Meet The Queen
July 17, 2006
Erin of the Queen of Spain is one of my personal favorite blogs. She’s been on my blogroll as long as I’ve been blogalive, and I think she is hilarious, insightful and intelligent. Let’s find out a little more about her, shall we?
1. When did you start blogging and why? Or Talk about your blog. What can I learn about you in under 5 minutes?
I started blogging in September of last year. I know, not even a full year of blogging, and here I am ass deep in the blogosphere. Sadly, I started blogging with a bit of a chip on my shoulder. I was right at the height of my post partum depression and anxiety and mad as hell my very good friend Sarah had started a blog before me. My very first few posts reflect my insanity. I thought blogging was ONLY about writing and politics and news. That s what a newbie I was. So when I finally got my head out of my ass and figured out it was really about community, well, that s when my real blogging began. Once I got into my blog-grove, I immediately figured out who the big Mommyblog-dogs were, and tried to whore myself out to get their attention. I used my professional name as much as possible to try and get myself somewhere. Sure, a lot of people did it for fun, and while I was having a blast, I still wanted more. So eventually I got the gig at DotMoms. Then I contacted Lisa at Blogher-Because heaven forbid I leave the news world alone for too long. The rest, as they say, is history. Now I get to do news, like always, and I get to talk about my sex life and kids. What more could I want? And people actually want to read this crap?
2. Who do you read every day, rain or shine? Or Have you found a treasure on the internet? (or something like that)
I have found a treasure. A HUGE FREAKING Pirate s-booty-buried-under-the-X kind of treasure. There is young gal (I can say that, I m over 30) up in Toronto. Jay at Kill the Goat blows me away with her writing. She s going to go places, I m telling you. And we can all talk about when we used to read her blog. She can write about baking a cake, and the next thing I know, I m crying. Or laughing. Or amazed at how poetic her cake baking skills are- it s art. And she can discuss the construction of a bookshelf and make me hot. I m not kidding. Seriously though, the girl has skills. And if I have any ounce of influence in this world, I will try my hardest to make sure everyone reads her. Or she gets published. Or something. I don t know, because I don t have much influence. But she s young and passionate and talented. And that s all you need to know. Now go read her, dammit.
3. Why did you choose to share that piece of yourself in a photograph?
It is no secret that I have a large chest. These gals are not small. They aren t hurt-my-back big, but they can hold their own. So they have always been a very large part of my identity. But now that I m a mother, they are much less a sexual part of my identity. That cutie patootie cuddling up to them nursed until he was nearly 2-years old. His sister is 15-months old and still nursing. They both love my boobs more than any man ever could. But that whole idea, that my breasts were no longer sexual, but FUNCTIONAL, changed my entire outlook on life. Being a very sexual female, my chest was an, um& attraction getter. Now, much like my life, it s ALL about being a mom. So it seems only right one (or two) of my biggest assets are now totally occupied and wrapped up in motherhood.
4. How would you describe your writing style?
Despite years of training otherwise, I write like I talk. This drives the grammar nazi s crazy and the punctuation freaks insane. Sure, I can play it straight (feel free to see my Blogher News roundups if you don t believe me) & but that wouldn t be how I talk. In real life I have horrible grammar, I love words like ain t and I swear like a sailor. I could blow you away with my mad essay skills& but where is the fun in that??? I can also bang out a post in about 3 minutes. I talk fast. I write fast. I type fast. I am the blog version of the Gilmore Girls.
5. So soon we re going to meet each other at BlogHer. Important question. How do you party?
I party like its 1999. No, seriously. I m a nursing mother of two with no babysitter. If I get a chance to party, I party like there is no tomorrow. At Blogher, I will have TWO babysitters. So I expect to trash a hotel room, get a tattoo, get arrested, and maybe, just maybe, start a fire. I think I m a fun drunk. My husband thinks I m a talky drunk. So if you see me with a drink at blogher, RUN or I may trap you in some inane conversation about world peace and breast pads for hours. I m also (and consider this YOUR warning) usually the person at the party trying to DARE everyone else to do something super stupid. So let s just say you are Dooce or Arianna Huffington& if someone, perhaps wearing a napkin on their head, or perhaps with no shirt on, comes up to you and asks what color panties you are wearing or if you spit or swallow& chances are it was I, Queen of Spain, that put them up to it.
There you have it, blog-world. The ladies of BlogHer Conference ‘06 are all giving away pieces of themselves. You can read more interviews by following the trail here: http://blogher.org/node/7555
Forgive me if the formatting on this post is off. I’m still at the farm and this computer is actually something resembling the Speak and Spell E.T. configured to get home. The only difference is the fact that I’m having so much damn fun, I don’t wanna come home tomorrow!
July 17th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Kill the Goat added to my RSS stream.
Impressive editing job on a SpeakNSpell.
July 17th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Hurry up and get back, Karen. I need to see the Queen’s huge boobs.
Like I won’t see them ALL. THE TIME. at BlogHer.
And where has Kill the Goat been all my life? Why hadn’t she told us about this find? I think I will hold this against her.
But still, you wrote a great post about her! Editing notwithstanding.
Hurry back. Seriously.
But have fun, too.
July 17th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
So NOT flashing Mocha now.
July 17th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Damn, now I wish I’d used a photo of my boobs in my interview. Because NO ONE’s can possibly be bigger than mine. (Oh, yeah? You want me to prove it?)
I’m so glad we did this, and I am really looking forward to meeting you at BlogHer. I’m so not worthy, but I’ll try to be funny.
July 17th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Kill the Goat = damn funny. Thanks! Great interview, too. I wish I was going to BlogHer.
July 17th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Am gutted that I CANNOT SEE THE TITS.
I’ll be looking for them at BlogHer.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
wow, this blogher thing is big! wish it was closer….
July 19th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
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