The End of #realityWEIR ... What's NewNowNext for Us?

Yeah, I think you're going to have the last laugh

on those idiot judges, BB...

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Well. I guess I'm about to tweet my last #realityWEIR, since the NewNow Next awards voting ends today (though I'm not sure what time, so just in case, I'm going to keep #realityWEIRing thoughout the day...)

But this feels a little  ... bitterstweet.

The party's pretty much over, the balloons are droopy and misshapen, there are only unappealing, squashed-up bits of cake left that I'm probably just going to throw away, and all that glitter is now only an irritant on the carpet for the cats to eat and then later throw up.

And so I'm kinda bleah. And also a little waaaah.

#realityWEIR has been my constant companion on Twitter since LogoTV first announced that Johnny was a nominee for NewNowNext's "Most Addictive Reality Star" back on April 14, and that I could vote for him simply by tweeting #realityWEIR. It has faithfully attached itself to tweets about my new blog entries, my fascination with late-breaking news from every corner of the world, my complete and utter contempt for Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, my lols at and appreciation of various Twitter friends, and of course dozens of @replies to @JohnnyGWeir's tweets, whether it's a twitpic of his latest mullet color or musings on The Dingles. No matter what 140-character message I just had to say, #realityWEIR was right alongside, ending every tweet for me with #hotBETTYWHITE and flair.

And power.

Because wow. You get a few people on Twitter to put #realityWEIR in their tweets, and then to retweet each other's #realityWEIR tweets, and then to retweet each other's followers' #realityWEIR tweets, and a scant seven weeks later you've got a tidy little pile of about 100,000 tweet votes--let alone the number of votes on the NewNowNext site itself.

So #realityWEIR, the little tweeting engine that could, may very well have helped us achieve something really, really cool for our beloved JWe. Just our little way of collectively thumbing our noses at those Olympic judges and declaring: "Oh, btw: YOU SUCK."

Speaking of the Olys, I would be remiss if I did not offer recognition to our own Olympic Tweet Team! From Monday, May 24, when we first started tracking our home stretch, to today, our top tweeters were (in alphabetical order):

@AddictedtoJWe
@blackren101
@Cheddar_Cat
@JGW_fangirl
@JWe_account7
@KittenGlitterHD
@MaggieStNJ
@maxonat
@mommaowie
@Moo58
@realityWeir
@princessjhnylv
@swandefender
@TheJerseySlore

Thank you so much to everyone who tweeted like maniacs or voted endlessly on the NewNowNext website! Now we just have to sit tight and see if we accomplished what we set out to do. The awards show will be taped this coming Tuesday, June 8, at The Edison in downtown Los Angeles, and Johnny will be one of the award presenters. But we'll have to wait until the show's broadcast on Thursday, June 17, to learn who the winners are. The pre-show will start at 9:30 p.m. EDT, with the award presentations set to begin at 10 p.m. EDT. If, like me, you don't have satellite and your cable company's broadcast philosophy is still rooted in the time of the Salem witch hunts and overseen by a prim triumvirate of executives named "Prudence," "Fear," and "Chastity," who have chosen to protect you against your will from the scandalous fare that is the LogoTV channel, you can watch the awards program on the web at LogoTV.com.

But even though #realityWEIR will soon be no more, we still have several other important issues that require our votes! So if, like me, you're now not only addicted to Johnny but also to the act of voting for him or something related even tangentially to him, you can:

*Vote for Johnny to win USFSA's Readers' Choice Figure Skater of the Year. Because he most definitely should.

*Vote to encourage Pepsi to fund sorely needed physical activity programs for kids through the n'Play Foundation. Johnny is one of the board members of n'Play.

*Vote for Beauty Bear Eric Alt's salons to win "Favorite Salon" in New Jersey Life/Health and Beauty magazine's Beauty A-List awards.

And of course, our current number-one priority is to pimp out our AIDS/LifeCycle "Ride for Life" fan project! We were so excited to see that the story has already been picked up by The Advocate and by Towle Road! As you know, the ride starts this Sunday, and our goal is to have $5,000 in donations by then. So please pimp this baby out, people!

Also: Thanks to everyone who voted in our "Name Rider X" survey! Johnny's Bikertress will now be known (at least to us, but maybe not in any official press releases...) by the fans' top vote-getter: Atomic Kitten!

And finally: Even though #realityWEIRing will soon be a thing of the past, we have much to look forward to in the coming weeks and months:

June 19: Johnny will perform at Skate for Hope in Columbus, Ohio, and tickets are still available! And the lovely director of that event, Carolyn Bongirno, was kind enough to donate to Ride for Life in Johnny's honor!

June 27: It's the hour-long season finale (I refuse to say "series finale") of Be Good Johnny Weir on Sundance!

July 10 - 11: Johnny is performing at "Fantasy on Ice" in Niigata, Japan.

July 24: Johnny will be the headliner at the Sun Valley Summer Ice Show in Sun Valley, Idaho

July 31: Johnny returns to Lake Placid, New York, to perform in the Citizens Bank Summer Ice Series 

September: Johnny will be skating at another event in Japan, according to his tweet.

January 11, 2011: Johnny's book will be released! You can pre-order it now on Amazon, where it debuted at #58,372 and within 24 hours had moved up to #4,378...

So there's a plethora of stuff to get excited about, most immediately the ever-increasing response to our "Ride for Life" project. Please share the info with everyone you know and encourage them to donate just $10 to  this wonderful cause!

But I'm still going to miss you, #realityWEIR ...

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PLEASE KEEP VOTING FOR JOHNNY
as "Most Addictive Reality Star"
in the NewNowNext Awards! Vote here

(he's the last one listed in the fifth category--scroll down!)
or on Twitter by constantly tweeting

and retweeting #realityWEIR.

VOTING ENDS TODAY (sometime...)!

PLEASE also VOTE HERE for Johnny to win
the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

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Thanks to Facebook fan Jennifer Cataldo Rosa
for the term, "Olympic Tweet Team"!

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