Wow. I can’t believe my “little hobby” has been chugging along for five great years. It wasn’t easy picking a winner in the anniversary contest. Right up till late last night I was alternating between my front runner and a late submission. In the end, though, there could only be one winner.

Congratulations to Al from Big Al’s Dismal Swamp:

I was once just a eager young man with time on his hands and opinions on his heart. Ready to share his soul that young man found himself writing letters. Letters to people. Letters to the Editor. Letters just to no one, only to get the thoughts from head to paper and relieve that itch to express ones self. Then I found this world of cyberspression, the blogosphere. Meekly, I found myself a new, yet small voice which I could put those thoughts that roamed my mind out to the world. Yes, once I was a faint cry, weak and small, in a huge world of reasoned thought and expression. Now…, I’m still a faint, weak, crying voice in a huge world of reasoned thought and expression.
When I started my blog I searched high and low for other blogs to read and gain insight from. Kind of like mining the net for info and content, people and places. Places I could go to read. Places to be read. I can’t really remember for sure, but I think I was watching some political video or something or other and came across several women, Conservatives, expressing themselves, online. I copied down their names and websites from the credits. It could be that’s where I found you, Wendy Sullivan, Girl on the Right. Maybe not… I really don’t remember, lol.
Find you I did, however, and I’m glad I did.
The God’s honest truth is I don’t know why I come back to your blog day after day, I just do. There is something special that I can’t put my finger on. There is something special within you that somehow shows through your keyboard and out of my monitor. It’s compelling. Why? F if I know, but it does.
Wit, sarcasm, humor, intelligence, and something feminine and alluring, maybe even erotic in a way, there is something about you. You’re scary like a mom can be, mean like a sister… and can do a pretty dang good job of writing stuff worth reading… so you are, dare I say, inspiring.
And there is something comfortable about Girl on the Right. Sort of meant to be, old friendish, fits right, comfortable. I kinda know what I’m getting into, yet don’t really know what’s coming when I click on that link that brings me there day after day. Anticipatory (damn, spellchecker says that’s a real word). Compellilisous (darn, that one wasn’t). Maybe not the stuff dreams are made of, but it can surely give you a kick in the old imagination.
I may be mad as heck one minute and busting a gut laughing the next, but Wendy is always right. Right on time. Right in content. And right there, just a click away. One of my favorite places.
-Al

Al will receive a gift pack with an autographed copy of Mark Steyn’s America Alone, a copy of The Tyranny of Nice signed by Kathy Shaidle, a Larry Curly & Mohamed t-shirt and a box of Valentine chocolates.

Congratulations Al, and many thanks for being a loyal RightGirl reader.

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