perfidy

The Ministry is recognized the world over for its incisive writing, penetrating insights, and giant fighting robots. And Zombies. Until recently however, this recognition was sadly awardless. That changed forever on the morning of September 12th, when the Ministry received its first ever award.

There was great rejoicing in the Ministry Catastratorium and Piano Bar when, a week later, we discovered that we had won. By Ministry decree, all of the code whittling gnomes, the kobolds in the url mines, various minions, factotums and other oppressed functionaries were granted an unprecedented five minute holiday in recognition of their unstinting (and until now, completely unrewarded) efforts in making the Ministry the blog juggernaut that it is. Of course, it was not merely the little people who found joy in this glorious moment. Minister Johno was in such great shock that he put his beer yeast in the bread dough, and swallowed a saffron-jelly glazed, garlic and truffle stuffed peahen ($139.99/lb.) whole. Ross, overcome with glee, almost posted. Geeklethal nearly caused the death of several small children when, in an excess of bile, he aimed his rifle skyward and fired off a clip. Minister Patton very nearly smiled. And Minister Buckethead had to be revived with smelling salts and a warm mug of cocoa.

We shall treasure this award forever. Or at least until someone else is nice to us. Until then, we bask in the warm glow of the words of Enchiridon:

it's an above average blog