Get Your Bucket of Chicken Ready
It's State of the Union night! (As if you haven't already been reminded by The Place for Politics, The Best Political Team on Television, The Best Political Team in the World, The Best Political Team on Cable and every other crazy slogan on television.)
Tonight I'll get my standard liveblogging meal of KFC to liveblog for you starting at 8pm. The speech will be on KVUE, the spin will be on every "best political place" on television you can find.
As an added twist, I signed up for these crazy "lie detector" text messages that will be sending instant spin to my cell phone from the national Democratic party. I'm interested to see how that's going to go down, so I'll be sure to include some of those text messages in the liveblog.
Now, time for nostalgia.
Last year I watched the S of the U in the Doubletree Hotel bar with my friend, The Statesman's Jason Embry, where for the first time in what was to become many times, someone in the bar mistaked me for Austin City Councilmember Jennifer Kim.
The year before that I was working a night shift and I think I watched it with a group of college students at Furman to see what they thought of it.
Other State of the Union memories include the morning after the 2001 State of the Union, when running on Houston's Memorial Trail with my Team in Training coach Jack, who was outraged, OUTRAGED by how Hillary Clinton sat in the audience and didn't clap for President Bush when everyone else was. I think we talked about that for about two and a half miles.
