Being Discovered in Des Moines

On the way out of our uber awesome meal with a gaggle of bloggers, Attaturk and I ran into Dana Milbank who was trying to have an anonymous meal at Des Moines' best restaurant. Of course, it isn't hard to be anonymous when you appear on Keith Olberman's cable telee-vision show that only real nerds like us watch, but hey, who's complaining?

Me: Mr. Cilizza, I love your work on Hardball.

Attaturk: No dummy, that's EJ Dionne, he's much too young to be Chris Cilizza. Please excuse my friend, he gets all excited when he sees someone who knows Chris Matthews.

No, that didn't happen. What actually happened is Milbank recognized the red fez and knew right away he was in the presence of real celebrity, gave us a card and Keith's cell number. We're negotiating for a spot sometime during the Oddball segment, or perhaps at the end of Keith's show when they have FM rock radio personalities wax eloquent on the current state of American Idol. We'll do a schtick that will be perfected during a run on some small town college radio station before we take it to Olberman. I'll keep you posted.