Ashvegas Fall Ball and Cotillion: Inside the Velvet Rope

Cross-posted from Edgy Mama

The Usual Suspects rolled out the red carpet for Ashvegas blogger glitterati Friday night, and the Fall Ball and Cotillion did not disappoint.

Screwy and Uptown ushered in the guests, all groomed and natty. Uptown was accompanied by the lovely Mountain Faerie, while syntax and I held our own with Jim and his sunny daughter, M. The Modern Peasant held court, as usual, with a couple of Scrutiny Hooligan groupies, while DEMbloggers arrived a bit later to the party.

Clearly, the paparazzi had expected a much bigger turnout. Joan and Melissa Rivers seemed a little slack-jawed during the run-up. But alas, it seems that this core group remains the most we can muster. That's quite all right. There's clearly a difference between those who blog the blog and those who can do that and then some.

The drinks - from a classically refreshing New Orleans Pimm's Cup from Screwy to Uptown, to heady Omegang for yours truly, to a couple of whiskey/bourbon shots for Screwy - flowed as freely as the conversation and the ideas.

Some of what we learned ... well, let me stop.

I'll close the velvet rope here and encourage you to pop over to Edgy Mama to read the rest. For those of you who did not attend, you missed another chance to make your champagne wishes and cavair dreams come true.