A CITY BUILT ON HOT SAND, BROKEN DREAMS AND FIVE DOLLAR LOBSTER: If things are a bit quiet around here for the weekend, it's because both Matt and I are in Las Vegas for the YearlyKos conference.
I feel badly that I missed the Mark Warner "Blogosphere at the Stratosphere" party, not only because I wanted to visit the months-long vacationers and check their lung capacity, but because it's been described by folks as being like the excessive Bar Mitzvah party thrown by a distant relative who you never really liked -- somewhere around $50-75K to woo bloggers, including an open bar, chocolate fountain and ice sculptures. No baby lamb chops, however.
Three other 2008 hopefuls are afoot -- Tom Vilsack, Wesley Clark and Bill Richardson -- and all of them, unlike Warner, participated in panels with bloggers rather than just deliver a slightly-tailored stump speech. But as we like to say around here, with the exception being the crucial fight for net neutrality that Phil's updating people on, this is not a political blog, so I'll stop there on that front.
As for my panel with Krist Novoselic et al, it was a lot of fun, and both Krist and his wife are exceptionally cool and humble. It was a really pleasure having Krist, Micah, John and Kyrsten on the panel, even at the ungodly hour of 8am, LasVegas time. I learned stuff.
What else is there to say? Ton of media here -- Maureen Dowd was everpresent with her farbissina punim the first two days (and a number of NYT reporters remain); Ana Marie Cox and I have crossed paths a few times; etc.
If and when we decide to host ALOTT5MAcon, I'm sure that we'll receive the same level of attention from the pop culture universe that politicians have shown here. Jeff Zucker will host a party; Mark Burnett will sit on a panel with us to discuss Reality TV and the Importance of the Meta-Narrative; we'll get someone from the Times Style section to discuss how wedding announcements get selected and laid out. And you bet your ass that I'll design and host a spelling bee competition. ("S-C-O-R-S-E-S-E".)
But first, as Julie Chen likes to say, this is an Open Thread.
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