Last night’s SHOOTING WAR PARTY was a brilliant success, in no small part due to the collective force of our own individual life-circles colliding into what makes any great party… the crossing of streams. With friends/fam/loved ones from all our lives, combined with people who’d heard/seen/read this comic, we wound up with a really amazing crowd of wonderful people. To see a bit of it yourself (or yourself in a bit of it), check this Flickr photopool from the party.

We collectively want to send shout-outs in no particular order to some of the bright and beautiful stars that made last night such a fantastic joint:
Democracy Now! producer Frank Lopez
60 Minutes producers Solly Granatstein and Tanya Simon
Chasing Ghosts author Paul Rieckhoff (founder of IAVA)
Singer-songwriter extraordinaire Laura “Bama” Thomas
John McCormick (Flavorpill)
David Russell aka DJ Gringo Star
Josh Neufeld
Ben Nabors (The Happy Corp / LVHRD Foundation)
Rami Efal
Chris Radtke
Tim Hamilton
Brett Jackson, creator of The Abraham Lincoln Logs podcast
PWCW’s Kai-Ming Cha
Viktor David (Studio 7NY)
Nick Charles (AOL Black Voices)
Tim Leong (Comic Foundry)
The MWW Group
Photographer/director Carter Smith (Metroflix)
New School commencement speaker and McCain foe Jean Rohe
The Beat’s Heidi MacDonald
GNN founders Josh Shore and Stephen Marshall
GNN writer Ari Paul
Journalist/photographer Neil Katz
Iraq correspondent/author of Baghdad Bulletin David Enders (just back from five weeks in Iraq)
IAVA member Bruce Smith
SMITH & Shooting War server provider Alex Hart of ATP Solutions.
And a very special thanks to Ariel, and all the staff of Sutra, for hosting us. If you’re looking to throw a private party in downtown NYC, Sutra is the spot.
Thanks again to everyone who came out; you’re all wonderful.

posted Wednesday, June 7th, 2006