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  I was pleased to see the crowd contained within the bakery. If the line was out the door I don't know what I would have done.  The crowd was, however, sizeable.  So sizeable, in fact, that it was hard to move. Everyone was really into the show and the decibel level of the applause was in the triple digits. The staff was very friendly and AAR gave out a ton of fun stuff, almost all with their old logo on it. I wonder how long those keychains have been laying around.  The link to the Bush way of thinking, Lawton Smalls, makes a visit to New York to chat with Marc. In the wings is James Wolcott, waiting to discuss Deep Throat. Lawton had total control of the room. Brilliant.  Seeing Mike Doughty perform live a few feet from me was far and away the highlight of my morning. He played two songs perfectly at 8am. To hear them check the Morning Sedition archive at Air America Place. In the foreground is Dan Pashman, son of Lewis and Linda Pashman of New Jersey, and an Air America guy who told me to get out of the way.  Mr. Doughty warming up for his mini-set. In the background is Mark Riley sifting through news and the blur that was Marc Maron this morning. I have no idea how those guys are so awake that early. Mr. Maron was in fine form and, with the new experience of hosting a podcast under my belt, I was dumbfounded at how good he was with the show, the crowd, and the whole radio deal after only being on air for 13 months. All in all it was a lot of fun, and Air America even bought everyone free coffee! Can't beat that. And it was good coffee, too. The damn fine Morning Sedition will be touring across New York City every Friday this summer, visiting local restaurants and target-market locales. I hope they're all on my way to work. As a side note, I overheard one of the regular customers ask a server what was going on. She looked a little confused, then said "Oh, it's a radio broadcast. They're, um," then she looked at one of the magnets sitting by the cash register. "WLIB, yeah." He replied, "Oh, hmm." It was hardly worth a laugh, but I smiled to myself knowing that what they believed was a local AM radio broadcast was actually going out to over 2 million people. |
 
  
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