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Through Rosie O'Donnell's blog and accompanying Flickr page, you too can experience the disappointment of having your "gay family fun cruise" passion project, All Aboard!, passed over for special recognition by the Creative Emmys. Most of the captions are fairly self-explanatory, though we're not exactly sure why the first photograph is titled "buddy hackett." (Our inclination is to tell Rosie she's being entirely too hard on herself in that very chic and slimming outfit.) But while a picture can tell the proverbial thousand words, it's O'Donnell's hyperminimalist Blogku verse that completes the bittersweet story:

emmy-less we woulda been fun but i no the journey is the destination [...]

access hollywood
asked if i was happy
star was gone
b4 i could reply he added
- i would have loved 2 c u 2 go at it
smiling

it would not have been fun for me
fighting everyday
life is 2 short

Motherhood has clearly mellowed O'Donnell, who, while acknowledging defeat, graciously manages to accept those things over which she has no control. The Emmy and Star Jones were simply not in the cards for Rosie—and that's probably for the best, seeing as it was only a matter of time before Rosie pulled her statuette out from under The View's couch and plunged its pronged wings into Jones neck during a heated Hot Topics debate over gay marriage.