The wait is over…it’s FINALLY time to celebrate a 3rd year of the wiki-awesomeness called AboutUs.org!

Portland-based burgeoning Web site indexing service AboutUs.org turned another year older last month (June 20, to be exact), and in appreciation to the community for helping their database grow to more than 14 million pages they’re buying the Beer and Blog community a beer. Happy birthday to US and AboutUs! This Friday’s free birthday beer comes right on time, too. The night before, on Thursday, is the eagerly anticipated Ignite Portland 6 (brought to us by Legion of Tech and many, many hardworking volunteers). How very poetic (and convenient) to have a nice little decomp the day after in the form of a birthday toast celebrating a successful local business. This will surely help us ease back into the progressive craziness ahead, because just you wait: demands to submit your IP7 proposals will soon be streaking your twitterstream.

Join us on the patio at the Green Dragon this Friday from 4-6. Oh! One more thing: show up sooner than later, because free beer goes fast. That’s just common Law of Free Beer sense.
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I’m TOTALLY excited about the fun in store for the Beer and Blog community this Friday, July 10. Back by popular demand is What the Shit, that Twitter dramatic reading event we all enjoyed back in May. Far too long ago, and now the wait is over. What the Shit, the dramatic over-acting of Twitter tweets, was invented by @melissalion during a moment of undoubtedly utmost genius. The reading encourages you to invite your inner cheese ball out to play and read any tweet in your very best over-the-top oratory form. Also, emoticons are spelled out and there are RULES to follow. Helpful rules such as this: If one of your tweets is read, this is a compliment. Remember, there’s no crying in Twitter dramatic readings. Chest beating and keening are okay. Yeah, I’ve got me a nice little collection of tweets in consideration for my reading. Done in my best poetry voice, I hope to make my high school theatre teacher Mr. McDonald proud this Friday. The bummer is, the limit is 6 tweets. Who am I going to cut? Soooo difficult. What the Shit starts at 5:45pm, and sign-ups start at 5:30. Go see @melissalion’s Upcoming.org event page for more information and the rules of the game. Oh, and YES! AboutUs is having it’s anniversary party at Beer and Blog this Friday, too. To celebrate, they’re sharing the love in the way of beer. What a wonderful compliment to the silliness in store for us. I hope to see you there for great fun!

One more thing: Don’t forget to spread the word on End Bloglessness, scheduled for July 18th. We all know someone who’s been talking about starting a blog, but might not be Internet savvy or involved in social networking and wouldn’t ordinarily hear about End Bloglessness. Tell them about it. We’ll set them up with a platform in one afternoon. By that way, July 18th is also @MizD’s birthday. I will be making something chocolate-y to celebrate for all to share. You don’t mind, do you? =) RSVP on Upcoming or get your deets on Calagator