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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!

Nightmares, tornadoes, and Halloween

Monday, February 16th, 2009

The other night I had a nightmare that James aka Clown and I completely forgot to build anything for the Halloween party and it was two days before the party so we didn't have time to do anything worthwhile. We decided to have a theme that a tornado struck the house, although what's scary about a tornado other than the adrenaline-fueled hey there's wind and debris flying around at a million miles an hour and it could destroy my house type of scare, I don't know. So we started picking up trash and just throwing it everywhere and took a crowbar to one of the walls of the house and just made it so items of clothing and action figures and books were strewn throughout the house, put "Twister" on the TV, and just hoped that everybody would have fun anyways. Of course, nobody had fun because they were all reminded of the negative things that tornadoes symbolize, not the fun things like being able to shoot a straw through a tree, so everybody left by 9 and they all looked at me and shook their heads sadly as they left in one big group and I tried to explain and say, "But I forgot to decorate!" but that was a really lame excuse, and then James left and so did Amy, although she was probably just going out to walk the dog because she totally wouldn't leave me over a shitty party. Unless it was a really shitty party. After that, everybody shunned my blog because nobody wanted to read the tornado guy's blog anymore and so my blog died and since nobody was reading anymore I decided to go ahead and post my death post that I wrote in case of my death and so I posted it and then closed the blog so that anybody new who came and read it would think that I threw an awesome party and then died from awesomeness inflicted by the awesome party and then I woke up.

What I'm trying to say is that even though it's only two days after Valentine's Day (and my sister's birthday – happy birthday, Meagan!), I'm already starting to plan the Halloween party. And the date has been set.


Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 24th!

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