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umpteenth definition of #glenning

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#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.

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#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…

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People coined #glenning to razz me, but it now has about 14 defintions in the hermetic circles of some groups I’m in.

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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.

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I met one of PNGs inventors. #glenning As a result, sort of, I got him on the NBC Nightly News.

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#glenning

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Verging on #glenning here. 😂

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Banner game of Pop Culture Jeopardy! for #glenning (see footnote): of the clues, I had met two people (Judy Greer, Parker Posey), one person has bought one of my books, and I know a show’s creator (Kim Possible’s @schooley.bsky.social).

* #glenning is extremely ridiculous name dropping

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I’ve met Ken. #glenning #kenning #pauling

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