At the Northern Voice Tiki party, Scott Leslie wowed us (well I was wowed) with his rendition of a poem only geeks could grok, called “Trackback Love”. I grabbed some video with my little Canon Powershot- the lighting is awful but the audio is not bad.
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OMG, that had me ROTFL and brought me to tears. BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muahahaha! Hysterical! Thanks for sharing. =)
Very very funny!!! Thanks for posting.
[...] link to TrackBack Love [...]
*clap*clap* The more I hear about NV the more fascinated I become with the lot of you all.
Haha, I was there, and I can honestly say that that was one of the first poems I truly enjoyed! Geek culture rocks!
[...] Trackback Love Sniff, love is a beautiful thing, between bloggers. So romantic, you technorati tramp. (tags: blogger love poem) [...]
I was definitely wowed, this was a Scott Leslie classic. I think “trackback love” was hysterical, and it needs to be noted that Scott quickly had a restless room (a result of all the god awful poetry that came before it) eating from his hand given a masterful delivery.
[...] for Injenuity’s video. (And I’m glad, Alan, you caught Scott Leslie’s “Trackback Love“. Geek [...]
“…Show up in the same side bars…”
awesome.
[...] Another missed meet/chat was with Alan Levine who gave a great presentation on “50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story” in which he outlines some of the amazing web tools out there you can use to tell a story. Something he did with all 50 tools and the same story. Alan also managed to capture one of my favorite open mic sessions at the Opening Night party by Scott Leslie called Trackback Love. [...]
OK, wow, this is glorious.
What a lesson: always, always, always have your camera-with-video with you.
This clip not only is, but *should be*, a persistent resource.
Scott, Ingenious. Me, Gobsmacked.
Thanks all, that was tons of fun and the least I could do to make some contribution to NV ‘08. For anyone who cares, here is the original text http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dkb4f2k_35fps2g7gs
6 months later and it still makes me laugh. I’m so glad you recorded this!
@Jen: Hee- and I am glad someone still peeks back at old posts! Credit of course goes to Scott’s creativity. Great NV08 memories….
[...] stories, to a comment from Keira that “living online is like being in a movie,” to my own little story of blog love that dared speak its name, at each step there seemed to be another story, or someone urging me to re-approach all my [...]