Michael Grass, an editor with the Washington Post Express, almost immediately responded to our post about the gay fitness blogger who wondered why his posts always get selected to be in the paper’s “blog log” section. We intimated that Grass might have had something to do with it, since, well, he’s the big cheese online editor over there. But that is not true!

“For the record,” Grass writes, “I wasn’t working on Sunday, therefore, I’m not responsible for the Vividblurry quote. There are multiple people at Express who put Blog Log together. Check your facts.”

Noted! Mike Grass does not like Vivid Blurry! Vivid Blurry is evil! Mike Grass would never think to link to Vivid Blurry!

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Everybody’s favorite celebrity fitness blogger - aka Toby at Vivid Blurry - notes that seemingly every time he writes a post, the editor of the Washington Post Express seems to pick it up for his “blog log” summary.

This notation brings up a good question: How exactly are the items selected for the daily round-up? Do you have to be on editor Mike Grass’ good side to get a mention? Or do you simply have to be a flamboyant fitness blogger? If that’s the case, we just might have to dust off our pink leotards. We need more love!

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Let’s just say it: Sommer Mathis used to write about a lot more interesting things on her personal blog. Now, however, she just talks about horses. And! She talks to The Washingtonian’s Garrett Graff (who kind of looks like a horse, now that we think of it). In a wide ranging interview, on stands now, she shares some golden nuggets:

Last year she became the first paid editor of DCist. (No wonder Mike Grass got the hell out of there.)

She loves to sit by the big fountain outside the Hirshhorn Museum to snag the Smithsonian’s free wireless Internet . (No one ever said DCist paid well.)

Her favorite book is Lolita. (If you read her old blog, you’ll know why!)

And, finally, she heads to the Outer Banks every Memorial Day. (Now you can schedule around that.)

Earlier: Should DCist Editor Sommer Mathis Be Fired?

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Mike Grass, of Read Express fame, yesterday lamented that “in the past year or so, some of D.C.’s most prolific local bloggers, El Guapo in D.C., First Date D.C., D.C. Direct Current, KathrynOn and Rock Creek Rambler, among others, have closed down shop for various reasons, including, in some cases, the kind of factional online warfare most of us haven’t seen since middle school.”

Ha! What does Grass mean by “factional online warfare”? Blog wars?

Big Head DC covered the goings on at blogs like KathrynOn and Rock Creek Rambler like it was our job, or something, and, believe us, things went way beyond blog wars. In fact, one of the bloggers who co-wrote First Date DC took his online aggressions into reality, showing up at a blogger’s house in the wee hours of the morning on a cold winter’s night this past winter. That blogger has since left the country. Literally.

Grass also quotes Pat Thibodeau, the operator of the DC Blogs site aggregator, and calls his site “comprehensive.”

Again, ha! As we’ve seen from coverage over the years, Thibodeau selectively befriends certain bloggers, excludes others for inconsistent reasons, and has toiled in blog warfare as well.

We even hear that Grass, too, has engaged in behind-the-scenes blog wargames.

It must be an epidemic! And everybody got sick. Except us. 

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Look! Two of the best darn DC bloggers you know turned 21 this week. This was the least we could do:

But please - please! - don’t eat too much cake, guys. 

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