On March 15, Austin 360 and Clear sponsored a Food Blogger Bash. This was second year of the event, and it was fun! We ate tacos, drank margaritas and champagne. Addie Broyles organized the event and I met some cool people including Matt Timms (the king of all the foodie competitions) and The FoodSpotting team. Also in attendance were Cathy Erway, Charles Hope, JD from Citizen Taco, Stephanie Klein, Emily Farris, James Boo from Ice Cream Man, Luis from SXSWFreeNoms, and Amanda from Retro Bizarro.
Clear was one the sponsors, and I talked to one of the representative. Clear is exciting to me and I can’t for it to come to New York. What is Clear? Clear is 4G wireless network and it is $30/month.
Here’s another picture of me from the party.
With tonight being my last night here at SXSW, I wanted to go see some bands. First, I checked on Foursquare and Twitter to see where some of my friends were at, but my gut told me to strike out on my own in the hopes of something supercool. I did an IRL “StumbleUpon” when I read on a flyer that Miz Metro would be playing at midnight at the place called Club 115. I saw Miz Metro speak last fall at a 140Conf Meetup. At the Meetup, she talked about how she is using twitter to grow her fan base as a artist.
So I was there catching Miz Metro performance when two of my friends showed up. Let me preface this by saying that I didn’t check in on Foursquare, so this was complete serendipity. Chris Sullivan (AKA Shockwave) and Jen Dunlap (AKA Funlap) walked in. I met their friend DJO. who also makes kimchi and he knows Cathy Erway who is a friend of mine. We were on a panel together on Saturday for TechMunch Austin.[It’s a freaking small world!] DJO is the dj for The Beatards. They are bringing back the Brooklyn Old Skool hip hop energy with new school lyrics and beats. They are like the Beastie Boys for this century. Tonight was the first time I heard them and I love it! Shockwave get onstage and did a little something.
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I had a fun time partying with friends that I don’t see that often in NYC. It was the perfect button to this week here in Austin.
When I arrived yesterday afternoon, I saw this great statue of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan at the Austin airport. There’s another statue of her on the UT Austin campus.
This afternoon is my panel, The Broke Diaries at 2PM.
I will also be attending Black Blogging Rockstars at 3:30PM
Later, I will be speaking at the Carver Museum for the second annual Blacks in Tech Panel at 6PM.
Spotted EJ Flavors and JBrotherLove outside Austin Convention Center
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