Beer and Blog Portland

Special Guest, Mayor Sam Adams

The final Friday of our 2nd anniversary celebration is here. So far this  month we’ve given away lots of free booze and cool stuff (courtesy of @AlaskaAir, @SexyNurd, and @DarkHorseComics) to record-breaking numbers of Beer and Bloggers. Even the staff @LaughingSquid stopped by to join in on the hoopla. Sweet!

Have you been enjoying yourself so far? We hope so!

And now, for our final Friday celebration, we’ve managed to work our way into the schedule of a very special guest who’s heard good things about Beer and Blog and wants to come and celebrated with us: Portland’s own Mayor Sam Adams!

We’re honored by a visit from the Mayor of the city we love so much. We believe it’s the spirit of community that Portland, Oregon is known for that has kept Beer and Blog humming along, growing steady and strong like we have the past two years. Portland is Weird, it’s awesomesauce, and a visit from Sam Adams is pretty much a Seal of Portland Approval in my eyes.

Please join your fellow Beer and Bloggers this Friday at the Green Dragon for the final round of cheers in celebration  of our 2nd year. We’ll start gathering at 4pm as usual, and expect the Mayor around 5:30pm.

A very special W00t! to long-time Beer and Blog supporter Faddah (@yuetsu on the Twitters) for coordinating the introduction to Mayor’s Office

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Whoo-hoo! Our month-long 2nd Anniversary celebration continues!

This Friday at Beer and Blog, Alaska Airlines will provide free snackage for everyone and two drink tickets to the first 40 people who arrive. As usual, our event begins at 4pm at the Green Dragon, so if you have a hankering for freebie booze you should show up close to start time.

Special message, just for Brian M. Westbrook: A sincere bottom-of-our-hearts thanks for making this happen! You rock!

But the Alaska Airlines-sponsored fete isn’t all that’s going on this Friday night.

Almost as if it was fate (and who am I to say it’s not?) the Laughing Squid crew is in Portland this week, and they plan to join us at Beer and Blog for a spell.

What is Laughing Squid? It’s an online resource for art, culture & technology that also provides web hosting services. The Squiddies are having their own party — a PDX Drinkup — this Friday at 7pm at the Lucky Labrador Brew Pub, just down the street from the Green Dragon.

Coincidence? Or FATE?

So, after we’ve exhausted our wonderful Beer and Blog server Lexie, we’ll trek a couple of blocks down to the Lucky Labrador Brew Pub to meet the the Laughing Squid team at their PDX Drinkup.

I hope to see you at Beer and Blog and later on at the PDX Drinkup. Come and say hello!

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The month of January makes everyone retrospective. We look back and take note of events and accomplishments and the look to the future to imagine what may be. For Beer and Blog, this January is especially affecting…it’s also our 2nd Anniversary!

So, what did we do last year? Here’s a little run down of blog post titles we published last year:

End Bloglessness – A half day workshop to get your blog up and running
We had 3 End bloglessness events last year! Down with bloglessness!

FREE Redux: Win hosting for life at Beer and Blog
Several beer and bloggers are hooked up sweet now!

Heard AboutUs? They’re 3 (and They’re Buying Us Beer!)
We helped AboutUs celebrate three years of stellar web indexing by helping them drink the beer they bought. Awesome!

Off-site topic: Intellectual Property
I attended this event and walked away with a copy of Facebook’s patent application. Purr!

What the Shit? Twitter. Dramatic. Reading.
We had two What the Shit?s last year, Melissa Lion’s very popular dramatic Twitter oration. Frakking hilarious! We hope to do more this year!

Free Beer for Twitalyzer’s Top 100 Influencers
There was a huge, jovial turnout (and a teensy bit of controversy) for this summer patio party. Awesome!

Enter to Win a Beery Big Prize this Friday
(This is my favorite headline.)

Cyan PDX is hosting this Friday’s meet upThis one was super fun for me…it’s where I met my lit agent.

Drupal Magic Animal Farm
I enjoyed writing this post about my friend Nate “Dante” Angell. <3

The Women of Beer and Blog
This one got 10 comments! Wow!

End Joblessness – A mini job fair
About 70 people showed up for the mini job fair and several people made contacts that led to employment. Wah-hoo!

It’s a very impressive list for a two year old community based on the premise of bloggers helping bloggers over beer, don’t you agree?

To celebrate our accomplishments we’ve secured the best in entertainment for our beer and bloggers: SexyNurd!

Join us, won't you?

This Friday, January 8, Comedian SexyNurd is performing at 5pm at the Green Dragon. For US! Not only that, he’s giving away tickets to his “RockStar Trapped in a Nurd’s Body” show that starts January 22 at Curious Comedy Theater.

SexyNerd is such a rock star that the paparazzi will be there, of course, to capture him mingling with us beer and bloggers. Pose with SexyNurd in your best Sexy or Nurd and you’ll end up in the tabloids and on the SexyNurd blog. You’ve been warned!

That’s not all we have lined up in January to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary. For your beer and blog entertainment:

• 1/15 – Alaska Airlines is sponsoring food and drinks
• 1/22 – GoTime is sponsoring
• 1/29 – Mayor Sam Adams appearance

Yes, you read that right. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you! Mr. Adams will be in Beer and Blog attendance on January 29. Stay tuned for details on this historic event.

On the cusp of a new year, and on behalf of Justin and Christine (Mr. and Mrs. Beer and Blog) and the rest of the Beer and Blog crew, I wish you prosperous experiences in 2010!

See you Friday at the Green Dragon after 4pm!