Here's What *He* Said, At Last

About 10 days ago, I wrote a long article about my efforts to get Steve Carell's commencement address at this year's Northwestern University graduation ceremony posted on YouTube.  It wasn't there, but at least I was able to track it down -- buried in the full graduation video that was buried on the Northwestern website.

Well, we have a Breaking News Update:

It took WEEKS – and I like to think my repeated noodging of several Northwestern officials may have had something to do with it, but…
 
Northwestern has finally posted Steve Carell’s commencement address on YouTube!!  O huzzah!
 
Now, yes, I know it could be pure coincidence, and something they were planning to do anyway.  But – a) when I wrote all these people several times, no one ever said “We plan to post it on YouTube.  Please leave us alone.”  All I got was telling me where it was buried, and b) it took almost a month to post it, which could have been done in one day.
 
So, I’m going with my noodging assertation, and will stand by it until contradicted by school officials.  Which I think is unlikely to happen, so I’m on very safe ground.
 
If you chose not to check out the commencement address when I first sent the convoluted link, because it was too much a bother, but you wanted to see the speech -- which is a light-hearted, but a lot of fun and very funny -- the DIRECT link is...here!  Just scroll down to the bottom of the page.

​Victoire!