<div><div dir="auto">Shelley, you deserve a Pulitzer for a great journalistic display. But, a prize only goes for a writer who covers a great story!</div></div><div dir="auto">A Zoom Holiday Party with laughs, music, heart, and tears is such a story.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well done,</div><div dir="auto">Odey</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:26 AM Shelley Simpson, Esq <<a href="mailto:simpson.shelley@gmail.com">simpson.shelley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div>HOLY GOTHAM HOTSPOT BATMAN! It was a wonderland of winners this morning at Gotham Queens. We had Brad Scherer (Klerer Financial) and Dan Schwartz (Car Business Systems) our 2020 Networkers of the year. We had the winner of the 2020 Red Bandana Award, the most lovely, Lourdes Villanueva Hartrick (Realty Connect USA) Our famous pretzel purveyor for FANs, Jose Villa (Philly Pretzel Factory) was there too. ALL MEMBERS OF GOTHAM QUEENS! </div><div><br></div><div>BUT LET\u2019S TAWK GOTHAM HOLIDAY PARTY. 5 not-for-profits that support kids, critters and the planet we live on will be receiving donations thanks to Gail Koelln (GK Grant Writing), David Rubin, Jim Robinson (Jane M Meyers PC) Vincent Russo (Russo Law Group) and Paula Oleska (Natural Brain Systems) Paula, also performed as part of the Karaoke World Tour - seriously revealing a side of her many hadn\u2019t seen - Don\u2019t tell her Mama!</div><div><br></div><div>Norman Spizz (SPN Music & Entertainment) outdid himself with this event. I wondered how could we possibly have a party on Zoom that would be anything like a real party. Norman made sure we had that and more. Plenty of schmoozing inside and out of breakout rooms.</div><div><br></div><div>Mitch Tobol (CGT Marketing) stepped up at the last minute to help us build our drinks for the evening since the mixologist was suddenly unavailable. Mitch is a man of many talents. </div><div><br></div><div>BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING PECULIAR GOING ON! DID ANYONE NOTICE??? </div><div><br></div><div>I thought I was going to have to call Raj Goel (Brainlink) to help with some cyber weirdness. Something that kept appearing in the squares \u2026 I kept adjusting my screen to no avail. </div><div><br></div><div>More entertainment broke up the party banter. David Padrusch (LIMULUS MEDIA)zooming in from DC produced and performed a new theatrical performance of \u201cBlue Suede Shoes.\u201d Mark Eisemann, the "man with a thousand voices" direct from Las Vegas, sang and played guitar. We all did a \u201cfollow the magic highlighter" sing-a-long. </div><div><br></div><div>BUT SOMETHING KEPT HAPPENING ON MY COMPUTER. </div><div><br></div><div>I thought maybe it was from the snow storm? Maybe it was the Negroni? IT SEEMED TO land on each person at some point like when Raj called Fred the "beating heart" of Gotham and Nancy the "soul of Gotham who puts up with our shenanigans.\u201d </div><div><br></div><div>It happened as Alison Crowther talked about her son Wells Remy Crowther. It happened when Brad accepted his award and Dan his; the moment we mourned the loss of Gideon Schein and when we learned of Cindy Somma (Physicians First Reimbursement Services)being a kidney donor THERE WAS SOMETHING MOVING ACROSS MY SCREEN. </div><div><br></div><div>DID ANYONE ELSE NOTICE? </div><div><br></div><div>It got even more clear to me as Divine Ms N \u2026 Nancy Schess (Klein Zelman Rothermel Jacobs and Schess) also part of the Karaoke World Tour, sang \u201cYesterday.\u201d THEN I FIGURED IT OUT \u2026 We\u2019ve been through quite a year - we\u2019ve longed for yesterday - for life as it was pre CoronaTimes. </div><div><br></div><div>Instead of crumbling like a cracker, Gotham doubled down - more events, helping and supporting each other in more ways than ever before. GOTHAM MAGIC \u201cIZ\u201d US. </div><div><br></div><div>IT WAS GOTHAM MAGIC ON THE SCREEN - joy, gratitude and excitement. We didn\u2019t hide away! We continued on - touching lives and celebrating each other. </div><div><br></div><div>GOTHAM MAGIC \u2026 the combined energy that creates all of the silver linings Fred reminds us to look for - the chance to do more, be more and have more. </div><div><br></div><div>We shared stories, sang and laughed, and enjoyed each other. And as we watched a beautiful video retrospective we experienced a Gotham Holiday Party unlike any other and one for which this reporter will be forever grateful. </div><div><br></div><div>Wishing you all a healthy, happy and prosperous holiday season and a bountiful New Year.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>shelleygram\u2122</div><div> </div><br><div>
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