'Anderson' Newsletter #5

August 29, 2011


Hey, everyone. If you live on the East Coast, I hope Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene wasn’t too much of an inconvenience for you. I spent about six hours in the storm Sunday morning in NY and was really relieved to see that the storm had weakened by the time it reached the city. A strange thing happened as I was walking to the gym later in the day Sunday around 4pm. A large window came crashing down onto the street from high up on a building near New York University. It was really scary. A group of people came very close to being hit. I don't know why the window would have fallen when it did. I got hit by a tiny piece of glass or something, but it was so small it didn’t hurt or leave a mark. Anyway, it was a strange incident after a long day.

We were going to tape a show today, but postponed it because we figured it would be too difficult for people to make it into the studio on Monday. If you had a ticket for that show, I'm sorry for the hassle of rescheduling, and I hope you understand. We are taping five shows this week, which I am really excited about, and the debut is just around the corner. It's on September 12th, just in case you want to tune in! If you want to come to a taping, go to AndersonCooper.com. Tickets are free, of course.

Last week we taped two shows and I really liked both of them. We've had great audiences for all the shows, and it's really important to me that the audience in the studio has a fun time, so I make sure to talk with them during the taping, and afterward we do a Q&A session that has been really fun. I try to tweet with all those in the audience, but if I missed you, it's nothing personal, I just sometimes can't follow up on all the tweets.

Oh, I almost forgot, I went to the NY headquarters of Google last week for a Q&A session. It was really cool. They all were super smart and I've never sat in front of an audience in which so many people had their laptops open. I don't know what they were all doing with them, but I thought it was kind of funny. Anyway, they asked very interesting questions, and it was a fun discussion. If you want to check it out, it's at YouTube.com/Anderson.

Okay, that's about it. It's been a long day and I'm still a little waterlogged. In the next newsletter I’ll have details about a Twitter countdown contest we’re launching September 5th. We’ll be giving away official “Anderson” t-shirts, mugs, hats and more. I haven't seen them yet, but I hope they’re nice. We had some "Anderson" t-shirts made up this summer for the staff, and they were really nice, though I couldn't wear them. I figured it would be weird for me to wear a t-shirt with my name on it. Okay, now I'm starting to ramble. Have a great week, and thanks for reading the newsletter!

--Anderson


There was a birthday surprise in our office last week.



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