Convention Blogging Coming
In case you haven't figured it out yet, this blog is currently on summer schedule. There will probably be no postings this coming week as mini-vacations and maximum work converge.
However, I will be TRIPLE BLOGGING from the Democratic National Convention in Boston beginning at the end of next week, starting Saturday July 24.
I will be posting on this blog, of course.
I will also be blogging on the site of L.A. Weekly.
And I will be experimenting with audio-blogging on the site of The Nation. The audio blog will allow you to listen to either my own narrative and/or segments of interviews and speeches I'll be recording at and around the convention.
Stay tuned.
Would you like me to fill in for you? Do you think we could pull it off without anyone noticing?
Posted by: Woody McNair | Monday, July 19, 2004 at 10:11 AM
Hi Woody.. Oh.... I think SOMEONE might catch on :)
Posted by: Marc Cooper | Monday, July 19, 2004 at 03:16 PM
Hi Woody.. Oh.... I think SOMEONE might catch on :)
Posted by: | Monday, July 19, 2004 at 03:17 PM
Great photo. Snazzy shades. Cool, populist hat. You're clearly having much too much fun these days.
Posted by: rosedog | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 09:21 AM
What Rosedog said! But you look better with the beard IMO.
Posted by: GMRoper | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 02:48 PM
Im going incognito beardless
Posted by: Marc Cooper | Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 11:23 PM
Be sure to put on a shirt before you go to Boston. (It makes a better impression to the Kerry-Heinz upper crust and, as a bonus, provides a means to carry sensitive documents!)
Enjoy you visit. I'm looking forward to your articles.
Posted by: Woody McNair | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 08:09 AM
"...you look better with the beard IMO."
Piffle, GM. I have to disagree. I like the strong manly chin OR the beard.
Also...
"Be sure to put on a shirt before you go to Boston. (It makes a better impression to the Kerry-Heinz upper crust and, as a bonus provides a means to carry sensitive documents!)"
Woody, Woody, Woody! Think socks! Socks!
I'm joking of course. According to nearly all national experts polled on the subject, document-stuffed socks are dreadfully lumpy thus inevitably a dead giveaway. Plus paper-crammed socks tend to make suspicious little crumply-swishy noises when you leave the National Archives and other sensitive areas.
Posted by: rosedog | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 01:18 PM
Rosedog writes: "According to nearly all national experts polled on the subject, document-stuffed socks are dreadfully lumpy thus inevitably a dead giveaway. Plus paper-crammed socks tend to make suspicious little crumply-swishy noises . . ."
Not to mention the chapped ankles. Anyone with any sense whatsoever knows that balled up papers go in the FRONT of the pants to give that codpiece appearance and make one manlier (a la the Algore look). Now, only a complete novice would put balled up papers in the BACK of the pants, we know what that would have the appearance of. No, the experts agree that the only way to handle expropriated documents in the socks is to 1) wear calf high socks and 2) Fold the papers and secure those next to the skin presenting a well formed if somewhat bulked up leg profile. In addition, we all know that folded papers swish less.
Other than that, Rosedog, I agree. :-)
Posted by: GMRoper | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 07:03 PM
In the car tonite I was listening to Jeanane Garofolo on XM radio-- but after five minutes I couldnt stand anymore of her knuckleheaded shrillness... she is a REAL political idiot. I said to my wife that if Im gonna get mad listening to idiots on the radio better I get mad at the right than the left... so I switched over to the neanderthal Michael Savage. He kept calling Sandy Berger "Sandy Burglar." I laughed out loud. Sue me.....
Posted by: Marc Cooper | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 10:43 PM