Live Blog: The Terrace

It's a lovely evening under the oaks here at the Memorial Union Terrace. Tunnel Bob is stalking around the beer cart. An open mic guitar buy is strumming away down on the stage. And there are bloggers out in force.

We just rolled down State from Ian's Pizza, where a bunch of us enjoyed some pizza and good conversation ranging from blogging rights in Azerbaijan to Althouse's obsession with onion rings. Stephen Colbert Elementary anyone?

At one point, State Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson, D-Janesville, walked past Ian's. I waved and got up to invite her and her companion in, explaining what was going on. Her laughing response: "We're blogs and we don't want to be rounded up." Okaay?

Steve S, Mike H, Dorshorst, Dial F for Fay, and Jesse from Dane101 are here. JM from Eating in Madison A-Z is here, but out looking for his wife. Miles Per left us earlier, as did commenters Jordan S and Frank H. Hastings from POST popped in for a bit at the very beginning, too.

A few others are slated to plunk down in sunbursts before the night is out. It appears the first two pitchers are Spotted Cow and Stella. 'Til then.

UPDATE: Opiate, Drifting by a Weil, and Hippie Perspective showed up to round the night out, as did commenter Julie A, as the band wailed along in an 18 minute plus Dire Straits cover. Senator Mark Miller, D-Monona, was walking out of the Rathskellar, pitcher in hand at one point. The Senate Dems must've had a hard day.

Other conversation from the evening as a whole (from my perspective):

Law Park Alcohol Ban (what was the actual vote? it wasn't in the State Journal story, Konkel talked of a unanimous vote on some motion related to it, someone thinks 13-4); Bloomberg the candidate, Soglin versus Mayor Dave as characters (pragmatic versus never agitated about anything good or bad); GoogleAds, the Peace Corps, the Mallards win over the Isotopes; George Hesselberg; whether summer estivation causes a slowdown in blogging; a potential Student version of Dane101; should Angelina Jolie play Dagny in the Atlas Shrugged movie; WisOpinion has been paying more attention to student blogs as of late; what is Austin King doing next; Ron Paul's chances in the GOP primary; where did commenter Bill Anderson go; the McCain and Fred Thompson wives; Transformers; what to rename Vang Pao Elementary (Stephen Colbert Elementary, of course!); whether the Daily Cardinal should have bloggers in-house; POST's excepting controversy; what's up with Jenna; the Catholic Church; the grand coalition in Madison that opposes gambling.

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