Dude, Kriston is solidly in the lead. I'm impressed.
Ogged is going to do a post for Catherine but he's off "swimming" or something.
I don't like the format of the voting page. I see a hanging html issue on the horizon.
Kriston is the only one identified by where he drinks, rather than where he writes.
Thus showing him to be the only true journalist.
There doesn't appear to be anything preventing people from voting multiple times. I fear the Chinese vote, like with Yao.
Really, I just want you to beat the GQ guy.
Damn. Kriston is really, um, smashing the competition.
11: It doesn't give you an error message, but I just voted for 'smasher a couple dozen times, and they didn't show up.
I voted for the angry, ugly bald guy, and the beefy Chet-looking guy with the polo shirt and the look of scorn and disdain on his face.
Catherine is also crushing kids over there. WOOT!
I'm repeating 8, but "various pubs" may be the best description of where I do my best work, as well.
Ezra Klein is the young Jonathan Richman of the wonkosphere.
I was going to say "that Ezra kid is going down" but I thought that might get him more votes.
CQ was a horrible movie. Being associated with that is even worse than writing for GQ.
Kriston Capps, various pubs
... where he's buying drinks for everybody to vote for him.
I was vote #56 for the smash, putting him well ahead of anyone else.
Kriston with the hat is even better looking, of course.
As I said yesterday, Vandehei looks like the reptile he is. It's really gratifying to have one's various prejudices consistent with one another. (McMegan coming out against Harry Potter caused me real anguish).
I fear that the power of Unfogged may go to some people's heads. Also, why isn't Sausagely running?
Unfogged appears to be less influential than ABC. I'm disappointed in you, Ogged.
why isn't Sausagely running?
Perhaps he doesn't know he's being chased.
You know, it's really no contest here. Kriston and Ezra are definitely cute, and the rest of the guys are definitely boring.
Oddly, I don't feel at all skeezy for voting in this poll. I suck as a human being.
That's 'smasher?! Really? Jeez, guy, you look just like this Green Anarchist bike messenger dude around here, leading me to be suspicious of this whole thing.
Can't you file a protest? ABC is not "off air", is it?
Here's a more recent photo sans beard (also pictured is legitimate media hottie catherine).
Does that qualify as 'sans' beard? More 'semi-bearded', I'd say.
That's a sweet upnose shot of catherine, Smashy.
i already have a man crush on ezra though. i'm not voting.
I have a 5 o'clock shadow by 10:30 a.m. It's rare that I'm ever not semi-bearded.
Point being: Clinton Yates and Pat Healy are ridiculously attractive.
Oh dear, he has 108 and the guy in the exaggerated shrug posture has 106. How can this be? Does ABC have a blog?
How is it possible that most of these guys' faces make me want to kick them in the shins? Do I hate the media? Is that it?
I am embarrassed that the only time I met Ezra was when Lemieux and Beyerstein and I were at a bar, and I didn't realize they'd bring me along to their fancy blogger party, so I showed up super-crunk and made an ass of myself to the blogging elite. Don't remember much about that night.
'Smasher wins, though. He is utterly free of the taint of douchebaggery. Why does it keep letting me vote more than once? Where's the security on this thing?
How is it possible that most of these guys' faces make me want to kick them in the shins?
I have the exact same reaction.
37: You didn't hear it from me, but maybe the mediabistro cookies...
Mark Leibovich looks like he is trying to kill anyone looking at him with his Death Ray Vision.
I'd want to kill someone looking at me with his Death Ray Vision, too.
Seriously, who is this Greg Grant guy? Am I free to hate him?
And for god's sake, men, the ultra-tight crew cut. Just, ick.
42: I think he played Puddy on Seinfeld.
On the other hand, more of the guys are smiling than the girls, and fewer of them are in the standard 3/4 turn head shot. Did the contestants submit their own pics, or is this a function of something else?
I seem not to have WWW::Mechanize installed.
43: Okay, gullible girl can't tell if this is a joke or not.
I assume the people who nominated them sent the pics.
How is it possible that no one submitted Yglesias vlogging from the forest moon of Endor?
34: Point being: Clinton Yates and Pat Healy are ridiculously attractive.
Yes. Yates especially, my goodness.
Charli Hurt could either be really, really hot, or really, really unattractive. Hard to tell from that pic.
How is it possible that most of these guys' faces make me want to kick them in the shins?
Behold, the face of the Doucheiarchy!
I'm willing to admit that Healy might be attractive (though I doubt it), but Yates looks like Avery Johnson, and Avery Johnson is not attractive.
Eh. Yates has a cute smile, but he doesn't look that bright. Healy's good looking, though he needs to do something better with his hair before going on air, and he's so very going to get pudgier and pudgier with age.
That smirk on Yates makes me want to punch him. Healy looks like a douche. Hurt looks like a 100% guaranteed schmuck.
Eh. Yates has a cute smile, but he doesn't look that bright.
My god you're racist.
54: Stop stalking the contestants, ogged. Also, OT, but catherine and Kriston's v-logs are genuinely charming. Loopy, but charming. (I've only seen one.)
thanks, tim. i've meant to vlog both this contest and harry potter, but it never seems like a good time for both of us.
53: Yeah, I've decided to come out of the closet and just admit that I hate everyone.
Yates looks like Avery Johnson
Now I'm hearing Yates talk with Avery Johnson, and it's not the silky-smooth tones I'm expecting.
58: Except good ol' charming NCP. Right?
60: Right, of course.
You're not black or Jewish, are you?
51: That smirk on Yates makes me want to punch him.
What? That's not a smirk. Zach Patton, that is a smirk, and he looks like a Neanderthal. Literally.
Yates looks like Avery Johnson
Racist.
Mazzetti's pretty cute. Stuart looks like he's used to getting away with shit.
Okay, let's try discussing the guys who don't look like douchebags.
Clinton Yates - black people cannot be douchebags
Ezra Klein - corduroy blazer over T-shirt, quel chic
Mark Mazzetti - looks genuinely happy
Matt Stuart - ditto
Carl Hulse - looks like a a hip priest
Mark Liebovich - angry and bald, like the guy below him, but less of a douche.
Kriston Capps - douches do not have beards, douches have not been permitted to have beards since the days of the robber barons, end of story
Jeff Zeleny - looks timid
That's it.
black people cannot be douchebags
I'm afraid that the end of the Late Night Shots article in the Washington City Paper provides some compelling contradictory evidence. Otherwise, carry on...
DC guys tend to look like douches, except for the ones who look like geeks or wonks. Spend some time there and look around, or just tune in to Sunday morning press shows if you can bear it.
Carl Hulse gets points for leading me to think that I'm reading Karel Husa, who would get my vote.
Wait a minute, Healy has a beard too. That leads me to decide that he is not a douchebag and more likely to be a smoldering firebrand of moderation.
You're not black or Jewish, are you?
Worse. He's half Japanese.
70: One quarter, actually. But who's counting? :)
Worse.
Hey!
Hulse is a silver fox. Lookin' a little sleazy in his bachelor pad.
Leibovich looks like he badly wants to bite someone.
Oh, and the other three quarters? Pure NC redneck, baybee.
70/71: I can't be bothered to google up the link, but in the sushi recommendations thread, I think JP established definitively that I also hate Asians.
Sorry, NCP.
Yates is at most a Photoshopped black guy. No real BG would have that many wrinkles in his shirt.
Mazzetti is hot yet possibly douchey. Ezra and 'Smasher will be splitting the hot non-douche vote unless we're vigilant.
Good call on losing the hat, BTW.
Zeleny-bot takes the lead. (Pwned, I suppose).
Jesus, the men in this contest are pathetic. They're *off-air*? Why, then, do they look like that? i.e. smarmy.
No doubt this has been said, but Ezra and 'smasher are the only acceptable guys there.
If you try to edit out the smarm and substitute some reasonable clothing and hair -- and this is difficult to do -- I suppose, uh.
Actually I can't do the requisite substitutions.
What the hell is that collection of pictures? Ezra, 'smasher, Hotness IncarnateClinton Yates, the Door-to-Door Missionary Intramural Golf Team and Patrick Healy in a very special guest role as Too Snarky to Get a Fucking Haircut.
C'mon, McPantsly, you don't think Healy's hair is eminently touslable?
Point being: Clinton Yates and Pat Healy are ridiculously attractive.
I think that I could go for Healy. Healy and Yates would be my second choices after Kriston.
Ezra doesn't do anything for me even though he is kind of cute.
81: Are you kidding me? He looks like the token MBA at a Green Party fundraiser. I've no idea what his politics are like but that picture screams, "Come up and look at my etchings..."
I saw Healy as part of a panel on Chris Matthews once. Just...ugh. Let's just say that he definitely agrees with Bostoniangirl that he's very goodlooking.
Although perhaps that's unfair. I think the format of those shows requires everyone to appear to be an asshole.
"Come up and look at my etchings..."
That would be a terrible line. Truth be told, I don't really fancy any of them. (Besides Kriston, of course.)
The Yatesbot seems to have been working overtime.
AAAHHH you're right. Capps only has 48% of the total now, to Yates's 28%!
the yates bot is seriously out of control. it's closing in...
It's just like a horror movie -- they never listen until it's too late.
