So I went to the Laura Ingraham event last night, at the O’Shaughnessy Auditorium at the College of St. Catherine, down in Highland Park.<\/p>\n
I guess I was a bit remiss in my blogging before last night – I was actually the Master of Ceremonies.\u00a0 Which meant I had to dig my suit out of mothballs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Good News:\u00a0 It was a great time.\u00a0 Laura was doing her book tour for her new book,\u00a0“Power To The People”; we had a really <\/em>great turnout, weather or no.\u00a0 She’s an excellent, passionate speaker with a raft of great stories to tell, and a mission to tell ’em.\u00a0 And I had a great time MC-ing things; I got to welcome the crowd, introduce Laura, and then – the fun part – moderate a Q and A session afterward.\u00a0 I had a blast.<\/p>\n The Great News:\u00a0 I had no idea this was going to happen, but the event will apparently be my national TV debut.\u00a0 A local stringer for C-SPAN was there, covering the event.\u00a0 I’m sure it’ll be on at 4AM some Sunday morning, between the GAO report on office supply waste and the scores for the Justice Department softball league, but hey, national TV is national TV.\u00a0 My parents will be so proud.<\/p>\n The Not-So-Great News:\u00a0 When I parked my car to get to O’Shaughnessey, the storm was at its peak, and I was already late, and no, I didn’t have an umbrella; I was already late for my call, so I had to get moving.\u00a0 I arrived soaking wet, and I only dried off so much before I had to go onstage, where at least the blazing stage lighting evaporated some of the surface accumulations (very likely in a cloud of steam visible from the audience).\u00a0 So I’ll make my national TV debut looking like a half-drowned rat who got to spend two minutes under a heat lamp.<\/p>\n However – all in all, it was a great time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I went to the Laura Ingraham event last night, at the O’Shaughnessy Auditorium at the College of St. Catherine, down in Highland Park. I guess I was a bit remiss in my blogging before last night – I was actually the Master of Ceremonies.\u00a0 Which meant I had to dig my suit out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-narn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}