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Attending the BlogCon 2011 in Denver this weekend.

PPC (myself and Michael Sandoval), Ari Armstrong, Kelly Maher, and Todd Shepherd will be speaking today at 3:15, on building and maintaining state-level blog networks.

UPDATE: taunting OccupyDenver, which is threatening a surprise(!) march on BlogCon 2011 at 5pm tonight…uptwinkles!

UPDATE 2:25: a half-dozen protestors showed up early (surprise!) and tried to break into the conference. They were surrounded by about 40 of us from the conference, who proceeded to taunt and mock them with chants and slogans of our own until they ran away like spanked children (and a few got arrested).

Video and photo later once the other 30 people who captured it have uploaded through the regrettably limited internet.

Posted on November 11th, 2011 under politics, PPC. Tags: blogging, politics, PPC. Comments Off

Okay, it’s not space-related (and it’s not technically PPC, since he’s there on National Review’s nickel), but my People’s Press Collective co-conspirator Michael Sandoval is on the scene at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. Rick Santorum and Rick Perry spoke this evening.  Santorum focused (utterly predictably) on gay marriage, using the issue as an (utterly predictable) cudgel against Perry, while Perry’s keynote focused on the 10th Amendment and the importance of voting ‘liberals’ out of office in 2012.

If Rick Santorum thinks that gay marriage is the defining issue for 2012, he will (and will deserve to) go down in flames rather quickly once the primary season starts. He reminds me of the candidate forum I attended in early 2010, when all three Libertarian Party candidates asserted that the most important issue facing Colorado and the nation was the legalization of marijuana. Sometimes there just isn’t a cluebat big enough.

Posted on July 29th, 2011 under Colorado Politics, politics. Tags: Colorado Politics, denver, gop, People's Press Collective, politics, PPC, Republicans, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Western Conservative Summit. Comments Off

David Zucker gives Babs Boxer’s undeservedly inflated ego the skewering it so richly deserves:

Something I’ve been on the lookout for for over a year now as an addition to PPC is talent like this at the local level — film students or hobbyists who are interested in politics and motivated to make funny-but-pointed parodies of this sort. It’s something I’d love to take on, were I not already tied up with too many other commitments.

Posted on October 23rd, 2010 under Entertainment, politics. Tags: Barbara Boxer, David Zucker, politics. Comments: 2