Metroblogger cracks MSM: Violet Blue to Chronicle

By Mark Pritchard
August 29th, 2006 @ 10:30 PM News

Congratulations to SF Metroblogger Violet Blue for her new job as a San Francisco Chronicle columnist!

You go, Violet Blue! Cut a wide swath!

7 Comments so far

  1. kmduke (unregistered) on August 29th, 2006 @ 11:08 pm

    Congratulation Violet! I’ve been following your exploits since I first “discovered” you when podcasts started on iTunes, I love listening to your show, and checking out your adventures in your blog, keep up the great work beautiful!


  2. violet (unregistered) on August 29th, 2006 @ 11:38 pm

    omg, thank you!!!! it’s pretty crazy; I’ll certainly have fun until they come to their senses :) Mark, thank you for the post! I feel like I got dad’s old Charger

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Charger_%28B-body%29

    and I’m with my friends and I’m like, ‘let’s see what this thing can do… let’s play Bullitt’


  3. anna (unregistered) on August 29th, 2006 @ 11:48 pm

    Go chicka!


  4. Victoria E (unregistered) on August 30th, 2006 @ 10:49 am

    Big congrats Violet – you deserve it!


  5. cd (unregistered) on August 30th, 2006 @ 11:17 am

    would making a “our own real-life Carrie Bradshaw” comment be taken as a slam or a compliment – i’d mean it in a good way. even better than that fictional character, really, because you save the condescending, foolish crap from the TV for . . . wait, you don’t do that.

    Even better! Congrats!


  6. Michelle (unregistered) on August 30th, 2006 @ 5:22 pm

    Fabulous!


  7. sfmike (unregistered) on August 30th, 2006 @ 8:10 pm

    Please don’t do a Laurel Wellman on us, Violet Blue, please! If you’ll remember, Ms. Wellman was a Canadian writer who had the wonderfully snarky column “Dog Bites” in the “SF Weekly.” And then the hideous “San Francisco Chronicle” hired her away to write her not-so-gentle ironic humor, and boom, 9/11 happened and “irony” was supposedly out in the mainstream media, and her column was a disaster. She never could find the right tone, partly because she couldn’t dissect Ken Garcia with her unsharpened scalpel anymore. I think she ended back in Canada where she originated.

    So good luck, Miss Violet, because in spite of your fabulous presence, the SFGate blogs are still going to suck. And if you’re any good, you’re probably going to get fired.

    With affection.



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