A whole new world is open to me with this little gold sticker. One minute I'm being wrangled with the media folk, the next I'm being wrangled with media, sponsors, and industry folk toward a bar.

The V-Lounge is small but I had one mission. A drink. I don't even feel like drinking (I mean, of course I'm not drinking... I'm on the clock!) And they only had beer left which I'm not really into... that is to say, I don't drink beer ever. But I took it. Why? 'Cause the little gold sticker told me to!

Onto work-related stuff: up next is Afshin Feiz in The Studio. It's By Invite Only... not that that stopped me before. What stopped me was my claustrophobia... and this beer which I intend to coddle for an hour when the final show of the night AND the week kicks off. Until then Denis Gagnon, bottoms up!