New Bloggingheads

It's me versus McMegan in the latest episode of BloggingHeadsTV, recorded laboriously via Skype even though we were on the same floor of the same building.

Watch it because you know you want to hear more of my thoughts on Gossip Girl. Alternatively, because you want to watch ex-New Yorkers join hands across the aisle to note that Rudy Giuliani is a dangerous madman who can't be allowed anywhere near the White House.

Comments

You should show this screenshot to Tweety. You look very tough in this picture (alas, this is not the most flattering picture of McMegan).

It might cause Tweety to change his mind -- normally he only gets man-crushes on conservatives. Think of what could result from this -- maybe Tweety will push for an Yglesias presidency as soon as you're old enough to run?

Posted by DAS | October 17, 2007 12:13 PM

youre a fat hack. Cheerio!

Posted by pimp hand strikes! | October 17, 2007 12:20 PM

Giuliani is a dangerous madman? What, did he suggest beating peaceful antiwar protestors over the head with 2X4's, or something?

Posted by rea | October 17, 2007 12:33 PM

Get a room.

Posted by Bloix | October 17, 2007 2:43 PM

*insert risque comment here about the relative average height of a certain gender when in a reclining position*

Posted by jonathan | October 17, 2007 3:31 PM

You look like Darryl McDaniel from Run D.M.C..

Next Bloggingheads.tv you need a Kangol.

Posted by joejoejoe | October 17, 2007 3:35 PM

Congratulations, you've discovered TV versions of urban private school are as unrealistic as TV versions of everything else. I for one am furious that Hispanics were greatly under-represented at Bayside High.

Posted by mad6798j | October 17, 2007 3:48 PM

Maybe the reason that Giuliani is popular despite the personality flaws that you and Megan point out is that he looks like a normal New Yorker to us outsiders. There must be subtle behavioral cues that allow you natives to distinguish between a loud, cynical, obnoxious, self-seeking politician like Chuck Schumer and a truly dangerous lunatic, but from a couple of hundred miles away they look a lot alike to me.

Posted by Jim Barnett | October 17, 2007 3:54 PM

Is Chuck Schumer loud? He seems pretty soft spoken to me. Now Al D'Amato, he was loud.

Posted by mad6798j | October 17, 2007 7:50 PM

Actual members of the faith, should any read this blog, can feel free to correct me, but I think McArdle's description of the American Baptist faith is rather exaggerated. I think it's a typical mainline Protestant faith -liberal, but certainly to the right of the Unitarians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Baptist_Churches_USA

Posted by James Kabala | October 17, 2007 8:09 PM

A meta-question for you two: Since you both live in D.C. and work at the Atlantic, why not record this episode with a digital video camera and mic with you both in the same place -- a conference room at The Atlantic, for example.

Posted by Fred | October 17, 2007 8:34 PM

Your sense of humour comes across well in the bloggingheads format.

Posted by Dillon | October 18, 2007 12:04 AM

Now that I've seen Matt talking "normally" - if that's what that was - I can understand why he doesn't want to say anything about Iran...

Also, while I didn't see the whole thing (it got boring fast, plus their streaming video didn't like Firefox on Linux when I switched segments), it looked to me like Megan was irritated at being continually interrupted by the babbling Matt within the first five minutes...

Matt, you'll never get laid if you don't realize that you're supposed to LISTEN to women - no matter what nonsense they're actually saying...

That said, can I cut you, Matt, out of the video and just watch Megan? She's not Andrea Corr, but I'm as desperate as you are...

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | October 18, 2007 2:33 AM