Well, OK, I know I promised, but I was forced to renege. There will be no new column today, but there will indeed be a new one tomorrow, never fear. What with seeing houseguests off today there was just no time to focus on sitting down and writing a column, sorry. So almost at random, I went looking for another article to run again and came across this one. It's just fun, just "summertime vacation photos" really, which is precisely the sort of mood I am currently in. So here are my photos of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My favorite has got to be the one of Clarence Page showing me a Grateful Dead medallion on the back of his phone... which Jerry Garcia had given him, after an interview. In any case, enjoy, sorry for yet another re-run column, and see you all back here tomorrow.

Originally published August 2, 2016

Due to technical reasons (and not having a full-time staff to do this stuff the way big media organizations do), I wasn't able to post photos with all the stories from the Democratic National Convention. Instead, I'm just going to present them all together in this "album." A lot of these were mentioned in my previous coverage, but some of them are just random convention shots.

Without further ado, here's my look at the Democratic National Convention, starting (of course) with a stop to get a cheesesteak.

Sorry Pat's, but Geno's had a parking space right in front of it, which made up our minds for us (the two most famous cheesesteak joints in Philly are right across the street from each other).

There were 57 of these donkeys to find, one from each state, territory, or other voting entity (such as Democrats Abroad). We only saw two, but we did meet a local who was enjoying the scavenger hunt and only had two more left to find.

Our hotel was pretty much on the battlefield of the Battle of Brandywine Creek from the American Revolution. George Washington lost the battle, and lost Philadelphia to the British as a result.

Denise Merrill, the Secretary of State of Connecticut and a delegate (but not, as she pointed out, a superdelegate). She was kind enough to grant me a full interview, which ran last week.

On the floor of the convention hall, you could rub shoulders with media bigwigs, such as Andrea Mitchell, seen here doing a standup report.

Here's the CBS crew getting ready for their closeup.

The stage, which took up an inordinate amount of what could have been seating areas. It was pretty impressive, but 2012 was better with the stage in one end of the arena rather than on a side. If you look real close at the uppermost-righthand corner of the photo, that's where the media seats were.

Home-state pride was abundant, so I thought I'd see where the California delegation got to sit. They had pretty good seats, mostly because they were so numerous they took up an entire arena section.

Of course, there were funny hats. I personally am a big fan of funny hats at political conventions. Some traditions shouldn't change!

This was the precise moment when Bernie Sanders called for the convention to unanimously accept Hillary Clinton as their official nominee, at the end of the state roll call. This shot shows the angle we had from the media seats -- a clear view of the stage, and our own little video screen with closed-captioning.

Our little corner of one of the three gigantic media tents. This was shot from where the occupiers did their thing, so as you can see, we had front row seats for the demonstration.

Signs pasted on the windows of the media tent after the occupiers left.

You could bump into all sorts of media types in the tents -- I spotted Clarence Page talking on his phone, and was pleased to see a Grateful Dead emblem on the back of it. He told me Jerry Garcia had given it to him after an interview.

My wife took this (and almost all of the other photos here, I should mention). This was on Day Four, when Hillary was about to speak.

The card trick wasn't really all that well planned, I have to admit.

Finally, the balloons drop! Woo hoo!

This is just a random vacation photo I took later on, when we visited a friend in Western Pennsylvania after the convention. Before "TMI" meant what it does now, it was known by anyone who lived through it as the abbreviation for Three Mile Island, in Harrisburg.

-- Chris Weigant

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