11:03 – So the plus sides of The Big Tent are definitely the company (thanks to our friends at Fire Dog Lake, Group News Blog, and Daily Kos) the free food, and the free beer.   The only real downside was that they didn't turn on the sound until after Pelosi spoke, and when they did, they nearly blasted my ear drums out.

Looking forward to the backhanded compliments of Clinton tomorrow night.  Headed out to a party, or Rock the Vote, or something.  We'll be Twittering.

11:00 - That is what you call a SLAM DUNK! – Dylan Ris

10:58 – You know, satellite delay really takes the warmth out of an otherwise incredibly sweet father daughter interaction.  That was really cute though.  So who thinks the "what city are you in?" question was a genuine ad-lib? – MK

10:57 - Oh my god, someone needs to shut that kid up! This is proof that Obama is soft on insolence. – DDC

10:55 – "Isn't She Lovely?"??? That's kind of a degrading choice isn't it? Not degrading, exactly. But, not necessarily designed to pull in the vanishing Hillary crowd, is it? – DDC

10:54 - And the crowd goes wild! – DDC

10:50 – She's going after the Clinton supporters that CNN keeps saying are drifting to McCain. – DDC

10:48 – As a callback to my 8:31 post, Jesse just leaned over to me and said "I told you!  She did it!" – MK

10:35 – Michelle has a bouffant! A slight bouffant, but definitely a bouffant. Are they trying to present her as Jacqueline Kennedy? – DDC

10:34 – Go, Beavers! – DDC

10:28 - I asked Firedoglake editor egregious a question, hoping to trip her up, because I'm an asshole. She was talking about all this community's efforts to sway the country blue, and I asked her what she thought would happen when the country became a vast Democratic majority. Her response…

"In twenty years, when the Democrats have gotten fat and lazy, our children will vote them out… And they should."

Ha ha! I'm not gonna have kids, so she's wrong. – DDC

10:24 – How lucky can we be!  I knew we were going to hear from Michelle tonight, but who knew I would get to hear from her mother! She sounds proud.  I'd be proud if my kid married someone who would one day run for president.  That is an accomplishment.  Hillary did that.  I'm proud of her.

10:21 – Claire McCaskill is doing an excellent job of saying everything that I expected to hear tonight.  Way to meet expectations Claire! – MK

10:20 - Do you think senators sparkle in real life?

I have a feeling they do. – DDC

10:18 – Sorry the updates aren't coming so quickly. This is a considerably more distracting and entertaining environment to liveblog from than my work desk or my living room. There's all kinds of people here to talk to. And even a cynical as I am, I have to admit that it's a pretty cool environment. There's, like, hundreds of people here packed into this tent. But there's not, like, hundreds of different opinions here. That would be way too confusing.

There's just one opinion! And that's what's really cool! You can stop talking to one person and just pick up the conversation with some other person right where you left off. That's awesome! – DDC

9:38 - "You're Still the One"? Really?

No, really?

9:32 – Have you figured it out yet? Have you solved the Kennedy Code? This isn't actually about honoring the Kennedys, so much as it's about tying the Kennedy bloodline directly to Barack Obama.

This would work better if he'd just change his name to O'Bama. (Ow, I'm sorry for that.) – DDC

9:29 – The entire tent erupted into applause when Teddy Kennedy said "It's time now for Barack Obama!" And then again when he took the stage. Oh my god, even I feel like a conservative here. – DDC

9:23 – I think they hired the guy who makes the montages for the Academy Awards to make this Kennedy Memorial thing. It's kind of weird for them to be honoring the Kennedys in this way. They should at least have waited for Teddy to die for real. – DDC

9:20 – Michael is totally correct about Caroline Kennedy. It's weird, she's kind of reminding me of my ex-girlfriend in bed. (I'm kidding! My ex never looked happy in bed. (Thank you. I'll be here all week. (Actually, I will be here all week. (Let's just get one more parenthetical in here.)))) – DDC

9:16 – Caroline Kennedy sounds bored, but looks happy. – MK

9:13 – Ok, this is kind of annoying.  As awesome as the Big Tent is, we are hearing audio streaming from the convention floor, but watching MSNBC.  So I'm listing to Santana sing "Oye Como Va" while watching David Gregery interview John Kerry (I think). It's very Synaesthetic. – MK

8:56- Just spoke with Devilstower from Daily Kos.  He had the luck to meet Darryl Hannah (click the link for an awesome picture) today while she was filming a piece for The Daily Show (I guess we'll see that later this week).

I asked him what to watch for tonight.  He said he was just hoping that no one would suck and pointed me to this lovely poem. – MK

8:45 -Did I mention that we can't hear anything that's happening on the TV? As in anything that's happening in the convention. Nobody seems to be particularly concerned by this, however.

Here's Michael sitting next to egregious from Firedoglake, with the wide expanse of the Tent behind him. (I took five pictures trying to catch him without an idiotic expression on his face. This is the best one I got.)

Here's me, looking like me, standing next to mcjoan from Daily Kos. She was really, really nice to me and kind of seemed excited to talk to me. I think she thought I was Jon Stewart. Or Samantha Bee.

And here's me with Will from Daily Kos. Are you noticing a trend? (I'm 3 feet 2 inches tall.) – DDC

8:31 – Just spoke with Jesse Wendel, publisher of Group News Blog.  He told me that the thing to watch for tonight is whether Michelle Obama is able to present herself as warm and kind and not all of the things the Republicans are trying to portray her as.  He thinks she will. – MK

8:05 – Hi. Sorry so late in getting anything up on this liveblog of the DNC.

We just got into Digg's Big Tent, where it seems that every blogger who blogs for a blog is blogging about all the other bloggers who are blogging about blogs.

I have no idea what's going on in the actual convention, but there's no way it's more interesting than this right now. In seven minutes, I just met fifteen people whose work I've been reading for the past six years.

I'm gonna post some pics asap. Just try not to look at me. I look fat. – DDC