Turns Out, Al Roker Likes To Hug

Actual conversation I just had over IM, annotated with some links for your reading pleasure:

dmac: ohmigod are you there

dmac: there’s a new teresa masterson blog post!
dmac: we need to discuss!
(Editor’s Note: Teresa Masterson has previously been chronicled here due to her articles about the Trenton Thunder and Phil Roy.)
anonymous reader: ok, let me read the post first
reader: this is so far the most uninteresting thing i’ve EVER read
reader: (and remember, i read about tax law some days, for a living)
dmac: it’s amazing
dmac: she really only asks al roker about hugging
dmac: and if other ‘today’ show members also like to hug
reader: ooh, she got to ride in an NBC 10 news van?!
reader: wow
reader: like, ohmigod
reader: a real news van?
dmac: i thought it was okay, but maybe i just can’t hate the writing of non-sylvia plath females.
dmac: although this was a little boring.
dmac: isn’t it weird that they keep calling her a “blogger” when she just writes articles for the website
reader: yeah, she is totally not a blogger
dmac: it’s as if a news organization is hopping onto a “trend”
dmac: without having any real idea what that trend is
dmac: i mean, at least set her up with wordpress or something
reader: definitely
reader: oh my god, this was so bad i can’t even believe it
reader: irresistable ella would have done better
reader: “good afternoon, and good luck?!”
reader: i wish i were illiterate.
dmac: this is still way better than that article in metro yesterday where dan dunn hangs out with paris hilton and perez hilton
reader: indeed

Update: We retract any mean things said, if only because of the photo on the slideshow of a person holding a sign that says “Philly’s more fun with Al Roker.”

Blogger Unmasks The Real Al Roker [NBC 10]
An American in Cannes: Part trois [Metro]