Here are the rest of the photos from January that I took that didn't make it into their very own entry but still were worth posting!
Friday, January 20th

On Friday night I went to Orchard Bar to for Sarah and Karen's Stolen Transmission party, but it was so crowded that I ended up spending pretty much the entire night down in the basement hiding in the coat check room with Gurj! It seems like this always ends up happening! All weekly parties always end up having some mundane nook that ends up being the secret place that's more fun that the party itself. (Like when MisShapes used to be at Luke and Leroy, the secret space was the back office!)
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So Gurj and I are down there, hiding in the back, getting kind of drunk and lookee lookee who else shows up! Lil' Miss Leigh Lezark (seen here giving me her best Princess Coldstare gaze).
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We had a few more drinks and then the next thing you know...
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...another stupid face contest broke out. If I remember correctly, this one was about making your best "vampire face." Here's mine.
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Here's Leigh's. (You have to imagine the loud hissing noises we're each making as you view these.)
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Gurj's vampire face looked a lot like her David Brent face. "Mmmmm. Shame."
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I don't even remember if any of us even knew this guy - but that didn't mean we weren't going to welcome him to join our private, face-making party in the back room! Come one, come all! Show yer vampire face!
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HISSSSSSSSS!
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ugly face

After the vampire contest was over, Leigh showed off how her finger healed all wonky after never having gone to the doctor to get it set properly after having gotten it broken a few months back on Halloween. Hahah.
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After we were done admiring Leigh's newly misshapen (HA!) finger, we found an empty bucket in the back of the coat room that was filled with tubes of caulk. Which immediately led to a full-out...
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CAULK FIGHT!
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Leigh loves herself some hot caulk.
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Give me a little DAP of CAULK!
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Gurj dishes some "bump from the back" while Leigh takes caulk up front. (This whole stupid thing is probably only funny in person (maybe not even then) when you can hear that Leigh and I, who are both New Jersey natives, actually say the word "cock" very much like we say the word "caulk.") Get it? Get it???
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Posh Tony and Leigh as we emerge from the private super-club that is the downstairs coat check room.
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The thing that best explains why Antony "Posh Tony" Ellis is hula-hooping in the kebab shop that's on the corner of Orchard and Houston is the timestamp on the photo: Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:11:52am.
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Friday, January 27th

Fast forward one week and I'm back in the same place: down in the basement coat room of Orchard Bar hiding out from the crowds. Except this time, I'm having fun with tape on my face! Woooo!
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Yep, Leigh was there again too. And yes, she also had tape on her face. Us muthafuckas know how to party. Some tape on the face...
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...throw in a book about Stonehenge that we found...
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tape

...maybe a dusty motorcycle helmet or two, and our private party was raging and in full effect.
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With the amount of tape-faced fun we were having, it was only a matter of time before people were looking to join our kicking party...and suddenly, Niki the roommate appeared from between a wall of hanging coats!
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And she'd even brought Hot Karla with her!
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smoke

Around 4:30am, the bar was closed and we were all hanging around waiting for Sarah and Karen to pack up their gear, things started getting frisky. It started out with some MilliVanilli-style boobie-bumpin' going on between Leigh and Gurj.
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Then later, when Leigh followed up with a surprise "got yer tit" attack, it became clear that boobies were going to be the next "big thing" of the night.
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gurj
leigh
boobs

Hahahaha.
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leigh
me
boobs

Karen saw what was going on and came over to get in on the groping.
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karen
leigh
boobs

Then Karen fell down.
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karen
drunk

But that didn't stop her from trying to get her boob-grope back on from down on the floor.
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karen
leigh

Even the bouncer got in on the fun! Check him giving Leigh's right tit a fist-bump! "Pound love, dawwwg!"
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strangers

Don't worry (Lawrence), their tongues aren't actually touching...because that would be gay.
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Saturday, January 28th

On Saturday night, Meredith and I got all dressed up and headed down to Tribecca to attend...
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...my company's Annual Holiday Party and Employee Recognition ceremony! Here's our CEO, Ben, kicking off the evening's festivities!
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cci

Here's Kevin and Bernadette accepting their awards for being awesome!
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After the "real" awards were over (the ones given to people who are doing great work), it was time to give out the "fake awards." These are where everyone gets to email the CEO and suggest new "made up" awards that should be given to specific people. Ben ends up picking his favorites, and for each person he recognizes, he finds a random piece of junk in his office to give to them in honor of their "award." Here's Ben congratulating Ron Worthy on...
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ron worthy
cci

...being "The Employee Most Likely to Talk Excessive Smack at the Pool Table." Hahaha. Here's Ron accepting his Wonder Woman Lunch Box award.
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cci

Here's Ben congratulating Russ on his winning the...
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russ porchia
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..."Brother with the Tightest Afro" award. Hahaha.
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Here's Pete accepting a bottle of really cheap wine after winning the award for "Most Likely to Spend the Night Passed-Out on the Sofa in the Lobby of My Apartment Building" award. (A superlative he earned after a particularly rough night out drinking with people from work.)
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ben sun
pete chen
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I don't remember what Hafeez was recognized for, but I do know that it won him a sweet bag of chips!
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hafeez
cci

After the awards, CTO Mike Montero manned the buffet and helped dish out some pasta loving. Some for you...
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...SOME FOR ME!
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mike montero
cci
pasta

Mike DiBianco, me, Hafeez and John Merlino.
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cci
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Hafeez, John, Karl, Amanda and Mike.
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cci

Me and Pete Chen hoisting frosty Rheingolds! Mmmmmm!
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Full open bar for more than 3 hours = the whole company drunk out of their minds by 9pm. Hahaha. Here's Mike, me and Kevin lamenting the end of free booze as the open bar ended. But if you're inventive like Mike is...
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kevin r
mike montero
cci
drunk

...you can always find ways to keep on drinkin' for free! Hahaha. (By the way, I'm writing this almost two years after this photo was taken and when I recently showed this pic to Mike he just groaned and said "I always knew that picture would come back to haunt me.")
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beer
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cci

Waaaaay later that night (after I'd gotten a chance to go home, change out of my suit and tie and sleep off my open-bar wastedness) I headed over to MisShapes. I only took two photos. This one.
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leigh
misshapes
tongue

And this one. Eric George in the higgity, yo.
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misshapes
ugly face
Sunday, January 29th

My buddy Posh Tony was in Europe touring with a his band for a couple of weeks and when I heard that he was missing NYC, I emailed him this picture of the bench where many of our recent "late night man-chats" had taken place.
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Then I hung out with the T.rex in the Times Square Toys R Us.
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t-rex
Tuesday, January 31st

On the very last day of the month, I had dinner with Caitlin Brown, my friend from college (you may remember her from Spring Break '98!) that I hadn't seen in a good three or four years!
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I tried to get her to make a really ugly face for me, but we were in a tiny, crowded restaurant and she was too shy to really give me something ugly.
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tongue
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Not too bad, though.
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caitlin brown
ugly face

Later that night I dressed up as Kurt Cobain...
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...and then Meredith and I went out to meet up with Mr. David Kreitman for a few quiet drinks in the neighborhood. Afterwards, Mer ended up heading home and David and I...
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...walked over to Happy Ending to celebrate Ellen Stagg's birthday! Here's me getting a face-licking from the bday girl!
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tongue

David and Missy.
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Marjorie and Carol.
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Knowing these two, I guarantee you that Carol's pretending that she's not sure who has bigger boobs and needs to touch Missy's in order to settle things once and for all. And speaking of huge boobs...
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boobs

...here's Ellen again!
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boobs
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Ellen was trying to explain her sexy undergarments to me and eventually just gave up and was like "See? Do you see how awesome they are?" Uhhhh, yes.
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ellen stagg
boobs
wink

Yes, I do. (Sweet, Maria!)
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ellen stagg
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panties

I left Happy Ending, and having been long since abandoned by David, met up with Posh Tony who had just gotten back from tour and was on his way to the Dark Room. On the way there, he and I stopped by Meredith's apartment to try to get her to come out with us (at 2:30am). No dice!
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hoodie

Karen on the decks at the Darkroom.
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dj

Sean Dack and Posh T.
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Sarah was dog-sitting for Piper (who has an ever-present tongue poking out of her mouth).
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Hahah. Bag-dog peek-a-boo!
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dogs
tongue

I don't remember the story here. but I do know is that this is definitely a photo of a Jenny Penny upskirt!
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Sarah does no likey!
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sarah

Hahaha. I was hanging out with Grant one night and he was complaining about the fact that I'd become friends with Posh Tony (because apparently I'm only allowed to have ONE British friend with a silly accent). I kept asking Grant why he didn't like Posh and after not being able to verbalize it, he busted out a piece of paper, drew a picture and handed it to me asking "How can you hang out with a guy that looks like...THIS?" Hahahah. I carried it around for weeks and when Posh finally got back into town, I busted it out for a side-by-side comparison! Hahahah. Soooo good. (Don't worry, Posh - it's not just you. Grant's got a long history of being able to draw embarrassingly accurate caricatures of people he knows).
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