The Midwest Mafia
It’s semi-officially official. My dear friend, and alter-ego, Bob Mooney is organizing the blog meet-up that may end all blog meet-ups.
The Event will be known as the “Midwest Mafia Milwaukee Meetup”. You can just call it M4 if you want. I do.
I don’t recall who came up with the term “Midwest Mafia” to describe the MOST AWESOME BLOGGERS ON EARTH, but that’s not important. Unless it was me, then its super important. But I don’t think it was me.
Anyway, the Midwest Mafia was a group of bloggers from the Midwest, obviously. It consisted of Nobody, Fantastagirl, Girl Scout Dropout and her husband, and Charm School Reject and her husband.
Somehow, we all ended up on Mr Fabulous’ deck during the ConFab, Baby event. We had people from Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois in this super cooler than you group, and being that Bob loves Milwaukee, and it was more or less equidistant for everyone, I said, “Hey, we should all get together in Milwaukee sometime”. Nobody likes going to Milwaukee.
And so it shall be. The Midwest Mafia is Meeting-up in Milwaukee.
There are no definite plans yet, except that Milwaukee is Beer City, so I’m thinking some beer will be drank. Some people may become drunk. Food will be consumed. Boobs may be flashed (fingers are crossed!)
I stole borrowed a dart from my kids and threw it at a calendar of next year. It landed on June 12th, 2010, which just so happens to be a fairly convenient date for me. Funny how that worked out in my favor like that. I plan to arrive there as early as possible on Friday to start enjoying all the joys of the city that is Cooler By The Lake.
With a little help from a Milwaukee local, a hotel with a restaurant, bar, and pool has been located. It even has some poolside rooms. And it’s inexpensive.
So far that’s all I know. If you’re a blogger, and you’re from the Midwest, or are bored enough to travel to the Midwest, you too could attend M4. There’s an M4 event page on Facebook. You can also email me. Or send me a tweet on twitter, my username there is n0body (the first o is the number zero).
The latest info will also be posted at: http://bobs-backyard.com/m4/
Evils of Censorship
Having recently had a post over at another site deleted by the admins who apparently didn’t agree with my point of view, I realized once again how much I hate censorship.
As an example of why it’s bad, I bring you this Jimmy Kimmel clip, which clearly demonstrates that censorship can make things appear to be what they aren’t.
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