DU at the DNC: Thursday afternoon update! [View all]

[EarlG]

Last edited Sat Nov 3, 2012, 02:57 PM - Edit history (1)

Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting today but we were just enjoying lunch at the Black Finn, hosted by our friends at VisitMyrtleBeach.com. That's right -- after a brief dalliance with the UN yesterday, we're now firmly back in the Myrtle Beach camp.

And THEN, we spotted the Foo Fighters soundchecking in the background on MSNBC, so we rushed back over to the Arena and got here JUST IN TIME to see them packing up. Doh.

Anyway, on with the show. After filing our final Wednesday update last night, we left the Arena at around 12:45am and stopped by the MSNBC stage once more. By the time we got there they had just wrapped up their last show of the night, but we snuck around the back and ran into none other than Chris Matthews, who was hanging out chatting to fans.



And then...



He signed my hat! Awesome.



We also met Darrell Hammond:



And David Corn, who, by the way, is familiar with DU and appreciates that you all post his stuff here.



On to Thursday morning. The first thing we decided to do today was stop by the Google building on our way to pick up credentials:



It was pretty interesting, but a little surreal for the early morning.



So we moved on to the Convention Center and got our Thursday credentials. Note they say "Bowl Press Stand" -- obviously the organizers were expecting tonight's show to take place at the Stadium:



We decided to head down into the bowels of the Convention Center, where the "real" media is hanging out.



The place was HUGE.





That's Jonathan Capehart in the background:

















I don't know who Tim is, but he had a hell of a big sign:



My bad, it's Time:





They were giving these goodie bags away to journos, I guess this is where they dumped all the extra ones:





Next, we decided to go check out the Arena again, to see if we could scope out some good seats for the big speech tonight. On the way we ran into this lady with a great self-made dress:



Then we ran into DUer handmade34, who is working at the DNC. Great to see her!



And this guy with an exceedingly magnificent mustache.



The calm before the storm inside the Arena:





... and that's it for this update. A word of warning, we're not sure how good our Internet connection is going to be when this place is packed to the rafters later today -- we've already had some problems connecting to the Arena wifi -- so you may have to wait until after the speeches for our final update.

In the meantime, check out all our earlier pictures in the DU DNC 2012 Journal!