DNC Report: Day 1
Posted on | August 26, 2008 at 8:06 am | 4 Comments
Oh man, you would not believe what’s been happening around here! Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention yesterday was off the hook. I don’t even know what bit of excitement to start talking about first.
Okay, actually, there’s not much going on in my neck of the woods. The most exciting thing to happen to me was that I was questioned by two security guards because I was parked in a parking lot near the capitol. But I had a legitimate reason for being there, so it was all good. There’s TV vans and a huge police presence everywhere downtown, and some streets and lanes were blocked off here and there. More pedestrians than normal. Very few protesters, though I did see a few people carrying signs. Even the commute into work in the morning seemed quicker than usual. Hopefully things are just beginning to ramp up and the partying will commence.
One of my co-workers jogged downtown during lunch and spotted Joe Biden at the 16th Street Mall. He was surrounded by men, SUVs, and motorcycles, of course. So it’s not like you could go “Hey Joe! How’s it going? Sign my water bottle?” I guess the senator was on his way to (or from) lunch at Boney’s.
So, that’s it. Denver is Excitement City. All I know is want the mailboxes to come back!
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 62°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “To Wild Homes” (The New Pornographers)
- “Smile” (Buzzcocks)
- “Shitloads Of Money” (Liz Phair)
- “Gonna Never Have to Die” (Guided By Voices)
- “You Wanted Me There, Right?” (From Bubblegum To Sky)
- “I Was A Teenage Ringpiece” (Wanker)
- “Seven Horses” (Icicle Works)
Hair-Splitting Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “deliciously eating or eating deliciously”.
Videogame(s) Played Yesterday: None.
Comments
4 Responses to “DNC Report: Day 1”
August 26th, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
I haven’t been anywhere near downtown, but yesterday while I was listening to Ed Schultz he said that the closest available parking space was in Colorado Springs. Fortunately for me Comcast has the speeches available On Demand so I’ve just been parking in my own driveway and punching up only the people I’m interested in hearing.
August 26th, 2008 @ 1:01 pm
One can never overstate The Mailbox Threat To America!
August 26th, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
I can’t believe you didn’t get to see any protesters, especially near your house. I mean, it’s over a dozen miles from the convention, screened by hills from a line-of-sight (rare for Denver), in a secluded suburb – sounds like an IDEAL “free speech zone”…
August 26th, 2008 @ 10:57 pm
I was in the gate area of an airport last year — it might have been Albuquerque — looking for a mailbox, and couldn’t find one. I know there are usually mailboxes & stamp machines in airports, since I’ve used them before. Anyway, I asked someone working in a store and they said the mailboxes had been removed because, you know, everything changed after 9/11. Um, so you could get the bomb past security, and THEN put it in a mailbox…