I’m sitting in the big hall at Netroots Nation waiting for Bill Clinton to arrive. Adam Bonin is doing a great job of entertaining the crowd. He’s introducing Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC). Brad Miller, you may remember, has a history with Booman Tribune. This is from the Las Vegas Yearly Kos:
The funniest thing that happened at the conference was in the Blog Theory panel that Chris [Bowers] moderated. Some people saw CabinGirl and me on C-SPAN2 and sent me a note about it. Then I said we were trying to figure out a good way to heckle the panel. Omir the Storyteller suggested that I open Word, and type ‘Smile, if you are not wearing underpants’ in a huge font and turn around my laptop so the panel could read it. Since Tim Tagaris was so nervous that he was shaking the whole table, I decided it might lighten his mood. So, I followed Omir’s advice. The only problem was the Tim wouldn’t look at me. Then I noticed Rep. Brad Miller squinting to read my monitor, then a look of shock overtook his face. Pretty funny.
I now know that Brad Miller thought I was pointing the monitor at Ali Savino, which makes the whole story quite a bit funnier.
Good Times.
