Producers Sidebar: It's a Small Blogging World
File this in your "Two Degrees of Kevin Bacon" file.

So I'm sitting in line yesterday waiting for standing-room only tickets for "The Producers." The two guys at my left (Howard and Efren) are on their honeymoon after getting married in San Francisco on Valentine's Day. I'm tapping away at my Treo and the guy just next to me is IMing with a friend in California. At one point he laughs and says his friend (JozJozJoz) is blogging about them waiting in line. And I say, you want me to take a picture and post it so your friend can link to it?

I know, totally geeking out. Forgive us.

So I take the picture, post it to my site with Buzznet, and hand the guy one of my Blogcards with my URL. He IMs my Web info to his friend, and a few moments later he turns to me and says: "She says Marc Brown says 'hi.'"

I've known Marc, who runs Buzznet, since college when he worked at the campus radio station and worked for the student paper. When I got home last night, I read the full IM conversation:

joz: so my friends howie and efren, the gay asian male couple who got married and i blogged about them standing in line? Do you remember that?
marc: yes
joz: so efren sends me IMs from his sidekick to me "i'm standing in line again" so i say "want me to blog about it?"
marc: gettin married again?
joz: (no, they're in NYC, in line for The Producers)
joz: so i am joking around that i would [blog about it] but that "i'd better get pictures, buddy!!!"
joz: so he says ok and then the next thing i get is an IM
joz: efren: "we found someone to take our picture for us. it's on her site at www.amylangfield.com so steal it from there"
joz: i recognized her name from buzznet!
joz: they don't know amy... she happened to be waiting in line for tickets, too! so she was nice enough to post their picture (and other producers photos) to buzznet!
marc: ha ha
marc: hilarious
marc: i know amy from college

Even funnier, Efren didn't even ask about pictures. I just heard him say his friend was blogging it and I offered to post a picture. And note that Joz happened to be IMing with MC Brown while I'm sitting next to Efren in line in NYC.

Afterward I was wondering how many of us go around with one or two degrees of separation but never know it. You could be in an elevator with your kindergarten teacher's husband but what are the chances you'd stumble onto a conversation that would produce that fact? And while knowing a mutual blogger with a mutual friend in another state might not be so weird, you've got to admit it was weird at "The Producers." Less weird if we'd been waiting in line for tickets to a Broadway show about bloggers, but uh, that's too weird. Gotta quit.

Here are too many links on this topic:

My picture of Howard and Efren

JozJozJoz "Producers" blog item

JozJozJoz's own Buzznet photo gallery

JozJozJoz's blog entry on Howard and Efren's wedding

Get your own Blogcards to increase your powerful geek points in the blogosphere.

Marc overlooked the opportunity to blog about this exciting event, but here's a link to his blog anyhow, considering he played the role of Kevin Bacon in this story.

And in case you're my mom and you have no idea what this whole Kevin Bacon thing is, here's a link to set you straight.
- posted by Amy @ 3/26/2004 10:05:00 AM