Bad@$$

After a long night of drinking Brawndo and rocking out the ROFLTeam, with awesome help from the ROFLutionaries volunteer corps and a special guest appearance by the Mozilla Firefox himself (I’m not even kidding, I love my life right now,) have things almost wrapped up for the conference. We completed packing 70 guest boxes, 700 attendee boxes and the printing of 800 super sweet official registration badges (heck, we even sorted them into categories.) Minor issues like needing 10 extra large boxes, copy machine jams, or issues with crappy web services couldn’t stop our march to victory, and at this point everyone is ready to rest up in the calm before the storm. We can’t wait to see everyone stopping by early at the Asgard tomorrow night, and of course at the conference on Friday. Have a safe trip everyone!

…Oh, and the best part? We should have enough Brawndo on hand for everyone attending.

Where Rubber Chickens Roam Free: The Rockstars of Wexley

This is the view from the Wexley School for Girls. As previously noted, the Wexley School for Girls is not, in fact, a school for girls. It’s an outrageous new-media marketing firm in Seattle. Weird, right?

Not only is Wexley a magical place where rubber chickens roam free, it’s also home to a couple of total rockstars who have been helping us left and right. They’ll be showing up on the Kid, We’re Gonna Make You a Star panel, so get ready to be blinded by excellence.

Anyway, we’ve known for a while that the entire ROFLTeam has a huge crush on Wexley, and no one’s got it worse than me. So imagine how I felt, two weeks ago, when Katie and Kristen gave me and Rachel the grand tour!

Cliffhanger (how did I feel?!?) resolved after the jump, but in the meantime, I have one very important thing to say. Wexley’s hinted that they’re interested in organizing a meetup (drinkup, perhaps?) during ROFLCon for all you marketing types. Details forthcoming, but, you know: forewarned is forearmed, and also, how exciting is this?

It is very exciting. Stay tuned.

After the jump: another picture, and a few more words…

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Naked People (That You Have Seen Online) At ROFLCon

Some of you may be familiar with “Seymour,” leading lady of the xkcd-spawned project WetRiffs.com from a month or so ago (inspired by the strip here). Winner of the “rockingist” photo, she e-mailed me a few days ago to give the ROFLCon team the heads up that she’ll be coming to ROFLCon and will be lurking around the audience.

Just figured it’d be good of us to give the heads up. As Berkman Fellow David Weinberger notes, “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people.” And some, evidentially, for rocking out in the shower while totally naked.

Brolsma & Me

So, a while back, I observed that the interesting thing about internet celebs is that they’re wildly famous without being able to leverage their fame into mass wealth and influence. They have their time in the sun, and then go back to work as normal well-adjusted folks. As a result, they’re pretty affable people to get in touch with and talk about stuff.

I stand corrected.

If e-mails are any indication, Gary “Numa Numa” Brolsma, now presides over a vast internet franchise empire headquarterd at the lavishly designed NewNuma domain. Yeah, that’s right, let’s see it in all italics, Gary Brolsma works full time on extending the “Numa Numa” franchise.

Safely ensconced in his fortress of notoriety, he’s surrounded himself with a Maginot Line of advisors, designers, thinkers, and publicists insulating him from the outside world.

This is either awesome, or terrifying, or sad, or all three, depending on your sense of humor.

To that end, I present to you an amusing e-mail from James Egge, Brolsma’s personal publicist and spokesperson for the glory of the Numa Empire, after the jump.

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