I stumbled upon news of a blogging Expo in the USA.
http://www.blogworldexpo.com/2012-nyc/
What intrigues me are how many of the guest speakers are evangelists? Is this Expo a thinly veiled disguise for the worlds geekiest sermon?
How is this expo going to work?
Is there going to be an entire seminar dedicated to rice crispie cake recipes?
Will there be a collective “awwweee” at the photos in the cute animal blog exhibition?
The day’s largest security presence will be felt at the “My favourite Top 10 TV Comedies” seminar judging by previous years when Two and a Half Men was scandalously omitted from the guest bloggers list which resulted in a mass brawl and three stabbings.
They are having to bring forward the Photoblogs of My Travels in China to avoid a nasty clash with the ‘How to make a picture frame from lollipop sticks’ workshop.
It’s great the American bloggers have such an event to discourse on blogging with each other. But what of us in the UK? With this in mind I have begun preparations for our own Expo, details below:
Venue: Luton Working Mens club
Guest Speakers:
Harold Worthington: Head of Waste Management for Exmouth County Council and author of the popular blog, Sewage and Sewage Drainage Systems.
Carole Singleton: Author of the craft inspired blog Crochet Festishnista
Bernard Coombs: Author of gentleman’s style guide, One Man and his Pipe
Margaret Swallows: Author of cookery blog “The filling in your sandwich”"
Eric Forsythe: Author of the nocturnal animal blog ‘Badgers’
Bring along the voucher below to claim your free gift on arrival.
I look forward to meeting you all there.
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The Hobbler
/ April 16, 2012Are you going to be a speaker?
joehoover
/ April 16, 2012I shall, do you want to do one by video link?
Can you imagine, a blogging convention?!
The Hobbler
/ April 16, 2012Yeah, it’s a little crazy.
joehoover
/ April 16, 2012i’ll go to a tattoo one in September but it involves booze
The Hobbler
/ April 16, 2012Lol, that is so funny. Maybe the blog one will too.
joehoover
/ April 16, 2012With all those preachers there?
I’m getting deja vu, Homeland is on TV whilst I am on here and the very same episode was on last night as I was on here. I hope I don’t have to relive another Monday at work now,
The Hobbler
/ April 16, 2012Was it a pretty bad Monday? Or just a normal Monday…they are usually not too great.
joehoover
/ April 16, 2012Same as ever, just looking forward to 2 days mire work before my long weekend break, another day would be bad. I one dreamt a whole day at work, to the finest detail, so waking up to have to go to work sucked, I felt like I already had!
The Hobbler
/ April 16, 2012That would really suck. I’ve had dreams kind of like that. They are almost worse than nightmares.
joehoover
/ April 16, 2012One day I hope we will be able to record our dreams and play them back through our pc or tv. I’d fast forward through that one
The Hobbler
/ April 16, 2012What a great idea! I guess the bad ones wouldn’t be fun though. I can think of a few I think I’d watch over and over.
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012Scary ones? We like a scary story, there are limits though, as long as its fantasy nightmares and nothing real life nasty
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012I completely agree. I unfortunately don’t have many non-devastating scary stories. When I have a bad dream, it is usually something very real…something that could happen, like I dreamed a tree branch broke with some of mine, and some neighborhood kids trapped under.
When I was a kid I had nightmares of killer alligators, and sharks, and of being poisoned. Maybe we shouldn’t be talking about all this right before you go to bed.
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012I had already passed into a slumber and woke with my phone next to me. Your head is a fascinating place
My favourites always flying dreams, and then some I could barely take off, I was always escaping form something though, not exploring
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012Thanks Joe, yours is too. I don’t fly in many dreams. I can’t remember any actually. Do you believe that dreams can be interpreted and that they tell you something about your life, etc.?
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012Yes I do, nothing too deep, I think they reflect anxieties more than anything.
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012Yeah, I think that too. What are you flying away from in your dreams?
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012Who knows!
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012What is the best and worst dream you ever had? Actually, it’s after midnight there right? You can tell me another day if you want.
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012This is my problem, I don’t remember them in enough detail, so I can’t answer thart, so am desperate for them to be recorded. Do you have a best dream?
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012I don’t remember most of my dreams either, but the other night I dreamed about you and some other favorite bloggers. My husband was there…nothing too crazy, but it was good.
The worst recent dream was the one with mine and some other kids being trapped under that branch. I woke up and put it in a blog post. I think I called it “sometimes it’s better not to sleep”. If I find the link I’ll send it to you.
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012Cool, will love to read it.
Hope the dream with us bloggers was cool! I’ll never get to America so only time you’ll meet me
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012It actually was cool, car chase, seedy motel, there was some other stuff…nothing graphic, but I can’t remember it all. It was kind of like an old movie script.
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012See how great that would be to watch back.
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012Yeah, it would be fun. There is another dream I had a while back that would be fun to watch, but that was a little more graphic…my husband was there, but the dream was not really about him. Bad, I know, but I couldn’t help it. It was just a dream…
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012What’s with all the current posts I see on Taxes Hobbles? Is every American self-employed?!
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012We are, but I think most people are just procrastinators, so they’re all flipping out.
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012I see, it’s easy here, we do nothing
The Hobbler
/ April 17, 2012We need to move there.
Ape No. 1
/ April 17, 2012What type of pickled egg exactly?
joehoover
/ April 17, 2012Standard class 3 egg. It’s not organic, you can be rest assured the hens suffered in cramped conditions to lay these. Then they are dumped in with low grade vinegar and left to pickle.
I don’t have a large budget for catering.
The Hobbler
/ April 22, 2012You are almost back right? I’m so excited! See you soon SU.
joehoover
/ April 23, 2012I’m back!
The Hobbler
/ April 23, 2012I am so glad. You have to tell all about your adventures now. You should write a post about it. So, no kidnapping, torture or anything else right? What was your favorite part? Were you ready to come back, or do you wish you were still there. Did you miss me Joe…
joehoover
/ April 23, 2012I do miss being connected to the virual world, I have my phone but charges abroad are really high. I miss current affairs and football and WordPress of course. I will take my laptop on a longer holiday but not worth it for a weekend when I need to travel light.
Will spend next two nights catching up on posts I missed so won’t post anything new apart from a weekend review, have a few photos.
I woudl have stayed in our first apartment but I moved to a second one as first was fully booked, but the second one was horrible! Still, Valencia is beautiful, I’ll be going back in the future.
The Hobbler
/ April 23, 2012It sounds wonderful. I am glad that you took some pics too. Alright, I guess I’ll let you just catch up on reading some posts, but I look forward to you posting again soon. So what was the matter with the second apartment?
joehoover
/ April 23, 2012Manky! I have higher standards
The Hobbler
/ April 23, 2012What does Manky mean? Just run down and stuff? It is good that you have high standards Joe. We will need them for starting our religion.
joehoover
/ April 23, 2012That’s right. It was a dive.
The Hobbler
/ April 23, 2012Hey Joe, you know that all my stalking and stuff is just for fun right? Ive just been a little paranoid lately that people are getting annoyed with me.
joehoover
/ April 23, 2012of course, you are always paranoid aren’t you?
The Hobbler
/ April 23, 2012Does it show? I really did miss you. In a non-creepy way. Also, come by my blog today and tell me what l lied about okay?
joehoover
/ April 23, 2012Will do, will be leaving work soon so will catch up tonight
The Hobbler
/ April 23, 2012Thanks. You’re so sweet Joe.
El Guapo
/ April 24, 2012I’m only going to go if one of the seminars is “Umlauts: Clever Notation , or the Devils Punctuation?”
joehoover
/ April 24, 2012If the Germans use them then the devils invented them