Gotta love it when you get an email with that as the subject line. I’ll send you to Liza at Culture Kitchen, who does it oh-so-well. Once again, it was a pleasure mixing and mingling with the bloggerati, especially the lovely ladies who blog (and brunch).
Category: Weblogs
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Now Serving: Gothamist Food!
As you may know, I’ve been working on a new project — Gothamist Food. Gothamist is a blog about all things New York, and several months ago, they sent out a call for interested food writers and editors. Lo and behold, my love for NYC food (and ridiculous obsession with lobster) shone through in my past food writing, and now I’m the co-editor, along with Jeremy from Frost Street. We’ve rounded up some great contributors, including Joe DeSalazar from Foodie (read my Foodie post), GirlyNYC, and The Brazilian Muse — I hope you enjoy it! Please stop by and check it out, and be sure to leave comments, so I know you’ve been there. -
Blogging vs. Online Dating
After attending The Black Table party this past Friday night, and spending time with the lovely ladies who blog, among others, I realized that blogging is one of the two doors that have most impacted my social life over the last year (the other being hanging out at Otto). Through my blog, I have corresponded with and met incredibly smart, diverse, interesting people, who all have expertise in areas in which I have none (Brazilian culture, lesbian erotica, panties (well, I have some expertise in panties, although I tend not to use the word so often)), which makes for scintillating conversation. And although I have not yet met any dating prospects through blogging, it sure beats online dating. I’d rather spend an evening having pizza at 2 AM with a group of cool women chatting about The Straight Sign and food, than on a shitty online date with someone who, although he may seem charming and smart via email, is entirely lacking in wit and/or social skills in real life. Bloggers also seem to enjoy getting together offline a great deal — makes for good blog fodder, at the very least. So — a shout-out to The Brazilian Muse, LustyLady, GirlyNYC, Nichelle, and Lux, and thanks to Colin, a co-worker who joined me at the party on blind faith — I told him there would be cool, smart women there (in addition to me, of course) and there certainly were!
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I Have Nothing to Add at the Moment. Whew!
Break Up News is a recently launched blog that lists breakups in the same style as wedding announcements. Love it.
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To Post or Not To Post
This one goes out to all my fellow bloggers. Have you ever written a post and then hesitated before you hit the “publish” button out of fear that someone might read it and misinterpret it? I wrote a post last night that basically contained a generalized dating-type rant. Nothing really bad, and certainly not directed towards any specific person, but I was worried that there are several people out there who could potentially read it and imagine that I was bitching about their behavior. Be forewarned, folks, I’m not.
I have always wanted my blog to be a place that I would feel comfortable knowing anyone I might know would read it — my family, my co-workers, my ex-boyfriends, my current boyfriend (wait, I don’t have one — never mind). I’m pretty sure I’ll ultimately post it, but I need to make sure the timing’s right. As they say, timing is everything. So stay tuned, and perhaps you’ll see it at some point. And now back to our regularly scheduled program, already in progress.
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Sweet Blog o’ Mine 2.0
You might not have noticed it, but there have been some big changes here over the past week. You can now reach this blog at www.sweetblogomine.com, so change your bookmarks. How exciting is that!?! You can also now email me at laren (at) sweetblogomine.com.
No, really, it’s sooo cool, isn’t it?
When did I become such a dork?
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The Blogosphere is Smaller Than I Thought
Had a great time at the Gothamist happy hour last night. Despite showing up somewhat late, I was able to chat with many of my fellow bloggers, some of whom I knew and some of whom I met for the first time. At one point, I was introduced to a blogger to whom I had linked in the past, not knowing who he was. When he was introduced to me by name and I saw his face, it took a moment, but then I placed him — we went to high school together waaaay back in the day. We spent a great deal of time catching up and reminiscing about who we were then and how our current lives are such an interesting contrast — I never would have pictured him the way he is today, and I’d imagine he might say the same about me. What about you? Would the people you knew in high school recognize you today, or is your current persona such a far cry from who you were then that you would be virtually unrecognizable?
And no name-dropping, but I wanted to give a shout-out the evil group of bloggers who kept me up way past my bedtime on a school night. You know who you are. . .
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Feelin’ the Love
My traffic has been waaaay up over the past few days — many thanks to Alaina at NYC Eats and Hugh at Gaping Void for the link-love. I’m feelin’ it, baby.
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So Much to Post, So Little Time
Yesterday, the Mermaid Parade; today, Foodie; tomorrow night, a farewell dinner at Public; Tuesday night, graduation/open house for my self-defense class (feel free to come, by the way; click here for details) — when will I ever have time to post everything?! Sigh.
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Let’s See How Quickly This is Taken Down
Bill Clinton Book My Life — funny, but definitely lawsuit-inducing.