Apologies, all

To anyone I spoke with at the Best Of party last night, I am deeply, deeply sorry.

Also, next year's Best Of is only 12 months away, so I'd just like to take this opportunity to begin campaigning now ... you can always vote for me — Mary Cashiola — for Best Newspaper Columnist. Or Best Blog.

I'm not picky.

Oh, and for the 3 people who voted for me this year, thank you. I appreciate it.

Vote Early and Often

It's time again for the Flyer's Best of Memphis readers' poll!

And I hear that there are even prizes involved.

Now, every year, after the Besties come out, I hear complaints about the results. Like, why is Target the best gift store? Or, how come McDonalds won best burger?

Well, let me just tell you, it's not because I think McDonalds has the best burger or even because they advertise with us — it's because the majority of the ballots voted for them. (This example has never actually happened, as far as I know, and McDonalds doesn't advertise with us, but you get the picture.)

So if you want to see someone (read: yourself) win something, it might be worth doing some campaigning. You know, buttons, cupcakes with your face on them, television commercials that end with you saying, "I approve this message."


And if you want to vote for me for something, well, that's fine, too.

(I was just kidding about voting early and often. You should really only vote once — we've been doing this a long time and there are people here that can smell fraudulent triple, quadruple and googaluple votes from a mile away. They won't tell me how, tho.)