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Hi, I'm Don Shelby. Max Sparber cannot come to the phone right now because he is asleep in the circle bed...right next to me. If you leave your name, number and a short message, I'll make sure he calls you back when he wakes up. Thank you. I'm Don Shelby.

"Max can't come to the phone right now because we're hanging out wit da ho's."

He's totally wasted, ha ha. His shades are all crooked!

I still think that derusha rigged it for max.

@derusha

Coco would like to know if you might be able to arrange for Lara Logan to be in the next Blogginar. Could you?

Shelby's looking a bit like Bernie in that DVD cover (or is it VHS?). Either way, that's a compliment coming from me.

"I'm Don Shelby. Max can't take your call right now. I'm trapped in this phone and can't get out. THERE REALLY IS A MATRIX!!!!!"

This is Don Shelby. I'm sorry, but Max is unable to come to the phone right now. You see there is this gopher that lives in my pants -- his name is Carlos -- and Max is currently chasing him. He'll get back to you as soon as possible. Have great day and thanks for calling. I'm Don Shelby.

Shelby = Don Shelby

Did you notice tons of Mnspeakers won prizes and NONE of the Metrobloggers won anything? I smell a bacon-flavored rat, DeRusha!

Eric Black writes about the Bloginar:

DeRusha did most of the talking and was very funny. I tried to shock the audience by ranting against the so-called objectivity paradigm that I believe is a "spent force." (I stole that phrase from a Canadian journalism professor I heard talk last year.) But, perhaps because they were a bunch of bloggers, the audience wasn't too shocked.

MN Blue weighs in. My favorite part: The technology makes it possible for me to make my own newspaper out of feeds from Reuters and the AP and local Minnesota online news sourceswhich means that thanks to the Internet, intermediaries like Mr. DeRusha are somewhat superfluous.

But seriously folks, my actual favorite part was this:
When I was in Minneapolis during the bloginar, I was reminded whythe front page of the Star Tribune featured a color picture of Batman, from the new Batman movie. The front page of the opposition paper, the Pioneer Press, had a completely different takethey featured a color picture of the Joker. I dont need this; I dont need to devote time to reading people who think that kind of stuff is important enough to put on the front page. Were fighting a rotten, deeply unstable economy, and were fighting two wars in the Middle Eastwhy would a thinking person take you seriously, if thats what you think demands public attention.

Someone buy Brandi a "I'm not Erica." t-shirt. Vice versa for Erica.

Get both one that says "Better not get my name wrong" when the girls are together.

Sandburg had never met me and knew that I was not Erica.

Sorry for talking so much everyone. I wish someone would have told me to shutup. I wouldn't have been offended! I tried to toss some of the questions in the end part to Eric and he deferred. We're different kinds of online beasts. He's essentially doing the same thing he did at the paper, except putting it online, with more of a point-of-view. I'm trying to do something a little different.

I'm on TV. I can't help myself. In fact, let me tell you a story.......

Jason...shut up.

My bad, Bix. Sorry, sandburg.

My brain reals with all these gender-neutral Internet names! Head explodes!

;-)

@ the next Bloginar, if a day hanging out Lara Logan is unavailable, I would like an afternoon with Don Shelby on a bicycle built for two.

@Erica No problem!

I had seen a picture of them before, so that's my secret.

Why couldn't Don Shelby be there at the next one? MinnPost could send over Al Sicherman. Jason could show them how to use Twitter in front of a live audience.

To one-up mb21 and Bixby, I'll suggest a PedalPub ride with Don Shelby.

I'm not opposed to the Don, but I'll just ask if having the Don is on topic? Because if this thing just turns into a periodic chance to rub elbows with our local MSM celebrities... meh.

Our idea was to have some of the WCCO'ers who blog take part if they're interested-- but the plan was never to make this an event to meet with TV "stars."

I was under the impression that Don Shelby requests were not for the actual bloginars but just prizes given away *at* the bloginar. That said, I'd just like to remind the powers that be at WCCO that Lara Logan is a part of the CBS family.