02Apr / 2002

I send you sunshine

It wasn’t all untrue. It didn’t begin as a lie. The visit by Pat and Spacecheese was… was an amalgamation of real road trips in the past that were just too enriching and positive not to share. Facets of past visits gone wrong (or right)…

To all of those whose trust I have violated, to all of those disillusioned and hurt by the BlogCon Austria hoax: I promise to let you in on the joke next time.

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13 responses to “I send you sunshine”

  1. kd

    and the homeless wino blog fan was an amalgamation of bums, and etc etc and so forth. yeah. i really should have picked up on it, but, i didn’t, so i’m madder at me than you guys.

    no wait. i’m still mad at you guys. naah, i’m over it. or, i’ll get there. i was just… happy for you all.

    rats.

  2. Miguel

    Alpha’s big fear now, of course, is that someone will actually visit us as a result of this. I mean, we made it sound so fun, didn’t we?

  3. kd

    yes, it’s called karma. you’ll get yours. hahaha.

  4. chris

    Okay. I’m laughing now- announcing a Barbie comb up the butt at the lunch table is pretty damn funny…

    There were clues all over the place- damn I’m fucking dense.

  5. Miguel

    Eh, actually, most of the details were true…

  6. michele

    I feel….foolish.

  7. michele

    But I should add that I think it was both genius and funny. Well done.

  8. Emily

    Beautiful, dudes. You had me hanging on your every word.

  9. mg

    If anyone is actually upset over this, they should learn to calm the frig down. It was a wonderfully conceived and executed joke. The reason we all bought it so hard is because you are all such excellent writers, so be happy. I’m not mad at you at all. But, shoosh, don’t tell Space that, because I want to keep giving him hell for a couple more days.

  10. Miguel

    Yes, Joeri, we will. I informed Alpha and she rescheduled the pig liver transplant for July.

  11. jadedju

    I couldn’t stop checking your blog for more updates on these visitors, that seemed, well, somewhat, I hate to say it–obnoxious? You seemed quite patient, just the way you’d want a host to be. I hate having been tricked, but I’m still laughing at the brilliance of it all.

  12. Xkot

    I guess I’m the only one who could tell it was BS from the start? I never bought the idea of people picking up and flying to Austria to meet someone they met through weblogs. I’m sure it happens, but I’d bet that usually sex is involved which clearly wasn’t the case here.

  13. Xkot

    Though now that I think about it, that would have been a funny twist on the prank :)