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alt='I hereby challenge Dr. Hanson to a "walk off."'> ‘Busting out the “Look” (Blue Steel ™)’

Blogger and rugby player JRob has taken up the call to all good lookin’ bloggers (that means you!) to join the campaign to annoy Christopher Hanson, an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the U of Maryland, and, I further assert, all stuffy-headed self-anointed guardians of Old Media’s Opinionocracy who claim the bloggosphere is irrelevant by virtue of mass self absorption or some such drivel.

To prove that mud and grass stains have their own glamour, JRob offers us a group photo of his rugby team.

The lovely and opinionated bloggress Dawn Eden has turned Dr. Hanson’s miscue into a self-absorbing prophesy by posting an honest to golly glamour self-portrait (Les rrrow!).

This “I Blogger” trusts the old adage often attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” But Dr. Hanson and other OM whiners just don’t get it. If we “I Bloggers” are to be considered irrelevant, we must all be insular and self-absorbed all of the time. We can easily insure this does not happen by working in shifts. Thus, at any given point in any given day there will always a blogger somewhere who is neither insular, nor self absorbed, and who, in fact, is offering up some excellent counterpoint to Old Media’s insular and self-absorbed coverage of the news of the day. I personally commit to not being self-absorbed and insular whenever Dr. Hanson isn’t baiting me into posting glamour photos of myself online. Furthermore, I challenge Dan Rather to a walk-off (6mb avi).