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# The Lead Story On A Slow News Day
- URL: https://www.vjarmy.com/the-lead-story-on-a-slow-news-day/
- Published: 2010-12-27T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-07T19:16:14.000Z
- Description: A snowball fight, the CNN Money homepage, and me.
- Author: Dan Dickinson
- Tags: The Outside World

So yesterday, there was [a big snow storm](http://gothamist.com/2010/12/27/remembering%5Fblizzageddon%5Fthe%5Fboxing.php?ref=vjarmy.com). Most of the East Coast freaked out, which is somewhat reasonable for getting over a foot of snow in about 12 hours.

Today, there was word going around that there was going to be some sort of [geek snowball fight](http://www.observer.com/2010/media/geek-snowball-fight-madison-square-park-230-pm?ref=vjarmy.com). At first glance, I was a little put off – one VC emailing a tech mailing list does not a snowball fight make. I was strong armed by (close friend) [Alexandra Klasinski](http://www.alexandra-k.com/?ref=vjarmy.com) to show up, and so we trudged out of our warm apartment into the very snowy world.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/7a/537a8df0-a25f-4592-ba2a-1d40c8d47705/content/images/2026/02/5298429564_6f6286ebaf_k.jpg)

The snowball fight itself was mostly a non-event – there were about 30 people, and the snow wasn’t packing terribly well. Shake Shack was nice enough to bring us little cups of hot cocoa during a break. Lots of people took photos, including myself. It was a nice enough time, I suppose. Afterwards, a small group of us trudged over to Hill Country Chicken to sit in the rec room and dry off/warm up while downing fried chicken and watching Arsenal clobber Chelsea.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/7a/537a8df0-a25f-4592-ba2a-1d40c8d47705/content/images/2026/02/5298427670_93fcc56d4c_k.jpg)

After a longer than usual PATH ride home, I [dumped my photos](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/archives/date-taken/2010/12/27/?ref=vjarmy.com) and giggled with Alex and Katie over the whole event. Then [a video showed up from ABC 7](http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/nyc-snowball-fight-madison-square-park-12487312?ref=vjarmy.com), who had two vans nearby and decided to shoot some B-roll of the fight. Why? Because it was a slow news day.

Just as we finished laughing about that, a somewhat peeved tweet hit my timeline:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/7a/537a8df0-a25f-4592-ba2a-1d40c8d47705/content/images/2026/02/snowballtweet.png)

Curious – I hadn’t seen CNN there. [Clicked through](http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/27/technology/tech%5Fsnowball%5Ffight/index.htm?ref=vjarmy.com), jaw dropped:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/7a/537a8df0-a25f-4592-ba2a-1d40c8d47705/content/images/2026/02/cnnmoneyarticle.png)

Katie, [Adam Kuban](http://www.adamkuban.com/?ref=vjarmy.com), and I – three people I would not typically describe as part of “NYC’s tech crowd” – are the lead photo on a CNN Money article. Why? Because it was a slow news day.

It turned out to also be on the front page (and still is, as I write this), which means we were the *lead photo on the lead article on CNN Money* today. Why? Because it was a slow news day.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/7a/537a8df0-a25f-4592-ba2a-1d40c8d47705/content/images/2026/02/cnnmoneyhomepage.png)

Life is strange.