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Now I have phantom helmet syndrome

I was on The 404 today and wore a helmet the whole time to protect myself from accidentally looking beautiful. You can go here to read about the morning from their perspective (and to listen to the podcast and watch the video.)

Here are some photos. Ooooh, photos. You love photos.

Here I am in the monitor seeing if it’s safe. (It was.)

Here I am with the guys, protecting myself from accidentally falling job offers.

Here I am with Jeff Bakalar. My head looks so naked in this photo!

And here I am with Wilson Tang.

And here I am with Justin Yu. Despite the fact that I’m a wacky/zany person, I seldom make the wacky/zany face in photos hence many shots like the above. My repertoire is more limited to talking into bananas/carrots and wearing helmets, obviously. And, as the above picture would attest: looking pasty. I need a tan and a helmet.

Photos!

I’m overdue in posting photos so here I go. What a wonderful Saturday surprise for you, right?

Here I am with Jeff Bakalar and Wilson Tang from CNET’s The 404.

Here’s Jeff during the show.

Here’s me before the show.

Here’s Jeff, Justin and Wilson the night before at The 404 Meetup.

Here’s me looking achingly beautiful in the car on the way home from Tuesday’s Red Eye appearance.

I’m happy about the way this camera captures the blue color of my skin. It’s a new embalming fluid I’m using. I think it’s really working!

Here I am in the green room of Red Eye. Fun fact: It’s also the green room used by Morning Show w/ Mike and Juliet and Hannity.

Here’s a public restroom key on a giant key chain. I think giant keychains are funny, especially if they happen to be toothbrushes or something related to the business which houses the bathroom. This wasn’t a giant wooden stick store though, it was a cafe. How uncreative! Anyway though when I walked out brandishing said key I mumbled to something in line about how I almost lost the key! No one thought it was funny. Or rather, no one else thought it was funny. (I had a hearty chuckle at my joke though.)

Here’s a tree in Brooklyn which I uploaded on twitpic with the caption “Coward!”

Here’s a pinball machine featuring the likeness of Courtney Friel I think. “Oh my God, I know her!” I exclaimed, pointing to the pinball machine and taking a photo.

“No way! I know her too!” I said, pointing to Ms. Pacman and taking a photo.

The 404 post-show diner chatter

I have lots of blog posts in me, kids. It’s why I’m walking around holding my lower back and panting. Any minute now I expect my blog water to break and then I’ll retire to my birthing hut where I’ll give birth to a litter of bloglings.

Anyway, today I was on The 404. Here’s their post about it and you can listen there too. And below is a post-show video.

UPDATE: The 404 is at 1:30 pm ET

Everyone go back to sleep! (but watch here at 1:30 ET www.watchbol.com)

See me on The 404 Friday morning

Go here at 11am ET http://www.watchbol.com/ and you can watch the live stream of the show.

Perhaps you’ll be surprised by what I look like? Except if you’re reading this here on this blog, you probably know what I look like. But tonight I went to The 404 meetup and met a guy who was like “Alison? THE Alison? Alison Rosen?” which of course I’m beyond used to, and then he told me I looked so different than how he imagined I looked while listening to me on the show because I look like “such a nice girl” but based on how “hysterical and raunchy” I sound, he expected me to be wearing a wife beater and smoking a cigarette. Guess he hasn’t seen me on the weekends.

The 404; media lunches; Red Eye

The 404 is totally using my name to draw people to their meetup event. I feel just like Kelly Bensimon on Real Housewives of NYC only I’m not tanned within an inch of my life and I’m not crazy. Well, not THAT crazy. Also I didn’t used to be a model and I wear bras. So I guess she and I aren’t so alike.

In other news I went to a fancy lunch today and was caught surreptitiously tweeting by the guy sitting next to me. “Are you hiding?” he asked, because I was crouched down hovering over my phone as if that wouldn’t be obvious. Also, everyone at this media lunch (it was in honor of three authors with new books coming out) was Someone and while I am Someone I am a different kind of Someone and so I felt kind of self-conscious especially when I explained that I’m illiterate. Then I spit out a tooth and told them that I’ve never been one for book larnin’ but I’m real good with my hands. Then I whittled a Grecian urn out of sweet butter and cremated a bread roll and put the remains in the urn. What kind of bread you ask? It was a rosemary almond loaf.

As for the small green cookies I regret that I didn’t grab more of them from the little cookie basket but I was trying to be ladylike.

Also, I’m on Red Eye tonight. It’s a last minute thingie. A last minute doohicky. A last minute foofaraw. A last minute whirligig. A last minute to do. A last minute affair. You guys, I’m totally doing this without a thesaurus! A last minute engagement. A last minute TV appearance. Uh oh, these are going in the direction of boring. A last minute thing. Shit, I lost it.

"You guys work at CNET, you’re actually paid to be nerds"

Last night I hung out with Natali Del Conte and the guys from The 404 (Jeff Bakalar, Wilson Tang and Justin Yu) and there was some talk of docking and space docking. I don’t recommend looking these things up as they’re obscene and disgusting. Then out came the video cameras (when you’re hanging out with people who work at CNET you can be sure that everyone will be carrying five or six gadgets each putting to shame my one gadget plus collection of lip gloss.) Anyway, I’ve been having a problem with filming myself because I can’t get my whole face in the shot, hence Jeff Bakalar’s advice to “nail the angle.” Later Natali showed me how to zoom out though, so I think the problem will likely be solved next time I attempt to film anything.