the flatmistress.

Sometimes the intersection of Internet and Real Life can be a bit jarring, kinda like that Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VI where Homer falls into the 3D world.  Entities that you've only known from behind a flat screen suddenly take on shapes and voices and fully-fledged personalities and moods and while occasionally the expectation can fall short, in my experience it's the virtual feather in the blogging cap when you finally get to meet the author behind the words.

Sizzle and Nanette have both done one of these, so if you're going to BlogHer, I encourage you to check them out.

How to Recognize me at BlogHer:

1. I am not going.  Therefore, all of those places where you don't see me?  That's where I am.

Okay, so that list was predictably short. 

While I tease about the BlogHer, there are a ton of poeple going who I'd love to meet, chat, and consume copious amounts of our favorite alcoholic libations with (I rewrote that sentence three times, we're going to have to live with the preposition.  Mea culpa.)   I can't be there...or can I?

And so I came up with the flatmistress:
 
Clicking on the above picture should take you to the full-size one, which you can then print.  Bring me to parties, to panels, tuck me under your pillow at night.  You can burn me in effigy or display me proudly on your laptop.  Best of all, I fit into carry-on luggage and I come with my own booze.  You can whisper sweet nothings to me, you can confess your true feelings about other bloggers, you can drop the "L" from "flatmistress" and burn me in effigy. 

So bring me to BlogHer, take a photo with the flatmistress, and post 'em on Flickr tagged "flatmistress." The best photos might just win some cool swag.

Even if you're not going to BlogHer, you're still eligible to play along. 

Pass it along and have fun!