Deadbeats and JunkThieves Collide!

You can say you saw it first here, Eva Deadbeat and Gregg JunkThief met for a great gab fest and lunch today at the Samovar Tea Lounge in the Castro. After six months or so of blog commenting, we met live and had great conversation. What did we discuss? Oh, some things are private and not to be spread all over the blogasphere! I think we both were pleased to find out that we are both the good kind of crazy not restraining order kind of crazy.

Eva's just as peppy, bright and adorable as she is on her blog and vlogs, and I hope it's not the last time we converge. I'm sure we'll continue our cross-country banter in the days ahead. I hope to meet other visiting bloggers coming through SF or when I'm in your town. Drop me a line, and we'll take time to shut off the modem and monitor for real conversation.

As Eva can confirm, do be warned that I can be a real JunkThief. I unwittingly nabbed her tasty English tea, but she seemed to have no problem with the bottomless cup of Russian tea intended for my lunch. Sometimes the serendipity gods manage to smile down to make all things work out. As you can see, I'm not even scowling in our photo!

Shameless Cross Promotion (And It's Not Even Blogger Sweeps Week)

Ich weiß nicht warum, aber es scheint geben etwas sehr Weimar in der Luft diese Woche.

First there was Kusala’s mention of the book Weimar on the Pacific about the German exiles of Hollywood, and now it seems Eva Deadbeat – that brainiac siren of Vermont – is channeling the spirit of Sally Bowles and, more appropriately exotic, Anita Berber. Don’t know who Anita is? Shame on you! She was sort of the Weimar Courtney Love, that is if Courtney had been a bit wilder and much more uninhibited.

Sometimes I think Eva and I are the Oprah and Dr. Phil of the blog world. (I say stuff like “What is wrong with you people?” and “I want you to get excited about your life” all the time.) We seem to have this real lovefest/cross promotion thing going on. Maybe we should start a JunkThief/Deabeat Book Club and endorse emerging outre writers together. We could establish a school in Bosnia for young junk thieves and deadbeats...

Eva posted a nifty piece about Anita Berber and Kiki that is worth visiting. I think she’ll soon be much more of an authority than I, but I’m glad to have introduced her to a couple of wacky characters that were gone before even before our mothers were in middle school. Just save that last tango for me, Eva!