[posted by Dan Drezner]
Hello, my name is... well, it's in bold above this line, so you can figure it out. I normally blog at the wittily-named Daniel Drezner.
I'm honored to be one of Megan's guest-bloggers during her retreat from the internets. I'll try to fill her shoes as best as possible -- a daunting task, given that Megan's a foot taller than me and I'm at least fifty pounds heavier than her.
Real posting will commence tomorrow, as I'm still decompressing from attending the International Studies Association annual meeting. For me, the highlight of the meeting came in a cab. After the cab driver found out my lunch companion and I were international relations professors, he strongly encouraged us to fight government censorship and "lead the revolution." At this point I turned to my colleague and said,"could you imagine a country governed by the International Studies Association?" We laughed for the rest of the car ride.
Maybe you had to be there.
"try to fill her shoes"
Does that mean you have smaller feet?
Or do you need a shoe horn and lots of elbow grease?
Geeze, picture she comes back to see her shoes spilt.
At least, we can be assured that while you are doing that, you will have to keep your feet out of your mouth.
Megan's a foot taller than me and I'm at least fifty pounds heavier than her.
Well, blogging aside, the two of you could go to a costume party as the 1939 N.Y. World's Fair. She can be the Trylon and you can be the Perisphere.
Hi Dan and thank you very much for filling in while Megan is off tanning and otherwise recharging.
Welcome and thanks again~!
If she is off tanning what if she doesn't return with her hide intact?
Well, we at least know that you're a man of wealth and taste and have been around for a long, long year...
About that cabbie: it's hard to believe that someone can live in the United States (is San Francisco still in the States?) and utter drivel urging us to “fight government censorship” and, in this man’s inimitable words, "lead the revolution."
The very fact that one so unhinged from reality is free to make such statements gives the lie to any need for them.
Considering that yours and Ms. McArdle's blogs are two of those which I read most, this certainly will be convenient. Welcome!
Hey Dan, let me welcome you as the token socialist America-hater around here. Glad to have you aboard.
Aggh, bad taxi stories. When does Meegan come back from suspension?
Maybe when PR becomes a state?
Needs more Salma.