Mobbed Up

I made it to the third biennial Minnesota Organization of Bloggers party at Town Hall Brewery, in Minneapolis' West Bank at Seven Corners.

For starters - I love what they've done with the place. It's a great brew pub; wonderful atmosphere, excellent food, and they brew some excellent beer (I laud their Oatmeal Stout and India Pale Ale).

Naturally, the highlight is meeting everyone. I'll see who all I can remember, here:

• Doug from Bogus Gold, bearing cigars.
• Lileks , seated at his usual spot at the head of whatever round Round Table table was available.
  
• Katie from Yucky Salad With Bones , along with her friend Emily. Don't worry, Katie; self-loathing is not warranted (although permalinks are!)
• Chad and Brian from Fraters , along with Rachel, Mrs. Elder and the Younger
• Nihilist and Sisyphus from Nihilist , awash in mid-feud pique
• Calamity Jo from The MAWB Squad along with Marcus, Doctor Jonz and one of the other Jonzes whose name I can never quite retain,from The Attic.
• Muzzy from Blogizdat
• Bob Davis of KSTP
• Kathy from Cake Eater Chronicles , who was as much fun as her blog is. Which is plenty!
• Mark Yost of the Pioneer Press
• Kurt from Writing History
• Ben from some blog whose name rang not the slightest bell. Someone update me!
• Learned Foot and V-Toed Bill from Kool Aid Report , in mid-feud with the Nihilist crew.
• Andy of Centerfeud ,
• David Strom and Margaret Martin from Our House , the center of the party as always,
• Marty Andrade , back from another long day of Saint Cloud radio,
• Night Writer
  
• Noodles , whose blog for the life of me I can not remember...
• King from SCSU Scholars
• Pink Monkeybird
• The Hemlers
  
• Mondocognito from Around The World in 80 Days, if memory serves
• Andy of Residual Forces
• Barry from Water Cooler Wisdom ...

...and probably quite a few more that I'm missing.

These parties are always the highlight of the season; it's an uncommon pleasure to be stuck in a room (or in this case, the Town Hall's lovely patio at Cedar and Washington) with a bunch of maniacally-diverse people who are all having actual fun together.

I'm looking forward to the next one!

Posted by Mitch at September 5, 2005 05:15 PM | TrackBack