"Worst Memorial Show Ever"

Six years have passed since the epic events of 9/11 and there was a collective unity felt all throughout New York City today. Everyone was just a little more patient getting on and off the busy subways and walking down the crowded streets. Every person seemed proud to be working as a team and just happy to be alive. I didn't live here during that time. I watched it on TV just like the rest of America. So, I can't even imagine how it was six years ago, but I'm happy to be part of the camaraderie that's been cast over this great city on this day.

Oprah came to NYC yesterday to tape her first two shows of the 2007/2008 season. We were one of the 12,000 people to score tickets to one of the two shows. We felt blessed by for getting a lifelong dream opportunity to see the Oprah show taped live in the Theatre at Madison Square Gardens. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the fun show with Lettermen, we got to see the sucky 9/11 tribute edition.

We were totally duped. The topic of our show was the "Children of 9/11" and it was so depressing and boring. We were bummed out from skipping a day of work in order to wait in a seemingly endless line in the rain to see both the most exploitative version of Oprah and feel the energy of the craziest fans in the Northern Hemisphere. And there were the sad half-orphaned children of 9/11 victims. Afterwords, we had to eat mass quantities of sugar and see "Super Bad" just to get over the pain of Oprah's Worst Memorial Show Ever! You know the old Hollywood saying, "never work with children or animals", well, it rings true?!