Out Among the Brooklyn Bloggers: "But Can It Core A Apple ?"

Usually, I am at work, or spending time with my Better Half and kids, or otherwise taking Care of the Business of Life. Somehow, around the edges for the past year or so, I have found time , or actually made time, to get into my blog. I suppose different people get different things out of their blog. Although all bloggers are writers, I think all bloggers view their project with a different sense of purpose and as presenting a different persona. Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn has a always reflected my writerly interests-- literary, with Brooklyn as its overarching theme, but with the process of blogging itself always as its pole pointing true north. Blogging to me means sitting down, or actually, as I am now, kneeling on the floor, with the laptop on a table, in order to express something that's caught my attention whether internally or out there in the world..

So it was really interesting to have the opportunity to get out among the Bloggers this week. I had attended a great blogade before, hosted by Rob of Luna Park Gazette and met many bloggers. But his week I had the chance to meet at the Sidecar on 5th avenue for the first time Louise Crawford, of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, which, as I have said on other occasions, seems to me is the "Bloggo di Tutti Bloggi" of Brownstone Brooklyn Blogs. LC's was the first blog to use my stuff and we have exchanged emails and it so it was so interesting to finally meet Louise and Hugh Crawford in person, say hello, and exchange notes, finally realizing that each of us had a kid who knew the other from middle school. The event was co-hosted by Brooklyn Based, and was a great chance to get out from behind the computer and meet the folks behind the blogs..

Then, the Blue Barn Video shoot for the upcoming blogfest was another opportunity to meet other bloggers whose sites I enjoy-- Found in Brooklyn, Pardon Me for Asking, Brooklynometry. David Castillo and the crew at Blue Barn were very cordial and extremely pro. I only pray that I did not bite off more than I could chew by agreeing to appear since I fear that I came off, as we say in the Italian American parlance, as a complete "jooch". The questions were posed fast and furious. I groped for words. Anything I thought of in advance that I might say about Blogging and Place flew out of my head to the four winds. I was only glad I hadn't been asked what sounded like to me the question of the day: "What Do You Wear When You are Blogging". I like to think I would have answered "Software" but more likely I would have answered "Hamanah-hamanah-hamanah" like Ralph Kramden on the Honeymooners: "I'm the Chef o' Da Future"...I'm the Chef o'Da Future!" On HD, everyone can see you cringe. It was a lot of fun just as it was a relief to get back to real life and the safety of Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn. See you at Blogfest.