Jessy Randall Refuses Her Award
I, Jessy Randall, am pleased to be chosen for a Shovers and Makers Award, but I must refuse the honor on moral grounds.
Yes, it’s true that I put massive amounts of text online for Special Collections at Colorado College, thus breaking the (inane) rules of Dreamweaver (re. how much you can copy/paste) and helping researchers all over the world find unusual materials in our collections (thereby tripling my workload).
Yes, it’s true I put together a fabulous library-themed issue of the online poetry magazine Snakeskin.
Nevertheless, I cannot accept this award, because it has come to my attention that the judge, Jessy Randall, was inordinately biased. She should have recused herself from judging on the grounds that she is I. How this was ever allowed to happen I do not know, but I believe it shows a profound flaw (or possibly strength) in the Shovers and Makers philosophy.
Category: S&M Winners, 2009 One comment »
March 26th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
We may need to investigate this auto-nepotism.