[Update: My weekend shout-out goes to Gina. Grab some coffee, share a virtual mojito with me (it’s noon somewhere, I’m sure), and go give her some non-BlogHer lovin’. And look who pinged me! Thanks to Mrs. Flinger for the cool button!]
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Not going to BlogHer?
Me neither.
Wish you were?
Yeah, me too.
Don’t really care when it comes right down to it?
Me either. Sort of.
Sure, more than half the bloggers I read and assorted superstar bloggers are gathering in California this weekend for merriment, mayhem and martinis to be sure. There will be workshops and seminars and undoubtedly nametags. It will include hugging and pointing (in the nicest sense) and assorted conversations that will be free of punctuation and parentheses. Although I wonder how they’ll cross out what they are thinking in lieu of saying something possibly offensive, but heck, that’s not my problem. People will be taller and shorter, thinner and fatter, older and younger than imagined. Funny bloggers will be funny because they have to be. Serious bloggers will be funny too, because they want to be. The estrogen infused blogosphere gets a little smaller this weekend…and being on the outside doesn’t feel so good. It never does.
So those of you sitting on your bums this weekend with your kids at your elbow and your dogs at your feet and your computer monitor in front of you instead of the face of a brand new friend…take a minute, or fifteen, and give a shout-out to a non-BlogHer attendee you adore. Ping a post, introduce someone new, add someone to your blogroll and tell us all about it.
Wipe your tears, clear your throat, stave off the envy, make a mojito and jump on the I’m-not-going-to-BlogHer-dammit-but-I’m-gonna-be-OK bandwagon.
After all, we at-home bloggers need love too have to stick together.
July 26th, 2006Yeah. What you said. You know that gathering and having fun and laughing and hanging out with the cool people and all that is not really my style. No siree. So um, I’ll just be here this weekend if anybody, like, needs me or anything. I’ll be here. Right. (sigh) Here. (thumb twiddle) Anybody??
July 26th, 2006Me!Me!Me! I’m not going and have felt like I am missing Christmas or something! while I would love to be out and being fabulous, reality dictates that i will be here and mediocre…blogging….what else is new? lol..
July 26th, 2006Ok I am glad someone was brave enough to speak up!!! I do not even want to go, but suddenly I do but I don’t but I want to hang out with the cool kids too!!!
We should have a huge comment parties over the weekend at all the blogs that are not going to cheer everyone up!
July 27th, 2006Sniff, sniff. I am going to cry because so many cool people are going and I’m not. Mega Mom asked me if I wanted to go but I am too frickin poor. Boo hoo.
So we’ll toast some virtual mojitos to each other this weekend my dear.
I think promoting someone new is a wonderful, wonderful idea! I’m on it!
July 27th, 2006I’m not going to Blogher either and I just don’t care….
*kicks foot at invisible rock*
It’s going to be stupid anyway.
Why would I want to go hang out with other bloggers?
Okay, maybe I want to go. Just a little bit. I like your idea of shout-outs this weekend. We’ll spread the love for other people that we might have the chance to meet at Blogher ‘07.
July 27th, 2006I’m not going either. I’ll keep you guys company! Truly, I can’t wait to hear the stories, but flying cross-country is too much for me right now.
July 27th, 2006But I will really, really miss you.
July 27th, 2006Cheers to you! I’m not goin either.
July 27th, 2006I just wrote something remarkably similar on my blog. I’m not going, and I’m not feeling all that bad about it. I originally wanted to go, but as time pushed forward I realized I didn’t really want to go all that much, plus most of my fav bloggers aren’t going either. So I’m doing blogathon instead, heaven help us all! Please come and participate. I need all the readers I can find.
July 27th, 2006I really wanted to go! I think we are gonna have a slow weekend if we don’t do shout-outs for one another! Surely someone is live-blogging it? Wait, that’s be too much envy for me to stand! I really wanted to go, have I mentioned that?
July 28th, 2006I’m somewhere in the middle on this one. I’m going but not until Saturday night so I will barely hit the tail end of all the festivities.
Other thing is that if it wasn’t practically in my backyard I wouldn’t be going. Not because I don’t think it will be really fun but because I kinda just started blogging a few months ago and I won’t know that many people there. Makes me a little nervous!
So, here’s to BlogHer 07. We’ll all (hopefully) have been blogging a little bit longer, know each other a little bit better, and all make it out to the conference to share mojitos in person!
July 28th, 2006If you find the time head over to Crazy Hip Blog Mamas. There are some links I’m going to post and stuff to do/write about.
I’ll be linking to this post, as I think it would be a cool thing for all of us to do.
Great idea, and I think it fits perfectly!
July 28th, 2006I’ll jump on your bandwagon. I am not going and I am not shy to say I am fiercely jealous. Next year…there is always next year!
July 28th, 2006[…] Here is her post that talks a bit about it. A Crazy Little Thing Called BlogHer […]
July 28th, 2006I’m not going either! Flying across country right now was not an option for me. Hopefully blogher 07 will be on the east coast.
July 28th, 2006I’m hoping BlogHer ‘07 is two things — in the Midwest and NOT the weekend my daughter gets home from overnight camp. Thinking I’m stretching my hopes a bit here?
July 28th, 2006I ahve a couple of bloggers I’ve long been meaning to add to my blogroll too - I’ll try to carve out the time and memory to do it this weekend (heck, I don’t even have to work Saturday!). Good call!
July 28th, 2006I felt so confused when I started reading about BlogHer on other people’s blogs… and wondered what in THE hell I was missing out on… but then I realized that a whole lot of us aren’t going / aren’t included / possibly haven’t a clue / , just like me.
So - I still think I’m in good company.
July 28th, 2006BlogHer is in California? I live in California. OK now I am truly bummed.
But now I get to be a part of the Not Going to BlogHer conference. I’ll shout out some love to other non BlogHer bloggers.
July 28th, 2006Awwww, thanks! I’m blushing over here!
July 28th, 2006I am making this a weekend (well, at least the part of the weekend when I’m not cooking, cleaning, or caring for younglings) of crazy blog-hopping in lieu of a trip to California. I’m gonna drink some wine and make some new friends. And you’re my first new friend!
BTW, the BlogHer site says ‘07 will be on the East Coast. I think they are announcing the exact location this weekend.
July 28th, 2006I am so not hip…I hadn’t heard of the BlogHer thing until like 3 days ago! And I too am keeping an eye out for where blogher 2007 will be.
July 28th, 2006Oh, well said! I have my mojito right here! Joinging you!
July 28th, 2006See? My mojito made me not type JOINING. Damn! So. Yea. :: ahem ::
Seriously, I love me some mojito…
July 28th, 2006I’m not going, and I’m so glad you wrote this. Because I can be sort of paranoid, I have this terrible fear that the bloggers who are going, are going to sit around and say bad stuff about me. Meanwhile, they probably don’t even know I exist, but anyway that’s where I am on the whole thing.
Great idea you have!
July 29th, 2006I’m both sorry to miss it and relieved that I’m not there. It’s mainly my own inability to commit to making ANY plans of any kind this summer that has kept me from going. Too many choices of places to go, and was so indecisive, I ended up going pretty much no where. Reading all the pre-blogher posts about the stress of meeting other bloggers in person had me feeling glad/relieved, but now that I’ve seen some of the party pics (at Mom 101 and other places), I’m feeling a little regret.
July 29th, 2006Oh, and Kvetch, I would love to see a blogger get-together in the midwest. Maybe just something small and informal. If it’s anywhere within a 5-6 hour drive, I would totally be there.
July 29th, 2006Boo-waa-hissss. I willnot be going wither.
They should have thought about US and like hooked up some kind of web-cam thing so we could at least tune in virtually (?) at “said” time.
But (sigh) alas, that would be ‘no’.
ANYWAY-I kind of forgot how I got here. MOTR? Call Me Soccer Mom and Die? I really do not remember.
Hmmm.
It WAS 12 here an hour and 45 min ago-that just means I a, that much closer to ‘tea’ time!
July 29th, 2006*raises hand* I’m here blogging from home and not San Jose.
July 29th, 2006I’m here too. Eastcoaster, 3-mo-old blogger. Waiting to hear where BlogHer is next year! It’s been a little slow on my Bloglines, but not as much as I had feared. Cheers! (raising a margarita glass to all yall!)
July 29th, 2006Such a good idea. All us homies gotta stick together! I’ve got a post on deck (rising to the challenge).
July 30th, 2006So we’re not there, but people are posting some hilarious recaps of events (not to mention photos). From my vantage point here, 3,000 miles away, it looks like an excellent time. Maybe next year?
August 1st, 2006I love that you did this. For all of the usual community-love reaons, but also because it means that now that I’m back I get to jump back through everyone’s posts AND meet new people. Win-win.