O Nerdprom! My Nerdprom! Highlights From WHCD 2010
It’s not that Kal Penn isn’t perfectly nice. It’s just that I really, really, really, really like Glee.
Two of my favorite people in this milieu: The Chicago Sun-Times & Politics Daily’s Lynn “Really Is Very” Sweet and the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza with two Z’s. Obvious puns, made.
Ok, Ed Henry, I like your Twitter again: Here’s a pic he took of Rahm, MoDo, and the NYT’s Carl Hulse (@HillHulse, just joined Twitter. Welcome!). Alas, I got there too late to compliment Rahm on his tie.
Speaking of ties: There were a lot of pastel/shimmery/stripey things going on, and while it’s a weak segue to dishing about Bill Burton, it’ll have to do, since I don’t have a pic. I met Burton while I was at the bar chatting with Mark Leibovich, one of my favorite writers (love love loved his Chris Matthews piece), who recently wrote the Mike Allen/Politico profile, “The Man The White House Wakes Up To.” Burton greeted Leibovich and said the piece “was very interesting.” So there you go. He though the piece was interesting. Oh, right: He was also wearing a very nice tie.
New Republic Editor Franklin Foer and The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg, formerly of the New Yorker, recounted a story about suggesting to David Remnick that they could put together a really great Jewish magazine. I can’t remember if the punchline was, “We do! The New Yorker!” but in my head it certainly was.
Non sequitur: Here’s Hendrik Hertzberg!
Michael Calderone, late of Politico and soon of Yahoo!, and The Nation’s Ari Melber flank late arrival Arianna Hufington at the New Yorker party. There was some polite hovering while she confabbed with David and Susan Axelrod, who were, in turn, hovering to talk to me but I was very busy.
Host David Remnick – whose iPod the party music was rumored to have come from, which means “I Got My Mind Set On You” by George Harrison and “I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl” by Nina Simone, among others – with Arianna.
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