I want roadies.

I know Oprah has roadies... but she's huge.

I was fine and not even thinking about roadies until my friend Sandra brought the topic up. It all started because of this post she wrote about The Bloggess...not to be confused with the blog hags...although I am sure The Bloggess has her fair share of blog hags or some version of that...but don't we all...or aren't we all sort of in a way?

Anyway...

The post sparked a conversation between the two of us (me and Sandra...not The Bloggess, who, even though I comment on her blog all the time along with five or six hundred other commenters, still hasn't noticed me...). So Sandra and I were giving each other pats on the back and compliments about what a great person, friend and blogger the other is... and then she said that I was a rockstar. This word gets thrown around a lot in the blog world...but what does it mean? And when I said I wasn't a rockstar, but if I could get the aforementioned megablogger to participate in Boobs I Follow Round 2..well, then...

And Sandra said, "Then you'd be a rockstar with roadies."

Examples of Roadies

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This one's not too burly, but given his background he's probably helpful with the kids.

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These burly roadies could really help me clean out my garage.

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And these guys, with their prior roadie-ing experience, 

have the potential to provide limitless entertainment.

You seriously have to click the source links...you'll get some stories behind the roadies.

So I was whining about mentioned this lack of roadies to Kelley over in her Break Room later on that day, and guess what I found out? Kelley has roadies! 

Of course, Kelley is a Tweetstar (@KelleysBreakRm), so of course she has roadies. She probably also has Blog Hags.

So I've been thinking about this roadie thing... it would be so helpful to have some. Roadies work. They lift stuff and fetch stuff and move stuff around and run errands and do sound checks... They are way better than groupies, who are too wrapped up in adulation to get any work done. I think generally-speaking guys are more interested in having groupies, and housewives are more interested in having roadies.

So, yeah, I want roadies.

But since I am not as funny as Kelley or The Bloggess nor as rich and powerful as Oprah, I'll probably need to settle for carnies.

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In an attempt to grow beyond 'carny status' and perhaps gather some groupies or roadies or, at the very least, blog hags, I am linking this post up with Lovelinks :) Come check out the awesome writers who've also linked up over there :)