My Colleagues Went on a Junket and All I Got Was This Stupid Working Vacation

Atlantic bloggers Ross Douthat and James Fallows, along with James Bennet, Clive Crook, Corby Kummer, Carl Cannon are going to blogging the Aspen Ideas Festival, which should be excited, though I'm not entirely sure what the Aspen Ideas Festival is. I wasn't invited, so I'm still in Maine, but I'll be hard at work with full-tilt blogging action.

UPDATE: NPR says the Bush-Putin lobster dinner in Kennebunkport was "highly luxurious." Sara and I are going to cook some lobster tonight, but I think the luxury level will be only middling.

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Lobster is luxurious even when it's cheap. That's why they call it lobster.

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And why does The Atlantic hate you?

I understand that Ambinder wouldn't get invited because he's new and that Sullivan wouldn't get invited because he's an idiot, but what's your excuse?

Posted by Petey | July 2, 2007 9:00 AM

To be clear, I think NPR said the Russians said the lobster was luxurious. NPR was as usual just a dictaphone to power.

Posted by Joe Strummer | July 2, 2007 9:10 AM

"I understand that Ambinder wouldn't get invited because he's new and that Sullivan wouldn't get invited because he's an idiot, but what's your excuse?"

The Aspen people must have figured out that Matt is implacably opposed to deep thinking -- as he wrote, "I'll have to plead guilty to resolutely avoiding any systematic examination of my moral premises. I spent some time doing this in college and it genuinely didn't seem to lead anywhere productive."

Posted by peep | July 2, 2007 9:11 AM

Let's see, you've named six male media personalities going to Aspen together to discuss ideas. Whereas you appear to have taken your girlfriend on vacation to Maine and left all your co-workers behind.

Advantage Yglesias.

Posted by LaFollette Progressive | July 2, 2007 9:12 AM

Remember, Matthew: the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.

Which I think means: all of your fellow bloggers are going to jail.

Posted by Count Cant | July 2, 2007 9:21 AM

Hunh.

That's right next door to the Aspen Physics Institute. I wonder if I can sneak in and crash the events.

Posted by Aaron Bergman | July 2, 2007 10:31 AM