Wow, the response to my Chronicle news* is overwhelming and humbling! For instance…
The blogs: Xeni at Boing Boing posts “Meet the SF Chron’s new sex columnist: blogger Violet Blue” * Scott Beale at Laughing Squid posts Violet Blue, The New Sex Columnist For The SF Chronicle * Jonno at Fleshbot pings me softly in the Morning Wood post * Poor Mojo Newswire posts Violet Blue now writing a sex column at the Chron! * Mark Pritchard at Metroblogging San Francisco posts Metroblogger cracks MSM: Violet Blue to Chronicle * SFist: mad props in the Bay Area Blog Round-Up * Blogebrity Violet Blue Joins Phil Bronstein’s Team * Starked San Francisco says nice things in Talk of the Town: Hump Day (these are all positive: please send me negative links if you find them ’cause I’ll post those, too)
My inbox is flooded with all kinds of wet sticky bloggy love! Dig a sampling of the hotties who hit ‘send’ and made me blush:
* Sean Bonner blogs, “YEA!!! congrats on the official announcement. w00t!!!!”
* Clayton James Cubitt “Congrats on your new column — Pervette…”
* sex podcastress =Melissa Gira “OMG, congrats on the Chron gig, that’s so fabulous! Do us proud!”
* Chris Gimelli from the Chronicle and SFGate “in the immortal and cliched words of the intertubes “I for one, welcome our new hyper-sexy sex columnist sex overlady”(…) I’ll dispense with the usual ‘welcome aboard’ BS and just say that I think it’s smashing that Phil had the brains and balls to woo you into the job and that he’s giving you free rein. So what if you *do* offend 88% of the staff? Rest assured that the remaining 12% (of which I am squarely, firmly and proudly a member of) are rooting for you. (…) So yeah, bring the sexy.”
* Cyrus Farivar from Engadget “Congrats! You’re totally awesome and I definitely will be reading your columns in the future. :)”
* Bre Pettis from Make Magazine “Congrats on your chronicle gig going public!”
* LeE from NPR “Super Duper Congratulations on your new gig… that’s fucking Crazy!!!! You now move from “favorite local celebrity” status to “hero” status with this move..at least for me. I will be sending you a super hero cape post haste.”
* Charles Russo, SF Bay Guardian “Congrats on the new job at the Chronicle. Pretty impressive. I can’t quite shake this high idealism for both the city of San Francisco and the field of Journalism, so its nice to see things fall into their right place. Thursdays then….”
* Eve from SFist “They are so lucky to have you! Looking forward to seeing how you shake things up over there.”
* Rachel Kramer Bussel of Lusty Lady and Village Voice “Violet! Congratulations! That is AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME news about the Chronicle. I’m so so happy for you and can’t wait to read the first one. I shall buy you a celebratory cupcake for sure.”
* Regina Lynn “Wooo hooooo! Congratulations on the new gig! That’s awesome. Looking forward to reading it. :)”
* from France, Olivier Mevel from Nabaztag “Congratulations from the french rabbit! … for your new job at SF Chronicle!”
* my friend Adam, from London “Congrats on the new job and finally being able to go public. Fuck, old media is slow eh?”
* evil bunny “I am wearing black satin panties, red sparkle nail polish, and nothing else, in your honor. You. Rock.”
* Sabrina Morgan “I just wanted to say congrats on the Chronicle gig – and especially for doing it “your way.” I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes.
* Diary of An Unrepentant Sex Addict “OMG!! WTF!! (My luck, the net-n00b-ish subject line will trigger a spam filter :-) CONGRADULATIONS! This is so amazingly cool!”
* Richard Kadrey “Congratulations! I saw the mention of your new gig on boing-boing’s site. The only downside for people like me is having to look at the Chronicle again. The horror… The horror…”
* Tony Comstock of Comstock Films “Congrats on your new gig with The Chronicle. You’ll be a great addition to the paper. You’re worked very hard for a very long time and taken risks that would send most people running. What’s more you’ve made it work. Very few people can do that; very few even try.”
* Craig from Tangents “WOW, The SF Chronicle! Check you out!! You will totally rock their worlds.”
* Paul Sarkis “Many, many kudos on scoring the SF columnist gig! You can’t see it, but I’m totally lifting up my shirt and flashing my erect man-nipples at you!”
* Thomas Roche, being strangely sedate “Congrats on the Chronicle gig — I’m thrilled it came through!”
* Viviane’s Sex Carnival “The fucking SF Chronicle! That is the awesomenest!”
* Gram Ponante “I just read of your new columnisthood. That makes me very happy. Not only is traditional media deliciously retro, but it pays. I like people I like to get paid for what they do. Now go demand a raise.”
* Paul Joannides “I’m very proud of you! You’ve worked very hard and this is really, really good news.”
And there’s much, much more… If I could fill a room with all this email I’d swim around in it wearing nothing but 8″ black shiny fetish heels. Thank you!!!!
* Clarification: I will be writing for the Chronicle empire, but for now we have not agreed that it will be old-fashioned analog RSS, meaning this is a web-only column. For the Chronicle. Which is (online) the SFGate. Even though they have a Gate/Chronicle page… uh, confused? Don’t worry, all of you will read it online anyway and I’ll have a smoothly shaved RSS feed for your reading pleasure.
