To Fathom Hell

Via Pandagon:

The most shameful thing I have ever heard of. 

Las Vegas, NV -- If the world's largest blogging conference and trade show wasn't already enough, the producers of the first annual BlogWorld & New Media Expo are throwing the "World's Largest Pajama Party" - a fitting theme for the inaugural event.

The humor won't be lost on those recalling the numerous snarky comments by mainstream journalists including a prominent former CBS executive who said back in 2004 during an interview on a rival network "…You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances (at 60 Minutes) and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing."

That journalistic clash led Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon to form Pajamas Media, a sponsor of BlogWorld & New Media Expo who suggested the pajama party theme. Attendees who register for the Executive & Entrepreneur conference or Full Access pass and registered press will be joining the fun at this exclusive event held at "The Joint" inside the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov. 8, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Roger Simon + Charles Johnson + "Pajama Party" = Just. Fucking. Kill. Me.

It's Vegas. Couldn't they do something more tasteful, like go to a leather n' livestock sex show or something? Hugh Hewitt in footie jammies... Pray for death.

Sometimes I really, really hate blogs. 

Comments

[emma]

I once passed by Hugh Hewitt's table in a local restaurant. I still regret that I did not think to "accidentally" smack him upside the head with my handbag. Hard.

[DrDick]

Seems like a totally appropriate venue for thee guys, though I would have expected them to hold it at one of the seedier strip joints in town and to have a courtesy bus leaving hourly for the nearest legal brothel. Nothing says taste and refinement like a Pajamas Media Party complete with hookers (who might be jealous of the blog whores in attendance).

[Phila]

Kudos to them for showing fags, wetbacks, and bitches how to respond to oppression with good humor.

[¡El Gato Negro!]

¿Can we start calling ourselves something else now?

This term, "blogger", she seems...defiled, somehow.

Pfui.

[GWPDA]

None of these clowns even have a clue that InterOp used to be held in the same places. At least then you could go and sneer at the Micro$oft dorks.

[electrolite]

I wonder which one of them is gonna take this all the way and bring a couple boxes of Huggies?

[KC45s]

I wouldn't get into THAT spin the bottle game for a million bucks.

[Jim W]

Jealousy does not become you, Pandagon.

[Ripley]

The humor won't be lost...

But I'll bet it finds a really, really good hiding place and sobs quietly over a bottle of cheap bourbon.

[Tom Hilton]

Couldn't they do something more tasteful, like go to a leather n' livestock sex show or something?

Mickey Kaus will be blowing goats for their entertainment, but I think that's in a back room somewhere.

[CybScryb]

Geez...I live in Vegas and work in the IT Dept. for UNLV and we've never heard of this morass. Ah well...it is Vegas. All smoke and mirrors and booze.

[actor212]

Oh. My. God.

What's worse, they won't even bother to change out of their normal daily pajamas, with the Cheetos dust and the Jolt! stains and...well, this is a family blog, right?

[actor212]

Oh.

And Thers, voting just ended. Even tho you weren't interested in the race, I just wanted to thank you for your graciousness and ethical behavior.

It's an odd way to meet, but I'm better for having met you.

[Chris Tucker]

"Seems like a totally appropriate venue for thee guys, though I would have expected them to hold it at one of the seedier strip joints in town and to have a courtesy bus leaving hourly for the nearest legal brothel."

The Hard Rock is on Paradise BLVD.

MAJOR hooker/streetwalker action right across the street. Go up Paradise a block or so, and there are lots of hotbed motels.

The boys from Pajamas Media will not lack for inexpensive blowjobs.

[numbertwopencil]

Wow, ad revenue must really be pouring into Pajamas Media. Amazing. I haven't noticed too many ads on their sites. They must have just the right demo to charge what they have to be charging. That Johnson fellow and that Simon fellow must be pretty sharp businessmen.

[sightunseen]

I'm glad you are getting links from Atrios. You are one fine writer and you've worked hard to merit this attention. Kudos

[DrDick]

"The boys from Pajamas Media will not lack for inexpensive blowjobs."

Well, I'm glad to hear that. After all, this is likely to be the only sex they ever get in their lives.

[Mr.Murder]

The World's Lamest Pajama Party!

Freuded Your Typo...

[ice weasel]

You know, the problem is, in a very obvious and kitsch way, it could be a cute affair. That is, if it wasn't attended by chickenhawks who think that they're "fighting" a war with their PJs on. If simon and company had not used that name for their shameless flavor of wingnut welfare, it had the potential to be a nice "fuck you" to the MSM. But it will certainly be potential unrealized when it's the usual bunch of whackos and losers who, not content to merely state their case, entertain a bit and possibly do something to make the world better, instead want to pretend to be knights in footie pajamas and holy warriors with sloshing through another bucket of bad pinot grigio.

Sigh...

[spocko]

What I find very annoying is that this has the smell of corporate approved. If they knew just how scary radical the people they were associating with they would walk away. On other hand maybe they see them as useful idiots on the side of corporate masters who want war as long as it doesn't kill to many consumers.

[MasonMcD]

Conference logo:

http://homepage.mac.com/masonmcd/PJM.png

[Kevin Hayden]

Fortunately, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Especially if we pay off the Mob to make it so.

On Sunday, they'll all wake up with My Little Pony™ heads in their bunkbeds.

[lux]

I was actually at said party and I can tell you, it was really boring. Plus very few people actually showed up in pajamas.