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Bowling 2.0 1.0: The revolution will be ten-pinned

Nick Douglas — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:10:18 EDT

The first night of Vinnie Lauria's Silicon Valley bowling league went off without a hitch, according to the clip below. Unfortunate, I know. It's all Vinnie (one of the boys at social startup Meetro) talking about the friendly competition and inevitable VCs who want to hang with the dot-commers.

But since someone will be filming all of these events, at least we'll have video when someone from imeem pulls a Walter Sobchak.

Bowling 2.0 [Blip TV]

Bowling 2.0 (I am not making this up)

Nick Douglas — Fri, 19 May 2006 21:31:52 EDT

Get your game on and don't fuck with the Jesus! One of the Web 2.0 crowd forwarded this invite to the Valley's new dot-com bowling league. E-mail prefixes redacted to prevent spam.

From: Vinnie Lauria
Date: May 19, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: Bowling 2.0
To: xxx@riya.com, xxx@themintpage.com, xxx@imvu.com, Seth Sternberg , xxx@zazzle.com, xxx@box.net, joseph@plaxo.com, xxx@sixapart.com, xxx@3bubbles.com, xxx@gmail.com, xxx@stormventures.com, xxx@weekly.org, xxx@jot.com, xxx@renkoo.net
Cc: Paul Bragiel

Is that the smell of bowling shoes and varnished floors I smell in the air?
Bowling 2.0

I think so... we're starting a little web2.0/startup bowling league out here in the valley. We looking for some friendly competition, and who knows, maybe some cash prizes to go along with bragging rights.

So do you think your team has got what it takes? Meetro has been staffing bowling ringers for months now preparing for this moment. This would be a weekly league, with teams around 4 ppl (all teams should be the same size.) Typical leagues run 10 weeks, but that might be too much commitment for some (hell, startups live and die in that about of time.)

So if you think you're company is interested, please send me a note. Details to follow.

Feel free to pass this on to other companies, but I may have to close off the invite list at some point.

I haven't even mentioned the best part.... Bowling shirts with your name and company logo... Now you can finally fit in with that hip swingers crowd.

—
Vinnie Lauria
Meetro HQ

To-do: B-listers need not apply

ndouglas — Tue, 02 May 2006 20:58:35 EDT

Tonight: Schmooze with organizer Vincent Lauria and other dot-commers at the Silicon Valley New Technology May Meetup (Upcoming.org). E-mail Lauria if you didn't RSVP but are very important.
Wednesday: Learn what "underage avatar sex" means in the discussion Virtual Worlds — The Rules of Engagement, at Mountain View's Computer History Museum.
Wednesday: Shield your eyes for The GIF show, a celebration of the animated GIF opening Wednesday night at the Rx Gallery.
Thursday: You are so not cool enough for this event (until you change the wiki). Only the 43 best bloggers (Upcoming) are allowed at an exclusive House of Shields meetup. (Oh hell, sneak in. What'll they do, take you off their blogrolls?)