Tune in to Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann Tonight! Shannyn Moore Live in the NY Studio.
Well, we’ve arrived in the Big Apple, and my travel companion, Shannyn Moore will be appearing on Keith Olbermann’s show tonight, live from the NBC studios at 30 Rock.
It was a great train ride from Boston to Penn Station, passing by some beautiful Connecticut coastline, and little harbor towns. There was tall grass and white sand, egrets and herons and gulls, people sailing and fishing and cute little and not-so-little beach houses. Several times I looked for one of those little pull ropes, or thought about yelling “Stop the train!”
I’ve spent quite a bit of time in New York, but this was Shannyn’s first visit and the look on her face when we stepped out of Penn Station was priceless. As she gazed up and saw a skyscraper, it was the same facial expression people get in Alaska when they see their first glacier up close, only with a dash of horror. I don’t know how hot it is here in the city, but I’m guessing somewhere between 135 and 200 degrees. One unconditioned cab ride later, here we are at the hotel.
Someone will be by to pick us up and take us to the MSNBC studios in about an hour. I’ll post more later. They wanted to know if Shannyn “needed anything.” I told her to ask for a bowl of M&Ms with the yellow ones picked out, but she wouldn’t do it. Then I thought “maybe hair and makeup for the tag-along?” Yes, it seems I get to go too. So, I’ll have to give myself some kind of title like “Just a Girl from Homer staff photographer,” or “media centered life coach and M&M picker.” Shannyn tells me that they actually have read Mudflats over there, so that’s pretty cool. (Waving at MSNBC just in case!)
Yes, I will have the moose in tow. (Giving you a snappy salute) Over & out until later Mudflatters!
As a drama/theatre teacher, I take my students to NYC, London, Paris,Rome, Barcelona, Dublin, etc. The more we travel, the more tolerant, understanding and compassionate we become. I truly believe that one of the components to peace and justice involves the journey forward and the return as well. Go to NYC and grow!
slainte’
Such memories of NYC for me, too, from you all. I remember coming up from the
subway on West 4th Street for the first time in my [then] 20 years of life and feeling that
I had just come home.
I have always felt that NYC is the best place..in the USA, lived outside the Lower 48 yet,
..to be down and out. People are always there to give you a hand. Just the simple
assistance you need. I think it was because everyone there came from somewhere
else, or knew someone who did. Just an awareness that there is a necessary level of communal
civility and responsibility.
In Milwaukee where I live now, it is a different feel about sharing or helping.
As in, to paraphrase Garrison Keilor, if you need to borrow $2.00 for the laundromat, because your washer broke,
you would get the two bucks, but also a lecture on taking better care of machinery.
Take the Staten Island Ferry to Staten Island and back, it will be cool. Also a trip around the island with the Circle Line.
Too bad the Windows on the World no longer exists. (World Trade Center)
Certainly see the Rock. Rockefeller Center. The Cloisters.
But you will be back, I’m sure.
Sorry that the two girls are experiencing typical August Weather. It only arrived a few days ago. The early months of summer where pleasant and cooler by 5-10 degrees than normal.
I live near NYC about 58 miles out in the country, and always felt I owned NYC when I went there. I like London better, but NYC is mine.
A real melting pot, and considering the heat an accurate phrase.
Enjoy your chocolates.
REAL Pizza, REAL deli, REAL bagels, REAL Chinese food. EAT!!!!!!!!! Then head up the Hudson river on the Palisades Pkwy to Bear Mountain for a pretty drive. Turn around and then EAT MORE! I miss NYC……
Krubozumo Nyankoye I think I love ya. Thanks for your posts on NYC : my favorite place (though I was not born there, nor do I live there (unfortunately); and by the way, I love New Yorkers too. When we have visited, everytime, we have had New Yorkers come up to us and ask if we need directions, we have had them engage us on the subway to ask where we are from, what we have seen/done while in NYC, etc. But if they don’t engage us, if they are the ones that get on the subway wearing their suits and tennis shoes, sit down, immediately open a newspaper or laptop, and stare fixed at it for the ride, I UNDERSTAND! That is the regiment of the real New Yorker who works in the City and has a long ride each day. I respect them as for the most part they respect others going about their business. And my favorite thing to do there is to buy a hot dog from a street vendor! And Long Island is beautiful!
New Open Thread available for all comments not on this topic.
saw Shannyn…fantastic as usual…”oops I Quit it again” palin. lol
I bought my very first iPod today…and of course I downloaded Countdown as one of my podcasts…Rachel also too…and a whole bunch of my CD’s. It’s a fun little thing.
Strength to everyone on this thread suffering loss in life. Be strong in your human frame. We shall all endure. Blessings to AKM and Shannyn that I got to sit with Sunday and talk with about the vastness of the Mudflats.
Beautiful comments, #63 Krubozumo Nyankoye, the places may look different, but people are the same. You say it beautifully. My favorite thing to do in New York City (or lots of other places, too) is walk. One walk that I enjoyed started at my favorite cookbook store, Kitchen Arts and Letters, Lexington & 93rd Street. Walking slowly back to my hotel, I looked in windows, stopped for coffee and eavesdropped on conversations. I walked through neighborhoods which were like small towns, where each person knew each other and stopped to chat.
On another visit, my husband and I decided to trace NY’s history, starting with a trusty Green Michelin Guide (fits in my big purse), starting at Battery Park, looking at the Statue of Liberty. We walked up Broadway, with suitable detours every time a side street looked interesting, finding places which General George Washington planned his campaign, or was sworn in as the first president of the United States. And, just in case we forget, there is still a huge hole in downtown NY, and though machines and men look like they are busy working, there still is nothing to replace the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
63
Krubozumo Nyankoye Says:
August 19th, 2009 at 5:44 PM
——————————
Fabulous post!
It brought back memories of my first visit to NYC as a 6 year old boy in the early 1950’s with my father and mother and equally young sisters. I remember seeing the burlesque marquee as a small boy! At that age I knew nothing about women but I wondered what was to be seen inside that place with the streaming and rolling light bulbs? I could sense human longing all around me. Looking back now I somehow could sense the dust of World War II still in the wind and on the sidewalks of Times Square from the soldiers, sailors, and marines that had passed through to their fates. We went to the Horn and Hardart’s Automat and I got lemon pie. I opened the little glass window myself! I remember feeling for my father. We were standing waiting for the bus driver to open the door somewhere near a pier. We were standing in the rain. We waited and waited. He would not open the door because he was eating lunch from a bag and was not on duty yet. He was cutting a pear. My father was a shy man but he summoned himself to bang on the door of the bus for his wife and children to get out of the rain. Just then another bus came and my father said “Get on this bus. We won’t get on his bus.” And he led us that way. My father was seven years out of the Pacific in WWII with three small childen. I could not understand what that meant in life yet. I can only understand it now.
My second visit in the mid 60’s was on a college football team up to play Columbia in their strange stadium of wood. I remember riding in the team bus looking out the window at the city sights. It had just rained. There was grime on business signs but somehow they glistened with sunlight captured in the drops. The real explosion of the 1960’s hadn’t happened yet. Everything was just simmering out there in the folk singers of Greenwich Village walking the streets as unknowns. Battered guitar cases stained with beer waiting for the plate tectonics of consciousness to change. The now understood by me cosmic female energy of the hopeful ingenues of the Actor’s Studio and Playhouse 90 of black and white television was now going to go RGB Trinitron. All of it just brewing out there in sensuous evening lofts in the city ready to entwine with the explosion of youth.
I got my bell rung on a kickoff. Blood ran from my nose. But somewhere my consciousness was out there across New York in the background at all times in the chill air as the sun came out.
Maybe I was a photon for a moment that collided with Dylan’s brain…she’s got everything she needs…she’s and artist..and she don’t look back…
The 1960’s was coming. Raw. Primal cosmic energy. All latent in that New York City Saturday now somewhere lost in time.
It all came back to me in your piece Krubozumo Nyankoye. All right here on the Mudflats tonight.
Shannyn is one cool head, and such a refreshing voice of reason. She has a calm but confident TV presence. Hope to see lots more of her.
Shannyn was very good on KO – she should have her own show. I loved the updo – she looked great!
NYC is awesome – I hope they are having a blast!
I read in the latest National Geographic about their ongoing Genographic Project. They have found that the Astoria area of Queens hosts one of the most diverse genetic populations on Earth. One of their findings: “The Queens group as a whole is representative of most, but not all, of the paths our prehistoric ancestors followed as they migrated out of Africa.” What a wonderful place New York City must be! Enjoy the mix.
Krubozumo Nyankoye #63 –
Thank you for your beautiful comment. I was born and raised on LI and visited all parts of NYC many times from my teen years until I moved 11 years ago. It always bothered me when people who had never been there viewed it as frightening, dirty and unfriendly place. The people who live and work in NY represent every corner of the world and bring their unique cultures with them. There is not a person on this planet who could not find some touch of home somewhere within the city limits. Each borough has it’s own flavor and yet they’re all an integral part of the special city that is New York.
While it can be overwhelming, it is also a magical place with an energy you will not find any other place on earth. I am thrilled that AKM and Shannyn have the opportunity to spend some time there and see a city, while very different from Alaska, is filled with people who face the same challenges and have the same hopes and dreams of people everywhere.
MonaLisa
I be damned.
Frozen Hot Chocolate at Serendipity. Oops.
MonaLisa: Thanks for that link. The options are endless!
Talking about candy and NY, on 60th and Third, there is Dylan’s Candy Bar which is CRAZY with candy. Plus about midway on 60th, there is Serendipity III which has been there about 60 years and had Iced Hot Chocolate or some such dessert. I could see both from “my house” when I lived there. Don’t try to walk on 60th on the weekend or you’ll be run over by sugar-buzzed kids, ricochetting between these two sugar shacks.
Also, too, I used to walk down Park through Grand Central, past your WA hotel for a year when my office was a couple of blocks from GC before we moved to Wall St.
btw – I know why the neocons hate Olberman so much… he makes so much more sense when it comes to the health care (coverage) issue; which is how he should label the issue: health care coverage. Doctors will still provide the health care; it’s the coverage which pays for that care.
MonaLisa… I like the chocolate store in Times Square better.
Shannyn seemed mellower than usual… AKM needs to make sure she’s not keeping her up too late with drink and merriment! 😉
I hope you both are enjoying NY! It’s one of my favorite cities. Shannyn was perfect on KO tonight, and I have to give Keith kudos for his subliminal connections.
Of course, we have long associated Bitter Quitter with Britney, and her “oops, I did it again”.– but what’s truly sad is that Britney has more fortitude and strength and has been more brutalized and exposed by the press than the Bitter Quitter ever was or could be.
And Britney has also always had….talent. And she has worked hard.
Just sayin’:-)
Hi AKM!!! Enjoy NYC!!!! Waving from the south!!!!!
MonaLisa, you just made my day…
At 1600 Broadway is ‘M&M World’. The first time I went in, I couldn’t believe how huge this store is! 3 floors of chocolaty goodness (and official merchandise)
You don’ want yeller M&M’s? There’s 24 other colors to choose from, including shimmering platinum, gold and pearl. And if THAT’s ‘not quite special enough’ for ya, how about THIS:
http://www.mymms.com/customprint_faces/?sc_cid=DR_LV2
Oooo. Oooo. They’ve heard of The Mudflats. I’ll bet you get a shout out from Keith himself.
Shannyn on KO: Palin’s comeback song a la Britney Spears should be “OOPS! I Quit it Again.”
That Keith is a sly one…..juxtaposing Spears’ bikini-clad spot on Letterman with a discussion of Palin.
Curious how Britney even with all her past problems appears more resilient and savvy than Ms. Aborted-Term Ex-Governor of the Northern Star Musk Oxen Fellowship of Death Panels.
Pretty pathetic really.
Recently I have enjoyed the travelling experience. As I explained to another person today, “Travelling opens part of yourself you didn’t know wasn’t opened.”
I strongly recommend Elderhostel as a post retirement venue. They have such great participants and leaders, and they get really good prices for the pensioner’s dollar. It is a non-profit, so I’m not uncomfortable extolling their positives.
Who is this ‘Krubozumo Nyankoye’ (and where have you been all my life?! 😉 )
WELL said. Feel free to subjectively spout off anytime!
Krubozumo Nyankoye You are so right we are all interconnected weather from a small town or a large city like NY.Though I would not go on my own.we cannot be an island that5 stands alone
AKM, LOL at your M&Ms comments. What fun you two must be having. Shannyn was great as usual. Hope to see some great pics of Brian, KO and hopefully Rachel.
Oh dang. Shannyn should have whipped out that little moose while talking to Keith! (his questions and point of the interview were kind of dumb. Shannyn could have handled much more interesting discussion.)
AKM – this is a strictly non-objective reply so I am not reading any of the other comments just spouting off. I hope you enjoy your stay in “the city”, it is a truly amazing place. There is too much to say and it has been far too long for me to plug any of the more obscure sights, places, things that can absorb you and since you say you have spent some time there before you probably have your own perspective on all that.
Despite the fact that much of the US seems to think there is something intrinsically wrong with NYC, in my opinion, it is the quintessential corner of “America”, a little bit of everything is there, and a lot of some things that are definitional with respect to the rest of the country. And the rest of the world in a real sense. The only place that comes close to it is London but it is so steeped in the traditions and baggage of a lost empire that even though it is even more cosmopolitan in some senses it is also more parochial in others.
Like visiting any foreign country, you can’t really appreciate New York unless you actually live there for a while. You can get a sense if you happen to be accompanied by a vet such as yourself so I trust that your friend and fellow blogger will get a good taste of the place despite the brevity of your stay.
If there is a message or a lesson that goes along with knowing something of New York, it must be similar to the same kind of message or lesson that comes from traveling the world, diversity is the nature of humanity, we are not all the same, nor should we, could we even for a moment wish to be, it would be ennervatingly boring. Yes, it can be kinda tough too, just as it can be kinda tough to spend a winter in the Alaskan bush, or spend any similar length of time in Mali, or in the Amazon, or in the Andes, or Nepal, or Yakutia, or Samoa. Spending all your life in one place and knowing virtually nothing about anyplace else is a little like eating nothing but corn flakes.
Make the best of it, take Shannyn to some really decent eatery and then if you have some time, to MOMA or the Frick, or the Gugenheim, go to a coffee house in the Village like the 9th circle, or to Chumleys and have a hamburger with artichokes Sausilito for an appetizer. Go to Chinatown either
downtown or uptown on Broadway and have lunch, go to the NYPL and visit the rare books room, go to NYU or Pratt, or Cooper Union or Columbia U. and wander the halls and talk to anyone who you run into, go to East River Park and take a long hard look at Ryker’s island, jump in and swim.
Then go back to Alaska and tell people, tell them that no matter how much they might wish it was so, they are all also part of the same world as all those New Yorkers, all those people in Calcutta and Cape Town and Monrovia and Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Paris, Madrid, Tunis, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Wellington, Singapor, Peshawar, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Oslo, Mexico City,
Bogota, Kinshasa, Cairo, Hanoi, Antanarivo, and on and on and on. We are all the same in the single and most ineradicable sense that we share the same world, it is all we have, it is all we will ever have. It is up to us to make it good and benign and plentiful, it is up to us to assuage suffering and end war. It is up to us to find a means to reach such ends. It may be apocryphal but I seem to recall a quote from Einstein – “… what we have here is a profusion of means, and a confusion of aims…”
I hope your visit is memorable and edifying.
Cheers,
I know how you feel. I had a panic attack when visiting Chicago. My mind would not accept the fact that millions of people could live in one place.
@AKM
The Boston – NYC stretch on Amtrak is one of my favorite rides, too. Between outside of Boston down through most of CT, you see some really great scenery.
@benlomond2
There is no way for me to type “NONONONONONONONONO!!!!” big enough or bold enough in regards to the rumor of Her Lameness’s move. Rhode Island is TOO CLOSE. I don’t think I can handle knowing there’s that much stupidity and arrogance so nearby. God, it’s making me simultaneously nauseous and in desperate need of a drink just thinking about it.
Hoping Brian gets a cameo on the show!
{{{{{{{{{{nina trick and boodog}}}}}}}}}}
wow wow wow, Rachael is a mudpup! I KNEW it! see my post at #10. NO doubt that the media went to the same place WE did when scarah was placed on the ticket. THE go-to place for the U.S.A. and the entire planet was HERE, it was MUDFLATS!
How is it that you see Egrets on Amtrak and I see backyards with tires, old cars and broken toys?
OK – totally off – but go to Anonymous Blogger. Ann Strongheart’s husband, Segundo Strongheart has died. Ann has written a beautiful, sad – I don’t know what to call it, commentary. It is heart breaking.
Mudpups participated in a webcast/call-in health care reform strategy mtg today. You can participate, too! Thursday, 2:30pm ET, live strategy meeting. Here’s the direct link to RSVP: http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/aug20web
Can’t get to TV till later (after work). What was the topic on KO that Shannyn spoke about?
Good job tonight Shannyn on Olberman! Did AKM actually do your hair as your “stylist” as she said she would bill herself in accompanying you to MSNBC? Very nice touch in a different look from Sunday!
At AKMudstock Shannyn explained to me her meme technique when I complimented her about her “QuitStock” term one night in her commentary on Olberman! She told me her latest meme to perhaps work into a fully focused spot … and she did tonight! It was quick I know what it was from our conversation Sunday! The woman is absolutely brilliant in how she does this in such a tightly focused spot when that camera goes on.
I would also like to say that Shannyn could do professional stand up comedy! She is a natural. She had us in stitches when six of us stayed to talk with AKM and Shannyn after everyone had left Mudstock and we went to another area of Rolands. AKM was brilliant, witty, and very, very interesting in the group conversation on the vast phenomenon of the Mudflats.
I am so glad AKM and Shannyn traveled together on this trip to the Lower 48. I think it made it much easier for them to travel together on this odyssey and help each other adjust to all these new energies upon their sacred persons!
It was wonderful!
Just watched the last few minutes of KO, and there she was, “Just a girl from Homer”, in NYC. She looked gorgeous, and as always spoke well. She didn’t come across nervous at all, being in a big city station like she was. I hope both Shannyn and AKM get to meet him in person, and I hope they get to meet Rachel too.
latest tweet from AKM!
“Just found out Rachel Maddow is a Mudflatter! Pic w/ Brian to come! 4 minutes ago from mobile web “
How exciting – We are all very proud of you – and happy to be part of your journey. I will have to go to the gym so I can watch the show. (bad reception at my house and too stubborn to buy cable) So while Shannyn is on the air, you can think of me peddling away in support.
Good going, gals! Welcome to NYC!
Just saw Shannyn on KO!! She was great! Now of to listent to Rachel.
Great job again, Shannyn!
I picture with KO and Brian would be great. Even better would be if you were able to roam around 30 Rock and get a picture of Tina Fey with Brian!
# 2 ayerishgrl Says:
August 19th, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Hey AKM-Welcome to the Big Apple! I wish i could have met you in Pittsburgh, but i simply couldn’t get to Mudstock. Hope you and Shannyn have a fabulous time here, and good luck to Shannyn tonight! If you are looking for a nice dinner suggestion, try Remi on 53rd Street between 6th & 7th – one of my favorite restaurants in NYC. Enjoy!
——
Loved Remi and had eaten at the one in Santa Monica before I moved to NYC. Had a lot of lunches and dinners at the on in NYC.
Spoke with one of my lawyer buddies in NYC today, and he said it was finally hot there after 60 days of rain–I probably would have killed myself after 15 days of rain. He worked in the WTC area and had to walk by it every day (until he got back to a job near the Waldorf Astoria). After going to Wall St on 9/18/01 to spend 40 min evacuating our offices, the only time I went back to that area was to visit him in 6/04. (I would have slit my wrists if I had to work down at the Winter Garden area. Thank goodness we had signed a lease to be in Midtown on 9/10/01 and were able to move on 9/18/01.)
Nebraska Native Says:
Emotional rollercoaster…
I could not agree more.
I’m looking forward to seeing Shannyn and her handler. =) Okay, the “handler aka AKm” won’t be on the air, but we know you’re there. So exciting for both of you, and staying at the Waldorf Astoria, how cool is that.
I think that you should have been true to Sarah Palin’s Alaska Heritage– asking for wardrobe, hair, makeup, chocolates, corsage, seat on the stage, I’m sure that I leaving out important items like personally embroidered jackets with company logo and other items that don’t need to be declared.
Patiently waiting for Shannyn… KO’s producers must know that delaying her appearance (and keeping the Mudpuppies waiting and watching) are giving his ratings some good numbers:)
AKM:
It would be really funny if you appeared on camera tonight disguised behind the cute moose “Lone Ranger” mask you were given at the Pittsburgh Mudstock!
Oh my. As I posted on the previous blog, I was in NYC (well, Long Island) on my honeymoon, well let’s call it a wedding trip instead. (Long story). I was 20, had really never been anywhere (from a small-mid -size town in Alabama). My hubby’s brother took us into the city from Long Island by train & subway. He took a picture of me as I stepped from the subway onto the sidewalk and looked up … because as he tells to this day – 39 years later – the look on my face was also “priceless.” Have fun y’all. I will try and watch tonight or wait for Gryphen’s imbed if I miss it. Love and mudflat wishes to NYC!
Hey Bubbles, I hope all goes well with you too, also! Good feelings coming your way!
Dang! I just watched Countdown online but didn’t realize that “Of COURSE” I wouldn’t get to see Shannyn because it won’t be posted until later. ( i don’t have cable so i can’t see it now)
Argh!
Emotional rollercoaster… so terribly sad for Ann and so incredibly excited for Shannyn, Brian and AKM.
I just talked to Shannyn about twenty minutes ago. She was heading into hair and makeup.
I don’t know when she makes her appearance but I imagine it will be in the second half.
Oooh maybe she will bet the one who gets to joke with Keith at the end of the show. That would be awesome.
My deepest sympathy to Ann and the entire Strongheart Family.
Gone too soon.
WHAT… AKM…???
” I told her to ask for a bowl of M&Ms with the yellow ones picked out, but she wouldn’t do it. ”
————————————–
“THAT” sounds like sooooo Hollywood…. doncha know.
But it sure is funny. I’m not sure if Shanny needs to be watching You… or You watching Shanny. { you two could be trouble } You two must be having a BLAST.
M & M’s could be found anywhere in NY. You could have asked for
some fresh ‘ Alaskan Salmon’ ….just to see the reaction.
I sure hope Brian makes his way into the shot ( maybe on the desk ) during Shannyn’s interview. Better yet if Keith would hold him up for the cameras.
Talk about walking from one world into another aye?! Homer is a beautiful Alaskan community, a little remote and the kind of place that feels like home instantly. It would be great to see Keith O go to Homer sometime – Alaska needs to break free of the Palin mentality, you know, take down that hillbilly wall the divisive one from Wasilla built around our State?!
I’m calling everyone to turn on MSNBC tonite! Go Shannon – stand tall for all of us.
Three minutes to Keith. 😀
Bubbles, glad you are feeling better, dear. I just read that AKM and Shannyn are staying at the Waldorf…la dee da! Those girls are doing NYC in style, heh? Stayed in those swanky hotels including the Waldorf, the Plaza, The Ritz, etc. and I’d like you to know that staying at your lovely place was better! Hugs.
oh joy!!! this is way cool. akm i can imagine shannyn’s expression. i have seen it many times on the faces of friends arriving in new york for the first time. it is lovely to see. the people you are seeing here are treating you very well indeed. trust me. very happy that you are here. enjoy and don’t forget to take an umbrella. will be watching olbermann for shannyns’ segment.
Picture of Brian the Moose and Keith the Olbermann, pretty PLEASE?!?!?
As per “President Bush’s” request that we all contribute econonmically to NYC after 9-11, I took my entire family to spend a week over Christmas of 2001…
I have to say a visit to the WTC on Christmas Day with our children (jr. in hs and jr. in college at the time) was one of the most meaningful in our lives and remains so.
I’m with BahstinBoyo @ 16 in visiting the WTC and Battery Park…please do so. You will not regret it!
Shannyn…excited to see you on KO tonight! I LOVE how you tell it like it is girl!
Prayers and love to Ann and all the families and friends. A tragic loss indeed.
This is so cool! I can’t wait for KO tonight!
You kids came through my old neck of the woods… finished high school while living in Mystic, CT. Moved there from BeanTown when I was in Junior High. They reopened the station stop there a while back. Way cool area. Beautiful any time of year!
While in the Big Apple, I hope you get down to the World Trade Center site. Also not far from there is Battery Park (old colonial British cannon fort) so you can see the Statue of Liberty if you don’t have time to actually get to it. Times Square, of course… and if you favor the occasional tube steak, there is always Nathan’s over on Coney Island! No doubt Brian will enjoy the sights as well as the two of you! So little time and so much to see… as the Knight said to Indiana Jones… “Choose wisely”!
Have a GRAND time, AKM and Shannyn!
Why am I envisioning the opening credits of the “Mary Tyler Moore” show?
Hat’s flying in to the blast furnace wind while AKM and Shannyn twirl around looking up at skyscrapers which shimmer in the heat while typical New Yorkers look on wondering “huh?”
Those wonderful New Yorkers ( I married one) see celebs all the time and are likely to just say “How ya’ doin'”.
AKM and Shannyn–you two have a blast, and I’ll have to catch KO when it’s on the “tubes” as tonight’s a busy night and I won’t be home till 9:30 or 10. Make sure Brian doesn’t get into too much trouble!
Woo Hoo Akm& Shannynn…Course i’ll be watching and waving..Girls doing NY give em hell…Will you be able to meet Rachel…That would be really cool…
Frank , we have and we are devastated.
Frank @ #9, OMG, I am in shock and my heart is breaking for Ann.
AKM, you are much too modest. OF COURSE the folks at MSNBC read Mudflats, and of course they know who you are!
Off topic but, has anyone seen this yet?
http://anonymousbloggers.wordpress.com/
Terrific, I’ll be watching! Gah, get Brian on screen somehow! 🙂 Hooray for the dynamic duo from Alaska!
sorry the link doesn’t work – i think there is a space between the question mark and the s in story. alas……i am not a tinyurl user yet – but this could push me into new territory. trying it one more time then off to watch KO.
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14222281
AKM and Shannyn,
This adventure that the two you are on should be made into a Broadway musical – where is Thomas Meehan* these days?
Have a blast, and thanks for letting us all come along for the ride!
{{{{{{ AKM, Shannyn, KO, and Brian }}}}}}
* Annie, Hairspray, The Producers et al.
story on natural gas glut in america —
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?
story_id=14222281
AKM and Shannyn, have a grand time in the big apple! Coincidentally, I am eating your M&Ms as we speak, all colors. Try to stick Brian into the camera, maybe behind Shannyn’s head, so we know you are really there!
ADN Ear reports a rumor that “She Who Should Not Be Named” is moving to RI, with her $7 million book deal, and a job with Fox….
Hey AKM-Welcome to the Big Apple! I wish i could have met you in Pittsburgh, but i simply couldn’t get to Mudstock. Hope you and Shannyn have a fabulous time here, and good luck to Shannyn tonight! If you are looking for a nice dinner suggestion, try Remi on 53rd Street between 6th & 7th – one of my favorite restaurants in NYC. Enjoy!
break a leg shannyn……and snap some snappy shots “Assistant to the Important One”…..glad official brian made it to the big apple.