Catching up. Many of you know I was fortunate enough to attend the first annual Blogs with Balls conference in NYC last weekend. This was the first of its kind gathering of some of the biggest most influential bloggers on the net and I got to meet many cool people. A couple of my favorites were Adam Best of ArrowheadAddict and owner of the fansided network. I have talked with Adam and his brother Zack several times over the years and it was nice to put a face to the name. I also really enjoyed meeting Matt ufford of WithLeather. I have been a big fan of his writing for some time and thought (correctly) that he would be cool to hang out with in a bar. My favorite was the closing chat had with Gary Vaynerchuk. If you don't know this guy, check him out on YouTube, the guy just knows what to say. If he doesn't motivate you then you may be unmotivatable (a word?). I also really enjoyed meeting the writers behind TheBigLead, DeadSpin, JoeSportsFan and KissingSuzyKolber.

I also got to meet Todd Lipincott one of the writers for WhoDeyRevolution. Todd is a cool guy and actually got a lot of people interested in the WhoDeyRevolution cause when he spoke. More people than I expected were sympathetic to his message and got a kick out of the "Project Mayhem" tasks that he talked about.

Lastly and probably most importantly. For whatever reason Darren Hollywood (a writer here) decided at 3:00am Sunday morning to get a tattoo of a rooster on his arm in the West Village in Manhattan. Pictures will come soon.