I'm in the region, but not sure what you're proposing - are you looking for a an e-blog type of thing, or are you interested in more mundane facets of life on the Lakes? For the record, I'm on the shore between Erie and Huron.

I want a logo. I want an annual picnic and sharing of potato salad recipies. I want a whole bunch of people to tell me where all the good soft ice cream spots are and which micro-breweries suck. I want lists of the good zoos and the bad, hotels with whirlpools and the neatest forts. <p>If we act like we are a we we can be a we.

I'll bring the potato salad, but am not so great at logos. As for the rest - Tastee Freeze on Old Highway 3 in Cottam, I've heard the Walkerville Brewing Company is actually quite good, and Detroit has a pretty decent zoo. And from what I can remember, Fort Michilimackinac is awesome - you can stand under the bridge and you're right smack between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. Fort William up north of Superior ain't so bad either.

If you can make a smaller logo for the Great Lakes League of Bloggers, I would be happy to put it on my page...

How's this one: <img src="images/2004b/laker6.jpg" hspace="20" vspace="20">

I'm in!

Excellent. Do you make deviled eggs?

I'd be interested in joining in!

Excellent - tell us a little about yourself and where you are.

I've been in Jamestown, NY for 5 years. Grew up in Irondequoit, NY (suburb of Rochester) and went to college at Baldwin-Wallace in Cleveland before transfering to SUNY Buffalo State. There's all the local connections!

Very nice. I think you are the sole Western NY representative. By the way, we have done nothing as of yet but may over the winter consider something. I am interested in whether the Lakes have an effect, whether Canadians and Americans here share something different that each has in relation to the rest of their compadres.

Oh, fine then. I'm in - representing Greece, New York, suburb of Rochester.

Did I mention guys are allowed in too?

I am thinking of a bloggers meet at the NY State Fair 2005 right behind the Dinosaur BBQ booth.

OK, so how can I "join" the Great Lakes League? I have started a web page to comment on Upstate NY and the dysfunction of the New York State legislature. It's not exactly in blog form yet, but I have been tweaking the words daily, and I'll probably add a blog-style set of dated comments.

Seeing as we actually never meet, you may join but if you do not install blog characteristics we will attend at your house and repossess the secret decoder ring.

Well, I thought your blog group looked cool. You have a web site (accessible by the whole internet) that invites everyone (on the internet) to join. So what does that matter, that we've never met? I don't mean to be a pain, it just looked to me like you started an open association.

You misunderstand and I was glib. I mean none of us meet - so far it is an informal daydream. I don't know any of these other folk, though I like their blogs, and I was just joking about the secret decoder ring.<p>Have you tried any of the blogging tools or are you going to try to "homebrew" your site?

Great Lakes bloggers, eh? I live in Brampton Ontario and depending on traffic I can be at Lake Ontario in 15 minutes. Does that count?

We are of the drainage basin. Seeing as we really do nothing you are most certainly in.

I came across your site via NYCO, and got some great info. today on the upcoming canadian election (being an American I was quite unaware of lot of the details.)

My Great Lake connection? Every summer my wife and I sneak our dog onto the far reaches of Southwick Beach on Lake Ontario. Besides lacking national health care and a decent respect for people's civil rights, Americans put terrible restrictions on doggies.

Count me in if possible.

I think NYCO wants a NY state fair meet up next summer under the GLLOB banner. At the Dinosaur BBQ picnic tables. Saturday. 11:45 am.

Count me in. I live in Kingston and share a family cottage on Simcoe Island. Can't get much more "Great Lakes" that that!

I just stumbled up on this and love the idea.

I'm in. Do you really need a bio? Ok, even though you know me fairly well:

I was born a poor sharecroppers son in southern Alabama. Dad split in 1969 after receiving a visit one day from two men in Air Force uniforms and mom was given a replacement husband in the form of a monotone speaking large headed person named Tim. I escaped the basement by the time I was seven and was raised by Shaolin Monks who just happened to be flying by in their circa 1927 dirigible. I went to school, following years of kung fu training in Northern China, and became the retro 80s post romantic crooner you all know and love.

That good?

I suppose you want the truth eh Alan?

Please oh please let me join!
http://grpottersblog.blogspot.com/

You are in! This is a separate and bigger tent body than the KSPC which has different requirements and opportunities.

You know, we moved to the Great Lakes region, and I started a blog just so I could join. I have a wicked good potato salad recipe too (re: what you said about annual bbq and pot. salad above)
What does the hat look like?

I think I better get a KSPC hat before I go designing anything more - but...A dark blue cap with a red brim and a white button with GLLOB on front might do the trick. I am thinking of a 1940s long brim for this one. I have to check the Cooperstown Cap site to see if there is either a "GL" or "GB" logo already in existence.

Check out the logos for Lincoln Giants, Tokyo Giants (1936), Homestead Grays (1948), Mexico Guadalajara, (1963) and Mexico Guymas (1939), Galveston Sand Crabs (1937), Globe Bears (1931)¹, Green Bay Bays (1914) and the Greensboro Red Sox (1942).<blockquote>¹<small>Sweet!</small></blockquote>

I dunno, Green Bay is lookin' sharp to me, the classy G over B on a nice forest green. Same lettering, I believe, as the KSPC.

You know, Alan, that you should really get this league rolling: there are so many cool people who could get involved. Time for a revival of interest here!

I can't sustain too many unincorporated pointless associations that never meet. I have to keep my focus.