A Blog Post Full of Shocking News

SHOCKING NEWS #1: I’m sure all of you have already heard this, but a few days ago, Pantone announced their color of the year. The halls at CMEpalooza HQ were all abuzz with the news that the COY winner is…mocha mousse? What?? Truly shocking. Scott insisted it was the year of Barbie pink while I argued quite vociferously that Brat green was the obvious choice. Instead, the folks over at Pantone opted to go with “brown.” Ridiculous. We will not be updating the CMEpalooza color palette any time soon.

SHOCKING NEWS #2: I have updated the CMEpalooza archive with all the sessions from CMEpalooza Fall 2024. Considering that I approached this task with the same enthusiasm I usually reserve for eating parsnips (or as I prefer to call them, “Satan’s veggies”), the fact that I updated the archive before the holidays is fairly shocking. All the 2024 sessions are there, plus the sessions from every other CMEpalooza, blah blah blah, etc., etc.

SHOCKING NEWS #3: We have already changed the date of CMEpalooza Spring 2025! After Scott’s blog post announcing the CMEpalooza Spring date as April 23, it took approximately 0.0000024 seconds for multiple people to email us saying, hey knuckleheads, the ACCME already has a meeting scheduled for the same day. Of course. If only there was some kind of a network of information depositories that we could “search” for this type of information. Someone should invent one so we don’t have to rely on just guessing. Anyway, the new date for CMEpalooza Spring is Wednesday, April 16. Tear up your old calendar and put this date on your new one.

SHOCKING NEWS #4: The 2025 CMEpalooza Sponsorship Prospectus was released last week and there are still sponsorship opportunities available. Yes, I know, I can’t believe it either. It’s been a full week and not everything has been snapped up yet. We must be losing our touch. Probably time to start contemplating retire-…hang on one moment…

…OK, I’m being told by Scott that this is perfectly normal, CMEpalooza sponsorships aren’t “snapped up” like Taylor Swift tickets, and I should “take a chill pill” (yes, Scott’s idiom usage is also 80’s centric.) Fine, but it’s still worth noting that the Gold and Silver sponsorships go fairly quickly, so, you know, keep that in mind.