May 6, 2008

Blogebrities

Going to Tequila Con this past weekend was kind of like hanging out in Hollywood. There were blogebrities everywhere you looked. Some of them, you instantly recognized as in "OMG, that’s Secondhand KARL!" or "There’s Blogography and he looks just like he does on his blog!". Then there were those times when you knew you should know someone but you just couldn’t place the face or the blog. It was kind of like when I went to England in high school and the little guy from Das Efx and RedMan were staying in our hotel for the entire week, yet I didn’t figure out who they were until the day we were leaving, and only after our chaperones had explicitly warned us to stay away from those scary people.

Tequila Con, like the Cheers bar, was the place where everyone knew your name (You were wearing it like a billboard on a lanyard all night so it was fairly obvious). There was no catty business like in usual social situations (at least none that I’m aware of) and everyone was super nice and complimentary.

Karl told me he loved my shoes and won my heart. Others asked me about things I had written about months ago, or checked in on the status of the knee. There were people there that I was just getting to know, but many of these people knew me. It was definitely a weird feeling.

I often talk to my college friends about how cool they are, and how no matter how much time passes or what’s going on in our lives, when we get together we always have ~~wine~~, I mean fun. Leaving Tequila Con on Saturday night was like leaving yet another very cool group of new friends who felt like old friends.

For years, I scolded my sister about meeting people online (In my defense, she only met losers online). So, when I told my family I was going to meet a bunch of bloggers, I could see their hesitation and a flash of concern. But meeting everyone that I met at Tequila Con showed me that there are some really incredible people out there, and a whole host of bloggers to fix my sister up with if things don’t work out with her current guy.