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August 25, 2007
Sucky liveblogging RT II
Faux live blogging at Rising Tide II.
Got off to the typical New Orleans late start. The comfy tables all got claimed by early risers who didn't stay out at Buffa's into the wee hours last night. Naturally I'm in the back with the cool kids: Scout, who is quite charming even when she's hungover like a dog (and was a very gracious stumbling drunk last night), and her friend Lisa. Fuck the people at the tables...we got AC power back here.
The politics forum. Governor's race: boring. Seriously, there's nothing to talk about. Jindal doesn't have it locked up yet but until he gets caught in bed with a live boy, there's just no drama there.
Local politics: Oyster regrets leaving his thick file on Derrick Sheppard dirt behind in his house and losing it to the flood. Offers the lame excuse that he had to grab his kids. We all make choices, and when it comes right down to it, Oyster would choose family over political blogging. Selfish bastard. Still, Dambala predicts Sheppard is going down Monday.
We keep coming back around to the running gag of burning down City Hall.
Chad Rogers sad "irregardless" in a non-ironic fashion. Gah!
They talked about corruption. I missed most of it, I had to pee. Sorry.
Dangerblond asks "what can we as citizens do about corruption, other than vote?" Panelists stare blankly and then go back to making political predictions about who will run for what. I mean, I think that's the crux of the issue and the point of the whole conference: taking action. But when asked about citizen action, the only response anybody has is "that's hard, let's talk about something else".
Scout whispers to me: "Which Cynthia were they talking about?"
"Cynthia who?"
"The one they were just talking about".
"Sorry, I missed that, I was typing."
Funny thing about live-blogging. You miss half of what is said because you're busy typing. Who invented this concept? It elevates the blogging of the event to a higher status than the event itself.
I'm signing off.
Posted by ray at August 25, 2007 10:06 AM | Permalink
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Comments
LMAO. I picked up on that "irregardless" too. Thanks for helping me understand why all the cool kids are in the back of the room. Duh. We had a pretty dysfunctional morning after night 1 of the slumber party at Dangerblond's. Stayed up late "chatting" (big surprise there, huh?) and it took a whole lot o' coffee to get us dressed and here this morning. Cynthia and I agreed to take full responsibility. Without the burden of us in tow, DB would have been here bright and early. ;)
Posted by: Sophmom at August 25, 2007 11:59 AM
Will lunch be on time???? I'll be heading over about that time. Slaving away at the office right now - eh.
Posted by: Charlotte at August 25, 2007 12:06 PM
Cynthia WL.
Perhaps if you were sitting up front at my table, you'd have heard, eh?
Posted by: Maitri at August 25, 2007 2:04 PM
Oooo, an invite?
Posted by: Ray at August 25, 2007 2:12 PM
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