Color us honored! When we thumbed through the massive, two-lb. “Best Of D.C.” edition of this week’s Washington City Paper, we were surprised and delighted to find that publication’s readers had awarded us “Best D.C. Web Site.” Best locally-focused blog, OK, but best web site? Washingtonpost.com was a runner up? Allow all of us here at DCist HQ to deliver a collective “gee golly.” That was just awfully nice of you, City Paper readers.

Make sure to pick up a copy of the “Best of D.C.” issue of City Paper, the first time the weekly has done such an issue in what, 20 years? We haven’t yet had the approximately three weeks of time it will take to read through the entire thing, but already we can testify that the staff and the readers appear to be right on target with a number of other awards, including “Best Enforcer” for Kamal “Commy” Jahanbein at the Saloon and “Best Brunch” for Asylum.