I’m working on getting caught up out here before the end of the year, including my end of the year review and summary, a few more Snowy Sunday episodes and my plans for 2010.

Crash landed – photo by renagerie

Avitaween is one of the premier annual blogging events [the other one I've been to is TequilaCon] and this was my first time attending.

As you can see from the first photos, my wife and I attended this event as penguins. Think “March Of The Penguins” with alcohol and other invaders.

“I don’t need a fish.. I need a drink” – photo by renagerie

“Beam Me Up, Mindy” – photo by renagerie

The party was a huge success, with Adam doing so much to put it all together. I can’t thank him enough for the great job and massive effort he went through. Also, there were so many cool people there – some of which I hadn’t met before. I’ve previously posted a photo of meeting Hilly for the first time, but I also got to meet Becky – hellohahanarf. Becky and I have been wanting to meet for some time. And we finally did.

Look at how happy we are now that we’ve met.. well, we’ve both had alcohol, too

And of course, I got to meet up with Dave from Blogography again. Always a pleasure to meet up with the King of the PRB.

King.. meet Penguin.

The Best of the Rest

Adam also had a wall of photos of people’s vacation photos with “reported sightings” This is the one I sent in of Reba and I at Rockefeller Center in NYC.

Who knew that the aliens had invaded NYC. Never seen that before

Click here to view the Alien Sighting photo set.

And for those that want to see all photos, here’s the entire Flickr photo stream for Avitaween ‘09

Can’t wait for next year.

UPDATE

Always dapper and ready for a photo op in the studio

As Adam pointed out in the comments, there were studio photos that were taken during the Avitaween party. Here’s the link to the entire set of studio photos.

Snowy Sunday Ep. 011 from Marty Mankins on Vimeo.

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ATTENTION YouTube Users

This week’s video is not available thanks to WMG (Warner Music Group) removing the audio from it [Read the details here in this CNET article]. This tends to happen with some record companies, as there have been a couple of videos I’ve done that have had copyright warnings. Oddly enough, the videos I’ve previously used songs from a couple of WMG artists [Red Hot Chili Peppers, Van Halen] have so far been left untouched. Universal Music has been smart enough to leave the audio alone in my videos, adding a link in the details of the YouTube video page to purchase the song. Evidently, Warner Music Group isn’t that smart. I’m not surprised, given who runs WMG. So until Mr. Edgar Bronfman Jr. pulls his collective head from his greedy ass, I will not be uploading any YouTube videos that contain any music from Warner Music Group.

For a list of Warner Music Group artists, click on this link.

The Vimeo video above has not been affected and unless things change at Vimeo, I will continue to use that service for all of my weekly videos. If for some reason you cannot access Vimeo, let me know and I will provide another option for downloading and viewing this week’s episode of Snowy Sunday.

Thanks for your patience.

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100 Posts Giveaway

For those that only come here for the videos, you may be missing out on other blog posts… like the giveaway I have going on. Last week, I reached 100 posts out here…. I know, pretty cool. So to celebrate, I’m giving away a few things. It’s easy to enter. Just go to this post, read the rules then leave a comment. Who knows.. you could be a winner.

Snowy Sunday Ep. 010 from Marty Mankins on Vimeo.

For the YouTube version, click on this link: Snowy Sunday Episode 010

10

Hard to believe I’ve done 10 episodes of Snowy Sunday so far. And winter is barely half over here. But each week, I try to come up with something fun, something snow-related. It’s not easy, given the fact that we’ve not had any snow here for well over a week. I’m dying for some snow… really. Sure, I don’t want to get dumped with 2 feet of it all at once, but a few inches here and there would be nice. Until that happens, I’ll find snow, even if I have to head up the mountain to find some.

Thanks, Hilly

NOTE: original graphic found here