DNC

Tonight was the All Star Game to tomorrow night's Super Bowl. Hillary, Bill, Kerry, Richardson, and Biden all delivered huge speeches, the first time outside of Olbermann and Stewart that I've seen Big Timers take open shots at BushCo out loud. Good stuff.

I was downtown for a gig on Monday, and I must say that you there conventioners can give us our town back any damn day now. Bizarro Denver is full of out-of-towners wandering our streets and navigating around barrier checkpoints on $2-per-block pedicabs*.

* One pedaler I spoke to while waiting for the non-existent Mall Shuttle to arrive and subsequent Brute Squad to pass said he was averaging a thousand dollars a day and had already purchased a 10-day vacation to Japan after the convention leaves. Nice.

If you're reading this and you're at the DNC and have never been here before*, please come back again some other time and see how this place really is without the riot gear and the barricades and the rental humans.

* and please, if you see Cyndi Lauper and her publicist wandering aimlessly around 15th and Oblivion, kindly point them back toward civilization. Thanks.