Driven to Distraction

I have dreams and goals and stuff to do around the house. These are the things this week that kept me from getting to any of it.

Bryant Park or Bust ... Continued

October 16, 2006

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After the show, I went to a Starbucks in Times Square to decompress and get out of the rain. While I was there, struggling with my New York Times crossword puzzle, two women and a man came and sat near me.

It was obvious from their swag bags and breathless declarations of, “I loved Laura’s!” and “I loved Jeffrey’s more!” that they had been to the show, so I started chatting to the woman nearest me.

She said her name was Laura from and that she was a wife and mom from Scottsdale, AZ, my home state.

Laura explained to me that she became obsessed with “Runway” during Season 1 and had no one to dish about it with so she started blogging about it at bloggingprojectrunway.blogspot.com. This started a groundswell in the Blogosphere about the show and soon Laura was interacting with fellow fans from all over the world. Her two cohorts in Starbucks were fellow fans from other parts of the country who she met through the blog who now work on the blog as well.

As Laura and I sipped coffee and compared notes, one of her compatriots was feverishly posting her pics onto the web. It was like being in a high-pressure episode of “Lou Grant.”

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Tbone wrote:

Of all the caffeine joints in all the towns in all the world, what were the chances we would walk into yours?

That's me in the photo doing my best "Lou Grant" impression. We had a great time and meeting you was a big highlight for me, too. "Hey, it's the Outzone guy!", we cheered.

The best thing about the internets are the friends you make along the way. We definitely count you among them. Thank you Dennis!

posted at October 18, 2006 08:15 PM

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