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2009 Ore to Shore Protest Dinner – The Jeff Kirlin Experience
By Diane UrsuI was very excited to go to Ore to Shore, this year. I always look forward to having dinner with my friends from the Lower Peninsula. This year, we went to Aubree’s in Marquette, [star date] Friday, August 7. I sent the invitation for this event via Facebook. The funny thing is that Facebook requires you to categorize your “event,” so I went with “Protest.” I thought it worked. 
An interesting topic came up during our “protest” dinner: Jeff Kirlin. If you don’t know who Jeff Kirlin is, well, I don’t either. Jeff is some guy in Maine who happens to be on Facebook friending innocents from the Michigan Mountain Biking Association. That includes me. Yes, I’m an innocent. Hey! What are you laughing at!?
Jeff Kirlin is a photographer [slash] something else. The other thing doesn’t really matter because it isn’t what brought Jeff into the picture. Apparently, Ali found Jeff’s blog and became acquainted with him through it. Eventually, they became Facebook friends. It didn’t take long for Jeff to friend other people like Jon, the MMBA Michigan Mountain Bike Patrol guy.
I started having conversations with Jeff through Ali and Jon’s Facebook status comment sections (or whatever they’re called). They would have 20 to 30 comments about nothing. Eventually, Jeff and I friended each other. (This Facebook thing is really stupid.) This brings us back to the Ore to Shore “Protest” Dinner.
We were all sitting around our pizza minding our business when, suddenly, I asked, “So, who is Jeff Kirlin, anyway?”
You don’t ask who Kirlin is.
In medieval times, sect’s of priests worshiped Kirlin’s.
In modern times, Sect’s of Carnies worhip Kirlin’s.
God once asked to be FB friends with Kirlin, but Kirlin made God sell his soul to the devil, just so he could Friend Kirlin.
Hes, well.. Kind of a big deal.
Now HERE is what happened. Ali and I had blogs on blogger and I can’t recall who found which blog first, but we became friends when I mocked Art*O*Mat and the guy saw it and left me a nastygram and we went back and forth and he didn’t need the bad press and offered a truce gift which I didn’t want because I was hating Art*O*Mat (Which is really cool, by the way) and I asked Ali if she wanted it and had it sent to her. Then I’m not sure how Jon and I became friends, I think we are brothers or something, and then you had this icon with your massive arms and I wanted me some of that in case I ever need a locked picked..and viola. The rest is history. Glen gets tossed in there somehow. The only thing I’m certain of is that I’m not friends with you because we are at the same end of the political spectrum, THAT’S FOR SURE!
What WAS the answer to ‘So, who is Jeff Kirlin, anyway’? It gets asked here a lot of me, too. “Who do you think you are?”
All I know is that he likes snow throwers and chases carnies around.
Jeff – I think you mean that we are *not* at the same end of the political spectrum.