March 8th, 2006
The Blog Awards - some questions
* Who’s going? I’d like to know if anyone who links here, I link to, reads this blog, comments here or even lurks occasionally will be heading along. You may also want to take up That Girl’s suggestion of cocktails in the Merrion.
* We all know Twenty Major should, and will, win ‘Best Blog’. But what if his imposter shows up to accept the award? Or any chancer who’d like to win an Ipod Nano?. Should we come up with a real-Twenty-detector test? Maybe he could nominate another blogger to pick it up on his behalf?
* Should we buy Damien a job-well-done pressie, like at weddings and work leaving bashes? A Threadless t-shirt or just this cute boy from one of their ads? ( I’m sorted - I’ve a got signed Neil Gaiman book for him)
* Will someone post a podcast that edits out the boring bits and overlong speeches like RTE’s Oscars coverage?
* How will we all know each other? Do we have to wear stickers or is Damien going to force us all to stand up individiually and introduce ourselves (”Hi, I’m Sinéad. And I’m a blogger”)
March 8th, 2006 at 10:41 am
I think I’m going…still working on it. But I’m dragging a friend if I do go, so I won’t look like a total loser. If it’s any help I’ll be wearing a black wrap dress over jeans and I’m curling my hair..so I’ll be the fat one in the corner with the mad perm circa 1982 weeping into my bacardi and coke going “damn you hairdressers of the world, damn you”.
I’m also trying to drag Red Mum, but she’s surprisingly reluctant. So anyone reading this, drop over to her site http://www.redmum.blogspot.com and give her a few words of encouragement!
March 8th, 2006 at 10:43 am
With bells on. And I shall join you for a Long Island too.
As for Twenty Major, at least we know what the imposter looks like if he shows up.
March 8th, 2006 at 11:12 am
I have it covered.
March 8th, 2006 at 11:18 am
I’ll be along. Colm, are you coming over especially for the weekend or what?
March 8th, 2006 at 11:23 am
I’m going, although I don’t know whether I can manage the pre-bash cocktails. I intend to bring a little something for Damien, the surprise of course now being what we Tipperary-ans call “rooned” (trans. ruined) by this revelation.
As for name badges I asked the same question a few weeks/days ago - don’t know what the story with it is though!!
March 8th, 2006 at 11:29 am
“I have it covered.”
Twenty, please elaborate.
March 8th, 2006 at 11:38 am
I will be there alright, I guess I’ll just have to mingle and introduce myself to total strangers :s
March 8th, 2006 at 11:39 am
Jaysus nothing like a not-so-subtle hint from Kaz!!! I will probably go and therefore would be available for cocktails. Losing the auld anonymity is slightly traumatic so a marguertia will be perfect.
And Twenty will probably send someone in his place like Brandon in the Oscars to get up, refuse the prize and call us a pack of c*nts.
March 8th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Winds, I am indeed coming over especially. How could I miss the event of 2006? As Sinead said, Twenty can you elaborate?
March 8th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Will be there and can’t wait. Introduce yourselves if I don’t beat you to it.
March 8th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
“Introduce yourselves if I don’t beat you to it.”
Hmmm. You’ve got a photo on your blog, so the rest of us have a headstart but what’s your ‘identify the blogger’ technique?
March 8th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Random, utterly shamless guesses.
March 8th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
I will have a presence…erm…present.
March 8th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Redmum, I had thought about it but just couldn’t find a Red Indian in time.
March 8th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
dere will be name badges…so I hear anyway…:) And yup I will be there too. Women I hope you have some good jokes or we’ll all be sent off to comedy school!
March 8th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
A man walks into a bar with a duck on his head. The bartender looks up and says “Where did you get that ape?”
The man says, “This isn’t an ape,it’s a duck”. Bartender says “I was TALKING to the duck”.
Boom boom, its the way I tell ‘em.
March 8th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
I shall also be there!
March 8th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Twenty, Brando’s girl wasn’t even a genuine native American! So, get your mate to just apply some face paint.
And yes I accept presents. I may come along to the cocktails thing too. Will post about it on the Awards blog.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
I’ll be at the cocktails in the Merrion at 5 on Saturday. It would be nice if I wasn’t left nursing a drink on my own. That kind of thing tends to dull a girl’s ability to laugh and we all know that a sense of humour is a gal’s best pal…
March 8th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Tipperary-ans call “rooned� (trans. ruined)
what are you saying rooned is not the word. My earth has just shattered at the realisation I do not talk elequatly but like a bogger
I am afraid I will not be there. So if you go up to people are you simon are you saint then you will be wrong
Have a great night please. Some one better thank Jesus and cry.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
I’ll be there, with my girlfriend (who designed the blog), Copernicus (who’s also up for an award), and his missus (who patiently puts up with all his blogging).
As for how we’ll recognise each other/get chatting…I was hoping that, like all Irish social occasions, copious pints will loosen tongues and get the ball rolling.
If, by some strange concatenation of events, I win an award, I can’t promise a ‘Red Indian’, but can guarantee a red face.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Surely these highlighted references - “I’ll be there, with my girlfriend (who designed the blog), Copernicus (who’s also up for an award), and his missus (who patiently puts up with all his blogging)” prove that behind every great blog, there’s a women?
Hmmm, this comment should perhaps have been posted in the Women’s Day post.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Oh, and on partners. I told my other half (who wanted to come) that he’d be bored to death by the cliquish, in-joke self-congratulatory back-slapping. Should I convince him otherwise?
March 8th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Only if he has a sense of humour Sinéad!
March 8th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Well without my woman’s design skills the blog wouldn’t exist at all Sinéad, plain and simple. She also does all the stuff, round the house, that requires spatial awareness and basic motor skills - putting flat-packed furniture together etc.
I’m just a lazy, slacker male who would probably forget to feed himself if he wasn’t looked after! I’m lucky she puts up with me…
March 8th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
I’d be deeply suspicious if I was your partner, Sinead, especially given the way you’ve been pimping Twenty for best blog. Truly, his profile pic casts a strange spell.
March 8th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
I think Twenty has more than enough blog groupies at this stage…
March 8th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
No! Nobody should bring their partners! That’s not fair, I’m counting on this shindig as an opportunity for me to snog, er, I mean mingle with other single bloggers! So no partners, just lots and lots and lots of single men.
And oh God, do we really have to wear name tags? Can’t we all just mooch around and introduce ourselves?
Cocktails sound good though…hmmm
March 8th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
I’d be inclined to agree that partner-less is better, except in the cases of Fustar, Copernicus and any other chaps whose other halves have helped build their blogs.
I know I’ll end up talking my head off and I suspect he’ll be in a corner staring bemusedly at the geeks. Though he’s a bit geeky about music software, recording equipment, obscure instruments. He gets very excited by talk of Ableton, microphones, that sort of malarkey. It’s a different type of geekinees.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Good god - there’s a marketing opportunity missed by Damien. The single person’s guide to the blog world … a workshop and speed dating event all in one..
March 8th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
It’s hardly the Oscars.
March 8th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
I know darling - it’s better than that.
March 8th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Too late for this year but next year I’ll be looking for a band to play during the event.
March 8th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
I reckon all types of ‘geekiness’ will be represented Sinéad. The techy kind, the Muso kind, the comics and sic-fi kind (*holds his hand up*).
It’ll be a United Nations of Geekosity.
March 9th, 2006 at 10:23 am
My other half is coming, but she has her own blog (which is in retirement since she became a career-focused monster in her new job!!) and knows Suzy so she’ll be ok
Who am I kidding? She’ll probably leave after half an hour and write an expose on bloggers for the Sunday Business Post….
March 9th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Uh-oh, I’ve already told the other half he’s allowed to come along. I think he’s looking forward to seeing other grown-ups, even if they are just geeky bloggers. Maybe the partners can get a table together to shake their heads at us all.
March 9th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Are ye bringing the little ‘un too Claire?
March 9th, 2006 at 11:59 am
BYOT
To for Table
No tables, just seats.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
*T for Table.
Grrr to typos
March 9th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Not a chance Colm, although considering she’s the subject of most of my photos…err, still no way, it’s my night off!
March 9th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
We have a test ready for Twenty if he turns up… Flick holy water at him and if his skin burns he’s the real deal….
Shit, I’m going to get flamed now….
Maybe the plug I gave him on Fanning tonight will act in my favour…? Don’t know if anyone heard the bit tonight - made us all sound very normal… Fools! Mwuagh ha ha ha ha ha ha!
R
March 9th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
I am impervious to holy water you crazy DJ. Didn’t hear the show though. Is there a way of hearing the segment you guys did?
Surely one of those podcaster lads must have recorded it on his double-cassette deck.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Yup ya crazy fictional character
They have downloads here - http://www.rte.ie/2fm/davefanning/
See y’all tomorrow night…
R
March 10th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Ooooh, oooh, and me, I shall be there too! Will someone remind me next week that I was there though, tomorrow’s a rugby day, and it’s going to be a looong one long before I get to the Alexander too!