Saturday, August 26, 2006
Blogger Bash
Went to the Blogger Bash at the former Minturn Saloon on Broadway. I was there first (after work) but by 7 there was most of the usual crowd there. Still heavy on libertarian gun guys. Linda S from a real paper here in town was there but the elevator didn't work so she was exiled to the ground floor. Her thoughts on the difference between real journalism and what bloggers do were profound. It was fun to meet people whom I really didn't know but who read me from time to time. Looking at the site meter, there can't be but so many.
Jeff G actually was pretty sane although he's like a psycho jack-in-the-box/human karaoke when his handsome family leaves. He managed to piss of and obsess about the well stacked waitress at the same time. Steven G was absent and missed but it was somehow appropriate given the amount of blogging he's done lately. I played pool with the women and laughed a lot. Andy and David were gracious hosts (and David took a fiscal bu-fuing on the bill others had neglected to, well, pay, but he said it was less than last time--what a mensch). Rae, who flew in from SLC, and who really is a fascinating woman, was see-sawing between the ying of her normal heterosexuality and the yang of her nascent, well latent lesbianism (she draws the line at using her tongue in any way). She kept off the cold by using the handsome Colorado conservative as a blanket, a rather heavy blanket at that.
When I got there I asked if there was a Blogger Bash table or something and got the blankest of stares. Bloggers, it seems, get no points for their efforts from the normal folk. It also seems they have no fewer problems than society at large, and I guess the only thing that makes them different is that they are willing from time to time to publish their thoughts and experiences to strangers. Like now.
Jeff G actually was pretty sane although he's like a psycho jack-in-the-box/human karaoke when his handsome family leaves. He managed to piss of and obsess about the well stacked waitress at the same time. Steven G was absent and missed but it was somehow appropriate given the amount of blogging he's done lately. I played pool with the women and laughed a lot. Andy and David were gracious hosts (and David took a fiscal bu-fuing on the bill others had neglected to, well, pay, but he said it was less than last time--what a mensch). Rae, who flew in from SLC, and who really is a fascinating woman, was see-sawing between the ying of her normal heterosexuality and the yang of her nascent, well latent lesbianism (she draws the line at using her tongue in any way). She kept off the cold by using the handsome Colorado conservative as a blanket, a rather heavy blanket at that.
When I got there I asked if there was a Blogger Bash table or something and got the blankest of stares. Bloggers, it seems, get no points for their efforts from the normal folk. It also seems they have no fewer problems than society at large, and I guess the only thing that makes them different is that they are willing from time to time to publish their thoughts and experiences to strangers. Like now.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:44 AM 
