LoCO would like to thank everyone who voted in last week’s highly contested and very important “Best French Fries” popularity contest. In the end “The Trailer” in Arcata just edged out the far more established Mike’s Drive Up in the metro category. (Fortuna’s Bob’s Footlongs marched to an easier victory in the rural category.) We have not been to The Trailer. We will be going to The Trailer. 

Now. If you’ve paid attention to how Humboldt Approved works, you know we are required to follow up a very crowd pleasing category with one where feelings and dreams are mercilessly trampled upon. Thus, this week we want to know, in our readers’ always humble opinion, which local vocal cords do you most enjoy granting access to your earholes. Who is Humboldt’s best vocalist? 

(Please remember that Humboldt Approved polls — and especially this one — are just dumb fun and, like, art can never truly be compared and … beauty … eye … beholder … OK.)

Anywho, here’s your weekly reminder on how to make your vote count. Don’t mess up this very important duty, HumCo: 

To vote, look through the comments of this Humboldt Approved poll. If someone has already nominated the answer you would give for this week’s category, click the upvote arrow. If you don’t see your desired Humboldt Approved answer nominate it in a comment for others to upvote. (Please be careful to not duplicate answers; redundant answers will be deleted and potential associated upvotes will be lost.) Feel free to make your case by replying to/cheering on the answer you love most, but again the number by the arrows on the initial nomination is what counts.

You can vote for as many nominees as you deem worthy but, of course, the more you do that the more watered down your initial vote becomes. That’s math.

We reserve the right to delete superfluous/lame comments that make the voting/comment section hard to sift through. Please try not to get offended when your comment battle reply is deleted. We’re trying to do something here.

While many weeks we look for two winners — one winner from the metropolises of Eureka and Arcata, and one from Humboldt’s smaller communities — due to the nature of this category, this time we’re gonna limit it to one. Voting closes next Friday at noon and soon after a winner will be declared.

Get to nominatin’ voices, LoCO readers!