Seeking Ashton Kutcher

Okay, they say it's impossible...how can a tiny chapter of professional public relations practitioners (forgive the alliteration) get megaproducer/star/celebrity and husband of Demi Moore to Riverside to speak/make us laugh at our annual awards ceremony? And, saddest of all...we can't even set up an episode of "Punk'd" to see how Ashton would react when we offered him only $500 to show up for 20 or 30 minutes one hour east of Los Angeles where he lives?

I Tweeted this morning that I need help reaching the famous funny guy (and prolific Tweeter). Stay tuned...can six degrees (more like a thousand in this case, by the time you add up the entourage he no doubt has protecting him from pedestrian folk like me) work? We need Ashton to wow us on Oct. 21, 2009. We also wouldn't mind him giving away a Nikon camera - that would be the PR coup of the decade for our 80-member club!

Let me know if you can pass on my request to Ashton, thanks! :)

Photo taken walking by Ground Zero today

I took this photo from 1 World Financial Center, while walking through an indoor breezeway to dinner at THe Grill Room, which overlooks the Hudson River at Liberty Street. The World Trade Center site, former home of the Twin Towers, is a gaping hole surrounded by the trappings of construction, but at dusk as we passed by, I didn't see any signs of work going on.

We break at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, and I will begin to explore the neighborhood...our hotel is literally a stone's throw from Ground Zero, and I can see the Statue of Liberty from my hotel room window. Ambition to hop on the subway, too, and check out select targets as far north as 23rd Street, but staying on the southern end of the island this trip. Kids may be disappointment, because a trip to take a photo of the American Museum of Natural History would require further explore up to Central Park West, and I'm not inclined to try to cover so much ground in so little time.

PRSA Leadership Rally rocks...very organized, PRSA staff is great, and learning lots from fellow chapter officers.