It's a drooling report from a young woman named Karol at AlarmingNews.com. She apparently attended the blogger bash celebrating the launch of that new, monumentally revolutionary site, Open Source Media, and she is simply besides herself at having met all of her favorite blogging stars.
Here is an excerpt of Karol, bubbling over with a truly toxic mix of glee and awe:
Obviously, everyone there wanted to meet Glenn Reynolds.
He was talking to Evan when I came over to introduce myself. It's been said before, but Glenn Reynolds is a man of men.
While I'm just getting around to blogging at like 2pm because I woke up really hung-over after all that free Ketel One, Glenn has already blogged a week's worth of news, and, I believe, is traveling back to Tennessee. Also, while I'm a big fan of myself, I realize I'm a virtual nobody in the blogosphere. My thousand or so hits a day is what Glenn gets in around 10 minutes.
And he actually knew my site, which is unbelievable and just proves how much he is able to store in that big brain of his. Evan was saying that he sees Glenn as a bellwether of American politics, since he's not a partisan and seems to call things as he sees them.
I noted that I love him and my super liberal 'friend' loves him so I can see Evan's comment being quite true. During the conversation, Glenn said to me 'you know, I hope you don't mind me saying so but you're a lot younger and cuter than I thought you be.' I took it as a great compliment (Instapundit thinks I'm young and cute! Instapundit thinks I'm young and cute!) but it did get me thinking that conservatism is just so often associated with stodginess.
I try to mix it up by throwing in hip-hop or debaucherous tales from previous nights, but I still come off as old. Even more alarmingly, I seemingly come off as not cute. How does one fix that?
It is too pure to add anything to. It deserves to stand alone, as a monument to so many things.
UPDATE: OK, so I broke down and did add something - I bolded my favorite, favorite parts. They are just too good not to.
OK, that is one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile. Can she really be serious?
ReplyDeleteGlenn Reynolds is a man of men?
And the part where he was hitting on her was rather repulsive. Isn't he married?
I'd sooner read 5 months worth of Little Green Football comments than attend even 10 minutes of that Open Source party.
ReplyDeleteFunny post. I write like that about a lot of experiences, I'm a really happy person who does a lot with her life and enjoys every minute of it. Don't sweat me.
ReplyDeleteAnd he wasn't hitting on me, retardo. Do liberals understand any social interaction that's not sexual?
And you bolded really weird parts. How does noting that I'm a nobody in the blogosphere (though, you know, still more of a somebody than you) or that I write about hip-hop deserve bolding?
ReplyDeleteKarol - I just found it, I guess, interesting, to watch someone treat Glenn Reynolds like he was Elvis. I just started this blog a little more than 3 weeks ago (which is, by the way, one reason you may want to temper your celebrations over being "more of a somebody" in the blogosphere, whatever standard you might be using to determine that), and I just didn't realize that bloggers inspired this sort of reaction.
ReplyDeleteInteresting people inspire that sort of reaction. It's something you'll never know anything about.
ReplyDeleteKarol's enthusiasm is understandable to me, Glenn, but if I had to guess I'd say that you're just jealous. You'd be the first one to eat it up if some cute young thing (male, of course) were treating YOU like Elvis because your blog had a million hits a day or whatever Glenn Reynolds gets.
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