An Outing That Might Out Our Bloggers

No, this isn't Botello.
Ever since some web-savvy writer came up with the idea of putting diaries online to be read by everyone from the West Side to West Timor, the tradition has been that bloggers are a faceless group. Even Tony Botello, who has received some accolades for the anti-gay jokes he writes in his mom’s basement, has never offered up a photo of himself. The closest Botello came was a cartoon drawing of Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc.

Well, bloggers, now’s the time to get outed.

Local blogger Well Hell Michelle has put out the call for a meetup for all you pajama-wearing keyboard addicts on Tuesday at Harry’s Country Club. (By the way, WHM is a fairly new blogger who chronicles the days she spent working in a porn store.)

Local bloggers used to meet up fairly regularly but stopped a couple of years back. Since then, the field of bloggers has expanded — and added some writers with more to lose if they reveal themselves. At least two anonymous bloggers are lawyers at big law firms, which might not be happy if they knew their barristers were the authors of the often critical and expletive-laden entries.

Here’s hoping they show up anyway. And that Tony finally leaves his mom’s basement. -- Eric Barton

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