UPDATE: Please Welcome Pickle and Duck Stevens

Thank you for all of the birthday wishes everyone. Things are moving right along and I would like to take the time to introduce to you two of our newest additions.

Pickle is an old friend of ours who we are lucky enough to have back in our life. Since we last met Pickle in San Jose he has moved to SF and has a great wife, dogs and random strangers breezing through their town/couch. In addition to his love of bacon and other flavorings he will be providing a unique local perspective. If this sounds vague it is because we can’t really figure which planet he is actually from.

Walking up 24th to find my car one rainy evening, so that I could move it to prime non-street sweeping ticket territory, I saw this rather large man step out of a local Irish pub on S. Van Ness. I thought I recognized him but it had been a long, long while. He was on the phone and I did not want to disturb him so I clandestinely looked for his distinctive wrist tattoo (which I am going to steal by the way) while pretending for the light to change. I recognized it and he remembered me instantly. Glad to find an old friend in my new haunt. Thank you Pickle for welcoming me so wholeheartedly to this great city and your life.

Duck Stevens is a short-term NYC transplant and we are hoping that he will provide an interesting perspective to our BayAreaButchering. Luckily he has a writing background so we expect great things from him. If his first two stories are indicators of things to come and all that…he also gets bonus points for including me (sort of) in one of the stories. A good way to score points (hint, hint…on second thought…). Now if he can only avoid the underground army massed to invade the local Mission eating establishments…

Happy Birthday!

BayAreaButchers started in 2009 at a little coffee shop on the ocean. We wanted a space to showcase the talent of our friends.

BABS has since grown into something more. We can come together and share ideas, stories, bands we want to see, movies, poetry, and randomness. We have a resident DJ, Filmmaker and Poet. When this started we couldn’t have imagined how quickly the site would grow and the directions it would take.

BayAreaButchers.com had its most visits last month and has increased steadily, month over month, since last year. The facebook page now has almost 600 followers also increasing steadily month over month. We also have just partnered with festivalcrashers.com and look forward to hanging out with them at Outside Lands later this year.

On that note are you going to the show tonight? We’d like to know. If there is a show in the Bay Area you’d like others to know about please email bayareabutchers@gmail.com

Here is the first video posted on the site.

We look forward to a great many things in the coming year!

UPDATE: New Butcher!

Everyone please give a warm welcome to latest member of our madhouse: The Mighty Albatross! Expect plenty of interesting art and music from this fine lunatic.

Culture Expansion

Check out SanJose.org "The Fun Never Stops!" as we will soon be linked to this site. I found it very entertaining, especially the Top 10 Reasons to Visit SJ. #4 was my favorite: SJ is a cultural meccca. Very happy to hear this.

Please comment with your favorite San Jose memories below to give them a warm welcome.

On a seperate note please "suggest to friends" on the left hand side of the new Facebook page.

Press Release

If you would like to put on your PR hat let us know below.

On a separate note we are still growing at a rate of 20% new visitors a month and we need to increase this curve...gorilla marketing ideas go!

Welcome Dredis!

One more butcher from the bay. Be prepared, because you cannot know what to expect.

SITE UPDATE: New Tagging

You should now tag everything you post with your own name. I have already gone through and added the tags to all past postings. Now readers can click your name tag on the side and read only what you post. Save time hunting for old things. Yay.

SITE UPDATE: Please welcome Non_Sinecure!

Please welcome Non_Sinecure to our authors. She has a writing style that lends itself nicely to this format and is smart as a whip.

The current May total is only 33 but there has been some impressive stuff this month and readership is growing steadily with percent new visitors doubling from the May total. Keep it up! We are all doing our best to get the word out so if there is something that seems to be working please let everyone know.

Please encourage whomever ('whom' just for Penemue) you think would be a good commenter to visit the site often.

Keep the great ideas coming and I look forward to your continued butchering!

SITE UPDATE: We're #500 on Blogtopsites.com

Important milestone. We are continuing the march to the top! Who is number one you may be asking? Hot Celebrity Pictures. Seriously? Is anyone surprised by this? Probably not.

Can we knock them off of the #1 spot? I don't know. Is it a battle worth fighting? Is there any question?

We want to thank everyone for their hard work! We also had our first anonymous commenter recently and if you are out there that was a very critical analysis of the current political situation in Iran. Kudos.

#500, BayAreaButchers on Blogtopsites.com

SITE UPDATE: Here's Johnny!

A hearty welcome to the newest addition to our team of meat grinders... Johnny. He'll illuminate us in the ways of the California education system and great music, among many other things. Lucky for us he has the latest technological upgrades and is ready to roll with Gigabytes of illicit knowledge. Here's a tease at his glorious past as interpreted by the great Keanu:

We're all excited to have you here Johnny, make yourself at home and do your best to wreck the place.