Partying With Your Internet Friends
Wow, I sure haven't been blogging up a storm, huh? I'm ashamed to say I've been...having fun with my family. I know, I'm a loser. But, if you're in the DC area and want to meet your favorite non-blogging blogger, why not mosey on down to the Rendevous in Adams-Morgan this coming Thursday? I'll probably be there around 8 or 9. This was all Jim Henley's idea. John is meeting Tyler Cowen in Singapore next week, so, Tyler, if you want to pull off a John and Belle exacta...
Sooo, America. There sure are a lot of fat people, huh? Damn. And big cars. And sketchy dudes who yell lewd stuff at you on the street. I'd kind of forgotten about that.
jholbo-at-mac-dot-com
Can't make it to D.C. but are you going to be in New York before you go home? (Hoping) -- I've been pining for your posts and have made my own half-hearted attempts at recipe blogging over at READIN, including fudge, marshmallows, and pasta with greens. But they don't make it.
Posted by: Jeremy Osner | July 19, 2005 at 04:00 AM
Will Zoe be there?
Posted by: Timothy Burke | July 19, 2005 at 09:45 AM
she's kind of not allowed to go to bars. and sadly I won't be making it to NYC...
Posted by: belle | July 19, 2005 at 11:03 AM
Well, aren't you guys strict! Next thing you know you'll tell me she's not allowed to go to R-rated movies either.
Posted by: Timothy Burke | July 19, 2005 at 11:04 PM
Boo to the no NYC visit! Have a great time in DC though.
(And yeah, the fat people thing is always a little jarring after coming back from the far east. We joke about it, but damn.)
Posted by: Doctor Memory | July 19, 2005 at 11:46 PM
When I came back from two years in South Korea, I noticed both the size thing and the lewdness thing (though probably not as much as you have, Belle, as America has grown significantly fatter and lewder, I think, since I returned in 1990). But the thing that struck me the most--and I wandered around the Portland airport for about 20 minutes, wondering at this--was that I wasn't being stared at; for the first time in two years, I wasn't the single Caucasian towering over a sea of black hair and brown eyes. I'm sure 21st-century Singapore is significantly more multicultural than late-1980s South Korea was, but still, does this sound familiar? Is it weird to suddenly not be a visual anomaly?
Posted by: Russell Arben Fox | July 20, 2005 at 12:48 AM