66 Square Feet: South African Blog Awards 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

South African Blog Awards 2009

So.

On the campaign trail. All I need is a baby to kiss...

66 Square Feet has been nominated for the annual South African Blog Awards 2009.

Being nominated means that someone or someones voted for 66squarefeet. I'm not a finalist or anything.

Click on the badge if you are feeling kind. The more nominations the better. There are quite a lot of categories. Nominations are accepted till March 14, and voting is till April 1st, I believe.

5 comments:

Blog Princess G said...: Damn right! After becoming acquainted with your blog I'm more intrigued about visiting South Africa than I've ever been in my whole life. :); March 8, 2009 5:06 PM
Beence said...: Hm, let's see how you do with speeches... And don't forget to throw in a "Yes I can (win)" here and there... ;-); March 9, 2009 10:14 AM
knithound brooklyn said...: i voted (and added you to the Best of the Best, because why not!!); March 9, 2009 6:01 PM
Jane said...: I clicked!; March 10, 2009 5:01 PM
Marie said...: BPG - thank you! I hope you might visit one day...we'll feed you lunch under the tree.

Bence...hm...I'm more of a Maybe I can, type :-)

Ms Hound - Thank you~! if you like jam I will earmark a jar of the 2009 batches for you. Apricot, raspberry, red currant?

Jane, thank you! How's New Zealand??; March 11, 2009 12:10 PM

Manifesto

What is 66 Square Feet About?

It's about gardening in tight spaces. It's about how to live with a man and a cat in a tiny apartment with a tiny terrace. It's about photos, and friends, and inspiration and blackspot on the roses. It's about food and cooking over an open flame. It's about wine. And water. And watering...And picnics. It's about seasons without and within. It's about New York, and about South Africa. It's about where I go, and what I come back to: a terrace twelve-and-three-quarters by five-and-a-quarter feet wide.

Afterwards in the street, she looks around the neighborhood. "Yes, it is certified now."

She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere."

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

"Die kierie kom uit Indonisie, gesny van 'n tak wat van jongs af omslinger was deur a wildevy se rank. Hulle het saam grootgeword, en die rank het sy spoor op die tak gelos. Daarom is die slinger ook oneweredig, en hier,"se hy, "by die punt van die kierie moes daar iets gebeur het - die slinger en die tak het inmekaar gevleg en 'n knoop gemaak. Die natuur het die kierie so gemaak."

"n Kieriemaker sou dit eweredig gedoen het," se ek.

"My kind," se meneer Boje, "vermy die reguit lyn."

Petra Muller, Koendoes