I thought everyone knew Cinco de Mayo meant the 5th of May, but a
few people who came to my special "Cocktails with Courtney" for this
day were confused. Oh well. The ones that made it enjoyed
margaritas and tequila--compliments of Cuervo--and red wine
compliments of Gundlach Bundschu wines. Donning my crazy orange
tutu skirt and a sombrero I met a number of interesting new people
such as Yolanda McCoy, an engineer at Malcolm Pirnie, as she
discussed environmental consulting and cyber attorney Otho Ross and
Alexandre Pereira of Lisbon, Portugal's Novodesign. Renaissance
Multimedia came out in full force and Tom Peckenham and Bob Slote
of Organic media came by. Gary Welz (biz dev, Rare medium),
Eleanor Hass (e-technologies), William Gray (Signal Capital), Katie
Peters (CEO, Kokopelli) and Scott Halperin (Credit Lyonnais).
Samuel Alcoff looked sharp in his nice blue blazer and Elizabeth
Gerst, Anna Muckenberg and Jill Bennett were a NY1 fashion trio!
Deborah Newman of DejaNews stopped by in a festive shirt, and
Michael Fox (Middleberg) and Michael Domican of Grey
Entertainment also came out for some fun. And Perry Soloman of
Price Waterhouse brought along some friends to share in the
festivities. Sports recruiter Joe Rubin (Players Portfolio Web site) and
Tristan Spill of TMS Interactive (Based in UK) were there, as were
Mark Modezelewski and his lovely wife Kelly, the crew from
Reset.com, and Laurie Sulzbugh -- from California. Roderick Beck
from Commonwealth Associates came to my party specifically to
meet up with David Eisenberg and Frank Robles (NanoSpace) for
some dealmaking. All that stopped however when The World's
Greatest Pinata Master (a.k.a. Chip Lewis) stopped in from his busy
schedule of producing three cable shows (Plugged In, Metro Money
and Metro Law) to assist in the Most Excellent Game of
WWWACking the Pinata! As WWWAC President Bob Ponce swung
the stick, blindfolded, the onlooker chanted "WWWAC! WWWAC!
WWWAC!" After two swift clubs, the horse's back broke and
"Nerds" candy and toys spilled across the floor. No major mad
scramble for these goodies tho' the party was set to end promptly at
8:00 pm this time so people could go back over to Edgewise's
Rave-up. Special thanks to my father, Arthur, Holly Rosen and
Mirsky (of Mirsky's worst of the web) for helping me out this month.
