I think it will be funny.

(checking inbox)

No, still no e-vite.

Four years of relentless blogging, still not cool.

Alas.

Four square? Hmm. It's tempting. But will you have refreshments? And opportunity to photograph your offices? I mean come on. I want to work some macro on Ruiz' desk!

Wow, photographs of a TV studio-I can't believe they are letting bloggers into that gilded paradise of wonder.

Okay, okay, you can all photograph our mystical parking lot. It has myths and legends associated with it, and some religions even consider it to be holy. How's that?

Actually, I think photographing all of the bloggers who show up for the blog get together is tempting.

Sorry, Matt, but you've got to compete with KATU's invitation to photograph THEIR STUDIOS if you want us to come play four-square with you. Plus, I'd kick your ass anyway.

P.S. You forget to tag your post. Remember, they requested:
To help spread the word (and hear what fellow bloggers are saying about this meetup), let's tag our blog posts and photos "KATUmeetup".

Let's!

Don't think for a minute those KATU guys are morally superior. Back in the early eighties I used to go there to do production for a chain of hardware stores. The account execs went to lunch at Club 21... and never came back. I went with them a couple times. They ended up dancing on the tables, literally. Wild, wild bunch.

Well, I for one got into blogging mainly as a way to gain entrance to local news studios. The plan is obviously rolling out apace.

(On a more sinister note, does anyone think it's weird that a local representative of the MSM wants to collect together all of Portland's bloggers in one place? If we were worth our paranoid salt, we'd all skip it. But there's free food!)

@3 Of course. We'll pony up some canned "beverages" along with warm Frito pies. 5pm

(P.S. Will someone please tell Matt Davis what a Frito pie is)

The Mercury's general manager has hereby made our parking lot a lot more tempting.

Oy. Remind me to clean up my desk that day.

Matt, Amy, Scott, Samuel John and Lelo have all been invited.

Yippee! They just invited me. I've said you can all come and play four square after I've loaded up on free food, and of course, "photographed the studios." MMMM.

They have 300+ local bloggers on the invite list... what I want to know is who the heck has the time to compile a list that long?

Count me in for four-square.

I want a photo of Matt at the KATU Anchor Desk. Do you think they'll us take it? Ruiz, you're on weather. Don't forget your bikini.

Lelo, I'm going to need a copy of that bikini shot.

Do I get to swear if the forecast is more of that rainy crap we had yesterday?

I want a ride in the KATU helicopter that buzzes our building every day!

Hey Mercury, you can come as my guest! Seriously....

What, only news team gets invited?

Oh... that's cool.

I'm inviting you right now, Alison...

Along with everyone else on the Mercury editorial staff. Should I ask Production and Ad sales, too? What about our distro team?

Doesn't the Mercury have an email system?

Can we park in the Mercury parking lot too? :) I promise to move my car before the game of 4SQ starts... (or maybe I won't, could be more fun?)

Apologies for missing the gang @ Blogtown, PDX -- an oversight... honest! (for that, you get *more* free beer!) w00t!

Thank you, Mr.Katu. Thank you.

Do I get to swear if the forecast is more of that rainy crap we had yesterday?

No, but you do get to move to Arizona or something.

SO, The Portland Mercury parking lot 5pm for Booze and Frito Pie?

Posting this comment qualifies me as a "blogger" right?

Yes.

an 'oversight' on missing blogtown? isn't blogtown one of portland's busiest sites? are you not irritated? a geeky friend of mine even told me you were in the world's top 40,000 list (which means a LOT of traffic). hello? did you just say something? I can't hear you so good when you talk with your mouth full of free food...

Top 40,000?! Who says?!

I've barely posted anything on my blog all summer, and I got the KATU evite. Maybe KATU is only interested in Portland bloggers who have gotten lazy and don't get much traffic.

They have 300+ local bloggers

There are 300 local bloggers in this damn town?

Alas, it seems I haven't been asked to the dance either...I seem to only get noticed by most during Pride month.

Matt, Amy, Scott, Samuel John and Lelo have all been invited.

Yahoo!. Thankth, Eathster Bunny!

I'm thinking me and The Wife™ will be there.

I'm with qpdx, except I only get noticed during the basketball season. I mean, I only write the most popular Blazers blog on the planet, but hey, that's not invite worthy. Maybe it's because I always make a point of noting that Katy Brown dips her potato chips in ketchup.

Where's the blogging about the blogging gathering, if you know what I mean. What I really mean is, did anyone turn up at KATU?