Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 24 November 2004

No article blogging today or tomorrow. I will catch up on Friday.

Just a quick note today to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving day tomorrow, and to give a head's up on the lastest word from C-SPAN's producers. After much negotiation, C-SPAN is going to broadcast my brief again--the supermax version of roughly 2.5 hours in length!

This broadcast will air the night of 6 December, Monday, in prime-time (believe it will be around 7pm). Immediately following the brief, I will appear live on C-SPAN in their main Washington, DC studio to take questions from callers over the air.

The presentation to be broadcast that night will be taped a week earlier at a military base in the greater DC area, meaning this will be a new, slightly updated version of the brief from the one broadcast Labor Day weekend (the National Defense University brief of 2 June).

I'm excited about doing it all over again for C-SPAN, and feel really honored that they not only wanted to broadcast the brief again, but wanted the most up-to-date and complete version they could get. The live Q&A in the studio following the show should be interesting, because I've never done that before (take questions from call-ins on TV, although I've done it plenty on radio).

I post this message now, even though some of the details might change (you know TV: it ain't for sure until the tape actually starts), but that is the plan for now and I'm pretty sure it's going to hold, because C-SPAN needs me in DC to get the Q&A and the only night I'll be there between now and Xmas is the 6th of December.

So tell anybody you want to see it that it'll be on C-SPAN again.