The development of the hashtag allows me to read about an event as it is unfolding: I can read the unvetted perspectives of music critics and comedians as I take a break from attending to the music.
And so, I asked him a set of pointed diagnostic questions to assess what I already suspected was unfolding.
At some point while this was unfolding, I looked away from the stage and checked Twitter, where I discovered that Steve Schmidt, the Republican operative and MSNBC commentator, had observed, "What we're seeing tonight is the weaponization of grief".
I thought of my joke (which, by the way, nobody else found funny) when I realized something similar was unfolding as part of our national energy debate.
"When Dr. King called on Americans to join him on a massive protest march to Montgomery," he recalls, "I knew that important, nation-changing history was unfolding and I wanted to capture its power and meaning with my camera".
All of Lewis's early life was unfolding, I didn't know where to put it all.
A bit overcome by what was unfolding, I may or may not have responded by charging the man with being a "communiss," just as Claude Robichaux did Officer Mancuso in the opening scene of "A Confederacy of Dunces".
I suddenly realized what was unfolding.
At the time this was unfolding, I even put that in an email to Harvey's person - Charlie Prince.
As the process was unfolding, I asked myself the kinds of ethical questions that will occur to many readers of this article.
"I would have been sorry if the story was unfolding, and I wasn't in there".
