howard’s spot

Thanks (again) to my friend Madelyn Hammond at Variety Magazine – I was graciously comped 2 tix at Variety’s table to last night’s Webby Awards Gala at the famous Cipriani Wall St. in Lower Manhattan.

We were hosted at our table, most stylishly I might add, by Ed Meisner from Variety. Also at the table with us was William O’Donnell from Gorilla Spots; as well as the beautiful ladies from Embassy Row. Great conversation, good food & drink, an excellent time.

Seth Meyers of SNL fame was the host, with a night full of one-liners. Present at the awards were Stephen Colbert, Will.i.am, Ludacris and David Byrne. There was also a performance by DJ Mike Relm of Blue Man Group fame – among other things.

For those in “the know”, the Webbys only allow a five (5) word acceptance speech. This of course leads to all kinds of antics. I only regret not being able to stream video.Here’s a small collection of my Tweets from the event (ending at midnight yesterday – in reverse chrono order)…

• and so endeth my #webby stream… | about 1 hour ago from web
  
• colbert’s webby speech – “me me me me me” | about 1 hour ago from web
• colbert labelled “the democrats balls” by seth meyers at #webbys | about 1 hour ago from web
• tribal webby speech – “we’re hiring, send us resumes” | about 1 hour ago from web
• “please help me monetize this” most excellent webby speech | about 1 hour ago from web
• “fuck corp design, hire me” webby speech | about 1 hour ago from web
• “one time at band camp…” goodby webby speech | about 2 hours ago from web
• worst webby speech so far – “i admit i voted twice” by tribalddb | about 2 hours ago from web
• will.i.am – “now, we know we can” webby speech | about 3 hours ago from web
• “gov spitzer, we thank you” – webby speech from ny times | about 3 hours ago from web
• flock said “no shit, we beat facebook?”, then FB won the Peops Choice… | about 3 hours ago from web
• “who let the blogs out” – kewl webby speech | about 3 hours ago from web
• “not bad for an atheist” – best Webby speech yet! | about 4 hours ago from web
• lovin the 5 word acceptance speeches. ms. huffington said “president obama, sounds good right?” | about 4 hours ago from web

Cheers – Hjl