See. You try to be nice.

He called me lame.

In other news, Fred Klonsky came over to visit, even though he thinks I’m rabid and I don’t know jack. Fred isn’t rabid. But he is lame.

That wasn’t nice. I went over to the press area to meet the union-hating blogger, Mike Antonucci. We had a nice friendly talk. He even told me he likes my blog because, although we don’t agree about stuff, at least I don’t write any BS and I don’t just reprint press releases from Ken Swanson. I admitted that I had actually printed press releases from Ken Swanson. When we parted we shook hands and he told me to say hi to my brother, Mike. 

And then I read his blog and he called me lame.

This from a guy who wears some ugly flag tie and a maroon shirt with a 1970’s wide collar. Now that’s lame. 

Mainly what I suggested was that he not spend all his time at the press table in the front of the hall by the speakers’ platform and go out and talk to teachers. First he made the excuse that the NEA wouldn’t let him walk around the convention floor. But when I pointed out he could walk around the outer lobby where hundreds of teachers are coming and going and talk to them, he dismissed that as not really his “niche.”

See. You try and be nice to the poor guy and this is what you get. I admit I’m not always the hippest guy in the room, but Antonucci calling me lame is like Dennis Van Roekel calling me boring.