The Republican Convention is now in full swing here in NYC. The protesters came, made their noise, and many have left. Now it’s time for the meat of the message, which I hope will include some radical reconsideration of our tax code on the part of President Bush.

Of course, judging from the party schedule—and the non-stop talk about the party schedule—I’m beginning to wonder whether all the speechifying at political conventions is just an excuse to get drunk every night.

Case in point: the fun (and rather crowded) party hosted by The Corner, which is the blog section of National Review Online. At the event, I got a chance to meet Rich Lowry, re-meet Jonah Goldberg and catch up with my friend Deroy Murdock. I usually see Deroy at the Fabiani Society, but I haven’t been for a while. It was good to see that he’ll come to parties that aren’t open-bar. James Taranto, who I also see often at the Fabiani Society, was nowhere to be found. Perhaps word did get out that it was a cash bar.

Also at the party were a number of Internet personalities who were in town for the convention. I had the pleasure of meeting Roger L. Simon, Karol of AlarmingNews, “Captain Ed” Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters, Kevin Aylward of WizBang, Matt Margolis of Blogs for Bush, Scott Sala of SlantPoint and Eric Deamer of Young Curmudgeon.

It was very nice to get a chance to meet so many people who’s work I’ve admired from afar!

I also got a chance to grab dinner with Kfir and Alan of ProtestWarrior. They were in town to infiltrate the big protest on Sunday, and today they turned the tables on a major organizer of the protests. I won’t steal their thunder—they will be releasing footage on the Internet—but let’s just say that it sounded rather entertaining.

As for myself, I have not gotten a chance to collect any footage, and at this point it is looking unlikely that I’ll be making any RNC videos for Brain Terminal.

I’ve been feverishly editing footage for a new project that will debut in Dallas on the afternoon of September 11th at the American Film Renaissance festival. As some people have guessed, my new project centers on higher education, specifically the political environment on our nation’s campuses.

More information on this project will be forthcoming soon...in fact, you will be able to freely download the video or purchase it on DVD, so don’t feel as though you have to hop on a plane and come to the festival—although that would be nice, too!

Unfortunately, the very tight deadline for this film festival means that I won’t have the three or four days necessary to edit together a short Brain Terminal video any time soon. But within a few weeks, you’ll be able to view the first results of my current long-term project: documenting political correctness and ideological indoctrination on college campuses. I hope you’ll find the wait to have been worthwhile.