I really don’t know how to properly explain JUST. How. FREAKING. RIDICULOUSLY excited I was to meet THE Chris Anderson, fearless editor-in-chief of Wired, heroic author of The Long Tail, valorous possesser of the 2008 National Magazine Award for Best Design (holla, Scott & Wyatt!).

Let’s put it this way: I stood there grinning and bopping him enthusiastically with my marshmallow kabob “flair” for like 20 minutes. Behold the photos below. It was awesome.

***UPDATE!*** CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE TO MEDIABISTRO’S FISHBOWLNY - thank you to Glynnis (congrats on the new job, G!) & Rebecca - for these photos from their 2008 Ellie Liveblog and Summary (ps! They have a twitter!) as well as Huffington Post’s practically-perfect-in-every-way media mavel and (my personal) role model Rachel Sklar, along with her dashing protegee Danny! Thank you all for making the evening a marshmallow-bopping success.