Well, she did fine, I thought. Biden was better. She won’t lose the race for McCain. Next subject.

Next subject? That’s the New Yorker Festival! Which is this weekend! Emily and I will gallivant (that verb wears the simple present tense oddly) to as many events as we are able, and we will be writing up our reports over the weekend and well into the week after.

In addition we’ll be twittering away from our cellphones as we move from event to event, so be sure to check out the Emdashes Twitter feed plus twemes.com/nyfest. If you want to add your comments to the latter feed, send your “tweets” to 40404 and add #nyfest to the start of your message. The more the merrier!

Note that a limited number of tickets to ALL events will be on sale at the Festival Headquarters at Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street during the weekend. Here’s the schedule. If you have gotten shut out of your must-see event, be sure to try your luck there.

It should be a great weekend: Stephen Colbert, Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Elmore Leonard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Edwards, Joe Trippi, Martha Plimpton, Paul Rudd, Dawn Upshaw, Guillermo del Toro, and Chuck Hagel are a few of the featured guests, and New Yorker stalwarts like Adam Gopnik, James Surowiecki, Rebecca Mead, Michael Specter, Ian Frazier, David Denby, Dorothy Wickenden, Jeffrey Toobin, Paul Muldoon, and the redoubtable David Remnick will collude to make it three days to cherish.

If you spot Emily or myself, be sure to say hello!