Thanks to everyone who alerted me to the segment of “Weekend Today” on Sunday that showed yours truly at the Poetry Grand Slam at the Green Mill. I remember them milling around and filming that night, but they seemed to recede into the woodwork and became forgotten in time. So, at the end of Lester Holt’s strangely robotic salute to Chicago (one part “Deep dish pizza! Wrigley Field! Blues!” and one part Edna’s Restaurant and Jerry Springer eating a heart-attack-on-rye), they gave passing mention to alternative entertainment and talked about the Green Mill and the Poetry Slam. Marc Smith got a sound byte in during an interview, but the poet shown on stage was yours truly, reciting a stanza from “The Silver Lining, or At Least The Yankees Lost.” Middle-brow doggerel for a middle-brow audience, but what the hey. Exposure is exposure. They didn’t print my name or mention BARDBALL, but now I can honestly put “AS SEEN ON WEEKEND TODAY” in the promo materials.
Whenever I figure out how to take something from the TIVO and make it web ready, I’ll post the clip here. That should be around CE 2046.