Obama is the official nominee.

Your turn.

This is an Open Thread.

I'm leaving for downtown and then the Pepsi Center. I'll have my i-phone and my Flip tv Mino video recorder but no laptop. I'll post my results later tonight.

In the meantime, here's an open thread -- you can talk about the convention, what you had for lunch, or anything else that's of interest to you.

If TalkLeft goes down, here's our backup site to continue the discussion. Don't forget to bookmark as you won't find it here if the site is down.

Still your turn

Okay, it is noon in the East, but it is your turn now.

Your turn.

Where I am it is the afternoon. Where a lot of you are, it is still the morning. So I am calling this "Tuesday Open Thread." I suspect there will be a few more today.

This is an Open Thread.

The three women at Casa TalkLeft this week, me, Anita Thompson and Lynn Goldsmith, are all bone tired. There's no other word that says it better.

Lynn carries huge bags of cameras, lenses and whatever else from early am to midnight when she returns. Then she has at least another 3 hours of going through her hundreds of photos to send into Corbis.

Anita is much younger than Lynn and more like me in temperment. We're kind of like energizer bunnies. we go and go and go and then we drop.

Right now, all three of us are ready to crash. We have to get up early to get tomrrow's media passes and then I have a breakfast and Anita has a manuscript due. Lynn and her myriad of camera equipment will be long gone.

So if anyone wakes up early with things on their mind, here's an open thread to fill us all in.

As Anita and I make our way through downtown, here's another open thread for you.

TalkLeft is getting traffic spikes that are making the site run slowly. Remember, if it goes down, I will switch to the backup site here. Bookmark it now as you won't be able to find it if the site is down.

Hi. It's Sunday night and we just finished dinner here at Jerri's house where Lynn Goldsmith has now joined us for the week.  As the actual Convention inches closer, and I finished the final exam today for Journalism, I'm starting to feel those pangs again without Hunter. So, it is such a blessing to be witnessing this (hopefully) historic DNC with two amazing women who talked about their experiences in Chicago in 1968, being busing in from University of Michigan to join the protests over a shared Pad Thai stir fry tonight.  [more...]

Your turn.

We've had some requests for an open thread -- here it is.

The radio stations in Denver are playing great music today. On right now: The Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want. My favorite stations: Boulder's KBCO (97.3 FM) and 99.5 FM, The Mountain. They are streamed so you can listen on your computer wherever you are.

I'm not afraid the police are going to get out of control. Things have been smooth sailing here today. And the police on downtown streets aren't dressed in riot gear like they were in Boston.

The weather is gorgeous. Wish you all were here.

It's credentials pick-up day here. I'm off to the Sheraton downtown to pick up my DNCC blogger credentials. Then to the Big Tent to get the credentials for their facility.

The Pepsi Center is but a small part of what is happening here this week. I'll be there at night for some speeches, but since everyone can watch them on TV, it's not what I plan to devote a lot of time to writing about. I'm also more interested in writing about what's going on behind the scenes than what everyone can see for themselves. [More...]