FYMTQ: Caroline McCarthy

Day 2 of the FYMTQ and we're going waaaaaay back to one of our earliest followers, Caroline McCarthy. She writes something for CNET called The Social, can usually be found wherever John Carney is drinking cocktails and is taller than you'd expect.

The Following Young Manhattanite Tumblr Questionnaire

What's your background?
I crawled to Manhattan in June 2006 after four years at Princeton University, which taught me how to differentiate between Bermuda red and Nantucket red, how to write 8-10 pages in double-spaced Times New Roman at 3AM about dueling theories on mass extinction, and the evils of Smirnoff Ice. No, really, it was a cool place and I learned a lot, I swear.

Why are you following us?
I really can't recall. But I know I kept following YM due to your scathing, hilarious commentary on the whole Emily Gould thing. Which I am heretofore referring to as "LookAtMe-gate."

What era, day or event in blogging history would you like to re-live?
Have there honestly been any that were truly that earth-shattering? Maybe I'd travel back to some momentous day in entertainment blogging history and stop Perez Hilton before he had a chance to become a global cultural phenomenon and launch a Hot Topic clothing line.

Who do you consider to be the greatest blogger of all-time?
Marcus Tullius Cicero.

What's your blogging motto?
In vino veritas. Just kidding, I really don't have one.

Describe that low moment when you thought you just might have to leave blogging for good.
Once I was live-blogging a conference panel where I (and the rest of the audience, I might add) thought that a NASA exec had just announced a contest that would send artists into space. Actually, they were going to get their artwork sent into space. Unfortunately, I'd already hit the publish button. OMG TOTAL EMBARRASSMENT.

What was the last thing you read on Gothamist?
That whole thing about the East Village condo where a party full of wild young hedgies and privileged yupsters got totally out of hand. Or was that Curbed? Everything looks the same in Google Reader when I haven't had enough coffee.

If you could change one thing about blogging, what would it be?
I'd create a magic pixie dust that could make obnoxious commenters disappear, like POOF. Except the ones who are obnoxious-but-still-funny, I'll keep those. I'd get rid of the cranky ones with nothing better to do but rat on bloggers.

What was your best or most expensive medication experience just after midnight on a summer Saturday?
Typically at that hour, if I'm self-medicating, I'm self-medicating with pizza or mozzarella sticks.

Would you consider dating one of us, only for 24 hours, if it meant the opportunity to meet the lowest branches of New York's reblogosphere?
Would you take me to that badass new steakhouse in Chelsea? If so, we'll talk.

Ed. Note: I just want to make it perfectly clear that I'm mocking myself with this semi-retarded, kinda pathetic, ultimately hopeless and regurgitated Q&A feature.