Look who I ran into!

That's the blogosphere-famous Sean Hackbarth standing next to me (he's the short one). Sean, a member emeritus here at BBA and proprietor of The American Mind, whom I've known for four years but, until today, had never actually met in person.

Funny how often that happens.

He was at this morning's blogger brunch with Fred Thompson, too. Dude talks like he just chugged a thermos of coffee.

That's one down, at least two to go. Brendan Henak and Christian Schneider are around here someplace. Owen Robinson will be, too, although I've met him before, so that doesn't count.