Oh hai, it's me!
So confession. I have been walking around all day long with a dopey cartoon grin on my face, because I was SO thrilled about how last night turned out. I got to meet the most interesting people at the Austin Bleet-Up! Music gurus, fashionistas, foodies,
one man documenting his year of free pizza from Home Slice, this
amazing t-shirt design shop / blog, South Side Sanctuary. FOR SERIOUS, you guys put this blogger to shame! I am so impressed with the creativity and talent out there!
The always lovely Michael Barnes stopped by and
snapped a few photos, and well-prepared, camera-ready bloggers like
Lani Rosales and
Texas Betsy took pics as well. For me, the whole thing was like a blogger candy store, running around to each different face saying, "you blog about
fusion cupcakes? Dude." "Whoa - you blog about
guerilla painting?" "Shut the f-- up, you blog
for Ben Kweller?" And still, there were
tons of bloggers I did not meet, which only makes me excited for the next time we do this.
Of course it was also nice to clink glasses with old pals, too.
Cory Ryan - our AMAZING event photographer - has now posted her
photo booth album from last night on Flickr. Early-ish on in the night, the lovely Tiffany Diane from
Austin is Burning and Amber Deitrich (who encouraged us to do this whole thing at TRIO!) of
AmberDemure joined me in blowing bubbles!
Jake Holt - another badass Austin photog - is looking quite pimp here.
I believe I wandered off at this point.
John Gross of
Party Ends and his incredibly lovely lady, Emily...
Texas Betsy - CLEVER!
My awesome editor Tom Vale from
The Deli!:
Oh........hold up. Someone call a fire truck 'cause it just got
haute.
That would be Gary Gaston and Andrew Rutkowski of birthday party pinata fame, as well as new friend Andrew Greene, who shall heretofore be known to me as "Google." (He works for Google.)
The
Better Than The Van guys, making their aristocratic faces!
Amanda Garcia and Rose Reyes, Austin music czar and role model to me in more ways than one:
Matt Swinney, who just got finished throwing
Austin Fashion Week:
Nicole Carbon, of
Fabulous Drinks Austin (this pic is so freaking ADORABLE):
Lyssa from
This is Life in Austin and her cute visiting pal:
Pink Sun Drops!:
Event-planning and publicity phenoms, Candace Carlisle of
Electric Promotions and Claudia Blanchette of
Giant Noise, as well as Kim
Sae-Eua, who was featured in the Statesman yesterday!
I LERVE this picture.
Do512's Kristin Owen, Amanda Louie, Lawrence of
Covert Curiosity and
Aaron Robert Hall:
Indiana Adams (coolest name ever?) of
Adored Austin plus husband:
Laura Dobberstein and the
EatDrinkAustin crew (Liz Groh, Wade Treichler, and Breanna Rollings, my colleague / pal / also of
OneLegAtATime fame!):
At some point I stumbled back....significantly tipsier
Am a huggy drunk.
That's Zoe Cordes Selbin by the way, who will essentially be running this town in a few years. Girlfriend isn't out of school yet, and has interned for
Giant Noise,
Transmission Entertainment, and is about to start up with
C3! (Correct me if I got that order wrong, Zoe!) Oh, and her father is one of the most beloved professors at my alma mater,
Southwestern. (Don't make fun of me for hyperlinking my college).
Next, grabbed R. ("Husband of Blogger"):
And then,
Rene! I think we are performing a magic trick here:
I'll leave you with just a few more goodies:
Peter from
FoodingBlog, and Tasha and Hans from
RushMonkeys:
And one non-booth shot, so you can see the lay of the Bleet-Up land. A million thanks are owed to
TRIO of Four Seasons, who made this little idea a reality:
FINIS!
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Seeing as how this starts in, oh, an hour (!), I'm a little late in posting this. No matter.
This happens at One2One Bar tomorrow, and in addition to a people-eating cupcake contest (heh. You know what I mean but alternative is funny!), there will also be a dog-eating cupcake contest too. Kristen Owen of Do512 is a judge! Details here.
