Tabitha Meets the Wonkette; Worlds Collide

What happens when you bring together icons of the two most recent seminal transformations in media?

You get polite chit chat about Medicare reform, the White Stripes and, of course, anal sex.

Only, of course, because one of the icons is Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette fame.  The other was Tabitha Soren --the former MTV News media maven who represented all Generation Xers in the White House press pool and famously enabled the "boxers or briefs" question to candidate Clinton.

The two witty red heads who each spawned a million crushes talked last night in a San Francisco Commonwealth Club forum.  Soren interviewed Cox about Wonkette and her new book "Dog Days." 

What knocked us back on our heels was...

Soren's apparent and admitted disinterest in the blogging medium.  Her opinion is completely understandable and acceptable, but it sent us bit into middle-aged moment where we remembered all the cool MTV VJs, Kajagoogoo, the first time we saw the Smells Like Teen Spirit video and Tabitha representing.  Now, suddenly, the new "old" guard was wondering what was up with kids these days and their funny blog things.

Cox, for her part, reminds you of the engaging smart friend of a friend who you end up talking to for hours at some random dinner party.  She's the type who can easily transition from discussing punk rock to favorite cheeses to the complexities of budget reform and do it all with vicious, quick dry humor.  Just to keep up with her you drink Makers Mark and half smoke a cigarette for the first time years.

The Wonkette (OG) discussed leaving the blog as its full-time writer (she said she would have gone insane or quit if she had to keep it up without an exit strategy); the impetus for her book (the infamous Washingtonienne sex saga); the fact that she's buddies with writers at the conservative Weekly Standard and even has some friends in the White House; her next book which will be  non-fiction take on growing up conservative in America; her theory that it's okay to ruin someones day, but you shouldn't ruin their life; and, after prodding from Soren, her relationship with her husband (a Washington Post writer) and his take on her (smutty) prose.

Interesting talk.  Strange time-warp.

Our guess is that the radio broadcast will soon be archived here.

PS:  Random other new media "celebrity" collision... Craig Newmark of "Craigslist" quietly watched the discussion from the audience.

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