After sharing in the 2008 Blog of the Year award presented by OTR, Perry is raking in the hardware yet again, this time winning The First Post of 2009 award.

Perry was the first to make a post in the new year, thus making him eligible for the award.

“I don’t even know what to say right now, these last few days have just been such a whirlwind,” Perry said via AOL Instant Messenger. “Between the Blog of the Year award, the Fantasy Turd League…and now this. I think for the first time in my life I’m speechless. Usually I’m LOL’ing or LMAO’ing or something, but this is something different. I guess it’s just one of those things where you put the trophy up next to the others and keep moving forward. In a couple years, you come home from the newsroom and your day didn’t go well and you look up at that trophy and think, ‘well, there sure was that one day when I wasn’t too bad.’”

Photo Caption: “I’m putting my trophy right there!”

Perry declined to say how he was going to spend the prize money that comes with The First Post of 2009 award.

“Are you kidding,” he exclaimed. “I can’t even think about that right now. I’m just trying to digest all this. After I make all my phone calls I’ll worry about that. This isn’t about money. Never has been.”