Picture it: it’s July 2004. A long-winded Senator for Massachusetts is trying to become president. Seattle still has dreams of a new monorail. Kathleen Wilson is writing for the Stranger. Blogging.LA was experimenting with cityblogging spin-offs. And so it was that Seattle Metblogs (or, as we liked to call it back in the day, Metroblogging Seattle) was born just in time for Independence Day fireworks [mb]. But a weblog doesn’t count until it survives for at least a month; so we’re celebrating our birthday at our August happy hour:

Last year we had a tea party that brought us cake, a box of walnuts, and vodka. This year, we’ll be at McLeod Residence from 6 to 9 pm and we’d very much enjoy it if you stopped in to say hello. A final schedule of events is still in the works, but there are rumors of cupcakes, dramatic readings of comments from the archives, and video games. We hope you’ll join us. After that, stay for Tiger Beat (a Contemporary/80s Mash Up Dance Party by Pity Party productions), so you can stick around and follow Lykke Li’s advice and dance, dance, dance.