The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

Note from your Shortlister:
After several hours of agonising, re-reading the rules and all suggestions posted at troubled diva last week, I’ve decided (as there were fewer than the maximum 12) to allow all eligible nominations through to the judging stage this week.

The exceptions are Edvard Moonke (who is a guest judge this week, and also won last week) and pandemian which, although I liked it, is an entirely photographic post.

1. The Church of Me: Planet Mail

…the still considerable financial and business resources of Associated Newspapers have managed to cut Prince’s overhead costs to such a stunning degree that Planet Earth is retailing for a record low price of £1.40. “That’s a good 59p less than you’d expect to pay for a near mint copy of Sign ‘O’ The Times in the Putney branch of the Trinity Hospice Charity Shop,” the singer quipped.

2. Dad Gone Mad: Caught in the Act

She left. She got into her minivan and drove away, abandoning me there with Marty McWhineypants and his lovely assistant, Sally Snottybottom.

3. Dad gone Mad: Contrary to Popular Belief, There IS Such a Thing As a Stupid Question

And on the other side of the room was a gathering of some of the dimmest minds this side of The White House, each of whom was searching for some loophole in common sense, some hole in reality that would let them break the laws of traffic and/or physics.

4. Everything Is Electric: Hamster Juice

E: “Oh my God. There is something wrong with the hamster.”

Me: “Oh Christ! You’ve killed your niece’s hamster!”

5. I Hate Your Job: Why do I hate your job?

That’s right, I hate your job. Well, I take that back. There’s just a really good chance that I hate your job. Because if you hate your job, then so do I.

6. JERRYCHICKEN: Five things I dig about Jesus…

I dig his barefoot approach to life, personally I hate shoes and would love to go through life wearing nothing on my feet, not sure about the sandals though they seem like a bit of a fashion faux-pas but at least he didn’t wear socks with them.

7. Modern Life is Rubbish: A Major Issue

U2, remember, preach about our government paying off third world debt - which would be funded by you and me as taxpayers - but contribute zero to UK tax being domiciled in the Netherlands for tax or wherever.

8. problemchildbride.com: Sorry - A Tale. But Not A Sorry Tale

Charlesina looked over at Derek, loathing him openly as her eyes ran over his face, his neck, and its open pores glistening in the floodlights and the hot, hot heat of that June night.

9. Tuna Girl: Men on a Mission

If the guys had continued on, I would have headed in the opposite direction and found a nice lesbian couple to adopt me.

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.
The deadline for nominations is Friday July 20th.

In other news, if you’re interested in being a guest judge, or in helping us judge on a regular basis, please go here and have a look. You won’t get paid for it, but you can walk around with a smug grin for a week every so often, knowing you get to nominate and/or judge a post of the week. Good, innit?

This week’s winner, I’m pleased to say, was a completely unanimous result. Hell, I didn’t even need to add the scores up! Many congratulations to :

Edvard Moonke’s post (and good news) in Wimbledon, Rain, and other interruptions.

Our judges said : “I loved the “ah-ha!” moment, and the re-reading with the key information had me giggling at my desk. ”

Your shortlister this week was Peach (who also nominated this week’s winning post, as it happens).

Your judges were:

• Yours Truly, Lyle
• Stray
• and Fiona.

Starting from this week, each winner will be invited to join the following week’s judging panel. Edvard Moonke will duly be helping us to judge the next winner.

Reminder: To view winning posts from previous weeks, please use the “Previous Winners” link at the top of this box. (Still can’t see it? Then click here.)

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

WHO’S HE CALLING FLUFFY? (post 8)

1. Back In A Bit: Coming Out

I like to think that, by the time my own terribly liberal generation is old enough to have children of the “finding one’s sexuality” age, we’ll be so chilled-out, unfazed and approachable about it that it won’t even register as a milestone.

2. A Beautiful Revolution: Beyond Mathematics

It’s written in the snow. Hidden in the stars. And wrapped in paper on Christmas Eve…

3. Charlie’s Diary: Unpacking The Zeitgeist

There exists a vast, global data network for exchanging information between computers. It’s called the internet.

4. Edvard Moonke: Wimbledon, Rain and Other Distractions

It’s the change-over break, and the camera hovers, then settles on a shot of Virginia Wade in the crowd prodding a top molar with her little finger then eating whatever she managed to dig out.

5. An Expat Goth: Fuck It Like Beckham

Now, bizarrely enough, I have met the little scoundrel although, fortunately enough, not his twiglet of a wife.

6. Not Just Hiding: Little Boxes Little Boxes Little Boxes All The Same

“So,” said the trainee psychotherapist, the one being critically observed by her supervisor, who didn’t appear to be much older than she herself was, “Can you tell me, in your own words, what’s brought you here today?”

7. Rachel From North London: Holding The Tiller

I burned my mother’s pan. I cooked chicken and bacon for a warm salad for my father and sister when we came back from hospital, and I forgot that I left the pan soaking on a high heat.

8. A Scandal And A Disgrace: ASAAD fatwa on POTW - acronym jihad ahoy!

Mr A Scandal And A Disgrace (pictured above) has, yet again, fallen victim to the fluffy bunny brigade over at Post Of The Week (POTW) who have failed, once more, to recognise his genius.

9. Scary Duck: Doctor’s Note

Fans of my genitals - and I know there are thousands of you out there - will be pleased to hear the latest news bulletin regarding the ol’ meat-and-two veg, which arrived in the form of a letter from Bridport Community Hospital.

10. Scorn & Noise: Cautionary Tales For Modern Politicians

There was a Boy whose name was Dave,
Whose friends were frothing to the grave.
They gave him pics of Maggie Thatcher
And said that, if he were to match her,

11. An Unreliable Witness: As Sure As The Sun Rises

Then I wait for the flight of urban birds to deliver the tattered remnants of faded newsprint through the gaps, so that they drift lazily, on see-saw cradles of air, to my feet…

With apologies: Little Red Boat’s post has been taken off this week’s shortlist because she is last week’s winner (she’s just too damn good non?)

If you have a post you want to nominate, please leave a link in the comments below.

The deadline for nominations is Friday July 13th… will they be lucky or creepy?!