Since nobody wants to interview me, i've decided to institute a new blog feature, where i conduct fascinating interviews over Yahoo! Instant Messenger with some of my favorite bloggers. This new feature will be filed under the rubric "annieconversations." Get it? annie - conversations. annika - nversations? Cute huh?

First up is my recent interview with Munuvian iconoclast Publicola, which i'll try to have up later today. Stay tuned.

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1 Well, this will be fun. In addition to my own interview, I think your interview with the late Angry Clam will be superb.

Posted by: Hugo at October 28, 2004 12:28 PM (VYMbn)

2 I'd love to see an interview with the Angry Clam. I miss him. Whenever I needed a healthy dose of visceral fury, I could always count on the Clam! But he's clerking for the Fourth Circuit now (apparently), so he might be hard to track down.

Posted by: Matt at October 28, 2004 01:16 PM (SIlfx)

3 "Since nobody wants to interview me" I think people got the impression that you didn't want interviewing from your "IM Dialogue" entry on August 15. I don't think anybody else wants to be punk'd like "expletivedeleted" was.

Posted by: reagan80 at October 28, 2004 01:51 PM (hlMFQ)

4 Haha, that was beautiful, wasn't it.

Posted by: annika at October 28, 2004 02:02 PM (zAOEU)

5 Indeed it was....

Posted by: reagan80 at October 28, 2004 02:29 PM (hlMFQ)

6 so many IM convos, so little time

Posted by: Scof at October 28, 2004 07:43 PM (9lWXc)

7 Ooooh, pick me, pick me! But not for the next 14 days. After the husband leaves

Posted by: Sarah at October 28, 2004 08:03 PM (/KC96)

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Sarah Bernhardt: actress, poet, playwright
Brian Boitano: athlete
Catherine Deneuve: beauty
Joan Fontaine: "Rebecca"
Annette Funicello: Mouseketeer
Jeff Goldblum: fly
Curly Howard: Comedian with a capital C
Alan Ladd, Jr.: mogul
Timothy Leary: shaman
Franz Liszt, virtuoso: maestro
Christopher Lloyd: time traveller, cab driver, klingon
Tony Pierce: celebrity blogger, and deservedly so
Tony Roberts: Woody Allen foil
Shaggy: Jamaican, reggae singer, USMC, Desert Storm veteran
N.C. Wyeth: artist, illustrator

All were born on this date.

Just my way of saying Happy Birthday, Tony!

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Things i've learned after not blogging for over a week:

• The electromagnetic pulse weapon is real.


• The EMP weapon is dangerous.


• It must not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.

After not blogging for over a week, i was also surprised to find that:

• My head did not explode.


• The sun still came up in the morning.


• The Red Sox still found a way to blow it in the post-season.

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1 Very glad to see you are back!

Posted by: Daniel at October 19, 2004 09:32 PM (8U+JH)

2 Whaddya mean, blow it? They're tied 3-3 with the Yanks now. After that, I can almost forgive them for beating out my Angels in the first round. Almost.

Posted by: Xrlq at October 19, 2004 10:11 PM (6DLYC)

3 "The Red Sox still found a way to blow it in the post-season." Uh, not. Go Sox!!! :-)

Posted by: Dave J at October 19, 2004 10:14 PM (GEMsk)

4 ah yes, but i have a feeling the sun will come up a little brighter tomorrow because you're back. we missed you so much! i started to check a little too often. i didn't realize lack of annika would send me so quickly into withdrawal.

Posted by: candace at October 19, 2004 10:31 PM (1Fs2q)

5 ditto, ditto, ditto - Go Sox!!!

Posted by: d-rod at October 19, 2004 11:06 PM (2ky5M)

6 Yes, it's good to be back. i need to re-calibrate my subtlety meter though. Xrlq and Dave J: sorry, i was trying to be subtle, perhaps too subtle. You see, they didn't blow it, so the space-time continuum is, well, oh, never mind.

Posted by: annika at October 19, 2004 11:07 PM (CN0in)

7 It's nice to be missed...but nicer to come back. Hope you got some studying done in the blackout. We are looking for you to edit the Law Review.

Posted by: shelly s. at October 20, 2004 01:54 AM (s6c4t)

8 Hey, I would like to see the underdog win over the Yanks myself, but at least I have one consolation if the Sox lose.........Steinbrenner is pro-Bush.

Posted by: reagan80 at October 20, 2004 04:21 AM (hlMFQ)

9 Yay!

Posted by: ginger at October 20, 2004 04:37 AM (Otp/6)

10 Miss Annika, I'm very glad your back, as no one on the web gives me what you do: Gratuitous Sox talk

Posted by: Publicoa at October 20, 2004 05:40 AM (dZUTp)

11 I was starting to get worried - good to see you back!

Posted by: Lorie at October 20, 2004 06:32 AM (PPPwU)

12 I had to see what candy was ravin bout.

Posted by: Lisa at October 20, 2004 08:33 AM (6VDyk)

13 Oh, heavens to murgatroid, I missed ya.

Posted by: Hugo at October 20, 2004 09:52 AM (6T6+1)

14 SHEWWWWWWWW! We wuz worried about choo, Miz Annika! (I was beginning to think it was something I said/didn't say. Then I slapped myself because you know, even *I know I ain't THAT important. Anyway, where was I? Oh. DOLLY DON'T EVER GO AWAY AGAAAAAINNNN...

Posted by: Margi at October 20, 2004 10:16 AM (MAdsZ)

15 ahhhhhhhhhhhhnnika!

Posted by: gcotharn at October 20, 2004 12:04 PM (D2Obq)

16 Ah. Did you mean to insinuate that the Red Sox are so inept that failed even to fail?

Posted by: Xrlq at October 20, 2004 01:21 PM (3AgfD)

17 Don't jump to any conclusions... http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~valeri/EMP.html

Posted by: CW at October 20, 2004 08:49 PM (LbgIn)

18 Nice to see you back, Annie! Old Skool and I were exchanging e-mails just today, speculating about what was going on. The leading theory was that after your "butt cleavage" post your super double-secret blogger identity had somehow been compromised at the law school, and you'd decided to pull the plug. Glad we were wrong.

Posted by: Matt at October 20, 2004 09:10 PM (eWM9Y)

19 Ha! my law school is so full of leftwingnuts, i would be very surprised if anyone would read my rightwingnut blog anyways.

Posted by: annika! at October 20, 2004 09:29 PM (FR+UV)

20 Annika! I missed you! I looked mornfully as often as I could. Now life is good again.

Posted by: Chuck at October 21, 2004 06:58 PM (qYJRO)

21 Believe it or not, one tires of looking at porn 24/7.

Posted by: Casca at October 21, 2004 07:46 PM (Y671w)

22 You're alive! You're alive! I sent out emails, Ted asked at Munuvia, and the two of use were about to send out search rats and rocket drones! In the event The Worst had happened, I would've kept Poetry Day alive, but I don't think you would've like it. Don't ever leave again.

Posted by: Victor at October 22, 2004 07:57 AM (L3qPK)

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RightViews.com is only a week old, and it looks like it may be a pretty good group blog. Here's an excerpt from OJ's first post, which echoes my own thoughts (while watching that a-hole Keith Olberman the other night).

Why no one in the media is holding these politicians accountable for inconsistencies and in some cases absolute contradictions is beyond me. Clearly the media is traditionally liberal but these extremes are bordering on misrepresentation. Turning a blind eye, the Media is misleading the public by not reporting the whole story and as a result, is knowingly censuring the truth as it relates to the forum. Someone needs to hold the Left responsible for what they are saying.

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Bill Whittle posted yet another gem.

Teaser:

[W]eÂ’ll look at what both men said, and through a very specific filter: not their Aggregate Presidentiality, or their respective Molar Charm Ratio. WeÂ’re going to look at what both men believe in respect to deterrence: whether their positions increase or decrease the likelihood of further attacks on the US.

. . .

And all of this rage and fury and spitting and tearing up of signs, all of these insults and spinmeisters and forgeries and all the rest, seem to come down to the fact that about half the country thinks you deter this sort of thing by being nice, while the other half thinks you deter this by being mean.

ItÂ’s really just that simple.

. . .

And although we can not run an experiment to look into the alternate futures to glean the best result, to determine the relative benefits of being nice or being mean – for those, ultimately, are the choices, believe it or not – we can at least look back to see which seems to have produced the best results in the laboratory of history.

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