Avatar of the Week: PBug

It’s Wednesday and you know what that means. That means it’s time to announce the winner for Avatar of the Week.

I was hoping to do something holiday themed, but alas there’s a dearth of avatars with turkeys and/or pilgrims involved. Although I did find no less than two avatars — rpieket & Griffnyc — featuring dolphins. One more and this would have been Avatar of the Week: Flipper edition!

Instead we have a bit of a grab bag. But apropos of the season, I’m very thankful for all three.

First up is franQ, a.k.a Frank Anthony Polito.

franq is an actor, playwright, and soon-to-be novelist. His first book, Band Fags, will be released in June 2008. You can find out more about franq and his novel here. He made the cut this week because his avatar pic and novel title brought back fond memories of my own high school band experiences. (Wouldn’t you know I played the flute?)

Second up is Insideguy for his “My Place or Yours” avatar. Assuming the query concerns where to hold the turkey dinner, that’s sorta Thanksgiving-themed, right?

Insideguy was the former head of research at MGM as well as the Hollywood Reporter, and he’s made some great contributions to our site this year via his well-informed comments. When it comes to Hollywood trivia the man really lives up to his moniker of “InsideGuy”

This week’s winner is pBug, a sixteen year old out teen from Minneapolis, Minnesota. From pBug’s profile:

I'm a sixteen year old gay boy with a taste for slash fanfiction and extremely gay movies. That's pretty much me in a nutshell.

pBug gets the nod for coming the closest to actually offering up a turkey in his avatar pic, which you will find blown up in all its glory after the break:

So congrats to runners up franq & Insideguy, and special tip of the hat to this week’s winner: PBug!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!