In For A Late Night

Eric and I are hung up in the airport in Chicago, our layover on the Dallas trip. There's some weather in between us and LaGuardia. As it was, we were supposed to get in late, with me probably not getting back to Long Island until after midnight. Our flight's been delayed at least two hours. Could be a long night... The worst part is that we have at least three clients in Chicago we'd like to go see, but it's already after business hours, and besides - we can't leave the airport because no one knows when they'll start clearing flights into LGA again.

Grrr...

Go See Jersey Boys

I went to go see Jersey Boys last night with Lauren and her parents. Very cool show with very cool music. The audience was completely energized - more like at a rock concert than at a Broadway show. I don't know how one trains to pull off a falsetto like Frankie Valli's but somehow John Lloyd Young made it work. Lauren's Dad asked us in the car on the way back from the train station whether we enjoyed it despite our not having grown up "in that era," as he termed it. I replied that my Dad played so much music from The Four Seasons in the house when I was growing up that I DID feel like I grew up in that era. ;-)

Lauren's Mom bought us a soundtrack album, which I'm looking forward to getting on my iPod later today.

A Reminder - DNFTT

Just a quick reminder - Do Not Feed The Trolls. Fellow liberals: Ann Coulter is a troll. In both senses, but mostly in the Internet sense of someone who is deliberately confrontational so they can get a rise out of you. In other words, Coulter deliberately went after 9-11 widows to sell more books. The more outrage you express, the more letters you write to the papers, the more attention you give her, the more books she sells and the more difficult she is to get out of the spotlight. This page on Newsmax should make it more than evident that the radical right is using the hype machine to distract folks and line Ann Coulter's pockets with the money spent by people who can't resist a good train wreck. Don't try to smear the rest of the right wingers by invoking Coulter. Even the dumbest of us knows she's lunatic fringe material.

So just stop it already.

Heading to UPenn Today

This afternoon, I'm hopping in my truck and driving down to Philly, where the Annenberg School for Communication is hosting a conference on hyperlinking. I'm on the first panel of the morning, with Jay Rosen, Tony Gentile, Eric Picard and Nancy Tellem. Should be a fun time. Maybe I'll get to meet David Weinberger. First, though, I'm doing the ad:tech radio podcast with Susan Bratton, which should prove to be fun and interesting.