask me anything... I actually need practice before the hordes of Anderson Coopers and Jon Stewart fight over who get's the exclusive first TV interview. Hell, trash Time's choice for being a total suck-out, mailing it in, whatever. My Ego is way too big now for me to give a shit, anyways.
UPDATE - Apparently, there has been some confusion, and some other people are under the impression that they have been named Person of the Year! Get real. Probably just technical problems that plague the dino-media every day!
UPDATE2 - I want to test embedding YouTube videos. This has nothing to do with my glorious honor. Watch the video anyway.
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