'"So, when Arrington started hosting BBQs for anyone working on a startup who might want to stop buy and do a little show and tell, I thought, "man, I got to go to one of those."'
Fixed! It's amazing that no matter how carefully I check for mistakes like that I never seem to be able to catch them all.
Had an english teacher explain a technique for slowing down enough so that you can catch those mistakes. Read the piece, word by word, in reverse (last word first). Then re-read sentence by sentence in reverse. Paragraphs, etc.