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My apologies to all who care for not posting for a while… it has been, to put it mildly, rather busy, and I intentionally did not bring my computer along on our recent travels in order to focus on more important things, like, say, my wife. And my friends. And the Various and Interesting Events that have Transpired in the last week.
First off: the Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me Tenth Anniversary Party, last Friday at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. I will admit to being a bit ambivalent about it, beforehand. This party was a fundraiser for Chicago Public Radio, and I attend many such events in the course of the year. It’s always pleasant to meet fans, but it is a kind of work, and I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it at an event meant to celebrate our own achievement. But, as it turns out, if you’re going to have a party to celebrate something you’ve done, it’s actually a good idea to invite a bunch of people so fond of what you do that they’re willing to pay to come cheer you on. It was a wonderful event, and perhaps the best thing about it was that for the first time ever, all the Wait Wait panelists were gathered in the same place at the same time. (Sans Mo Rocca, who was in Europe.) Click on the picture of us all below to go to a gallery of more photos from the event, taken by Don White, husband of our technical director, Lorna White.
An account of the Peabody Awards to come…
June 18th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Awesome photo set. It does look like it was one heck of a party.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
You all look so…grown up…and professional! I’m sorry we missed you in NYC. I hope the weather was better for you.
And, hey, enjoy the success.
Heather
June 18th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
What great pictures! Thank you for sharing them with folks who wish they could’ve been there!
Congrats on the run and wishes for many more to come!
(This is just to show that a WWDTM listener does know how to end a sentence without an exclamation point.)!
June 19th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Very nice photos, indeed!
“It’s always pleasant to meet fans, but it is a kind of work…”
Say it ain’t so! (Okay, I guess it is a kind of work, for sure. However, I’m glad that the fans you met made your party even more fun for you and the others on “Wait Wait…”).
Actually, one of the very Worse things I can think of is meeting a celebrity, actually meeting one in person.
It would be so embarrassing and painful for me. I’d just be another one of those countless lowly peons, hardly daring to approach the King, and then having to back out of the room slowly at the first, possible moment of exit. Then I’d be taken to the dungeons and beaten for daring to make eye contact w/the Holy One. This eye contact would have been totally accidental, on my part, due to the fact that I have Astigmatism and/or I’m really quite near-sighted (but, I like saying “Astigmatism” more. Anything w/the word “stigma” in it, I resonate to very well. It’s troubling, really).