I'm up by 6 30, earlier than I get up the rest of the week, because it's the day I get to be Mike from Queens instead of Entrepreneur Mike who deals with 700 to 1,000 e-mails and 70 to 100 phone calls every other day of the week.
It was too big and unwieldy a gathering for anyone to start handing out colors and instructions; even the famous "people's mike" wasn't working, as the speaker was at the center of the group instead of at the edge, and the mike's criers ended up shouting toward one another, instead of outward in waves.
It was more performance art than music, with Ron Asheton miking up a blender and vacuum cleaner and his brother Scott banging oil drums with hammers instead of using sticks on a traditional kid.
MIKE KONCZAL has written a nice post on the effect of lending regulations on housing markets, which includes this very good sentence:To put it a different way, banks, instead of underwriting borrowers, were betting that house prices would increase, and paying consumers to sit in the houses.But I do have a bit of a disagreement with Mr Konczal.
Washington Post, May 17thA question of taste"No matter how many times he comes down here...he's still a guy who drinks Perrier and Dom Perignon instead of Pepsi and Pabst Blue Ribbon".Mike Huckabee, Republican governor of Arkansas, on John Kerry's visits to the state.
Instead of hoofing it, country singer Wynonna chose to belt a cover of "I Want to Know What Love Is" in front of the mike, leaving her pro partner Tony Dovolani to dance it out with Peta Murgatroyd down on the ballroom floor.
Mike Washington of the Fire Department said.
Now get that mike out of here.
Open mike performers, of course, don't get paid.
