Rhapsodies

Well today I’m taking it easy doing some office work while I get ready for this evening’s annual Toonies banquet.

For anyone who is wondering the Toonies is the annual awards banquet for Cartoonists Northwest held at Ivar’s Salmon House. Where all of the members dress up to meet up over an option of Salmon, Chicken or vegetarian option Four Cheese Ravioli and do clay sculpture while listening to this year’s speaker.

I confess that my opinion of the whole affair has been gradually dropping over the years (partially due to not being nominated for any catagory for the last couple of years “so that other people can get the chance”) but it’s a chance to put on the urban camouflage so I generally get guilt tripped into it eventually.

This year the organizer lost the list of suggestions and just made a list of nominations out of nothing and while most of the list certainly deserve the nominations the whole thing felt horribly fake. I didn’t even bother to vote for anyone. As far as I could tell other than nominations for the “Golden Toonie” award I didn’t see anything listed for other categories. Ah well. I guess we’ll all get prizes for good attendance as per usual.