Here they are! All the photos I took in January that don't have their very own entry but still deserved to see the light of day!
Sunday, January 1st
The very first day of the year was pretty much all about Niki and I having a "we're recovering from last night" TV-marathon and trying to eat as many of leftovers from our New Year's Eve party as we could.
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niki
food
Here's our gourmet lunch of veggie chick'n nuggets, falafel sticks and two types of tortilla chips. Mmmm...feasty!
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food
Then later that afternoon, a visitor arrived! Niki's friend Whitney came from LA to stay with us for a few days so she could do some stand-up comedy dates in town. (By the way, I just saw her last week on HBO's new show Tell Me You Love Me! So congrats on that, Whit!)
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whitney cummings
Niki and Whitney!
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niki
whitney cummings
Monday, January 2nd
On Monday morning, me, Grant...
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grant
me
...Amanda, Meredith and Chris all went downtown to South Street Seaport to check out "BODIES...The Exhibition."
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amanda
chris the greek
meredith
It was very similar to the BodyWorlds show I saw back when I was out in LA: They take human corpses, put them through a process called "plastination" which removes all the water from the cells and replaces it with a clear, resin, and then they can present the bodies in all sorts of crazy ways without worrying about them decomposing. (The only difference was that at the BodyWorlds show, all the specimens were willingly donated by the owners; whereas the show in New York was controversial because it came from China and there were rumblings that all the "specimens" might not have been "willingly donated" by the owners!). Anyway, here's a dude sliced up like a cheap deli salami. (That'll teach you to talk bad about Chairman Mao!)
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plastination
It's hard to believe, but this is actually a real human head that's been "plastinated" and then had most of the skin peeled off to show how the facial muscles attach. (And to also show how easy it is to make a dead body look like Mr. Bill if you've got access to plastination chemicals).
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plastination
This photo (sort of) shows the human circulatory system floating in way. They take a body, drain all the blood, then they fill up the entire circulatory system with a red-colored plastic resin. After the resin hardens, they put the body into a vat of some sort of acid that dissolves everything except the resin. So after months and months in the acid, all the bone and tissue is dissolved leaving behind a perfect "mold" of the circulatory system. Insanity, right? (By the way, please excuse the shitty photos - photography in the exhibit was verboten so these pics are all the result of me shooting on the sly from my hip sans flash.)
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plastination
In this exhibit, they did the exact same thing except used a solution that left bone intact to demonstrate all the veins, arteries and capillaries around the skull.
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plastination
Towards the end of the exhibit, they had a whole separate section that was filled with fetuses. (It was kept separate because apparently there are people who can look at bodies of dead adults diced up like carrots but can't, Jesus forbid!, stand to look at lil' innocent "unborn angels" treated the same way.) Anyway, here's the plastinated corpses of two siamese twins that died during birth. Crazytown!
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baby
plastination
And here's a human fetus (I think around 5 months?) that's had some sort of treatment done to highlight the bones. So amazing. It was really interesting how from the side it totally looked like a human baby...
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baby
plastination
...but from the front it looked like the little unborn baby version of Venom from Spiderman 3. We ended up spending almost three hours there! The exhibition was so awesome, if you ever get a chance to see it, you should go. It gave us all new insights into the wonder that is the human body.
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baby
plastination
But that certainly didn't stop Grant from getting me to take this picture of him surreptitiously mocking a family of ginger kids that we passed on the way out. Grant was almost fucking beside himself as he kept giddily hissing "Look at their hair! It's SO RED! They have FUCKING CLOWN HAIR!" Hahaha.
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grant
ginger
After we left, we got caught in a torrential downpour while walking back to my apartment (instant karma!) and everyone had to raid my wardrobe for a dry change of clothes. Grant opted for a hoodie and a stretched-out old pair of skiing thermals that I don't think had seen the light of day since '93.
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grant
long johns
Meredith also found some thermals in my "ski clothes" drawer!
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meredith
long johns
Amanda went her own road and opted to raid my "party clothes from 1996" drawer and ended up in this winning lil' ensemble.
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amanda
shorts
Peek-a-boo, I see panties! After everyone was changed into their comfy, warm, dry clothes, we snuggled up on the couch and settled in to watch...
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meredith
long johns
...the only movie ever produced able to claim that it was a Topps Chewing Gum Production...
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garbage pail kids
...that's right, it was Amanda's Hanukkah gift to Meredith, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie! (aka - the worst movie of all time. SERIOUSLY!)
I know people engage in that "OF ALL TIME" hyberbole all the time (er, especially me), so I just googled around for reviews of the movie and came across this gem of a review. Case closed.
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garbage pail kids
Friday, January 6th
On Saturday, Meredith went out with Christine and tried to make out with her but every time Meredith would make a move, Christine would pull frat-dude moves like this one. Hahahah. (Photo by Meredith).
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christine
meredith
kiss
Monday, January 9th
On Monday night, a bunch of us went to Karaoke Killed the Cat at Pianos. Here's MC of the night, Goldteef Chris (seen here shyly hiding his gold teeth).
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goldteeth
Amanda doublin' up on the mic.
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amanda
karaoke
Even Siege was there (briefly)! Check him out getting some double nipple pinchin' action in his D&D shirt (This is no game, indeed!)
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amanda
meredith
siege
Yes, we still have a karaoke problem.
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amanda
me
Tuesday, January 10th
On Tuesday night I tried to convince David that Meredith and I got back together because of this book but he didn't believe me.
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david kreitman
book
Later that night I met up with Sarah and Brandon (who loves my work).
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brandon
sarah
Wednesday, January 11th
On Wednesday night, a whole bunch of us went to see Fiasco play at Crash Mansion. A band with a keytar player opened up for them.
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band
keytar
Preggo Liz was there getting her snack on.
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liz
food
preggo
At then a little before midnight, took the stage and rokked it.
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amanda
fatty
grant
fiasco
Thursday, January 12th
On Thursday night I got a call from my friend Emily (who I went to high school with) to come to meet her at a bar in the East Village. When I arrived I was surprised by two other Roxbury High School alums, Ben Berliner and Derek Schmere (sp?), both whom I hadn't seen in six or seven years!
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ben berliner
derek schmere
rhs
smile
Late, late late night, I met up with Leigh and Posh Tony over at Black and White and we ended up getting shit-hammered. We got so drunk that we somehow ended up becomming best new friends...
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leigh
posh tony
...with these two ladies.
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strangers
Yay! Let's hear it for new friends!
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leigh
strangers
And for vampires who attack nutsacks! Hahahaha.
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leigh
best
brained
Friday, January 13th
Mike Doyle was in town from San Francisco and on Friday night he and I went out to Brooklyn to meet up with Mikie. It was the first time we'd all been together since she played tour guide and took Mike and I around Japan. Great American-style photo, guys. Now give me Japan-style photo!
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mike doyle
mikie
Thanks!
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mike doyle
mikie
Later that night, Mike and I went to Orchard bar. Right around 4am, this girl tried to pick a fight with one of our friends and then Sarah turned the music off and the whole place started booing her. I managed to snap this photo as she grabbed her stuff and left in a huff (bonus points to Brandon Reilly who can be seen in the background laughing at her!).
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strangers
Even Merlin was appalled.
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merlin
surprise
Here's Quinn posing with the man who came in at 4:15am to sell flowers and make all sorts of romantic magic happen.
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quinn
flower
strangers
Dreams really do come true.
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mike doyle
bromance
flower
Saturday, January 14th
On Saturday night, I took Mike Doyle out for some awesome pizza at L'asso...
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food
pizza
...and that later that night we went to Jamie's Ball. (Which is the name of my fried Jamie Kirkpatrick's benefit party he holds every year to raise money for testicular cancer after he lost one of his boys to the disease a few years back). I try to go every year - because it's one of the few times of the year I can donate to charity and make testicular double-entendres all night. (But I'm not even the worst offender, check out the Jamie's Ball website and watch the video he's got there).
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jamie k
me
And the night wasn't about just balls, there was plenty of nipple humor as well.
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strangers
After the ball, I went over to MisSahpes and on the way downstairs to hide my coat, I ran into John and Ellen who were totally transfixed by...
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ellen hart
john fewell
misshapes
...that "find the differences between these two pictures of a slutty naked lady" game!
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misshapes
videogames
Here's me giving Mike the ol' "no really, this party used to be waaaaay more fun than this" speech. He wasn't buying.
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me
mike doyle
misshapes
Or at least he wasn't until Annabella (who was my lil' teen crush back in January of 2006) showed up...
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annabella
misshapes
...and decided to pop out a little bit of teen titty! (OMG!)
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annabella
boobs
misshapes
nips
Let's hear it for jail-bait!
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annabella
me
kiss
misshapes
surprise
Speaking of jail bait, Martin was there!
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annabella
martin
misshapes
Oh Annabella, you little teen minx, you.
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annabella
me
misshapes
Me and Greg.
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greg k
me
dj
misshapes
Despite it being so-so, we stayed and danced until closing.
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crowd
misshapes
Monday, January 16th
On Monday night, I met up with Mike for dinner...
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me
mike doyle
...and afterwards we randomly ran into Fatty on the street.
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fatty
frame
Later that night, Mer and I met up with a whole bunch other people at Pianos for...
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me
meredith
...Karaoke Killed the Cat. MC Chris Goldteeth on the mic.
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goldteeth
karaoke
Most likely singing something by BBD (that's Bel Biv DeVoe for all you squares that aren't down, yo).
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goldteeth
karaoke
Niki and Posh Tony.
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niki
posh tony
karaoke
Meredith on the mic.
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meredith
karaoke
Mike Doyle warmed it up on the dancefloor...
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mike doyle
dance
...before taking the stage with Niki for a crowd-stirring rendition of Elton John and Kiki Dee's Don't Go Breaking My Heart.
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mike doyle
niki
duet
karaoke
I won't go breaking your heart.
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mike doyle
niki
duet
karaoke
Ooooh-hooo...and nobody knows it.
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mike doyle
niki
duet
karaoke
There were traded verses, harmonies and flirty dance moves galore.
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mike doyle
niki
duet
karaoke
It was pretty much a "10" as far as first-time karaoke duets between two people who just met go.
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mike doyle
niki
duet
karaoke
Yay, Niki and Mike!
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mike doyle
niki
duet
karaoke
Then I went up afterwards and screamed a whole bunch (as I'm wont to do on the karaoke stage).
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me
karaoke
Which apparently cracked Posh Tony up. (We'd been friends for years but this was the first time he'd ever seen me sing karaoke).
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niki
posh tony
laugh
Closing time! Niki borrowed my hat for the walk home.
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niki
fur hat
There were icicles on the trees...
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ice
trees
...and we were drunk enough to eat them.
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meredith
mike doyle
ice
trees
Afterwards, we bid farewell to Mike Doyle who was flying back to San Francisco the next morning!
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mike doyle
smoke
Tuesday, January 17th
The next night we went out for Ellen Hart's birthday! Happy birthday, Ellen!
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ellen hart
birthday
Thursday, January 19th
On Thursday night I went to some party with Nina. We left and when we were walking up the Bowery, we saw the hands-down most ridiculous "club flyers" that were left on all the car windshields.
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car
flyer
Hahahah. Check out the fucking size of those things! They were like 14" by 4 1/2 feet!
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nina
car
flyer
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