Pegasus Nominees Announced

[sdelmonte]

http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/year/2003.html

It's a great bunch, with some wonderful songs by such amazing filkers as filkerdave and khaosworks, among others. To all those I know among the nominees, a hearty congrats. The concert should be interesting, though I will have to vote beforehand as the concert is on shabbos. Happily, mp3s are available on the voting ballot page. (Good work, Steve.)

One note: I thought for sure that Tom Smith and Bob Kanefsky - the kings of filk humor - would be nominated in the two humor categories. To my shock, they weren't. This is a good thing as it shows other equally deserving humor writers are getting their due, but I was so hoping that Bob's B5-inspired parody of "Falling Free" would be nominated. Of course, since Tom and Bob have like 37 awards each, it's time to crown some new comedy kings.

Good luck to all the nominees.

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Actually, believe it or not, while Bob K. has been nominated 7 times for a Pegasus award, he's only won once, for Best Writer/Composer in 2000.

Tom Smith, on the other hand, has won 10 times in 15 tries.

There's a lot of cool information about everyone who has ever received a nomination or award at:

http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/index.html

Congrats to all the nominees!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Oops. Just realized I'd misread how the data is organized. Kanef has been nominated 8 times, with one win, and Tom Smith has won 10 times out of *25* nominations. I thought the nominations included the winners, but that was not the case.

[akawil]

If you go to the MP3s page, you'll see that there *will* be MP3s, on September 3rd, but there aren't any now.

My guess is it's going to be a recording of the nominees concert at Worldcon.

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, it might be helpful to know that not everyone who is nominated feels inclined for various reasons to accept such a nomination, at which point it goes to the second in line. While I can neither confirm nor deny if/when this has ever happened, it's useful data to keep in mind when one doesn't see a singer/song they might otherwise expect to have as a candidate. -H...