Meet the authors
You know them from Metroblogging Vancouver, but before they pooled their talents and abilities to become the city’s foremost group blog and crime fighting team each and every Metroblogging author was a blogger in their own right. Most of them are so very dedicated to blogging that aside from eating, drinking and dreaming about Metroblogging Vancouver they still keep their own blogs active.
Wynne for example apart from being our food taster, keeps W (v.2) active over at blogspot [wv]. You might not know this, unless you’ve read her blog, but recently she had a trip to the Vancouver Art Gallery and a trip to a foo-foo coffee spot interupted by the VAG being closed and the coffee spot being a bit too foo-foo, as such she ended up in Chapters [wv]. And who can argue with her taste in movies [wv]? I mean who does’t love an Asian Katie Holmes?
Matt’s site is white text on a black background [omp]. It’s stark, perhaps even depressing. Either way it’s the sort of site that takes your little kid brother’s blog and steals its lunch money, it’s that good. Or bad. Does bad still mean good?
Regardless Matt gives us a lesson on why it’s dangerous to not edit your letters to Santa [omp]. He also bites the carrot [omp] which is not as homosexual as it might sound out of context. Or is it?
Oddly enough despite being the only Vancouver Metblogger whose figured out how to work a picture into his profile [mbv] his site is devoid of photography. I said it was meanacing.
Ryan Cousineau’s title font gave me diabetes [wc]. Ryan watches HDTV and plays video games [wc]. If he also cried himself to sleep at night while in the fetal position he might actually be me in disguise.
One person who is definitly not me is Rachael Ashe [rap]. Sometimes she has a little bird on her head, which is awesome [rap]. She also apparently killed an angel with her barehands and stole its wings [rap], or at least that’s what I took from that photo.
To meet these and the rest of the Metroblogging crew you should come out tonight to our meetup. All the information was laid down by Matt in this post here [mbv] and we’ll be partying with the kids from Beyond Robson [br] at some point and they’re the cool peoples of the Vancouver blog world.
I’d love to meet all of you–I’ve been really impressed with the quality of writing at both sites (disclosure: I’m an ‘editor’ at Urban Vancouver, and I really mean it, it’s been good stuff), but next time you hold one of these “Meet the authors” get-togethers can you give us a little more heads up? A week in advance is probably a good amount of time for people to commit and spread the word on their weblogs: 8 hours really isn’t enough.
Good on you for posting this to upcoming.org: it’s where I find out about most events these days.
There was a post about it on the 3rd by Matt.
http://vancouver.metblogs.com/archives/2006/04/a_meetup_riddle.phtml
Must have missed that when I was moving my RSS subscriptions over. My bad.
But still, because it wasn’t posted on upcoming.org until the day of…
Yeah, the upcoming.org thing I didn’t do, so I’m not sure when that was added. My feeling is that if people read the site then they’ll know most of the time. Obviously it happens when a few people miss it, but there’s always another one next month which hopefully you can make.
Also now that we’ve intergrated an events lisiting powered by upcoming.org into our site we’re more likely to use it in a timely manner.
I was the one who added the event to Upcoming. Sorry it was so late!
On the plus side, I didn’t do it just an hour before, I did it, like, the morning of.