I’m a rockstar… in Erie

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So I’m cleaning the kitchen and the phone rings. Not entirely unexpected, I find Kara Rhodes of the ETN on the othe end of the line. I have laryngitis but we manage to conduct an interview for the upcoming article on the Erie Bloggers (whoo!). My voice steadily deteriorates over the course of the phone call.

On top of that, Holden is playing quietly in the kitchen but gets out a noisy toy. Zoe hears the toy, comes in an decides to play “mine” with him. So I’m trying to conduct myself like a somewhat coherant human being while silently negotiating rights to said toy. Then Zoe starts talking to me. Then she goes out into the front hall (we have permanent gates up) and proceeds to unpack the Target bags from yesterday (we went to State College for a change). She finds the new Captain Jack Sparrow beach towel (mine! mine! I want to wrap myself in Johnny Depp), her Captain Jack Sparrow notebook (I heart See Spot Save — they also have skull & crossbones headbands), more kid clothes, toiletries, etc. She tells me what every item is. She’s looking for Play-Doh eggs. I had already sorted those items out for the Easter baskets but she remembered them. So for two hours she’s played with the Play Doh eggs. And before that, she’d played since 10:30 w/ her new Play Doh hair spouter thingy.

So anyway…

I think I was fairly coherant. Her questions were impressive; she’s done her research. Had I been of better voice, I’m sure I would have snapped into reporter mode, as I often do (How long have you worked at the ETN? Where did you get the idea for the article? I do that shit all the time). I’m eager to read the article on Monday. She seemed surprised when I said that I began blogging in November 2001. Yap, I’m an old timer.

The first time I heard of Erie Bloggers was probably in 2002, maybe early 2003. I was checking my stats and found I was getting hits from a page at Arsenic.net. Mike had assembled a list of blogs written by people in and around Erie. There were maybe a dozen of us. I added the provided button to my site (eventually I made some Erie Bloggers buttons of my own as well) and even during our year in Colorado, I kept that link up. I still have a permalink to what is now Erie Blogs (see the right-hand column) with a button I made — nautical flags spelling “Erie” for my design.

As I’ve said before, being an Erie Blogger isn’t about geography. It’s about community. You’ll be able to read all about it on Monday.

I planned to write more about what I was doing during the interview but as I’ve typed, H woke up from his nap and I’ve gotta dash.

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