This Saturday evening here in LA, our own Reverse Cowgirl will be co-hosting a Panel Discussion Event re: Blogging. If you have any desire to test your Geekness, paying five dollars on a Saturday Night to listen to people talk about Blogging will quelch your dilemma. That said, I look forward to discovering what an "Electronic Orphanage" actually is and if any of my old Walkmans are there.

I'm expecting something Revolutionary, hopefully ending in Edicts or Declarations. In case things don't seem to be heading down that road, I have prepared a Fervored Speech:

"Wait a minute! All this talk about product placement and book deals, aren't we forgetting what Blogging is really about? It's about the faces of Children whose Mothers struggle to place words on the screen, words that will help them grow strong! It's about Young People creating an identity outside of our narrow minded expectations! It's about a Land where we can Post about Porn and Bush and Who We Really Hate! It's about being Human and if being strange is gloating over Joe Millionaire, then by golly, I don't wanna be Normal!!"

Or something like that.

Immediately the dew-eyed crowd leaps to it's feet. Children are hoisted onto shoulders while Old Women raise their canes in salute. The RCG, dressed in a fetching silk blouse and Pencil Skirt, leaps to her stillettoed feet and cries out "GOD BLESS BLOGGING!"

Alternate Ending: I stand in stunned silence for a second after my speech. Cough.

"Thank you Hug. For those of you interested in meeting after this, we will all..."

I sit, crushed by the aftermath of my audacity and the cold shoulder from those around me. Everyone files out of the Orphanage, Electronics glumly sitting in Cribs lining the walls. Finally, the RCG comes down from Her Podium and walks over to me and lifts my chin with her hand.

"It's only Blogging, Hugh. C'mon, let's go have a Cocktail."

Well. If you insist.
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