I first met Grau (virtually speaking), shortly after he joined the Alliance of Free Blogs. His Filthy Lies were some of the downright funniest, coffee-out-the-nose shit I've ever read in my life. I knew I'd have to keep an eye on him.

Soon enough I was impressed with his talent to the point where I just HAD to blogroll him, and he's been there ever since.

And I'm proud to say that I knew him (again, virtually speaking) before his now-famous Retrosexual Code became a million-times-forwarded piece of spam. If I can duplicate that feat before I die, I'll be a happy man.

What you DON'T know about him from reading his blog is that he looks EXACTLY like little line-drawing on his sidebar. As soon as he walked into the bar, I recognized him from it.

The other thing you don't know from reading his blog is that he's quite cordial, polite, and civilized in public. Not that he didn't cut loose with his fair share of expletive-laden stories when appropriate, but he's a lot milder than I expected. Could've just been the setting. I'm hoping to get together with him soon under even more informal circumstances & find out.

He also doesn't carry weaponry with him as a matter of course, which was a little disappointing, since I was hoping he'd give a hippy-stabbing demonstration.

Maybe next time.

He also has good taste in cigars. Can't wait to explore that aspect further.

In short, he's as pleasurable to meet in person as he is in pixels, and - at least so far - not an embarrassment to be seen with in public, so you can feel safe inviting him to your next blogmeet.

Posted by: Harvey at 06:19 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 Harvey... you didn't throw him any bacon!!! *grin* And yes he is great. I'm hoping to have more time to talk with him next time we meet up.

Posted by: Teresa at April 12, 2005 10:24 PM (nAfYo)

2 Ah crap, you're going to make his head swell and he's about impossible to deal with as it is. Polite, cordial, civilized????? He must have taken a sedative. This can not be the same guy swinging a long gun around my living room lastnight. He doesn't really stab hippies. He's more of a blow off their knee-caps kind of guy. He does have a good taste in Cigars.

Posted by: Contagion at April 13, 2005 07:12 AM (Q5WxB)

3 Keep further review for when I'm someplace that has alcohol and I don't have to drive home

Posted by: Graumagus at April 13, 2005 03:06 PM (ogL0J)

4 Actually, I *was* going to say "hippie-shooting", but I couldn't find any gun pics on G's site :-)

Posted by: Harvey at April 13, 2005 04:02 PM (tJfh1)

5 I'm so jealous! I hope I'll get to see you all the 1st week of June when I'm in Chicago. Tammi has already threatened my life if I don't!

Posted by: Sissy at April 13, 2005 05:39 PM (PjqiK)

6 Oh, flintlock pics will be coming shortly. I'm in the process of refinishing the barrels on my pistols, when I'm done I'll post pics.

Posted by: Graumagus at April 13, 2005 09:00 PM (e6kXU)

7 Oh yeah, and as for weapons I did have two tomahawks in the van....

Posted by: Graumagus at April 13, 2005 09:01 PM (e6kXU)

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