Me and the lovely Jocelyn were making our way to Kasia’s Restaurant for brunch when we were overtaken by hundreds of Santas moving north down Driggs Ave. Like lemmings marching toward the sea, these Santas were on a mission, they had a destination and we fell in with them.

We learned that this was a gathering point for the 2009 NYC Santacon, Brooklyn edition. There are five gathering points for Gotham Santas and they’ll converge at one location later today, but it’s secret.

We continued along Driggs where we were met by converging Santas approaching from east and west. We passed McCarren Park and ended up at the Warsaw Polish National Home in Greenpoint at 261 Driggs Ave., where the Santas filed inside to get their secret marching/crawling orders. Since we weren’t Santas, we weren’t allowed inside.

We departed for Kasia’s only to learn that it’s closed on Saturdays??? So, down the block to Bagelsmith for fresh, custom-made bagels and hot coffee.

Tim Oren, managing director and co-founder of the Pacifica Fund, shared his thoughts on the future of reporting via his blog, Tim Oren’s Due Diligence: Letters From an Inhabited Dataspace.

As Yahoo and AOL morph into media companies that employ both reporters and editors, Oren makes some interesting points on the opportunities and the pitfalls of picking up where MSM is leaving off.

The Fort Worth City Council listened to several Fort Worth citizens, both gay and straight, describe their outrage and shock at the actions of the Fort Worth police and officers from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission on the evening of June 28 during the raid at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, Texas.

Fort Worth mayor, Mike Moncrief, apologized at the close of the meeting, saying, “I am sorry for what happened in Fort Worth.” The crowd inside the council chamber responded with applause.

The police department has appointed officer Sara Straten, a 17-year veteran, as liaison to the city’s LGBT community.