Becky and I met up with Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds (a.k.a. InstaPundit, a.k.a. The Professor, a.k.a. The Blogfather — like Gandalf, he goes by many names!) and one of his former students, now a prof at Samford University’s Cumberland Law School, Brannon Denning (who is visiting UT for the summer session, and guestblogging at Concurring Opinions), for drinks at La Costa this afternoon. (How’s that for a run-on sentence?) Here’s a photo of me with the Blogfather himself:
Hey, that’s actually kind of artistic — I like the reflections in the window behind us. Nice going, Professor/Photographer Denning!
First impressions? Glenn in person is exactly what you’d expect: supremely personable, affable, intelligent, well-spoken, and just a wee bit geeky. :) Brannon seemed like a great guy, too, and both are very easy to talk to, about whatever subject you can think of — the range of topics covered during our chat ranged from the niceties of First Amendment Law to our respective memories of middle school.
Anyway, I feel at last that I’ve officially arrived in Knoxville, now that I’ve finally met the InstaPundit.
June 12th, 2007 at 10:53:43 pm
Heh. Indeed.
June 13th, 2007 at 8:32:51 am
“(How’s that for a run-on sentence?)”
Acceptable. B. / Work on balancing the Parentheticals with a tangential clause set off by dashes ~ preferably little Squiggly ones ~ and you’ll be up in the A range.
:}
Congrats on meeting The Professor IRL.
Love,
~ Paddy da Bogfather ;>
June 13th, 2007 at 9:50:15 am
That is extremely cool.
June 14th, 2007 at 12:13:49 am
That’s cool and all, but next time you talk to your buddy Glenn, could you ask him if he thinks things through on their logical conclusions before posting? Specifically in RE: http://instapundit.com/archives2/006246.php I should think that no one would find it objectionable if the children of the President (any) flew with the President on Air Force One (Marine One, Navy One, Civilian One, Cost-guard one, or Army One for that matter) Assuming that they were going the same place, and instead demanded that they fly commercial. I think this would generally be deemed silly–so I’m having trouble on the if there is space on the Jet, it is going there anyway why is it a problem if the kid comes along? And if we are going to say that it is silly to give the Speaker of the House a Jet (or minority leader, or various other leadership posts in the House or Senate) a jet, I should think the same should then be asked of the President. So why can’t Bush just fly commercial? Or are we good with all the pomp and circumstance stuff with the President, but not so much with anyone else? Recalling that around 100 years ago, the Executive branch was considered the weakest and least important of the three.
Sorry, Glenn doesn’t have comments, so I’m babbling here.