I'm not an official pajamadeen, but I did manage to crash their party last night. Wish I could give more details, but I got home at 1am, chatted till 2, woke up at 5am to take my daughter to Penn Station and had a very busy day today. Yes, bad planning, as usual. Judith captured the mood, Pamela took some great photos, and Pajamas Media (or Open Source Media, right now) has the details.
I got there late, and regret missing the platters of wee appetizers. Other regrets - missing a chance to meet Fausta, Ace and Richard from the Belmont Club. I did get a chance to see Steve, Bruce, Susan, Karol and Young Curmudgeon Eric Deamer. Didn't get a chance to talk to Neo-neocon, but we'd enjoyed a Liberal Hawks dinner-out on Monday, at a yummy Arabic restaurant. I bumped into Zelda, and together we introduced ourselves to Glenn Reynolds; Got a chance to meet Kevin of Wizbang, Tim Blair, Cathy Seipp, Austin Bay, filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney and Lisa Ramaci, Steven Vincent's wife.
I met previously unmet notables like Pieter Dorsman of Peaktalk, Richard Landes and Pedro Zúquete of Second Draft. We talked about the European situation and the pro-Israeli, pro-American communists in the German Antifa (among other things) with Judith and Glenn Reynolds. Reynolds, like his blog, has lots of unexpected and interesting information at hand.
Charles Johnson of LGF remembered a post I did about him more than a year ago (and he remembered Oliver Willis' comically unintentional goof). He's got a mind like a steel trap.
We all missed the PJ Media bloggers who couldn't make it to New York, like Michael Totten and Dean Esmay.
Jeff Goldstein liveblogged the whole thing, using his psychic/Karmic thing of being in two places at the same time. He fills in the details of James "I root for Hurricanes" Wolcott's invasion. OMG, that furry thing was Wolcott? I thought the W had rats.
During the taxi ride out, Judith mentioned that I just had to read this by Vanderleun, and she was right. It's one of the best examples of post-post modern humor I've read in a while.
If I've forgotten anything, many apologies. It was an open bar..
UPDATE: The Young Curmudgeon is back!
Wish I was there!
In person, they're both open minded, opposed to extremism. This really comes through in their work.
Was Vanderleun there? He and I had a good time chatting in Pasadena this summer at Bear Flag League event. Great guy.
I think he was, but if he was, that's another blogger I missed. Since most of the PJ media people are in LA - hopefully they'll have more events in CA?
oops, I called them PJ media again. I like that name better anyway. I'm still not sure why they changed it.
Yay!
What next... Allah???