More Wednesday highlights
By Jim Thomsen, National board member | Posted: 3:47 AM 4/10
Seen and heard Wednesday night in the late and occasionally lamented “three-dot” column style ...
Some personal Wednesday night highlights for me:
— Finally meeting Beth Colvin, from the Baton Rouge Advocate, with whom I’ve been corresponding from several years. Glad to see she’s completely healed up from emergency gallbladder removal surgery just two weeks ago.
— Hearing Daniel Hunt’s spot-on impersonation of the “first voice” from TV’s “How It’s Made.”
— Seeing Hank Glamann sweep down the stairs, resplendent in bright red scarf, like the return of Elvis in concert. (Or maybe Ethel Merman.) I’m surprised everybody didn’t make like “Cheers” denizens and yell “HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!”
— Getting a great turnout (32 people) for our early-bird dinner outing at the Rock Bottom Brewery. Nearly half, I noted, were first-time attendees, and all quickly made friends and were happily chattering away the whole time. ACES = the ultimate social lubricant. Drinking almost seems unnecessary. Almost. (Also, I apologize to Andy Bechtel and others for sharing my newspaper’s “microwaved poop” police blotter story at the dinner table. I blame the excellent 16th Street wheat beer.)
— Speaking of beer, each of us at ACES has a moral responsibility to see to it that Katie Schwing never pays for a drink during the entirety of the conference. I’ll let her tell why, but as I learned last night, it’s a truly horrifying tale of just how scary and unstable this business truly is. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Or, like Katie, you’ll laugh and drink.
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