Person Of The Week/Douche Of The Week: Week One.

UPDATE: Vote Here

After careful consideration, here are the nominees for this week's Person Of The Week (POTW) and Douche Of The Week (DOTW).

Person Of The Week Nominees

Neil Armstrong

First man on the moon, died today at age 82. Got to the moon using only a computer with 64 kb of ROM. Also, outside of going to the moon and other scientific exploits, was a really laid back and humble person who didn't shove his achievements in your face.

Rick van Beek

Ran an entire marathon carrying his 13 year old daughter with cerebral palsy. +1 to faith in humanity.

Ecuador

Granted asylum to Julian Assange despite every industrialized nation wanting him dead and/or in prison because he runs WikiLeaks.

The person who taught us to eat Tic Tacs properly

Because we were all doing it wrong before:


Douche Of The Week Nominees

Norway

Sentenced a guy who killed 77 people to only 21 years in jail, but claimed they can extend it indefinitely "as long as he is deemed a threat to society". If the guy can kill 77 people and not feel sorry for it, won't he always be deemed a threat to society? Ammunition is far cheaper than maintaining his existence in a taxpayer-funded prison.

Snooki

Gave birth. Also wrote a book despite not being able to string a sentence together.

Rep. Todd Akin, R-Missouri

Brought douchebaggery to seemingly unprecedented levels by trying to say there was such a thing as "legitimate" rape (as opposed to illegitimate rape). Apologized for his actions but still won't step down from his ambition to hold public office.

The kid who sends me hate mail

Apparently I am the "poster child for post birth abortion", rape women and a pedophile.

Who would have thought, right?

UPDATE: Since Blogger's poll gadget doesn't want to cooperate, I'm going to be using SurveyMonkey to do all this stuff. Don't worry, your responses are completely anonymous.

Person Of The Week/Douche Of The Week: A FAQ.

I promised my readers that some new things were on the way, and I figured I'd get the community involved. Also, any blog can just give out an award for whatever; but I've decided that Person of the Week (POTW) and Douche of the Week (DOTW) are two awards that will be given out here. Why? There are people and there are douches (sadly, a lot more of the latter). We have to give recognition to both in fairness. How will we know who is awesome and who is a douche?

How do I get nominated for POTW/DOTW?

It's a surprise. POTW/DOTW will be usually based on current events (and sometimes, awesome/not so awesome people I know). A nomination for POTW means you've done something to make the world a better place.

A nomination for DOTW is self explanatory. It shouldn't be taken personally if you're offended by my nomination (if you win, however, that's not my fault, that's the community's).

How many weekly participants will there be in POTW/DOTW?

Four people. This is to give equal representation to persons and douches.

When is the voting open? How is the voting done?

Voting will commence every Sunday/Monday and winners will be announced on Friday (or Saturday depending on how productive I'm feeling). You're allowed one vote per category.

What happens in the case of a tie?

They both get the award. That doesn't mean you're half as awesome or half of a douche; you're not half of a person, right? In the case of three-way ties, a runoff vote will run concurrently with the following week's voting.

What do I get for winning?

Self-satisfaction (or if you win DOTW, everyone will know you're a douche).

"BUT JOSE I'M NOT A DOUCHE WHY DID YOU NOMINATE ME FOR THE DOUCHE OF THE WEEK AWARD!"

There are many things I can fix, but I can't fix butthurt. You're really at the mercy of the community; namely because I'm not voting.

Go to my next post to find out who the nominees are.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to AWP Nation.

Alright, so you people noticed that I haven't been blogging. What's the deal, right?

Here's the deal:

1. I ran out of ideas (alright, not really, but they've been hard to come across)
2. I have a job (shocking)
3. I've been gaming (not so shocking)

You remember how eager you were as a kid to evolve your Pokemon (or in the case of smarter people, not do it because you could learn new abilities faster)? Well, think of AWP Nation as the evolution of my old blog, Jose Alvarez Uncut, which you can still peruse here.

The following are going to be holdovers from JAU (I've even put tags to remind myself what to tag them as)

Semi-objective analysis

I've always enjoyed these for some reason, it gave me license to praise (or, in most cases, attack) something or someone. Basically an overview of what I think of something or someone.

Tags: semi-objective analysis

A modest proposal

How I would fix/destroy things. Mostly fix, in some cases, destroy.

Tags: a modest proposal

Website reviews

I promised these would continue. They will be back soon. It's not that I don't have a lack of websites to review; it's just that I want to take a more objective and honest look at how I review websites.

Tags: website reviews

Game/console reviews

Another thing that will carry over. I love games and consoles; it wouldn't be me if there wasn't anything about games or consoles, right?

Tags: game reviews, console reviews

Hate mail analysis

I had a three part hate mail series on JAU near the beginning of the blog's lifespan. Basically it started with some dumbass thinking he was the shit and linked his Internet friends to this blog (mostly because of the lack of real life friends, and anyone can make friends on the Internet). As a result, JAU became popular (thanks guys). I had a fourth part prepared, and had people vote on whether or not I'd continue to analyze my hate mail. People voted "no" to the hate mail analysis, so I caved in and decided not to release part four.

Well, fuck it.

They're back.

Tags: hate mail analysis

Things that will be NEW to AWP Nation

Interviews

I want to get to know people better, so I'm going to interview people. Think of this as your moment of fame. I believe that all of us are attention whores at some point in our lives, and even if you're no longer one, you're only lying to yourself. I'll interview randoms and, if possible, famous people.

Tags: interviews

Person Of The Week/Douche Of The Week

I've decided to start giving awards out for a change instead of trying to seek them. The "Person Of The Week" (POTW) and "Douche Of The Week" (DOTW) nominees will be announced every Monday (along with the reason why they were nominated) and the POTW/DOTW will be selected on Friday. I will be running polls on the blog each week; basically the highest number of votes wins (or "wins").

Tags: person of the week, douche of the week

Blogroll

I often found it unfair to just promote my own blog like I'm some self-important asshole, so I'm going to start including your blogs as well. If you write a blog, you might get on the blogroll; just make sure it's good and doesn't suck ass.

So basically that's it for my intro post. Stay tuned for more information and happy reading.