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Originally posted at SomaCow.com In this hour, brought to you by HealingRoni Pizza Delivery, I came to a startling realization. I had just kicked a key member of my show off, and it wasn t J! I was struck with the situation, namely, I had just sent Ross packing, he was already out the door, and I knew I had made a mistake. One of my greatest failings (there are many, stick around and try to make a list sometime) is that I rarely consider motive when I am upset. I am great at looking at the world through detached eyes, calmly surmising people and their actions and determining why they do the things they do. Or at least, that is what the tests I took on Spark told me in the nineties. But when I am angry, miffed, peeved, slighted, insulted, chagrined, embarrassed, threatened, irritated, or pissy, all I see is red. I acted in haste, seeing Ross as out of line, and now what the hell was I going to do? For the first time in SomaCow history, a new show did not start at the top of the hour. I went out of the studio, and found Jen. She was shocked, confused as to why things had gotten so serious, and she said Ross was already gone. I walked outside, with Mickey and J close behind (it was an opportunity for them to have an unscheduled smoke break, maybe?). I looked down the U of my street, left and right No Ross. No car. Did he walk? How the hell had he vanished so quickly? I knew I needed to call him. If I let it go to tomorrow, the bones would set that way, and there would be no repairing the damage done. I whipped out the iPhone, and immediately scanned Twitter. it just got real. ON Somacow. - ELROSS Well what the hell did THAT mean? I called Ross. Hey, Ross? Hey Where are you? Driving I was rapidly losing ground. I knew that if this call ended all jilted and stilted, I d have to side with my ego, and began the laborious process of walling myself off from Ross. I played back the last year plus of our friendship. Ross and Gary, Ross and Halloween Horror Nights, Ross in a suit atop a bar in downtown Orlando, Ross at my garage sale, buying comics for the kid, and really just assuaging my wife with her pregnancy fears. Ross at dinner, Ross talking to me about impending fatherhood, Ross giving advice on Birthing Centers, Ross giving advice on B4D, Ross shoving us to a tweetup, where we met great peeps. Hours of Ross, handling production, getting guests in and TFO of the studio, calling shows pimping SomaCow, bringing over snacks, bitting with J, giving me shit about smoking because he doesn t think I should die, Ross at Target, Ross and his many and varied Beard Competitions, Ross Ross Ross. I couldn t let him go. So I hatched a plan: You can t leave. There s Pizza coming. I know he saw through it. Mickey, J, Ross and I had a moment, there in that driveway. Why do I sound like Carrie Bradshaw all the sudden? In this hour, we discussed the Tweetup at Eden at the Enzian, chatted with Etanowitz of the Orlando Sentinel, talked about gay bars, and patched hearts.

SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you in this hour by The Drew Show. Check em out! They invented the word Twarnival, for crying out loud! In this hour we discussed Orlando s Tweetup, which was a pretty good initial effort, with 100+ attendees crammed into a bar, laughing, talking, and desperately seeking drinks. Thanks again to Etanowitz of the Orlando Sentinel for setting it all up. I am not kidding I met way too many people to list, so I will just randomly toss links at you to enjoy as you listen to this episode: It was nice to see PeakArts again, and he and his lovely significant other (whose blog you can see here with pics) gave me some sweet keychains containing his art. I hoard them now, but you can swing by his site and check out all his stuff. Got to meet some new neato folks, like: Ms. Fitzpatrick, of Metromix, who covers music, bars, and clubs downtown here in Orlando. SirKyle, the shootingnest twitterer I have ever met. Carlos, of CLOS Photography - He was in radio here in town, then went out and did some TV work, and some campaign work for President Obama. Marc Middleton and crew of the GrowingBolder.com group were there, shooting video and covering the event. Want to see me on no sleep mid-Atkins? I warn you, it s scary, but Marc and his Team are not. They are doing great work, and I hope to hear more from them often. A dude that just travels the entirety of the Earth named Chuck Welch. He lives in Lakeland. Hush, RSilva. C_Lane, local musician and bar crafter extraordinaire, who may be operating on even less sleep than I. I spent an incredible few moments talking with a very tiny, very energetic momblogger who threatened to make Mickey and I the best latkes every crafted by a mom. She and I spent a few reminiscing on Ye Olden Orlando and rapidly tossing out food ideas, and I really wish I had more time. Jen Cook, our News 13 ticker goddess. The legendary Tom Sorrells, natch. Plus people from CNN, local internet misfits, Elross, a guy that works in sound engineering who may be able to isolate J s nasal whine so we can remove it from future episodes, etc It was pretty awesome. We sort of flew the flag on a possible April Tweetup involving The Ravenous Pig. Apparently, according the mmsmddsnjdnhe, if you go there on a special day once a month, they cook an entire pig roast dealio. Do not believe Mickey and his strange, awful fetal pig stories, it sounds like it is a really good time. If you were at the tweetup, and want to post your link to your stuff, please do so in the comments for this episode. And if you are NOT local, and frankly could give a crap about Twitter, we also talked about a buncha other stuff, and in the next hour, we talk about food for like a whole week. It s awesome.