Possumblog

Prepare to be jealous.

I just talked to Miss Janis! On the TELEPHONE!

She's been sorely neglected by Lyman, who has been burning up the phone lines talking to little old ladies enthralled with his rich Southern accent, and in order to receive some justice (however misplaced her notion of it might be) she accessed the super secret hotline to Possum Central and we had a wonderful conversation.

As always, talking to a fellow blogger for the first time is always a keenly interesting experience--you get an idea about people from the way they write in public and in their e-mails, and then when you hear them it's always at first odd, then not so much so, and then it just gets all odd again.

Anyway, for those who want to know, Miss Janis sounded almost as I expected, although a bit throatier--she seemed to be battling a cough and losing--but it was something along the lines of Suzanne Pleshette with a touch of Dixie Carter. And, of course, Mamzelle Hepzibah.

Topics included blogging, which has gone to pot the last year or so as all the trolls and flamers have migrated from the message boards; flamers; trolls; peregrine falcons; politicians; Hillary '08; soft hands; air freshener; Lucy the Parrot, who is now learning to say Possumdaddy; lawyers; journalists; condos; Southern Women--in particular Miss Reba, who has been known to talk a bit; Fritz Schranck, who is a nice man; and planning for the day when Lyman and Janis show up at my house and I have to explain to Reba my secret blogging life.

All in all, one of those good conversations.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at April 22, 2005 10:12 AM