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Sunday, January 29, 2006

My friends in the Times and bloggers travel free to Amsterdam

Congratulations to Will Leitch (who looks way younger than 30 in the accompanying photo), editor of Deadspin, for being profiled in today's New York Times. Warren St. John also has a great article on the local comedy scene, namechecking everything from Chicks and Giggles to The Apiary and quoting some fabulous local comedians including Aziz Ansari, Andres du Bouchet, Erin Foley, Josh Comers and Liam McEneaney. I'm not sure individual jokes can really translate that well onto the page without the charm of their delivery, as I've learned in my feeble attempts to write about comedians, but he picked some good ones to highlight nonetheless.

Will was also 1/4th of The Black Table, which had a very crowded, fun, media-filled goodbye party on Friday night, that was also later invaded by some 80's prom queens who glittered up the bar. It was like one-stop shopping to see people since I am becoming quite the homebody. Thankfully, I left before midnight and ran into Brian otherwise it would have been a very loooong, circuitous ride home.

And someone I don't know - The Seahawks' Shaun Alexander, who is apparently also an avid chess player.

Also, a whole bunch of bloggers are going to Amsterdamn for free (!!), including Dooce, Cityrag, Coolfer, Culture Kitchen, Jossip, Pandagon (interesting post on sex post-baby), Perez Hilton, Pink Is The New BlogSlice NY, The Food Section, and others.

Yes, I'm jealous, but very happy for them. The only free trip I've ever gotten was going to LA to shoot The Berman and Berman show back in 2003. But the most fascinating thing is that they get the free trip, free hotel stay, free transportation while they're there, with nary a thing to do in return except be interviewed and give Holland.com ad space on their sites for a month and keeping the link to the Bloggers in Amsterdam on their nav bar for a year. Pretty sweet deal but also a big expenditure on the part of the Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions, which is sponsoring the trip.

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