A couple of days ago I posted an email that I received from Google letting me know that I wouldn’t be able to attend a Google/Vanity Fair party at the Democratic National Convention that I never knew about and didn’t ask to go to. Other people who also didn’t know about the party received the same email.
Today I get another email, also from Google, inviting me to attend the mirror party at the Republican Convention in Minneapolis next Thursday. Is this for real or are they just going to cancel on me again? Get out of my head, Google. I will not be fooled into RSVPing only to have you kick me out later. 
Email is below:
Google and Vanity Fair invite you to celebrate the closing night of the Republican Convention!
Thursday, September 4th
9:00 pm > onward
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MinnesotaRSVP: www.google.com/[removed]. Please do not respond to this email.
By Invitation Only and non-transferable – please do not forward this message.
An admission card is required for entrance. You will receive a confirmation email before the convention with instructions on where to pick up your admission card in Minneapolis.
You are receiving this email based upon a personal recommendation by someone at Google or affiliated with Google. If you are not interested in attending, we apologize for sending you this email.
“TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.”
Amen.
Maybe it’s everyone’s dream to start a blog to talk about the spam we get. No wonder I mainly read Ars Technica now.
And yet, here you are trolling the TC posts…good one Tom.
If other blogs are so good, i wonder why you dont comment there and you get the time to read and comment at TC
Its Michael Arrington’s call to post about anything!
This is hillarious…lol
Next you’re going to be blogging about how the newspaper boy is tormenting you by throwing your paper on the roof.
Mike, just so you know I do think of you as the Lindsay Lohan of the tech world and really do want to know what you like to eat for breakfast.
Well at least the mystery of the previous email is solved. They use just a single version of the list, your name was added after the invites went out but before the regrets. Better luck this time.
http://www.tech...ack-from-davos/
Maybe they’ve gotten used to you’re asking them and do this preemptively now?
I dunno, just a theory. If you have to ask to go to a party or event or pay some ridiculous amount like say $3000, then you probably weren’t meant to go. People like Scoble et al get into places for free. I’m not going to any Cali event over $20 on Eventbrite until I reach free entry status because of my network. period.
Who gives a f^ck?
I feel like someone needs to define the word “blog” for the commentors above me.
Everyone, please listen up… I just turned down an Evite that someone sent me. FYI.
On the Friday afternoon before the long weekend, it’s all he had to talk about. BTW Mike, what did you have for breakfast?
I skipped breakfast but had some awesome tacos at my favorite taqueria in San Mateo.
Twitterish twaddle.
You know, if you actually had an admission card in hand, they probably wouldn’t refuse entry at that point. Why not try?
GOD BLESS AMERICA! {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/zrSX2eN4Oa_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”GOD BLESS AMERICA! ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/1KpqQ7n4kr”}}}
Proof that alcohol doesn’t make you fascinating.
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Actually it only makes the person drinking it think they are fascinating. I’d have to agree with the attractive part; why else would you be hanging out with Shira Lazar
I’m not sure what the hell is going on in that video, but I’ll throw in a comment for mike – dude, you messed up on this post… childish, elitist, look-what-I-can-do-with-my-blog-ist.
remove the sunglasses
i hate talking to people with sunglasses on, all you see is your own reflection when you try to look into their eyes
…your future is not that bright
@Lawerence
Actually it is
Woops…I almost puked in my mouth.
God that was lame.
u r whining baby… get over it.. nobody gives a f**k
Well I must say, I think it’s entertaining. I also think it is important. I think the way that companies like google interact with those other than the faceless public is important.
Poor Michael Herringbone
Blog some more about your new iPhone
First its I can’t fly on the Google Jet
Then I’m invited to DEN, but I’m told to get.
Writer turned pundit turned wanna be celeb.
Marie Antoinette of the world-wide-web
Pancho Villa ?
looks like spam to me…..
Can you post the message headers so we can track it to which spambot is sending these?
ok
celebrity whore…it sucks being almost famous… but then not really….
You’re being played dude. You weren’t om the “A” team and they let you know in e-mail 1. However, since none of the A team seems to want to go, we have room for you…
I imagine that most of the people attending the first event weren’t invited by e-mail any way.
Forward that 2nd e-mail to a dang spam server and see what happens.
political spam or …
Obama parties are totally oversold. He had 90k people in that stadium and there were still thousands standing outside that couldn’t get in.
McCain’s people have been spending the last few weeks trying to fill buses all around the country to get people committed to filling his bleachers. There was no excitement, nobody wants to party with him.
They’re trying to recruit you to fill space and make the Republicans look like their supporters are excited too.
um, it’s probably not a good idea to attend the event at the RNC, you know, because of the imminent homosexual overtures you’ll endure
good nice