Blogging out.

I had a great time at the blogger party the other night. It was good to see everybody and to meet new people like Michael Parker, who I had been reading forever, and J. Nathan, who I had recently discovered. There were some notable absences. I most often heard people ask about Jessica, who is excused as she is in S.America, Dawn Summers and Ken Wheaton, neither of which I believe had a valid excuse and should be shunned.

I hear that some people didn't get along, and I guess that's to be expected. The only surprising thing is that previous blogger parties had gone so swimmingly, considering all the obviously opinionated people in the room. Maybe we were just holding it in till we got to know each other better.

Hawk's nests and illegal immigration seem to be all the rage as I present a mini-carnival of attendees (in the order they appear on my blogroll):

C is listing her favorite journalism movies

Ari is fake married with a fake child, depending on who is asking.

Kevin Patrick is in a blog transition phase.

Yaron is a moderate on border patrol and illegal immigration. This seems to be the touchiest subject from the other night.

Dorian Davis was on MTV and is writing a memoir about it. The intro to his book is posted on his blog.

Mike D. is done with blogging, sadly.

Peter is complaining about the record industry. Peter has been nominated for 'Best Music Blog' in the Best of Blog Awards 2004. Go throw him some more nominations to make sure he makes the finals.

Exit Zero points out that there are wrong answers to interview questions from the NY Times, even if you're Stephen Hawking.

Experimental Insanity is on the hawks story and he is pro-hawk. It's the biggest story in NYC right now which should tell you how slow a news week it's been here.

Initial Misconceptions was shamed back into blogging, by me, since he attends the blogger parties but seldomly blogs.

Kesher Talk is Hannukah and charity blogging.

NYC Smurfette is crushing on a doctor at her job.

Steve Silver is sad to see Pedro Martinez leave the Sox, to which my Yankee fan brother just said 'yeah, I was crying all night'.

Truth Will Out is blogging on the aforementioned touchy subject of illegal immigration. Jo brought a friend with him to the party. Her name is Victoria and she blogs about you know, things she notices around her, all the while making fun of people that do the same. She thinks she made me uncomfortable with a joke she made. And, I was, cause her joke wasn't funny and I didn't want to make her feel bad. She actually wrote this uber-pretentious line: 'I imagined myself as an anthropologist observing misogynist rites of passage in a foreign land'. Yeah, little girl, you're an athropologist. Wooooo big scary people with all different kinds of opinions. Study them closely and report back to your groupthinking tribe. And, of course, the fact that about three people in the room were Republican, in any party-registering sense, is neither here nor there to those that lack brains.

The Urban Grind is also blogging on the hawk's nest. She is anti-hawk.

Michael Parker wonders what would happen if the Islamofascists targeted areas and institutions that liberals respect (like the red light district in Amsterdam or abortion clinics).

Future blogger parties will hopefully be planned a little further in advance. I hope everyone had a good time.