I Am So Not a Starfucker

I'm sitting here in the central auditorium at Bunker Hill Community College, home of PodCamp. I'm surrounded by some of the biggest names in podcasting.

I know none of them.

Oddly, several of them know me from the PodCamp promo I recorded last month. I've actually had people come up to me and quote the dialogue in my presence, which thoroughly confused me. I resorted to drinking free liquor.

Last night, I went for drinks with, among others, Eric OIsen of Feedburner and Chris Brogan of Grasshopper New Media. They're native Bostonians, so their tour of the Harvard drinking holes was quite amusing. Somewhere along the way, Chris broke out an audio recording device and we descended into anarchy -- something I believe we dubbed Thong Church Radio.

This was after several beers.

This morning, I woke up late and the train wasn't running to the college, so I walked from the Holiday Inn Express to the conference. I had only a vague idea of how to get here, so I walked for about 90 minutes and -- voila! Included in my walkscapade was an unintended tour of several residential areas of Boston... which reminds me of London.

Now I'm sitting here in the auditorium. Lunch is ending. Amanda Congdon is sitting three chairs away from me, talking to Steve Garfield. I was just interviewed for an upcoming bit on Health Hacks. I also had two guys stare at my STBD shirt and intone to themselves, in disapproving voices, "What do YOU want?"

I forgot this shirt could be used as a weapon.

And now, back to conferencing (aka back to editing the next episode of STBD).

**(Links and pictures to be added later.)**