Afterwards, Grant made his French-face (aka "What eez zee poin?"), which spawned a whole conversation about the other types of things that characterize different stereotypes. So we decided to have everyone try to represent their heritage in a photo! tags:grantclaycraniumfrench face
And since I'm total mutt of like 10 different nationalities, I acted loud, drunk and ignorant FOR AMERICA! Fuck, yeah! tags:me
Wednesday, July 19th
On Wednesday night I went out to celebrate Rachael's birthday! Here's the birthday girl with Emily. (I've known both these girls since 1993!) tags:emilyrachaelbirthday
Thursday, July 20th
On Thursday was my old company's summer party! Here's a whole bunch of us getting ready to leave the office at noon... tags:hafeezianjohn merlinomike dbcci
...to head to Dave & Buster's in Times Square for a day of food, drinking and arcade games! Woooo! tags:cci
After a huge buffet and a two-hour open bar, we were split into teams, giving unlimited passes to the arcade and told that the team to earn the most tickets in the next 90 minutes would win a big prize! tags:pete chencci
As the time for the big ticket count-off approached, I decided to adorn myself with them so all the lay-dees could see my ticket-earning potential! tags:metickets
Levi joined me in showing off his ticket-sexiness... tags:leviccitickets
Whenever alcohol and competitions are mixed, you can be fairly sure that sooner or later some arm wrestlin's gonna break out! Mike Montero was making excuses about why his team lost and it turned into Phil challenging him to some arm wrestling! Mike felt pretty confident going into the match, but Phil immediately took a strong lead! tags:ben sunmike monterophil modestinarm wrestlecci
After Mike lost to Phil, a lady that we all work with (I forget her name) decided to challenge Mike to a match! Everyone started teasing Mike and the ENTIRE company gathered around the table to watch. Mike is the king of shit-talking and knew that if he allowed himself to be defeated by a girl, he would never hear the end of it so he started really psyching himself up. Mike got himself so pumped up that when the match started he almost threw the lady out of her seat. (Which was probably the funniest thing I've seen in like 5 years). Here's the pic I snapped (of the lady yelling and almost getting her arm broken) right when we yelled "GO!" Hahahahaha. tags:mike monteroarm wrestlebestcci
Waaaay later that night (after I'd gotten a chance to sleep off my afternoon-drunkeness), I went to the Annex for a dance party with Sarah... tags:sarahdj
Karen was wearing her sexy-ass wolf shirt (which, incidentally, is the same EXACT shirt kids in my high school used to mock Eric Witzling for wearing back in 1992. If only they'd known that he was a fashion GOD fourteen-years ahead of his time!) tags:karenwolf
Remember crazy Brandon that invited Grant, Jake and I to come and party in Budapest when we were on vacation in Europe? Well, he emailed me to tell mehis friend Kinga was coming to New York for the first time and I promised to take her out. So Meredith and Kinga came out to dance too! tags:kingameredithdance
Sunday, July 23rd
On Sunday afternoon, Grant came over and showed me how to use a knife to saber open a bottle of champagne! tags:grantmechampagnesaber
I understood the basic principle, but was unable to get it to work the first few times I tried. (I've since gotten it down cold!) So I handed the bottle back over to Grizz and let him show off the magic! tags:grantmechampagnesaber
Voila! He did it! He did it! (How awesome is that clean break?) tags:mechampagnesaber
Champagne makes me both sleepy AND cranky. Fast forward to this awesome photo Meredith took of me trying to read-away my wine hangover. (I highly recommend the book I'm reading: The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwarz tags:mebookcranky
Tuesday, July 25th
On Tuesday night I went to see a band with Sarah. tags:band
I have no idea what band it was. Sarah, any idea? tags:sarah
Wednesday, July 26th
On Wednesday night I went over Tinny's house to hang out. Her birthday was coming up and she'd just received her mom's gift in the mail! The bad news was that it wasn't exactly her style. The good news was... tags:leighnightiepink
...pink is totally my color! (If you look closely you can totally see my nips playing peek-a-boo!) tags:mecross dressnightiepink
All of the gender-bending left Edie confused. Hahaha. tags:edie
Thursday, July 27th
On Thursday night I went out to go dancing at Sarah and Karen's basement party in the Annex (by the time I got there, it was kind of deserted). tags:dance
But I ran into Karen M, Karen L, their blond friend, and Natasha and we ended up hanging until the wee hours! tags:karen landeskaren marsala
Friday, July 28th
Friday night I went out with Amanda and this is the only picture I took. (???) tags:amanda
Saturday, July 29th
Meredith and I finally decided to take the plunge and move in together! We expected a long and tumultuous apartment hunt, but we hit the jackpot on the very first place we looked at! On Saturday afternoon we were given the keys and headed over to scope the place out and prepare for our move a few days later! Here's Meredith kicking back in our brand new "holy shit we're living together" bathtub! tags:meredithbath
Later that afternoon, we hopped on the subway and headed out to Brooklyn to attend... tags:meredith
...my friend Amy Albano's going away party! After almost 10 years in NYC, Amy (who I've known since middle school!) had decided to move out to New Mexico to attend grad school. (But much like my ill-fated move to San Francisco, she ended up back in NYC less than four months later!). Our friend Jen that hosted the party is a baker! Check out the amazing cake she made for Amy! tags:cake
Here's Jen and Vivian, both whom I grew up with! (Vivian grew up in the house behind me and I've known her since I was four years old!) tags:jen hochevivian tjoa
Ellen was there (but for some reason, I only have pictures she took of me with her dog)! Here's me with Piper (in the only shot where her tongue's NOT sticking out. tags:mepiperdogs
And the tongue comes out on take two! tags:mepiperdogs
Sunday, July 30th
On Sunday I went over to Geordon and Greg's apartment for Leigh's birthday party! (See? I'm not the only one who calls her Little Miss Leigh! Hahaha) tags:leighbirthday
The party was held in their apartment building's backyard garden. tags:leighbackyardbirthday
I made a beeline for the birthday girl and gave her a present! tags:leighbirthday
Yay! Let's hear it for the "Grow your own Scary Ghost Plant" kit! Hahaha. tags:leighbirthday
Here's Geordon bringing out the "Happy Birthday U Big Bitch" birthday cake! Hahaha. tags:geordonleighbirthdaycake
After Leigh's party, I walked a mere three blocks to head up to a rooftop party to wish Mike Cohen a happy 35th 34th Birthday! tags:mike cohenbirthdaycake
Just because there's champagne doesn't mean Fatty's gonna give up his Smirnoff Ice! (PS - Check out Grant in the background giving Fatty the "Flying L for Loser." Hahahah) tags:fattygrant
Immediately afterwards, Grant made history by attempting the first "flying brain!" Alas, he wasn't able to get his nuts out in time. Hahaha. tags:fattygrantmeredith
Of course, this led to more jumping action shots! Meredith did the jumping jack while Grant went for the more difficult David Lee Roth version tags:grantmeredithdlr kickjump
Grant tried to brain Mike, but his shorts were too tight! Hahaha. tags:fattygrantmike cohen
At this point, the champagne flutes have been cast aside and the Smirnoff Ice is being consumed straight from the bottle! tags:meredith
Which means everyone was drunk enough to play SHAKE FACE! (Which is where a person relaxes their face and then shakes their head back and forth as hard as they can!) Here's Fatty's shake face! Take one! tags:fattyshake face
And take two! (Homeboy really knows how to relax them lips!) tags:fattyshake face
My shake face! (Not very good at all. Boo!) tags:meshake face
Birthday Boy's shake face! (Did you ever imagine that THIS is how you'd spend your 35th?) tags:mike cohenshake face
Niki was there but she refused to do shake face! So here's a picture of her laughing at us for being idiots! tags:niki
Talk about a perfect Sunday! We ended the night with ANOTHER Cranium party at my apartment. Here's Siege making Grant his puppet bitch in a rousing round of Sideshow (where you have to get your team to guess a clue by using your teammate's arms and legs to act out charades!) Happy July 2006! tags:grantsiegecraniumpuppet
by Barry Schwarz tags:me book cranky
