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Blogfest ‘09 Wild Card — 2/28/09

Posted by DFO

Feb. 28, 2009 12:12 a.m. • 39 comments

It’s finally here — Blogfest ‘09. Bloggers, commenters and blurkers are invited to join me from noon until 3 p.m. at MoonDollars/Post Falls (609 North Syringa, see directions in drop-down box below). The Spokesman-Review will pick up the pizza & pop. But there’ll also be beer on tap and great sandwiches and fries that you can purchase. Nothing fancy is planned. The primary focus of Blogfest is to give Berry Pickers time to talk to others they know only by online conversation. At halftime, JeanieSpokane, CindyH, Bent & Co. will present various awards they’ve conjured up for the occasion and dole out trinkets that the SR promotions staff gave them. Also, the gals’ll have a Doug Clark Trailer Park Girls CD to hand out. And KeithinCDA has a bunch of cool 20-ounce coffee take-out mugs from his old Spokane Valley truck stop to give away. I’ve met most of you. But not all. I’m looking forward to renewing acquaintances and meeting new friends. See you there …

Directions to Moon Dollars via Mapquest

From CDA Area:

1: Start out going NORTH on S 11TH ST toward E ASH AVE. 0.5 mi Map

2: Turn RIGHT onto E SHERMAN AVE/I-90 BR. 0.9 mi Map Avoid

3: Merge onto I-90 W via the ramp on the LEFT toward POST FALLS/SPOKANE. 9.1 mi Map Avoid

4: Take the SELTICE WAY/I-90-BR exit, EXIT 6, toward CITY CENTER. 0.3 mi Map Avoid

5: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto E SELTICE WAY/I-90 BR. 0.2 mi Map Avoid

6: Turn RIGHT onto N GOUDE ST. 0.1 mi Map Avoid

7: Turn RIGHT onto E POLSTON AVE. 0.4 mi Map Avoid

8: Turn RIGHT onto N SYRINGA ST. 0.0 mi Map Avoid

9: End at 609 N Syringa St Post Falls, ID 83854-6518    Map

Estimated Time: 16 minutes Estimated Distance: 11.53 miles

from Spokane Area:
Map

2: Turn LEFT onto W MAIN AVE. 0.1 mi MapAvoid

3: Turn LEFT onto N MONROE ST. 0.5 mi MapAvoid

4: Merge onto I-90 E (Crossing into IDAHO). 23.7 mi MapAvoid

5: Take the SPOKANE ST./ I-90-BR exit, EXIT 5, toward CITY CENTER. 0.3 mi MapAvoid

6: Turn LEFT onto N SPOKANE ST/ I-90 BR. 0.2 mi MapAvoid

7: Turn RIGHT onto E SELTICE WAY/ I-90 BR. 0.5 mi MapAvoid

8: Turn LEFT onto N IDAHO ST. 0.2 mi MapAvoid

9: Turn RIGHT onto E MULLAN AVE. 0.5 mi MapAvoid

10: Turn RIGHT onto N SYRINGA ST. 0.1 mi MapAvoid

11: End at 609 N Syringa St Post Falls, ID 83854-6518    Map

Estimated Time: 31 minutes      Estimated Distance: 26.10 miles

39 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

JIMMYMAC on February 28 at 1:34 a.m.
Can’t wait to see you all at Blogfest. Have to help a friend move during the morning but hope to be there by 1!!!!

My wife will surely be giving me the vulcan hand sign as I leave the house as she when I have departed for Blogfest the past two years ;)
marmitetoasty on February 28 at 8:45 a.m.
Hi - tiz only me - I wanna wish you all the best of fun times this afternoon at your blobfest……….ya know I would love to be there……

and as sods law has it, I’ve actually got acute tonsillitis, hence I aint been around of late, cos Im well a bit poorly with it…….

Anyways……….. I hope bob does turn up…….. I know to many, he can be an annoying little git sometimes……. but I also believe that many take the wrong end of the stick with him and instead of fetching the stick back and leaving it, they continue to want it thrown again and again :) - just my tuppence worth :)

So…….. if I was there this afternoon I would shout you all a proper drink and not just a tin of fizzy…… and in your honour, we have just shoved a couple of pizzas in the oven …… not that I can eat them cos I cant swallow anything lmfao……..

So……. have the most fantastic time meeting everyone……. I would not of told anyone I was there and just mingled and seen if anyone spotted me LOL - me, well, Im back to me sick bed lol well sofa…..

x
marmitetoasty on February 28 at 9:24 a.m.
Go on, your thought me little avitar thingie was a couple of perky boobies LMFAO….

x
trishgannon on February 28 at 9:31 a.m.
am leaving from Clark Fork now…. have to stop in Sandpoint for my grandson’s basketball game, so will have to find a place on the way to change into the condom dress. Every now and then, I DO have a sense of the appropriate.
Stickman on February 28 at 9:31 a.m.
We wiil think of you Marmite during the event, and of course you will be missed. Take good care of yourself.
Kage_Mann on February 28 at 9:40 a.m.
For being a pasty white english girl, it looks like marmitetoasty is sporting a tan. ;-)
florined on February 28 at 9:41 a.m.
See everybody about 1pm! And I promise to be on good behavior.
Truly on February 28 at 10:27 a.m.
Kage can’t wait to meet the person I was gonna throw on the freeway - now it’s just gonna be a big hug until the deed is done lol.
Bent on February 28 at 10:41 a.m.
Yes Kage, we missed you at Stickman’s for the beer tasting event… I hope to meet you at blogfest.
Frum Helen Back on February 28 at 10:47 a.m.
I actually put on make-up and am wearing my teeth to the Blogfest. That way maybe I won’t scare Cindy H. And my husband wants to come too. Hope that’s ok.
Frum Helen Back on February 28 at 10:49 a.m.
And Marmie, I just keep thinking you’ll be there today. I’ll be looking for you. But in case you are really suffering with the infected tonsils, I will send a wish that you are well very soon.
marmitetoasty on February 28 at 11:13 a.m.
:) Helen - I’ll be sitting in the corner with Bob LMFAO….

I wish I was there, but alas I aint……. and yep, I have pussie tonsils that will put those cheese pizzas to shame LOL…..

I know you will all have fun, you can pick up me award for me if ya like lmfao……. say a good speech…

x
marmitetoasty on February 28 at 11:15 a.m.
ps………. I can do a brill doodle accent, ask JBelle LOL….. I could easily mingle and no one would know twas me :)

x
Bent on February 28 at 11:25 a.m.
Marmite, it sounds like they got the place wired so we can live blog the event. You should get a nap and join us later at the event…
castMD on February 28 at 12:43 p.m.
DFO:
Been doing a little writing on castMD.com site recently, after a much needed break. Workin’ doc today, so I wish all bloggers and blurkers a healthy day. Enjoy the “now” moment. castMD
hhuseland on February 28 at 5:24 p.m.
I posted pictures on “Bayviews” just now. Enjoy.
hhuseland on February 28 at 6:06 p.m.
A little off the subject, but whilst we were choking down huge slices of pizza at the blogfest, the University of Washington won the conference championship, outright, by beating Arizona State, then today, beating Arizona. Bob Houbregs, later to play for the Minneapolis Lakerws of the NBA, was the talented center for the Huskies when they last won the conference back in 1953. The year I was a ninth grader at Renton HighSchool, home of the Seahawks.Hey, they aren’t the Cougs, but they are ours too.
EagleKeeper44 on February 28 at 10:12 p.m.
An icon of journalism road off into the sunset today……

Paul Harvey RIP
Stickman on March 01 at 9:05 a.m.
It was nice to finally meet you EagleKeeper44. One of these summer days you need to come by for a walking stick and we can talk about our younger days in Southeast Asia.
Stickman on March 01 at 7:28 p.m.
I guess Truly said it best Kage, where the heck where you? No respect from now on.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.