I VOTED

I was home for 3 days last week, and went down to City Hall.
Early voting is awesome!

Ten Things from PA

* UAW Local 667 in Allentown has the best retirees I've ever met. I didn't know I liked old folks so much. Even when they were all yelling at me to hang the flag right (yelling at me from the back of the hall - where they hung on the bar) I love these guys.

* "Are you a cop? Cause you have to tell me if you're a cop."

* There's nothing funny about the moment you realize you tracked dogshit all over the backstage area. Especially when you know the motorcade is only moments away.

* No matter how hard she tried, MaryLou (the greatest volunteer ever) could not cover-up the smell of dogcrap -- MAN, did I tracked dogshit backstage. Everywhere.

* Don't mess with retired Teamsters bingo game. Seriously.

* This is a swing state. Any conversation with the folks working the hotel bar will attest to the fact that this is a nation divided.

* If Mrs. Heinz Kerry sees you announcing her (backstage) on the microphone - she will make faces at you to try and make you laugh.

* I have a crush on a 66 year old woman.

* Democrats run Scranton, PA. Getting things done here is a BREEZE.

ALLENTOWN

We're here building an Allentown rally for Teresa Heinz Kerry on Wednesday. If you're in the area, come on over about 4PM this Wed to the UAW Local 667 Hall, 2101 Mack Blvd in Allentown.

We'll have about 500 folks, including some the local union folks who are in the Kerry-Edwards TV ads across PA. It should be a good time, as long as the Bingo came for the UAW retirees finished in time for Secret Service to do their secutity sweep. God, I hope I don't have to get in the middle of that.

Stop by if you can make it.

TEN THINGS FROM NEW YORK

1) After living elsewhere for the last 4 years, people still stop and ask me directions at least 5 times a day. People just think I'm that guy.

2) Riding around in Mrs. Kerry's motorcade this week (especially to and from LaGuardia) reminds me how much I love driving with a police escort. Man you can get around fast.

3) This story of THK suggesting that Laura Bush was somehow less of a First Lady because she hadn't held a full time job is just the Bush camp being jackasses. She was talking about how experience changes your life and she didn't remember if Mrs Bush had held a job. That's it. And then, just to be clear...she apologized for forgetting! Take it easy everyone.

4) Mrs. Kerry thinks I could play for the Red Sox, based on the very impressive way I caught her hat as we were on the LaGuardia tarmac. We Masons can catch!

5) Attention Everyone: If you lay your hands on a woman in anger, we lay our hands on you.

6) Attention Everyone: If you defend/excuse the guy who grabbed you by the neck in a bar, we will wash our hands of you.

7) Lilly Tomlin is quite sweet. Rod Stewart's wife is hot. The women on the view wear a lot of make-up. A lot.

8) The mid-town Days Inn is somewhere to send one's enemies. Screw you, Tolbert!

9) The new theater Playwrights Horizons (my old company) built is amazing.

10) You can Disneyize mid-town all you like, but it still don't smell right.

EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THIS

My mom called today, to ask what Maggie might like for her birthday next week.

I asked if she'd seen the newly launched MightyGoods.com.

You'd think since the New York Times picked up on it and since our good friend Doug Bowman designed it, (she met Doug at our wedding), I should send a note about my wife's new project.

I'm an idiot.

I explained that she has a new shopping site that gathers together some of the best designed, best planned, funnest stuff Maggie could find on the internet. If Mom was looking for something Maggie might like, then the Gifts for Women section might have dozens of ideas.

My Mom's reaction, "Wow. This is great! Everyone should have one of these."

I'm very proud of Maggie.

People say you should figure out the way you like to spend your day and make that your job. Maggie loves Stuff - finding, curating, reviewing, and giving Stuff. And now she's developed a fantastically smart site in which she will curate great stuff for the world.

Congrats Baby!