Our 18-yr-old daughter spotted Tony Shalhoub at the Agricultural Fair on Martha’s Vineyard last night. Our daughter is a good critic of acting and is talented in that direction herself, and Shalhoub is towards the top of her list. She’s admired his range, from Galaxy Quest to Big Night. She, her aunt and my wife approached him as he waited for his daughter to get off a ride.

They expected to gush for a moment and then to back away apologetically. But not only was he polite, he engaged them, and especially our daughter, in conversation. Where is she from? Where does she stay on the Island? When she told him that every drama class she’s taken has shown the last scene from Big Night, he was impressed and asked about her interest in acting. They chatted about Monk, a program with silly mystery plots and some fetching acting by my daughter’s dear friend, Tony Shalhoub.

And then he excused himself politely as his daughter approached.

BTW, I wasn’t there because I was in Boston for a few days, doing my annual spell as a footloose bachelor. And you know what that means: eating out of the pot, smoking a cheap cigar just because I can, and watching something with Bruce Willis in it whether I want to or not.

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I listened to Chris Lydon‘s recording of a talk Gov. Dean gave a few days ago at a gathering of 250 people in New Hampshire. Listen to this mp3 and you’ll have a good idea if you want to support Dean or not.

I do.

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The Dean campaign has invited me to travel with the Governor — ok, actually, in the large crowd of people around the Governor — during the first leg of the “Sleepless Summer Tour” in order to blog about it on the Dean campaign weblog. I’m going to meet up with them in Falls Church, VA on Saturday night and go to Milwaukee for a late-night rally. I’ve never traveled with a presidential campaign, although in 1960 I was attendee #15,672 at a rally for JFK at the Roosevelt Field Mall. I’m excited.

My inclination at the moment is to do a more complete write-up on my site (= here) and a briefer version on the Dean weblog. As you may know from my conference blogging, I tend to go on a bit recording details, and I don’t think that’s exactly what the Dean weblog folks are looking for. But, we’ll have to see as the events unfold.

[Disclosure: I work for the Dean campaign as Senior Internet Advisor. No money changes hands, but the campaign is paying my airfare. I am partisan.]

Chris Lydon has posted sounds from his recent trip to New Hampshire where, by chance, the first “hot house-party…was Howard Dean’s.” He includes Dean’s 24-minute speech, 20 minutes of Q & A with Dean, and Q & A with the crowd. I am on the road and haven’t had a chance to download the mp3’s, but I have no problem blindly recommending anything Chris does.

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Akma’s back from his trip, and the US of A is better off for it.

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I have no idea if there’s any truth to this, but this article claims that the CIA engaged in an “ultra-secret operation to electronically remove an estimated $10 billion out of the Iraqi Central Bank hours before the start of Persian Gulf War II. The whereabouts of the money is not known.” The article (on the American Free Press site) cites International Currency Review, a real journal with no Web site that I can find. That this story hasn’t been picked up anywhere either indicates that the media are sheep or, more likely, that the story is bogus.

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Black Friends

Find out why Black People Love Sally and Johnny. It’s bad taste, it’s satire, and it’s a little bit funny…sort of like Saturday Night Live.

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Doc and his siblings have put together some pages remembering his mother. She died today.

Doc, I’m sorry for you and your family. Thank you for sharing your memories and letting us learn something about this remarkable woman.

Love,

David

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Kevin Marks’ felicitous titled “How I emailed myself into a job and blogged my way out” explains that he’s now looking for work. If you know Kevin at all, you know he’s wicked smart and a natural-born helper, the type of person who adds value to whatever conversation he’s in. Got a lead for him?

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The dapper Scott Kirsner — columnist for the Boston Globe and contributor to Wired and FastCompany — is hosting a one-hour radio show all this week on the Bloomberg Radio affiliate in Boston, WBIX 1060 AM, from 1-2 PM. You can listen here. The show is about Boston business, but Scott’s interest in technology will certainly seep in.

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Renee Hopkins has ideas about how ideas happen. (She cites my piece on the unspoken of groups.)

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