Saturday Miscellany
March 15, 2008 – 8:08 am | by nerd's eye view
I somehow ended up in Metblogs Seattle’s “Blarch Bladness Tournament of Blogs” and though I was crushed in the first round, I pretended there were no hard feelings and went to the awards ceremony at Skylark, a place just off the West Seattle Bridge on Delridge. The nice folks from Metblogs provided snacks and conversation, we bought beer and ate some adequate bar food. To Monica@ The Big Blog, Mona @ Kirida, Tracy @ the unstoppable West Seattle Blog, Beth @ Glacier Holder (?), Carolyn @ Poke the Kitty, Dylan @ The Client and Server, and anyone else whose name I’ve forgotten, hey, it was nice to meet you all in person. Metblogs, thanks for hosting! (Exit, shaking fist. “I coulda been a contenda!”)
(Sidenote about the Skylark: Many years back I went to Skylark to see some live music, a friend of Mindy’s was playing, I remember a fantastic acoustic version of Little Red Corvette. The opening act was a willowy blond with a guitar and an Angry History That Required Release in Song. When she launched into her first phrase, the very first one, Mindy and I looked at each other and burst out laughing. It wasn’t very nice of us, but we couldn’t help it. This woman was like an SNL version of an angry folk singer.)
A bunch of my posts about our trip to Southeast Asia are featured in Travel on a Shoestring’s Carnival of Asia. Don’t go there to read my stuff, go there to read travel writings by other bloggers about places that are on the opposite side of the planet from Seattle.
To my stunned (redundant. ed.) surprise, I made the Saturday Uke Tube – a collection of uke related video links posted by Woodshed on the indispensable-to-the-uke-crazed site, Uke Hunt. Don’t say it out loud. You can see my video here, but there are much better and more interesting things to see in Woodshed’s collection. I rather liked “Road Trip” but I had network issues before I got all the way through it. To everyone who watched my performance, I apologize.
Whoa, that’s a lotta outbound links. I’ll get out of your way now.
4 Responses to “Saturday Miscellany”
By Marilyn on Mar 15, 2008 | Reply
“…blond with a guitar and an Angry History That Required Release in Song.” (snort)
By Beth on Mar 15, 2008 | Reply
It was nice to meet you, too! (And that works) Congrats on getting into the Uke Tube post- that’s pretty awesome
By Monica Guzman on Mar 15, 2008 | Reply
Nice to meet you last night! Cool picture