We honestly try not to cover Silicon Valley too much here on lalawag. For one its boring, secondly they have more than enough coverage. However that doesn’t mean we ignore our blue shirted and techno-hipsters to the north. In fact some are very special to us, that even includes the big guy Michael Arrington.

If you’ve been playing along at home you know he took the entire month of February off after a drive by spit in the face, we don’t blame him. Living in Los Angeles we understand how difficult it can be to scale the success of one person. From the hanger ons to bad business partners, its a real mess. 

So like an annoying Hollywood agent, we’d like to offer Mike some advice. We don’t care if he takes it, we just like being nosy. Ok we worry about the guy too.  So it is now time for…

Michael Arrington’s Top 5 Post Vacation To Do Items:

• Promote  Erick Schonfeld to Head Asshole: Online publishing is not a friendly place. Especially so if you cover the technology and the start up spaces. Erick has what it takes let me tell you. He is going from zero to spit on the face in record time. So kick back, let Erick throw some daggers for you and enjoy the show. In fact he has already started the job.
• Get an Office: Your home is your sanctuary and you’ve turned it into hell (an office). I get how nice it can be to work from home, the laptop’n in your boxers, sleeping into noon, its all so magical. However if your home is your office, you have no great escape from the work itself. Get an office and get those geeks in training off your couch.
• Do More Interviews: Mike’s interviews are always great and with the best people. He has the access to them and the balls to ask real questions. Hell, just take over for Charlie Rose already.
• Let the Dogs Fight over the Scraps: You have a stable of writers, let them and the dozen other tech blogs fight over the scraps. Focus on the high level stories. I’m more interested in these tales than a post about some poor start up with feature creep.
• Take the Money and Run: Maybe you should just take the Newscorp offer and run. The TechCrunch brand will live on, it might even make it to Web 5.0. Take that cash and do what really makes you happy.

I can’t say if its going to be business as usual around the TechCrunch headquarters now that Mike is back. The Internet has turned my attention span into that of about 3 minutes flat. I might not even notice should things change. However like many, I’m always looking for the next big thing. I just need to know where I’m going to read about it.

Welcome back.

(Photo by Darcy Padilla)