February 23rd, 2008

Posted on February 23, 2008

Over the years, I’ve heard lots of stories about couples meeting online. And I know that an online industry has grown up around helping people connect with others who are of the same mind — or heart — or both.

Yet when I started blogging, the last thing (but definitely the best thing) I ever expected to post one day was a photo of a happy couple who are getting married this weekend who first met because of this blog. I feel like Michael from The Office when I interject myself into this couple’s “how we met” story, but they’ve told me they first became aware of one-another through comments on this blog and the first time they actually met was at a blogger event I co-hosted with the guy on the left, a Nashville lawyer who was a legendary early “persona” blogger who went my the name Mr. Roboto. Yes, that’s Mr. Roboto.

Anyway, I’ll skip the rest of the story and merely say congratulations and best wishes and I hope the weather is swell in Hawaii where you are arriving and preparing for your wedding — however, I know that first, Mr. Roboto will be watching a little basketball game.

Congratulations, David and Lena.





Recently, I wrote about the lost art of campaign jingles. (Actually, the “jingle” is a lost art.) On this morning’s Weekend Edition, Scott Simon interviewed Jim Nayder of “The Annoying Music Show” about some really, really bad presidential campaign songs. Very funny stuff. The audio will be available at approximately 12 noon ET.

(Sidenote: Dear NPR & Chicago Public Radio powers-that-be, It sure would be great if The Annoying Music Show were available via podcast.)