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The new tour shirts are here! We're stoked. They look awesome. If you invite us to visit your place while on tour, you'll be getting one of these. We're also giving them free to the first five people who sign up for our TweetUps, in each market.

RJ says that you're going to look totally hot in these tees. So even if you don't live or work on the west coast, you may want to book airfare now and meet us in the city of your choice. T-shirts worthy of your travel. Only on the Plaid Summer Tour.

Labels: swag, tshirts, tweetups, van goodies

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Oh, we'll definitely pull the van over here. Maybe share a coffee with Mr. Troll. Take some photos of people pointing to the inside of his nose. Or whatever people do when they hang with giant trolls underneath bridges.

Labels: tour route

posted by darryl ohrt at 12:38 PM 0 Comments

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We're having a TweetUp in Vegas, so that the entire town can stop gambling and having sex for just a moment. (And think about creative ideas, and social media.)

Come join us August 1, 8:30am at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 4550 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas.

Sign up on the dashboard. The first five people to register get a FREE Plaid tour t-shirt!

Judging from the website, it looks like we can expect a bunch of cute dogs sipping coffee there. I'm not sure if that's true or not, and we are only hoping to meet some fun marketing, creative and internet workers from Vegas. But we'll settle for dogs, if that's all we're given.

Labels: swag, tweetups

posted by darryl ohrt at 1:05 PM 1 Comments

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A friend in Los Angeles says that Peets is the bomb. So Peets it is for our Los Angeles TweetUp, too!

Come hang with us at the Peets on 1154 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, on Wednesday, July 30. 8:30am. First five people to sign up on the dashboard get free PlaidNation tour t-shirts!

We've concluded that regardless of location, anywhere in Los Angeles is inconvenient for about 75% of the population. So we'll either deal with that, or trust that people in LA love their cars enough to drive from wherever they may be. Or they'll arrive on roller blades. To see a Plaid van.

I've got my eye on that sweet looking yellowish drink with yummy stuff on top. Looks really good right now, doesn't it? See you at the TweetUp!

Labels: swag, tour route, tweetups

posted by darryl ohrt at 4:10 PM 0 Comments

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We're told the locals really dig a place called Peets - so we're officially scheduling the San Fran TweetUp on July 25 at Peets on Market Street.

Come, bring a friend, share a coffee. Get Plaid swag. The first five to register get FREE Plaid tour shirts! (see "Tweetups", on the dashboard)

Come to hang with other internet geeks, marketing geeks and Plaid peeps.

Friday, July 25, 8:30AM
Peets Coffee & Tea, 2257 Market St

See you there!

Labels: swag, tour route, tweetups

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Matt's begun the process of producing the show intro for our daily wrap up videos. The piece will be done with stop motion animation - which means that Matt will be shooting about a kabillion and a half photographs, and putting them together to create an animation.

The end production will include the Plaid van, some clouds, roadside scenery and other magical things that only exist in Matt's head. Coming soon to a tour dashboard near you.

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posted by darryl ohrt at 12:21 PM 0 Comments

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We've chosen an awesome location for our Seattle tweet-up. Bauhaus Books & Coffee. We're stoked to check them out. Some have said they're the best in Seattle. (They had us at "bauhaus.")

Come hang out! You can sign up on the tweet up board, on PlaidNation.com. First five to sign up (and show up) get free Plaid tour shirts.

We'll kick off at 8:30am, on July 22. Bauhaus Books & Coffee, at 301 E. Pine Street, Seattle. Look for us there! We'll be the ones looking like "out-of-towners", with a Plaid van.

(Thanks to Michelle for the suggestions!)

Labels: tweetups, van goodies

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Our 2008 tour buttons have been designed. Pretty much anything with a surfboard on it rocks, so these rock extra hard. Design by David Dellinger (nice job, David!!)

The real Plaid van won't have a surfboard on top. Although what happens on tour...nobody can really predict.

We'll be giving these away to everyone we meet along the way. Friends, internet workers, mayors, California Highway Patrol officers, and whoever else we get to meet.

Labels: swag, van

posted by darryl ohrt at 7:36 AM 0 Comments