• by Karl Greenberg , September 28, 2010

The woman who is giving the keynote on trust at the Times Center this morning is wearing the most outrageous pair of high heeled shoes that I have ever seen. The result of this is that I cannot hear a single word that she is saying, which is probably a good thing because she has the kind of monochromatic droning voice that convinces me I ought to have stayed in bed.

The shoes: the heels are a good four inches, spikes. black S&M themed stompers that do not inspire, well, trust. She is also enshrouded in a kind of Matrix-inspired black ensemble, that, with the shoes, gives her the aspect of a flying fox.

But those shoes. I promise you that not a person in this audience, all here for Blogo, are paying attention to her, not so much because what she is saying is utterly inane (it doesn't help that she pronounces Hyundai "Honday.")

Incredibly, she is still talking. What gives. Where is Blogo. She seems bored with her own bloviating. This would be much more entertaining if she were talking about shoes.

It is ten minutes later, and she is still talking about trust, and amazingly, she has succeeded in using the word "trust" in every single sentence. That and "ripple effect" and pebble.