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Above is the video from my appearance on last night’s Attack of the Show. They had me on the Loop to talk Apple rumors before Apple’s WWDC event that starts on Monday.

Luckily for me my segment was only a couple of minutes long since I seemed to have lost the ability to form coherent thoughts. I even called OS X ‘the OS X,’ like some sort of crazy old man (‘Isn’t your Apple MAC running the OS X or something? Where’s my soup?’).

Having seen Attack of the Show before I figured I was going to be one person on a panel during the Loop, which they often do. Imagine my surprise when I was on air, live mind you, and I figured out that it was just little old me and Kevin Pereira chatting about Apple rumors. Kevin did say he was a big fan of TUAW, which is always good to hear.

Thanks to the wonders of technology I didn’t have to board a transcontinental jet to appear on AotS, but I did have to walk 5 blocks from my apartment to VideoLink, which has a satellite uplink thingie. I then sat in a green room for a few minutes (there was free candy, but I didn’t have any) while I waited for my close up. One of the VideoLink dudes let me know I was ready to go, and I walked into another room with some bright lights, a camera, a table and chair, and a screen on which they would magically show Philadelphia’s skyline. I even got to wear one of those in ear mics things, so I that the people on the west coast to talk to me.

A few minutes later and my second television appearance was over. (Note to John Gruber: I was wearing a Daring Fireball T-shirt under my ‘ready for TV’ shirt.)

When I was all done I walked into the green room to retrieve my umbrella and I was greeted by an older gentleman who was wearing a suit, though his coat was off. He was very busy looking into a mirror and applying makeup to himself. Looking up at me, with a sponge full of makeup in his hand, he said, ‘How’d it go? You didn’t shoot a booger out your noise or scream fuck, did you?’ I acknowledged that I had not, in fact, yelled any profanities and anything that was in my nose at the start of my segment remained solidly in place until the end. He explained that he was a lawyer in Philly and he often appears on CNN to talk about legal stuff. I asked about the makeup and he said, ‘I learned long ago if you don’t do this you end up looking like a vampire on TV.’ Since I hadn’t applied any makeup to myself before my appearance I can only imagine I looked like a vampire (though vampires don’t have reflections, so they can’t be caught on film, right? Take that, Mr. Lawyerman!).

All in all, I had fun and I don’t think I came off too badly. Here’s to being on TV more often!