Swell, I have a “great personality”

30Nov/06

Swell, I have a “great personality”

So I got this email from The Blogging Time’s Beth Gottfried a couple of nights ago:

I plan on posting about you vs. MySpace's Tom on The Blogging Times site tomorrow. You will come out on top.

Best. Email. Evar. Beth is super cute and she’s a pop culture goddess. Sure, it doesn’t really matter given that I’m a) happily married and 2) not Jewish, but still, when a cute chick who writes about Franz Ferdinand says she’s going to publicly say I’m cooler than MySpace’s Tom… oh happy day!

So yeah, I started obsessively checking The Blogging Times the following day. I can admit that. Minic -- that spike in page views? Sadly, it was just me hitting reload. Don't raise the CPMs just yet.

I should have realized that things were amiss when I read one of Beth's recent posts, I Like Em Fugly Hot. But no, I was still riding my wave of "cute chick thinks I'm cooler than Tom" euphoria and it didn't register. That she digs guys who aren't, shall we say, classically attractive. Attractive in the conventional sense. Well, attractive. A more astute man might have said "Waiiiiit..." Instead, I said "she thinks I'm cooler than Tom!"

And then the post hit. Lead with a classic glamour shot of Tom with his sassy bed head versus a gawdawful picture of me at a Web2 meetup earlier in the year. After a two hour drive. In the middle of growing out my bangs. Seriously, there are better pictures of me out there if you look hard enough. Or you ask me. And let me pull from my college days. And give me photoshop for a while. But nope -- it's just straight up Smokin' Hot Tom and Fugly Hot Eric.

But that's okay, because this isn't just a beauty competition. Nope, this is like Miss America -- personality is important and we're grading on a curve. This is my area to rule, right? And rule I did! Let's compare:

Me:

"he’s grounded, unpretentious, and just really likable."
"he has an affinity for his wife, kid, and James Bond."
"I emailed him and he got back to right away with a response."

Tom:

"he has a reason to be vain"
"he’s incredibly rich, gorgeous, and did I mention rich"
"toned top-tier educated geek who like to organize fundraisers for worthwhile causes"

Waiiiiiit...

It's comforting to know that when my marriage falls apart (after my wife reads about me mooning over Beth) I'll be reelin' in the babes thanks to my promptness!

(In all seriousness, this was super fun and I'm psyched that everyone at The Blogging Times has a profile on MyBlogLog. Thanks for my brief moment in the sun.)