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Facebook is the newish social networking phenomenon that's sweeping the parts of the world that wants to leave all sorts of important information about itself lying around on the internet for everyone to see.

And now hecklerspray's a part of Facebook too - whoopy doo. Just like you came in your droves when the hecklerspray MySpace page was created, now we're inviting you to join the Facebook group entitled Hecklerspray Am Best. Why the pissing flip would you ever want to do that, you ask? Well, for a start you can engage the readers and writers of hecklerspray in all sorts of discussions - like the super current one about Naomi Campbell beating Pete Doherty in a fight that only exists in a handful of people's brains.

Not only that, but you can also sneakily look at the friends lists of other Hecklerspray Am Best group members, giving you unprecedented access to the faces of up to three of one of hecklerspray's cousins. And not only that, you can become friends with the hecklerspray writers* and really feel like you're very chummy with us even though the only real interaction that we'll ever have is a couple of mouseclicks at best. How could you possibly say no? Join us.

Sign up for the Hecklerspray Am Best Facebook group now

*Anyone who does this must agree to have "I am hecklerspray's bitch" as the answer to how we know each other. 

If there's one thing we love here at hecklerspray, it's people talking about hecklerspray. If those people happen to be doing it on some kind of web TV show with a pair of headphones casually tossed around their necks, then that's even better.

You guessed it - hecklerspray has notched up another mention on Technorati's Buzz TV show, where a man reads choice stuff off the internet for you because your eyes are too tired from looking at all that porn or whatever. Anyway, what earned hecklerspray this valuable Buzz TV mention? Our constant commitment to providing you with the latest sarcastic celebrity news? The fact we won a bastard award yesterday? No, it's because we said something about shitting into a pipe a few days ago.

Our mothers are so very proud of us, you know.

Watch the shitpipe edition of Technorati Buzz TV here  

Remember those Metro/Ask Best Of Brit Blog Awards that we've been sporadically mentioning to you over the last few months? Well guess what, hecklerspray's only gone and titting well won one of them.

That's right, you're now reading what's been picked as the best Arts & Entertainment blog in the country by Alan McGee - the man who discovered Oasis and, to a lesser extent, 18 Wheeler - and possibly some other people. Needless to say we're all dreadfully surprised to have won the award, since the only thing we've ever really won in the past was chlamydia, and that was probably more 'contracted' than 'won' now we think about it.

The Arts & Entertainment category was an especially tough one - among our competitors was Richard Herring's must-read blog and the gorgeously-designed TrackFeeder - so winning the award is a genuine rare honour for us.

New readers from Metro: Hello, stick around, we hope you like us.

Existing readers: Don't worry - this new-found attention won't change us. Just don't look us in the eye when you talk to us from now on. And make sure our mineral water is room temperature. And, when you refer to us, prefix our names with the title 'Mega-Destructo Emperor'. Room temperature, you hear?

Finally, to those of you who nominated hecklerspray for the award: Huge huge gigantic thanks. We couldn't have done this without you. Actually we probably could but, you know, thanks anyway.

Also - you can now hear hecklerspray editor Stuart Heritage giggling like a confused village idiot about winning the award on the Channel 4 Radio show The Morning Report. Near the end. After all the important news. 

Read more:

Blog Awards: The Winners - Metro 

For months now we've been digging through the murky world of MySpace as part of our MySpace Trawl feature, but we always did so from a safe distance - well not any more. Hecklerspray now has its own poorly-designed, occasionally-updated MySpace page.

Go to MySpace.com/hecklersprayuk right now and you will literally be able to see the hecklerspray logo, a very self-conscious profile and not much else. Oh, and a video of a Japanese children's TV show about a crazy octopus that we like. In the fullness of time we're going to overflow the hecklerspray MySpace page with pictures, blog entries, songs, those bulletin things that teenage girls seem to be so bloody keen on and whatever else we decide to do on the rare occasion that we remember it exists.

So if you have a MySpace account, please come and be our friend. We only have three so far. And one of them is Tom. Tom gives us the creeps.

MySpace.com/hecklersprayuk  

One of the best things about working for hecklerspray - apart from the misspelled threats of violence by people who like 30 Seconds To Mars - is that from time to time big media organisations call us up to be experts on celebrity culture.

And this happened earlier today, when Marco Werman from the BBC/ PRI/ Boston WGBH co-production news show The World asked us (well, Stu) to go on air and basically slag off Sting for getting nominated for a Classical Brit Award a bit. That'd be the same The World that's syndicated to hundreds of American radio stations and the same The World that's listened to by two million people, then. Lucky we discovered that after we did our piece, otherwise we'd have been even more cripplingly nervous than we already were.

Anyway, big thanks to Marco for editing our spewed-out semi-comprehensible ill-informed garble into something almost normal-sounding. You can listen to Stu's Sting rant on The World here or, if you have a little more time, you can listen to today's edition of The World in its entirety here - and you really should, because it's a peerless, remarkably even-handed and wide-ranging look at global current events. With a confusing attack on Sting by an sarcastic-sounding British boy tagged onto the end.

Tomorrow is Good Friday, so-called because Arrrrgh My Bloody Wrists Have Got Nails Poking Out Of Them Now You Roman Arseholes Friday was already taken. Anyway, our point is that hecklerspray is going to be recognising the holiday by staying in bed.

And that goes for Easter Monday too - in fact, we're not going to be around until next Tuesday now, so you'll need to make your own entertainment for a few days. You'll survive.

Happy Easter from everyone at hecklerspray - we hope that the Easter Bunny brings you all the chocolate Jesus penises that you could ever wish for.

OK, we're just going to come out with it; every day you people come here for the latest nugget of sharply-written celebrity news - and the occasional less sharply-written nugget of YouTube Awards news - and, well, now it's your turn to help us.

The more keenly observant among you will have noticed that hecklerspray is looking for some designers at the moment, since we're lining up a bewitching redesign that will change the way you perceive the internet forever, or - more realistically - change the way you perceive hecklerspray for a couple of minutes. And now we want to know what you want to see on hecklerspray. What you like, what you dislike, what you want to see more of. Features? Subjects? More pictures of the writers standing around crying and drunk in nothing but their underwear? We're listening, and we promise to abide by your every idea. Unless your idea is crap, naturally.

Leave us your thoughts in the comments box below and we'll put them all in a big notebook or something. And there are more than a million of you, remember, so if we don't get at least a million solid gold ideas, it'll be straight to bed with no tea for the lot of you.

Are you a design wizard? Do you know your way around Photoshop and Illustrator? Or maybe you're a CSS ninja? Or somebody with experience of developing themes for Wordpress?

We're on the lookout for somebody to help us smarten up our gaff. If this sounds like you, then send an email to hecklerspray@gmail.com outlining your skills / ideas / portfolio.

Design guidelines
Will be sent by email. Get some, get some…

Why bother?
There are various reasons…

• Kudos, glory, acclaim.
• Exposure.
• Cash.
• Opportunity to work on forthcoming projects.

About hecklerspray
Based in London, UK, hecklerspray is an entertainment blog operated by a privately-owned publishing group.

• hecklerspray will be two years old on 1 May 2007. It needs a new birthday suit.
• hecklerspray has plenty of readers: 780,000 unique users in the past 30 days, generating more than 1,100,000 page impressions.
• hecklerspray's readers mainly live in the US and UK.
• hecklerspray is  Google News source and publishes at least 10 stories per day.
• hecklerspray is nominated as best blog in the entertainment category in the soon-to-be-revealed Metro Blog Awards. Previously it has been named 'blog of the week' by The Times, but we haven't won a Pulitzer yet…
• hecklerspray has been featured in many esteemed organs, including The Guardian, The Times, The Observer and The San Francisco Chronicle.
• hecklerspray's advertisers have included CNN, NBC, Fox, HBO, VH1, Turner Corp, 4AD Records, MSNBC, PETA and, sensationally, Snoop Doggy Dogg. Lovely advertisers.

Winning awards isn't everything. We know that. But what is everything is being able to conclude all arguments by shouting "When was the last time YOU won an award, huh?" like angry deranged megalomaniacs - and for that we'll need your help.

You may remember that hecklerspray is up for Best Arts & Entertainment blog at next month's Metro Brit Blog Awards. Well, the nomination stage ends on Thursday, so this is effectively your last chance to swing over to the Metro Brit Blog page, click the 'Nominate' link and describe exactly why hecklerspray floats your boat, flips your wig and is generally kind of sexually intimidating to be around during various stages of the lunar cycle. Alan McGee is judging our category, and short of us forming a lo-fi indie rock band, recording a cover version of I Fucked Alec Baldwin Up His Ass by the woman who stalked Colin Farrell and getting signed to Poptones, this is the closest we're going to get to meet him.

Yes, you have to register your details with Metro to be able to nominate hecklerspray, but just think - by doing that you'll be potentially helping us to win a small plaque. A small plaque, damnit! We'd do the same for you.*

Nominate hecklerspray for a Metro Brit Blog Award now

*For cash. 

This week, something momentous happened to hecklerspray; someone actually left a comment about Ray Quinn from X Factor that wasn't written in text-speak - impressive you'll agree. Oh, and we racked up our 10 millionth page impression too.

For a sarcastic little celebrity blog like hecklerspray, 10 million page impressions in less than two years is fairly incredible, and we're beside ourselves with joy about it - it's literally beyond our wildest dreams. Well, not literally - Shakira hasn't read hecklerspray and become so enamoured with it that she's offered to volunteer as our in-office exotic dancer yet - but it's beyond several of our crushingly mediocre dreams. And it's all down to you, too - if it weren't for you lot reading hecklerspray all the time we'd be wanking in the wind*.

So, you know, thanks. 10 million page impressions is wonderful and - since we're getting bigger every week - it won't be long before we're back pestering you about reaching 20 million. 

*We do mean that literally. We got arrested for it once.

Now would you take a look at this - it's a video of a man with some headphones around his neck talking about hecklerspray a lot. Well, OK, that's a lie - it's a video of a man with some headphones around his neck talking about yellow hats a lot and hecklerspray a bit.

Why is this man talking about hecklerspray on a video? Apparently it's part of something called Technorati Buzz TV, where a man scours the internet for brilliant stuff, reads some of it aloud and then talks almost exclusively about yellow hats for the rest of the time. Anyway - this time he talks about hecklerspray, which is actually kind of cool. What with Technorati Buzz TV and being in Metro lately, we can actually feel our egos surging dangerously out of control. No doubt this will end up with us writing '666' on our heads and saying we're the devil at some point. And you'll be first to know when that happens, trust us. 

Anyway, click on the man's face to watch the video. 

Until now we thought that awards season reached fever-pitch on Sunday, what with it being the Oscars and all, but we were wrong - awards season reaches fever-pitch when the Best of Brit Blog Awards 2007 are announced, probably in April or something.

We'll come clean and admit that we don't really know much about the Best of Brit Blog Awards - we know it's organised by Ask.com and free London paper Metro, and we know we wouldn't mind winning it if there's a cash prize. There isn't a cash prize. But if you want to nominate hecklerspray we'll come round and clean your windows for free.*

hecklerspray is up in the Arts And Entertainment category, which is apparently being judged by Alan McGee. We like Alan McGee. And we like every song by every artist he's ever signed. Except that crazy white reggae bloke. And the album that Kevin Rowland did dressed as a lady. Everything else, mind you, we're all for.

So what you need to do is visit the Metro Best of Brit Blog Awards page, click 'Nominate' and explain exactly why we told you  that hecklerspray should win.

We love you, so love us back for once.

Nominate hecklerspray for the Blog Award here

*We won't come round and clean your windows for free.