Okay, so am I done with the first prizes yet?  No.  Although Cathy’s is very, very close.  Kimber’s has run into some creative difficulty in the idea phase, but I am convinced that with a little weekend, some horror movies, and pizza, I can get the creative juices flowing once more.  Because obviously, creative juices are fueled by adrenaline and pizza.  EVERYONE knows this.

So I have high hopes that I’ll get a surge of inspiration this weekend and when I do, i want to have projects lined up!  Plus, we’re getting ready to have some Final Four games, so I think in the spirit of March Madness taking over our damn TVs, it’s time for some, duh, winning.

So … was it you?  Keep reading to find out!

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You guys know how I go overboard on like, fucking EVERYTHING?  Well, not FUCKING everything, but … I go overboard, okay?  GOD.

Anyway, I went to pick the first winner of the prize but I couldn’t keep it to just one.  And I couldn’t keep it to just two, so I picked three.  Are you ready for this?

The first one is Kimber.  She has been a comment MANIAC, on a whole variety of things, leaving long and thoughtful comments even when the blog eats her first draft.  What a champ!

The second is Cathy.  Cathy is a relatively new commenter but she’s been incredibly regular and I like that.  Regularity is a mostly underrated quality, unless you live in an Activia commercial.  She started as pretty much solely a PLL commenter, and this week, she expanded into Top Chef, virtually ensuring her prize winner status!

The third is Layne.  Layne not only delurked and started commenting on the PLL posts, which is awesome, but she reads Nicole’s recaps out loud to her roommates, and that’s what we like–OCTV evangelists.  Yay, Layne!

Congratulations, big winners!  Comment or email me at offcolortv@gmail.com to let me know what you would like as a prize.  Remember!  TV-related and small for mailing reasons!  For a list of my skills, click here.  (Also, Randi, I know you’re reading this and I WILL be tearing the closet apart this weekend to find Loose Seal!)  Everyone else, you have been kicking SO MUCH FUCKING ASS! this week at commenting.  Keep it up!  You all make blogging so fun for all of us.  Thank you!  We’ll pick another winner during the Elite Eight, which I always thought was the most stupidly named round.  It could be you!

I keep hinting around at it and it’s finally here!  The time where we actually discuss fun prizes for March Madness!

I did promise shitty but awesome prizes and I mean to deliver.  All you’ve gotta do is comment–periodically throughout the rest of the tournament (and no less than three times), I will be naming winners of said shitty-but-awesome prizes.  I may try to run a contest or something and award them that way, but more likely it’ll be according to my whims–new commenters, frequent commenters, commenters that make me laugh or contribute something thoughtful and/or awesome … I am very given to flights of fancy, as I think you all know by now.  And I am well aware that there are roughly a zillion people reading a day (give or take), and I KNOW not all of you are commenting.  Time to crawl out of the woodwork!  If this doesn’t get your comment blood a-pumpin’, I honestly don’t know what will.

So the prizes, right?  The prizes are … specially made by SB, name your own arts and craft prizes!  That’s right, I will hand make something specifically for you based on what you tell me you want and I will send it to you, and you will get it in the honest to god mail.  AMAZING!  The only rules are that it has to be small to mail, because I am both broke and really fucking cheap, and that if I can’t do it, I will tell you and you’ve gotta work with me.  Cool?  The good news is that I am actually pretty crafty (and yes, this is why I’ve been posting so many pics of my arts and crafts lately on Twitter), and I can probably figure out some way to get you more or less what you want, as long as you don’t expect it to be made by Da Vinci or some bullshit.  Also, I would prefer for reasons of THIS IS A TV BLOG AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TV that the craft that you request is actually be about TV.  Somehow.

Okay, so that’s what’s up with prizes.  Like I said, this will be continuing throughout the tournament and I’ll occasionally give you heads up, or just randomly pick someone based on whatever mood I’m in when I decide we need some, duh, winning in our lives.  Sound good?  Awesome.  Keep reading if you want to know what kinds of stuff I’m good at.

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So last night everything that we normally cover here at OCTV was pre-empted by the State of the Union address.  I didn’t watch it, not because I hate Obama or even because I’m not interested in politics (which isn’t true, I’m very interested), but more because I just didn’t feel like it.  And I especially don’t want to talk about it on a blog about TV, where we have such a good time, because inevitably I’ll think one of you is stupid, and one or more of you will think I’m stupid, and a couple of you will get into an internet screaming match and before you know it, someone has bought a plane ticket across the country and is standing on your doorstep with a knife. 

Now if they’d made the show about BObama instead, or had Bo giving the SOTU address … then we could talk about that.  Can you imagine how cute that would be?  I am seriously in love with the first dog.

But okay, so obviously I didn’t just sit there TV-less all night, rocking myself and muttering in a corner.  Me and Billy played a little Mario and watched a few episodes of Dexter–we’re working our way through Season 3 now (can’t WAIT for S4), and while we were watching it, I kept thinking about how I think Dexter is super hot.  I’ve always been partial to the redheads, though (and for the record, Billy is tall, dark, and handsome–I’m partial to those too … basically I’m just boy crazy, because let’s not forget Eric Northman).  But yeah, at some point, I decided that I needed to take a poll to find out who is the hotter redhead, Dexter or Prince Harry. 

And, okay, I know there are other ginges out there that we should show the love to, so you can do write-in votes in the comments, but I swear to GOD, if any of you write-in Lindsay Lohan I am going to lose my mind and quite possibly buy that plane ticket we were hoping to avoid so just don’t, okay?!?!