What would we talk about when we met in real life, then?
I thought when you all got together, Yglesias would just go on and on about CAFTA and highway funding.
You would talk about pork and its relation to beans, inter alia.
Don't thank me, I'm just doing my job.
Dude, you have no idea. Last time we all got together all those four would talk about was their "blog crushes." It wouldn't have been so bad, but also present was a non-blogger girl who I would prefer not to acquire the impression that I'm a ridiculous dork. Tom proceeded to make things even worse by turning the conversation to the subject of Dragonball Z.
Hey, I was perfectly happy to speak about which of the three Dragonball series you and your lady friend happen to prefer.
Yglesias, I think you blew your own cover when you began a sentence with "So I was watching Star Trek the Next Generation" in her presence.
I think you may fare better with a girl who enjoys your company because of, and not despite, your ridiculous-dorkosity.
And, Yglesias, I love you but you were not exactly passing for James Dean until the moment we revealed that blogs exist.
Damn, Susan is brutal.
(And Bridgeplate is earnest, but we love him for it.)
But really Matt, a guy with your prodigious social skillz should have been able to use the conversation as an opportunity to differentiate yourself from your charming but oh-so-dorky friends. A knowing look at the young lady, a well-rolled eye...
Also, did you note that Labs was deemed blog crushworthy?
The other responses in that thread are lame-o. I think I need to post about this.
ooh! that's a neat idea. it had honestly never occurred to me. maybe because our interests are all too all over the place. though i guess that could actually make it more interesting. but it'd be too difficult to come up with an appropriately clever name. anyway, what with susan going to georgia, and me moving to chicago, it might be too late at this point. but i do suggest kriston and tommy start a blog called "the mopey boys club" wherein they detail how miserable they are without their beautiful and amazing girlfriends. i would enjoy reading that.
Susan's been to a Star Trek convention.
For the last time: I was friends with a girl who had her 4th grade birthday party at a Star Trek Convention. My only crime is compassion.
ogged: no kidding, the response are lame! nobody else would give up the goods in a public forum. and yes, FL is a blog hottie.
Keep it up, Armsmasher, and you'll be mopey before your time.
Armsmasher,
Susan's been to a Star Trek convention.
Ya got guts kid.
Someone ought to clarify the rules about blog crushes, because they're problematic to navigate. I hadn't put any thought to it, but my first answer when Susan asked me was Lindsay Beyerstein. I think that sort of got me in trouble, and I felt like I was violating the spirit of having a blog crush, because she's attractive. (But really, she had me at the athiesm.) I didn't know who else to go for—no good linkworthy girl bloggers out there or something.
Admittedly, the truth was bound to come out eventually. I'm now stuck, I guess, on the Bridgeplate Plan. Or maybe I can turn her into a blogger....
Seriously, though, the sticking point here is that Susan just isn't serious about blogging. She's the only one of the group who only writes for one blog. Lacks real commitment. She doesn't even have a sitemeter!
i think we also don't have a group blog because of the fact that susan's posts, though more infrequent, would totally just kick us all in the ass.
This blog-crush thing emerged because Catherine feels that my reading, commenting on and enjoying a specific, other (married!) DC area woman's blog constitutes some kind of serious romantic betrayal.
Since the whole meme was basically designed to get me in trouble, I've decided to decide that it's silly and not worth participating in.
25, 26: both right. There's an extremely dorky zen koan waiting to emerge here...
what! i encouraged it! you're just too pussy to own up that she's your blog crush.
Okay, I call Ben w-lfs-n for blog crush.
There's now an official blog crush thread.
Susan -- excellent choice: he knows Linux.
You know, I was about to ask Susan to blog here when she announced that she was going to civilize other savages elsewhere.
And the crush on w-lfs-n rules her out too.
Anyway, I've seen how you run off women bloggers. Unfogged: where angels fear to tread.
We can't not hire you, you quit.
I didn't think we could shut down Alameida, the blogging machine, but the Unfogged sidebar works powerful dark magic.
he knows Linux
Now I feel silly for just having commented on that post.
I really need that unfogged fellowship now that I'm not forced to spend all my time reading the comments for my job.
Okay, Susan just 'fessed up to me that she used to own Star Trek trading cards.
Nah, they're too busy about gossiping about thoughtless comments I make here at Unfogged.
I forget that, in this brave new DC world, people who read blogs actually know me...
If we start up a blog, we're going to have Sims act it out for us.
(And Bridgeplate is earnest, but we love him for it.)
If I am earnest, I am earnest, and; and not earnest, but. When you learn this, you will attain a greater wholeness of being.
Bridgeplate is earnest, since we love him for it.
Re: 40
The DC folks who know you are just jealous of your hot high school girlfriend. Don't listen to them.