Psychology of MOBs
By Mitch Berg
I made it to the MOB party last night – fashionably late, for a change!
These things are always a dizzying melange. I always meet scads of interesting people. Where to start?
- Met JRoosh from Roosh Five, one of my favorite newer MOB blogs, who had his own account of the evening.
- Most of the TvM crew was there – Gary, the Ringer (fully recovered from his car accident, or so it seemed), and of course Jeff Kouba, whom I believe I met for the first time.
- The Lady Logician and the Logical Husband.
- Neal (Neil?) Krasnoff from Loyal Opposition.
- Ben from Hammerschwing, who, I learned, is in seminary.
- John from Policy Guy, who, last I saw, was hanging out with Erik “the Transit Geek” Hare.
- Wog from Wog’s Blog, who’s counting down toward a liver transplant one of these days.
- Lileks and the Giant Swede.
- The whole crew from Freedom Dogs – Derek, Lassie, Guy, Jonez and
PinkmonDiamond Dog - Brad Carlson and his wife Jennifer, who took plenty o’pictures
- An ailing but ebullient Joe Tucci
- Night Writer – really the First Familiy of Minnesota blogging, with Mall Diva, Tiger Lilly, and their small crowd of devotees. The Writer had an account of the evening, by the way, including a photo of me, captioned: “The Reverend Mother spent part of the evening eavesdropping on Mitch Berg. “He’s really interesting,” she said. “Is there anything he doesn’t have an opinion on?” [Hm – come to think if it, probably not…] If so, we haven’t found it. I do know he likes Springsteen [ well, yeah] and, along with Strommie, the Mall Diva [Oh, Writer – I’m so not like Strom…].
- Anti-Strib Tracy and his vastly better half.
- Much less of Speed Gibson than I remember – congrats!
- My neighbor John, from Crazy But Able (whom I’d nearly run down on my bike on Friday while he was walking with his wife and baby around Como) who captured the event with a lot of photos – which are, amazingly, very good.
- My other neighbor, Flash, from Centrisity
- Dan, the Northern Alliance Wannabe
- King
- Michael
- Bob Davis and Sarah Janecek over at the radio table.
- AAA and…Carrie? Keri? Caray? Anyway, Andy bought me a drink, so there’ll be nothing but favorable reviews of his presence. Andy reviewed the event, throwing down on the mostly-absent Fraters…
- …who did, in fact, send Atomizer and the Atomizerette to represent.
- Eva Young, who does a lot less name-calling in person than on her blogs.
- Joel and Mrs.
RossennbeerrggRosenberg. - Doug was there, too…
I know I’m missing some. Cue me in!
And I can hardly wait for the next one!
UPDATE: Gotcha, Joel. Got Doug Bass, too.
Of course, I need to shout out to the ones everyone missed; Katie from Yucky Salad, Cathy from the Wright, Jordan and Mark, the Fraters, the Powerguys, Swiftee, Yossarian, Doug Williams, Steve Gigl, Jay Reding…
But it’s summer. We’re happy anyone at all takes such a gorgeous evening and comes out.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Ahem. And Mrs. Ahem.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:34 am
*cough* FreedomDogs *cough*
July 16th, 2007 at 7:35 am
*gets cup of coffee and reads Mitch’s post more clearly *cough*
July 16th, 2007 at 7:57 am
I wish I could have attended, but my lovely wife and I were flying back from Williamsberg, VA after spending a week celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. We got so much history even I was nearly satisfied. I have to show you the picture I got of the USS Cole from the harbor in Norfolk. Port side, good as new. I can’t think of a better FU to send the bad guys.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:20 am
*sigh*
Babysat Melissa’s niece all weekend. Oh for the days of Mel living in the Cities. Things were much more awesome then.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:41 am
I was very unfashionably late, but I met Mitch and some other nice folks and generally had a good time. 🙂
July 16th, 2007 at 9:35 am
One dog missed from Freedom Dogs.
Noodles.
July 16th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Damn it. I’m going to have to make it one of these times.
July 16th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
[…] Many have already posted their synopsis of the Saturday night blogging confab at Keegan’s. […]
July 16th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Kermit said: “I have to show you the picture I got of the USS Cole from the harbor in Norfolk. Port side, good as new. I can’t think of a better FU to send the bad guys.”
I can think of a couple: Killing bin Laden, stabilizing Iraq. Those would be pretty good FU’s. But I guess you Republicans take your wins where you can find ’em these days.
“The U.S. government can fix a boat. Woohoo!”
July 16th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Angryclown was at Keegan’s, but in disguise. Thanks for all the free drinks, guys. But I coulda done without Troy touching my ass and pretending it was a mistake. Five times.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
AC would prefer if the Cole was still in dry dock.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Killing bin Laden
Right. Because the war would end immediately if that happened.
stabilizing Iraq
That’d be the “surge” you might have been reading about lately.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
AC is right. A better FU would be Bush and Cheney hiding in a cave in Tora Bora.
He and Keith Ellison would hit it off famously.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I can think of a better one, Kermit — I liked that idea to rebuild the WTC with five towers, the outer four the same height, the middle one twice as tall.
But that’s just me.
I think I spotted ac there — there was the ill-smelling fellow who stumbled into the alley, drunk, from the street, apparently looking for a place to urinate, then thought better of it and left.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
That gives entirely new meaning to the phrase “A little song, a little dance, a little ‘seltzer’ down your pants”.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
*cough* *cough*
July 16th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Found out pretty late, but we were actually in town… hosting family for the boy’s 1st birthday party. In other words, my streak of outstanding timing continues!
July 16th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
I missed the party, but for a very good reason.
I’ve been hired to clean out a particularly fetid nest of barking moonbats in an undisclosed, out of state location. There is only so much swiftee to go around and as always, when it comes to strafing moonbats, duty comes before pleasure.
July 16th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
It is a pity though, not to have been able to have Eva autograph a couple of “Life in the Dumpster” cartoon panels.
July 16th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
You know I don’t swing that way, angryclown, but you keep on dreaming. 🙂
July 17th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Oh wingnuts, you’ll be glad to know they cleaned up the WTC site really nice too, though they still find bone fragments every now and then. Guess you’d count that a nice big FU to the bad guys. You know, considering your guy can’t kill the man responsible, hobble his organization or win in Iraq.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Angryclown suggested: “Killing bin Laden”
Mitch mewled: “Right. Because the war would end immediately if that happened.”
In late 2001 Angryclown figured the one upside of having a nasty right-wing administration is that they’d at least dispatch the kooks responsible for murdering 2000 American civilians to hell at the earliest opportunity. Who’da thunk bin Laden and Mullah Omar would survive the Bush residency? Good to hear it’s not something that particularly concerns you Bush dead-enders.
Hey look, the Cole’s patched up!
July 17th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Not just patched up. It and all Navy vessels at dock have a defense cordon now. Get within a hundred yards by boat and an automatic firing system will send a thousand rounds a minute into your explosive filled rubber raft.
July 17th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Notice, too, that AC’s number of dead American civilians is off by about 1000. But, why quibble?
July 17th, 2007 at 10:23 am
*Ben Stein voice*
Bin Laden? Bin Laden?
*/Stein*
Has anyone seen or heard anything from OSL since, what, 2004? Nothing from the hole in the ground he’s either hiding or mouldering in? I’m pretty sure I didn’t see him at the MOB party (now there’s a great subject for a comment thread), but I’ll review the photos again to see if he’s there in background somewhere.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:48 am
A typo by my girl, Yossarian. She’s been sacked.
Dunno, Night Wanker. Seems like bin Laden puts out more videos than Britney these days. Plus I don’t think Bush deserves a lot of credit if Osama dropped dead of old age waiting for the U.S. to do something.
July 17th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
angryclown said “I don’t think Bush deserves a lot of credit” and he could have stopped right there.
July 21st, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Doug was there, too…
Oh, you mean Doug from Bogus Gold. Initially I thought you were talking about frequent commenter VVA Doug.
November 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
[…] Karl Bremer’s “boss” at DumpBachmann, Eva Young, attended the last MOB Party. She seemed to have a great time! And – what’s this? Tracy and Kermit from Anti-Strib attended! Eva must hate Indians, too! Some “right-leaning” group, that MOB, huh, Karl? Eberly reportedly finished third in the runoff for their little club’s “mayor,” so he clearly has their respect. […]