We do not blog to get laid (even though we suspect
Scanner Brian does). Not that the idea hasn't crossed our collective
minds. When we were first offered this job we thought it would be a
boon to our sex lives. You know: meet guy in a bar. Tell guy what we
do. Guy falls all over us because he's so impresed. This obviously has
not happened. Sure we're out a little less and shower a lot less
because we blog professionally, which probably has a lot to do with it.
But we have to admit we're surprised—and a little disappointed if we're
being honest here—that of the tens of thousands of people who read
Scanner every week not one is a bearded man who lives in the
mountains of Kansas City and wants to ride bikes and eat hamburgers
with us. But even if that man were to actually exist and he were to
reveal himself in the comments section we can't imagine we'd be rushing
off to meet him at a Royals game or anything. Maybe that's just us
(because we can totally see Scanner Brian doing something like that).
Recently
Ann Althouse, a professor in Wisconsin who blogs about politics, law
and culture announced on her site that she would be marrying commenter
"Meade." Her readers were about as shocked as you would be if we told
you that we plan to marry "Apollo"—which we do not.
And we have to give the New York Times kudos for the first line of Sunday's story about the whole thing:
CONSIDER the erotic potential between blogger and commenters.Read More...
