Portland Blogger Dinner - This Saturday, 5pm
| April 20th, 2007[Bumped to the top! --Amp]
5pm at Legin, located at 8001 SE Division Street (the cross is 80th Ave.) Legin features both dim sum and the more usual Chinese restaurant meals offered off the menu.
If you’re reading this blog post, you’re invited. There’s always a bit of uncertainty, but folks I’m expecting to attend include myself, Charles, A. J Luxton, Little Light, Cat, and perhaps (but perhaps not?) defenestrated, Bean, Raznor, Aaron, Ms Xeno, and others. Also, Sydney and Maddox and their parents will be in the house.
If you have a Portland-area blog, feel free to come, and feel free to post an invitation to your readers on your own blog, as well.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Meet-up clue? balloon on table? mickey mouse hat on Ampersand? Something? I’ve twice in the last 10 years failed to find the people I was trying to meet offline because I couldn’t tell the players without a scorecard.
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April 20th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
How cool! What will you be doing?
(I live in MA and don’t travel much, so there’s little chance we’ll ever meet in person, but I love vicarious fame.)
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April 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I’ll be working too, so I’ll have to try to remember to turn it on before work and tape it if I haven’t seen you by the time I leave.
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April 20th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I’ll be there! (I can walk n stuff these days, it rocks a lot)
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April 20th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Bean is so cool. I’m gonna tell everyone I know her.
We’ll be the party with the two small girls with us, a one year old with hair so short she might have had a buzz cut, and a three year old with corkscrew blond hair. And I’ll be the 300 pound white man with black-brown hair in a ponytail and glasses. And Matt (Sydney & Maddox’s father) has very long very big dark curly hair and is about six feet four inches tall, so he’s not that hard to spot, either.
Let me know if you need more details to spot us with. :-)
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April 21st, 2007 at 2:40 am
C’mon, y’all.
All the cool kids are doing it.
I’m kinda hard to miss, too. I have an epic nose.
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April 21st, 2007 at 9:22 am
little dinner party some of us are throwing together
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April 21st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I wonder if they even serve Dim Sum that late… Hmm. Well I can’t say no to a possible nose-off contest between bloggers, so I guess I’ll be there with The Demented Lawyer…
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April 21st, 2007 at 2:31 pm
I’m not a regular at this site, but I visit now and then. Frykitty clued me into this gathering, and there’s a good chance I’ll be there. It’ll be fun to meet fellow Portland bloggers…
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April 21st, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Yay! Ms Xeno and Demented are coming! Woot, and the like!
J.D., thanks for responding — I hope you can make it.
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in a few hours!
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April 21st, 2007 at 4:03 pm
You could put an “&” sign on your table so people could find you. :)
I wish I could go.
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April 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Just so you know, I’ll be hitting each currently open thread and posting a ten thousand word libertarian-patriarchy manifesto while you’re helplessly being buried under delicious food. And you’re powerless to stop me! Powerless!
Have a great time! Such bashes are inevitably fun.
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April 21st, 2007 at 6:10 pm
hmmm.
might not make it.
(body…not cooperating)
:(
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April 21st, 2007 at 6:54 pm
oop - and i’m sorry, which means I’m casting my vote in with bean’s under “y’all better do this again sometime. soon.” grrr!
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April 21st, 2007 at 7:56 pm
How was it? Well, y’all may still be there.
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April 21st, 2007 at 8:45 pm
The wee ‘uns are actually more adorable in person, Rachel.
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April 21st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
It was fun. And loud. And chinese-food-y.
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April 22nd, 2007 at 11:20 am
Thank you all for a lovely, lovely evening! I met wonderful people, ate the best tofu *ever* and had many good conversations.
You know how most blogger meets are all awkward and you have to push people a little to get going? Well, Amp tried to go around the table and have everyone introduce themselves and their blogs. We didn’t even get to the third person before the table was drowned in conversation. I just love this bunch.
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April 23rd, 2007 at 3:43 am
It was horribly depressing; the lack of defenestrated cast a horrible pall over the entire evening. We actually did nothing but sit there and weep piteously over our defenestrated-less state; Little Light wailed like a little child (while Sydney, oddly enough, wailed like a grown-up).
But we all agreed to lie about it afterward and pretend we had a great time, to avoid bumming everyone out or making defenestrated feel guilty.
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April 23rd, 2007 at 8:34 am
So, where are the pics Charles took? You know, between bouts of weeping.
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April 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 am
That’s very sweet of you, Amp. I still totally don’t believe little light, though:
See, that just can’t be true. this is exactly why there Has To Be another one, and quick-like, before they grow up any.
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April 23rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I take it you’re okay with me posting some pics, then. How about other folks who were in attendance? Would anyone prefer that I not post pics of them?
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April 23rd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Yeah, I wish I got to see those little kiddies.
My man Charles was there. I think I should have flown to Portland, so we could plan our strategy to defeat the likes of Brandon and Company. LOL!
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April 23rd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Reluctantly, I’m'a have to say that I’d rather pictures where I’m obvious don’t go up, at least unless I have a look at ‘em first. I’m kinda skittish about privacy issues, to say nothing of my insecurity with cameras.
That and, after all that crying over the lack of defenestrated, I got all blotchy.
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April 23rd, 2007 at 4:03 pm
little light: aww! i was really looking forward to meeting you especially - even though it took an Amp-lified kick in the ass to remind me a while back of how much I enjoy reading your blog :D
This comment was written by defenestrated.see? another point for : Do it again, sam.
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April 24th, 2007 at 12:19 am
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April 24th, 2007 at 12:56 am
alas! that i missed this.
at first i read that last comment as “dim it again, sum”
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April 24th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Little Light, I’d have to say you’re the last person I’d expect to come off poorly in a picture, of all the folks there!
Now me, I probably looked like dork salad. =)
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