Dr. Frank's What's-it

Well, you know it was

Well, you know it was a good party when you miss the whole next day. I admit, I drank too much wine at Peter Pribik's blogger party the other night. I spent yesterday in a fairly delicate state. It was a swell time, though, from what I remember-- it's just a bit fuzzy, particularly toward the end. It's strange: reading a blog regularly turns the author into a kind of celebrity, even though you often know practically nothing about them but what they write about and what they link to. I walked into the living room, and someone said "meet the Weidners." There was a brief confusing moment while my sluggish brain processed the information. Then it hit me: that's the Random Jottings guy and his wife! I wouldn't go so far as to say I was a giggling schoolgirl about the whole thing, but it was cool nonetheless. She's a lawyer. He's a woodworker. Add a robot friend and it could be a great series!

Richard Bennett was just as clever and funny as his blog. William Quick was, unfortunately, conspicuous by his absence, as they say, so I never got a look at the man who coined the terms "Matrix" and "Blogosphere," but that was the only disappointment.

Bennett's got a few pictures up, if you're interested. Not too embarrassing, and that's a mercy. Why am I grinning like an idiot? (Well, other than because I'm an idiot?) Because I'm talking to Ken Layne, who is, I've learned, one of the all-time great talkers. I had some good conversations with Layne and Matt Welch about music, blogs, hate mail, Prague, etc. And there was a pretty crackling debate with Nick Denton on the subject of warblogger conformist hawkishness. The food was fabulous and the drink was, perhaps, all too plentiful. All in all, it was a swell time, even though I was a bit sloppy by the end and had a massive headache for most of the following day.

My lovely fiancee is arriving today, which means I'll have my hands full of something way more interesting and important than blogging or current events, or taking pot shots at the Bush administration or making fun of demented leftists. I expect I'll return to a more regular blogging schedule when things settle down a bit. If I don't, then you know things are going really well.