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Julia Allison crashes SXSW, explains it all

Professional funnylady and amateur gossip Heather Gold just invited Julia Allison, professional gossip and amateur tech event crasher, onto her panel on — ha, ha — Gossip. "Explain to Shaila [Dewan, New York Times correspondent] what you do again," asks Heather, "since her coverage is of real disasters and not the Internet." Her response?

Provided by an audience member: "How much did you pay Julia, Owen, to come up here and make Valleywag more sympathetic?"

Update: The audience is now actually liveblogging our liveblogging. We stand by our "slutty, cheap" headline about her panel crashing, including the photo accompanying of the official SXSWi admittance badge hanging around her neck.
As for the rest of the crowd?

We Are All Anil Dash Now

Six Apart's Anil Dash thinks it's all of our fucking faults.

Lane Is Full Of Love
Lane Becker of Get Satisfaction says "this was the best SXSW panel ever" —

— and then thanks Valleywag emeritus Nick "Leave Julia Alone!" Douglas for running that hot tub photo years back.

3:17 PM on Sun Mar 9 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
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phillipk at 04:00 PM on 03/09/08
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The quote is not accurate.... maybe if you listened to the audio transcript you'd see... the paraphrase is not "make Valleywag more sympathetic" but that her appearance would make people more sympathetic OF valleywag... just my inference.
seanammirati at 04:07 PM on 03/09/08
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I was in the panel and this is definitely NOT what happened. The panel basically begged her to come up on stage.
franky at 04:15 PM on 03/09/08
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Owen certainly seems to have put on some weight since VW. Imagine what would have happened with some real editorship and scoops.
Tim Faulkner at 04:22 PM on 03/09/08
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So what was her response?
igneous at 05:03 PM on 03/09/08
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Jesus owen, hit the gym
MarkTheMarketWatcher at 05:08 PM on 03/09/08
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Damn, Owen, you're almost as fat at Perez. Which is a shame, since your face isn't too bad.

Of course, if you lost weight, you might not be so bitter. The best gossip columnists are the fat and ugly ones.

So.... Eat up!
Choire at 05:21 PM on 03/09/08
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Okay, so WHAT DID ANIL SAY?

Jesus, do I have to Fedex all of you some notepads or pens or something? Don't you all have laptops plugged in? We're not all there, do some bloody stenography for the rest of us already.
Nicholas Carlson at 06:06 PM on 03/09/08
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I'm confused by this post.
matto at 07:50 PM on 03/09/08
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How can Anil get all sancitmonious when 6a is widely credited with the invention of blogdrama!?
matto at 07:50 PM on 03/09/08
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I tried not to, but holy shit Owen, that shirt!
michaellamb at 08:10 PM on 03/09/08
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Nick D, how old are you anyway?
ThatKid at 08:23 PM on 03/09/08
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@michaellamb: Nick is 16, going on 17...
Tnuc at 02:33 AM on 03/10/08
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@MarkTheMarketWatcher: Get him a Hello Kitty shower cap, ASAP!

Oh, and considering we're on the subject of Perez.

FIRST, BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/gets coat.