How we started Sepia Mutiny (the first post went up that same night):

—– Original Message —–
From: Abhi
To: Vinod; Manish; Anna
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:05 AM
Subject: My Fellow Bloggers…

… This past week… the Democratic Convention [was] in the news… When news of that Michigan Republican website hit the streets, you guys blogged about it, but how many South Asian Americans will ever hear about it? … what if all the most widely read South Asian American bloggers joined forces somehow and created a superblog based on the “Menudo” model… powerful enough to get one of those invitations to the floor of the convention…

And in Scott McClellan’s immortal words, What Happened:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Myers, Aaron
Date: Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Subject: Your blog’s DemConvention credentials

Congratulations… your blog will be credentialed at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. We’re excited to welcome so many blogs to the Convention (about 3 times as many as 2004)…

http://DemConvention.com

Congratulations to my fellow Blogmericans, and to Señor Abhi in particular, for putting up with my pesky ‘Did you get it? Did you get it?’ emails these last few months. I look forward to reading the sepia-tinted missives from the historic 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, where the nominee will for the first time be a hyphenated American, and a vice presidential frontrunner has Macacagate to thank for his candidacy.

(Now who’s blogging the rearing elephant in St. Paul? Reihan?)