Ever since some web-savvy writer came up with the idea of putting diaries online to be read by everyone from the West Side to West Timor, the tradition has been that bloggers are a faceless group. Even Tony Botello, who has received some accolades for the anti-gay jokes he writes in his mom’s basement, has never offered up a photo of himself. The closest Botello came was a cartoon drawing of Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc.
Well, bloggers, now’s the time to get outed.
Local blogger Well Hell Michelle has put out the call for a meetup for all you pajama-wearing keyboard addicts on Tuesday at Harry’s Country Club. (By the way, WHM is a fairly new blogger who chronicles the days she spent working in a porn store.)
Local bloggers used to meet up fairly regularly but stopped a couple of years back. Since then, the field of bloggers has expanded — and added some writers with more to lose if they reveal themselves. At least two anonymous bloggers are lawyers at big law firms, which might not be happy if they knew their barristers were the authors of the often critical and expletive-laden entries.
Here’s hoping they show up anyway. And that Tony finally leaves his mom’s basement. -- Eric Barton
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Nice meeting you two guys last night. I left early, but it didn't seem like there were too many fistfights breaking out. Good blogmeet. Hope it happens again soon.
Thanks to Michelle and Greg for getting the ball rolling.
I'm kinda glad you all sat at the other end of the table, I would hate to have all of this hate leak over on me.
jeez, i almost kinda wish i could be there...but music bloggers probably arent invited anyways
That's sort of odd how The Pitch can accuse TKC of being anti-gay, while at the same time they feel no conflicts about berating Mexican American artistry of an ancient Aztec emperor as being cartoony. The Pitch is an anti-Hispanic, sellout corporate rag. Long live the blogger.
Hey, I've met Tony.
That really is what he looks like. No kidding.
At first I thought he was Hawkman from the Justice League of America.
Aztec mythology was conspicuously absent from my small town curriculum.
See how much I've expanded my cultural horizons by reading Tony's blog?
Oh, and by the way regarding the whole "you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear" crap? Yeah, REAL blogs don't do that. Only corporate promotion tools who want to be percieved as a "blog" while still protecting their "brand" and conforming to their legal staff's advice do that.
Real bloggers aren't afraid of anything that anyone wants to post.
Hey, Tony, calm down — we're not going to out anybody, as you suggest in this post. I know the identities of the law firm bloggers but have no plans to out them.
Hey, can you blame us for wanting in on this town's hot blogger action? And wasn't it my predecessor, your fan Tony Ortega, who once organized a happy hour for bloggers?
That jpeg isn't a cartoon. It's an image of a painting by legendary Mexican artist Jesus Helguera.
Here's a link.
My God, if you had one single Latino working in that place you might be able to consult somebody about that stuff.
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