Kicking it with Kevin and Alex..

So, I haven’t updated this guy in a bit, and I really want to make a habit of it. We’re gonna give it another shot.  Now, how to begin? Well, Nic and I just got back from a shotgun adventure to St. Louis.

 It all began a few weeks ago when the hosts of Diggnation, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, announced a live show to be taped in St. Louis on Feb. 20th. Immediately, I shot their publicist an email. I’ve been wanting to do a feature on new media for some time now, and hadn’t really figured out how to go about it. Kevin and Alex were just what I needed. The publicist said he’d see if they could fit it into their schedule. “Awesome,” I replied. Then, I didn’t hear anything else. 

 It’s common for interviews to just not happen, so when I didn’t hear from their publicist again I figured that was the end of it. But then, on Feb. 19th, the day before the shoot, he sends me an email saying that the interview was on. Here I was, with about 24 hours to put together an interview with Kevin and Alex, in St. Louis nonetheless! Well, of course, all of my photographers were busy, and none of my geeky friends could get off work to keep me company, so it was looking like this was going to be quite the lonely trip. Thankfully, I still had one person that just might want to go with me. My beautiful, geeky wife….

 Only my soulmate would look at trip that was being planned about an hour before one had to leave and say “hell yeah, I’ll go!” This girl amazes me sometimes. She is also a fan of diggnation, so that may have had something to do with it. 

 After finding a hotel, a dogsitter, and beer for the dogsitter, we hopped in the car for the 6 hour drive to St. Louis. The drive wasn’t terrible, mostly due to the fact that Nic drove the whole way there (she knew I would be driving the whole way home.) We made it to our hotel without a hitch, arriving at around midnight. I hopped in the shower, and then we crashed, excited and a bit nervous about the next day.

The next morning, Nic and I awoke, wrinkley faced, and took a quick trip to the lobby for breakfast. While eating, Hillary Clinton was giving a speech and Nic mentioned how much her speeches sound like Dr. Suess wrote them. I couldn’t agree more. After breakfast, we headed back to our room to shower, get dressed and pack up. A few hours later we were checking out. 

More  tomorrow!

-C