umpteenth definition of #glenning
#glenning At Newbury Comics in Boston, I was leafing through a sheaf of used records when I perceived two people standing just a little bit too close behind me. I turned, and one of them was Elvis Costello.
#glenning At a biblical studies conference in Atlanta, I once was swarmed by teenage boys looking for autographs, which I took as a positive sign about the world until I noticed that I was descending a flight of stairs just before the Boston Celtics…
People coined #glenning to razz me, but it now has about 14 defintions in the hermetic circles of some groups I’m in.
I’m not sure I ever introduced the term #glenning to Bluesky (coined by others). It is the lightweight name-dropping of a very casual or tenuous connection to celebrities. Like, #glenning is that I spent an hour with Werner Herzog once, but also that my haircutter’s aunt made whips for Raiders.
I met one of PNGs inventors. #glenning As a result, sort of, I got him on the NBC Nightly News.
Verging on #glenning here. 😂