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At the first-ever WCCO bloginar tonight, in addition to handing out some nifty towels, Jason's Station (as it's apparently called) awarded the prize of Don Shelby recording a personalized outgoing voice message to MNSpeak's own Bunny Sparber. There was no word on whether Sailor Martin would be recording Don Shelby's outgoing message. The winning raffle number was 503. (I had ticket 502. Damn you, Sparber!) What should Max request Shelby say?
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"Max, I had the contest fixed because I'm deeply in love with you. Please, join me on my sailboat and we shall make beautiful news."
P.S. You're friend the sailor can watch, but he has to pay 400 bucks.
Hi, I'm Don Shelby. Max Sparber cannot come to the phone right now because he is asleep in the circle bed...right next to me. If you leave your name, number and a short message, I'll make sure he calls you back when he wakes up. Thank you. I'm Don Shelby.
I think Carl Castle (sp) did this on NPR.
"Max can't come to the phone right now because we're hanging out wit da ho's."
Hence the title of the post ;-)
Thank you, Max. Literally LOLed when I saw that.
He's totally wasted, ha ha. His shades are all crooked!
I won 4 tix to Valleyfair at the Bloginar. I'm trying to think of a fun way to give them away. Ideas?
(And no need to comment about the recent attack at the park - I already did...and I feel bad about it)
I still think that derusha rigged it for max.
I wanted max to win the free lawn mowing by me. Another apt/condo dweller won. Ha ha ha. I'm an evil genius.
@derusha
Coco would like to know if you might be able to arrange for Lara Logan to be in the next Blogginar. Could you?
@derusha @bixby I second that emotion. Although she's preggers now, so... meh.
Shelby's looking a bit like Bernie in that DVD cover (or is it VHS?). Either way, that's a compliment coming from me.
Because I'm a married man, I'm sure Lara would find me extremely attractive, and thus I have a good chance of getting her at the bloginar. I'll get to work on that.
"I'm Don Shelby. Max can't take your call right now. I'm trapped in this phone and can't get out. THERE REALLY IS A MATRIX!!!!!"
Hi there. This is Don Shelby. Max Sparber is busy enjoying a McQueen with the beautiful Coco. Please leave a message and I'll have him get back to you. Again, this is Don Shelby... have great day and thanks for calling.
This is Don Shelby. I'm sorry, but Max is unable to come to the phone right now. You see there is this gopher that lives in my pants -- his name is Carlos -- and Max is currently chasing him. He'll get back to you as soon as possible. Have great day and thanks for calling. I'm Don Shelby.
Hello? Is this on? Oh! (Ahem.) You have reached the voice mail of Max Sparber. Please leave a message after the tone. This is Shelby, reporting from Max Sparber's phone.
Shelby = Don Shelby
I want my outgoing message to be the voice of Leah Hammond.
Did you notice tons of Mnspeakers won prizes and NONE of the Metrobloggers won anything? I smell a bacon-flavored rat, DeRusha!
Man alive, Jason is chatty. On the flip, he very eloquently articulates his experience with and opinion on these matters.
Eric Black writes about the Bloginar:
DeRusha did most of the talking and was very funny. I tried to shock the audience by ranting against the so-called objectivity paradigm that I believe is a "spent force." (I stole that phrase from a Canadian journalism professor I heard talk last year.) But, perhaps because they were a bunch of bloggers, the audience wasn't too shocked.
Since I've now had to say this at three in-person events...
I'm not Erica.
MN Blue weighs in. My favorite part: The technology makes it possible for me to make my own newspaper out of feeds from Reuters and the AP and local Minnesota online news sourceswhich means that thanks to the Internet, intermediaries like Mr. DeRusha are somewhat superfluous.
But seriously folks, my actual favorite part was this:
When I was in Minneapolis during the bloginar, I was reminded whythe front page of the Star Tribune featured a color picture of Batman, from the new Batman movie. The front page of the opposition paper, the Pioneer Press, had a completely different takethey featured a color picture of the Joker. I dont need this; I dont need to devote time to reading people who think that kind of stuff is important enough to put on the front page. Were fighting a rotten, deeply unstable economy, and were fighting two wars in the Middle Eastwhy would a thinking person take you seriously, if thats what you think demands public attention.
DeRusha did most of the talking...
Whew, I came late and had thought I missed the part where Eric Black was talking.
Someone buy Brandi a "I'm not Erica." t-shirt. Vice versa for Erica.
Get both one that says "Better not get my name wrong" when the girls are together.
@sandburg, sorry I didn't get a chance to say hi. Seemed like everyone vacated pretty quickly at the end.
Sandburg had never met me and knew that I was not Erica.
Sandburg had never met me and knew that I was not Erica.
You hit on him, didn't you?
Sorry for talking so much everyone. I wish someone would have told me to shutup. I wouldn't have been offended! I tried to toss some of the questions in the end part to Eric and he deferred. We're different kinds of online beasts. He's essentially doing the same thing he did at the paper, except putting it online, with more of a point-of-view. I'm trying to do something a little different.
We're just teasing you about the talking, Jason. Although you are a chatty mofo.
I'm on TV. I can't help myself. In fact, let me tell you a story.......
You hit on him, didn't you?
A. No
B. Sandburg is a chick, man.
Jason...shut up.
I think you ought to get Shelby to do the message as Mark Twain, since he now appears to be a thespian.
My bad, Bix. Sorry, sandburg.
My brain reals with all these gender-neutral Internet names! Head explodes!
;-)
@ the next Bloginar, if a day hanging out Lara Logan is unavailable, I would like an afternoon with Don Shelby on a bicycle built for two.
and I would like to be in a rickshaw pulled by said bicycle built for two.
@Erica No problem!
I had seen a picture of them before, so that's my secret.
Why couldn't Don Shelby be there at the next one? MinnPost could send over Al Sicherman. Jason could show them how to use Twitter in front of a live audience.
To one-up mb21 and Bixby, I'll suggest a PedalPub ride with Don Shelby.
If people are interested in hearing from Don, there's no doubt we could have Don at one of these things. He's on the radio until 6 -- but if people want the Don, I imagine we could provide the Don.
I'm not opposed to the Don, but I'll just ask if having the Don is on topic? Because if this thing just turns into a periodic chance to rub elbows with our local MSM celebrities... meh.
I agree, Erica. I think we should meet Robyn Robinson and Amelia Santaniello, but after than, no more.
Maybe Jeanette Trompeter. But hen I'm putting my foot down.
Our idea was to have some of the WCCO'ers who blog take part if they're interested-- but the plan was never to make this an event to meet with TV "stars."
Why doesn't Shelby blog? (Even if he's too busy or only types with two fingers or whatever, that's what interns are for!) Everyone would read it.
I was under the impression that Don Shelby requests were not for the actual bloginars but just prizes given away *at* the bloginar. That said, I'd just like to remind the powers that be at WCCO that Lara Logan is a part of the CBS family.
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