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A scientific study of the people attending #BlogHer.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

According to BlogHer, there will be 1,399 people attending the main BlogHer conference this weekend. That's not an astronomical number of people and it's not a infinitesimal number of people. It's a solid showing of bloggers who are getting together to learn about each other, drink until they're stupid, and create this community that makes blogging so much fun. But who are these people going? I got my hands on a top secret demographic breakdown of the attendees and even though I was sworn to secrecy, I'm sharing it here, just for you.

Out of 1399 attendees:

148 attendees will be… mothers who have recently given birth and will be breast feeding their babies all weekend long, even if it is weird and squicky. 23 of these mothers will walk around with wet spots on their chests that I will be unable to avoid staring at.

277 attendees will be… lesbians. 3 of them will turn straight after meeting me. 2 of them will turn gay again after talking with me for more than ten minutes.

44 attendees will be… men. 15 men will be non-bloggers, there with their spouses. 8 men will be there to get laid. 3 men are there just to give any woman who asks a pearl necklace. 12 men are bloggers who are there to meet more bloggers. 5 men are gay men who are on the prowl for new fag hags. 1 man is me.

319 attendees will be… hard-core fundamentalist Christian Republicans. They'll cluck disapprovingly at the women around them and go to bed every night at 9:30, clutching their Sarah Palin dolls, to pray for the souls of everyone there. 10 of them will sneak out of their rooms and go down to the hotel bar to find random lonely men to fuck. Another 12 of them will take this weekend to experience sapphic delight with their roommate.

700 attendees will be… mommybloggers, some of whom may already be categorized above. They refer to themselves as variations on "Taylor's Mom" or "Constipated Mommy" and write mainly about their child and how amazing their kid is and how much of a pain their kid is and take photos of how cute their kid is and write about how much they need a drink when their kid is a brat and they get free shit from Graco and Pampers and go to Johnson & Johnson Baby Camp and watch Oprah and the Today Show and write books about parenting and read books about parenting and then their kids will grow up and they'll realize that they have nothing to talk about and no interests other than their children.

378 attendees will be… childfree women, either by choice or due to a medical or physical reason. 10 of them will be militantly childfree, throwing around terms like "breeders" with snark and anger, and you'll know that they secretly want a child of their own but will never admit it. 122 of them love children so much and want one, so when they see the kids at the conference, they'll try to steal them and run home with them. 4 of them will have a sense of humor.

84 attendees will be… infertility bloggers who write every day about their attempts to have children. They'll write about vaginal secretions and internal temperatures and clinical sex and their scientific approach to something that should happen naturally. 59 of them will secretly not want a child (or another child) but are only doing it because they feel pressure from society and/or their husband and family to do so.

987 attendees will be… sarcastic and funny and perverted and have a little bit of a twisted soul. They'll have a good sense of humor and know when it's okay to laugh at themselves.

299 attendees will be… women who look like men because they have facial hair of some sort. 19 of them will have a beard and 3 of them will have chest hair poking out of the top of their outfits. 1 of them will just go along with the flow and pretend that she really is a guy, which will cause her to realize she wants to be a man, and she'll get a sponsor to provide her with sex-change surgery next month.

10 attendees will be… incontinent and will pee themselves completely at some point during the weekend. Nobody will notice, but if someone did, they'd pee themselves in solidarity and say that all the cool people pee their pants.

47 attendees will be… undercover FBI agents looking for terrorists. Instead, they'll get swept up in discussions about homeschooling and breastfeeding in public and will decide to quit their jobs, raise lots of babies, and blog about them.

3 attendees will be… hermaphroditic Filipino midget assassins.

2 attendees will be… from the future. They will be there to see if they need to stop BlogHer before it takes over the world in the year 2043.

1 attendee will be… an asshole who has a picture of himself eating ice cream with Hitler on his blog. He'll be sarcastic and smug, but much more reserved than you'd expect. He'll be quiet but friendly, even if he may let his mind wander to what you'd look like naked. And he's unlikely to approach anyone, not because he's better than they are, but because he isn't that much of an extrovert. You can go over to him, though, because he won't bite. Much.

Why you should buy Miss Britt a drink at #BlogHer

Monday, July 13th, 2009

This is what happens after two drinks at Parliament House between Britt and Hilly:

Why you should buy Britt a drink at BlogHer from Adam Avitable on Vimeo.

Laziest fucking Sunday ever.

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

A night out at The Parliament House, a local drag club, with Britt, Hilly, Amy, Clown and others means that I didn't write anything for today. And since I'm exhausted and have no ability to think coherently, I thought I'd just take this time to ask you to do a few things:

1. The annual Avitable Halloween party is happening in Orlando on Saturday, October 24th and you are invited! Yes, even you. I'll be emailing details, the theme, and ticket info out to a mailing list, so if you haven't yet added your name and email address, you can do it here:

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2. I need more women to comment on yesterday's post and let me know what types of questions they would like to ask a panel of male personal bloggers. We want to make our Room of Your Own at BlogHer 09 the best one of the bunch, and that requires your input!

3. Would somebody bring me a cheeseburger with ketchup and mayo on it?

BlogHer 09 – If you could ask a man anything . . .

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

On Saturday, July 25th, from 10:45 AM until 12:00 PM, I'll be at BlogHer co-hosting a "Room of Your Own" panel with Busy Dad and Child's Play x2. It's called "Vaginally challenged bloggers – the men of BlogHer", and here's the description:

Among hundreds of women, we stand out as the men of BlogHer. We view the world differently. Some of us are single. Some of us are married. Some of us have kids, some don't, and some of us are just big kids ourselves. The male personal/life blogger is a minority among the personal/life blogging community, and our perspective could be invaluable to any blogger, mommy or otherwise, who wants to make the most of her audience. Join Avitable, BusyDad, and Child’s Play x2 in a discussion about the role male bloggers play within the blogging community, and how that impacts what they write, how they network, and why you should be on board with the work they’re doing.

So, for roughly an hour, the three of us will have to inform, entertain, and retain the interest of our audience. We'll have a moderator, we'll have an audience (hopefully), and now, we just need some questions to answer and topics to discuss.

Here's a few I've thought of so far:

With the majority of personal bloggers being women, it follows that most of the friendships you make online will be with women as well. What do your wives think about this? Do they handle it well? Does anything make them jealous?

When commenting on a woman's blog, where is that fine line between being supportive and friendly and being creepy and lecherous? Do you ever hesitate to comment because you're not sure how it will be taken?

Avitable, why do you constantly show your balls? Do you really think anyone wants to see that?

I don't think these three questions will fill an hour, though. Even if I do share my treatise on testicle exposure being a significant cause in the increase of laughter in the world. I need more questions and topics. And it's a Saturday, so you fuckers don't have anything better to do.

Give me some suggestions in the comments. Whether or not you're going to be at BlogHer, what questions would you like to ask a male personal blogger? Two daddy bloggers? A man who would attend BlogHer? Two men who posed for the Hot Blogger Calendar? Anyone with a penis? Anyone with a penis who still listens to Avril Lavigne and gets his eyebrows waxed?

I'm counting on your input to make this session the best one of BlogHer!