the october roundup

october, 2006

Woooo! It's the October Roundup! All the pics I took rambling around town back in October of 2006. Let's go! Sunday, October 1st Feeding treats to the new critters!    tags: rats We bought them a wheel, but they didn't use it. At first we thought it was because they didn't understand what they were supposed to do in it so we kept picking them up and putting them in it. They'd run for like three steps then climb out. Over time it because apparent that they understood, but they just didn't really like excercise. (Meredith: "See? Rats ARE really smart!")    tags: rats wheel Tuesday, October 3rd Tuesday night I went over to the meat packing district to the place that used to be called G0! (who knows what it's called these days...you know you're old when you're just content to call a place what it used to be called years ago)...    tags: crowd ...to visit Sarah who was DJing there.    tags: sarah dj Gurj and Brandon getting their free-drink on.    tags: brandon gurj Sarah and Gurj had been telling me for weeks that one of Sarah's new interns looked JUST LIKE ME! I was skeptical, but when Gurj introduced me I was sort of like "Whoa, yeah."    tags: me bizarro me Then Gurj humped a tree and we called it a night.    tags: gurj Wednesday, October 4th Wednesday night I went down to the Knitting Factory to see Nightmare of You play!    tags: nightmare of you poster Brandon's so dreamy.    tags: band nightmare of you I don't know who Constantine Maroulis is, but I do know that this photo makes me very, very happy.    tags: gurj best Saturday, October 8th On Saturday night I brought a big bag of jewelry that Tara mailed me over to Home Sweet Home to shoot photos for Leviticus Jewelry. My first model, Sarah!    tags: sarah leviticus jewelry portfolio Then I shot Annabella (my secret jailbait-crush! Shhh!)    tags: annabella leviticus jewelry portfolio Then I shot Leigh (who was there playing hooky from MisShapes! Shhhhh!). People call her "Princess Coldstare" for good reason (because I mean, look at that look! Seriously!), but Leigh's the best because as soon as I put my "fancy" camera away...    tags: leigh leviticus jewelry portfolio ...Princess Coldstare was instantly replaced by Princess Retardedface!    tags: leigh ugly face Ugly face time!    tags: leigh me ugly face Take two!    tags: leigh me ugly face Hahahaha.    tags: leigh me balloons ugly face We took a quick dance-party break! (Who's that creeping on the dance floor?)    tags: leigh surprise And then went back to making stupid faces! Here's Leigh and Sean.    tags: leigh sean dack ugly face Oh, a smoosh-face ugly-face combo! Nice!    tags: leigh smoosh ugly face Then, just when I thought things couldn't get any uglier, Andrew Borin stepped it up with this gem!    tags: andrew b ugly face Which was pretty much a spot-on accidental recreation of Anthrax's "The Not" from back in the day!    tags: anthrax not Sunday, October 8th Check out Edie showing off her little blue windbreaker...    tags: edie best dogs hoodie jacket ...which we later realized pretty much exactly matched Meredith's little blue windbreaker!    tags: edie meredith dogs jacket We gave her her very own giant cheeseburger (CD carrying case) and she was perplexed.    tags: edie burger dogs But then she figured out that it was for biting.    tags: edie bite burger dogs Later that night, a whole bunch of people came over for Cranium!    tags: amanda katie leigh meredith cranium Meredith reading a clue and getting ready to perform charades.    tags: meredith cranium Her team was stymied...    tags: amanda katie leigh cranium ...but managed to guess the correct answer right at the buzzer! Success! (This photo makes me so happy)    tags: meredith best cranium excited jump Amanda using Leigh as a puppet!    tags: amanda leigh cranium laugh puppet HAHAHAHAHA. Edie's totally like, "FUCK! How in the world am I going to get them to guess this one?"    tags: edie best cranium Tuesday, October 10th On Tuesday night Amy and I went on a super-long bike! We started out on the east side of Manhattan and then rode all the way down around the bottom and over to the west side. Right at the beginning of our ride, we took a smoke break and then like 45 minutes later I realized that I'd left my backpack sitting on the bench! The bag had a ton of shit in it, iPod, books, keys, two cameras (!!!). I was bumming because I pretty much figured it would be gone by the time we got back...    tags: amy k bike ...but it was sitting right out in the open on the bench where I'd left it!    tags: amy k thumbs up Amy told me it was only there because it was my bag. If the bag had belonged to her, it would've been gone. Hahah.    tags: backpack Friday, October 13th On Friday, Tara came from Texas to stay with us for a couple of days! Yay! We hadn't seen her since her and Greg's wedding in March! Here she is showing Meredith new pictures of Lucy.    tags: meredith tara phone Meredith went to bed early...    tags: meredith asleep bed fur hat ...but not before I snapped this adorable pic of her!    tags: meredith bed fur hat smile And Tara and I went out and hit the town. 4am pizza!    tags: tara pizza Nighty-night, Shitso!    tags: tara couch Saturday, October 14th I was out running errands on Saturday and came home to find these two having themselves CraftFest 2006!    tags: meredith tara crafts Shrinky Dinks? Really? Amazing.    tags: meredith tara crafts Later that night we tried to get Meredith to come out with us, but she had a bunch of homework to do for school. So she decided to stay out home with Piper the Laser-Eyed Chiuaua (who we were taking care of for Ellen).    tags: meredith piper couch dogs laser studying Piper's tongue is too big for her mouth and so it's always peeking out. Heartbreaking.    tags: piper dogs tongue We started off the night locally at Revolver where we ran into Gideon and one of his "fans." Sunglasses at night indoors? Check! Avenged Sevenfold shirt sans sleeves? Check! Finger-less gloves? Check! Wow. Just wow.    tags: gideon douchebag strangers Seth Miller was in town and he came to meet us! How did I never realize that Seth and Gideon pretty much look like Bizarro brothers?    tags: seth miller phone We left Revolver and started walking west on Rivington which led us directly past the apartment where Tara used to live back when she lived in NYC! *Sniffle!*    tags: tara sad We hopped into a cab and headed over to MisShapes, where after years of internet friendship (dorks!), Tara and Leigh finally got to meet in person! Awww! It was a picture-perfect moment...    tags: leigh tara misshapes ...until Seth ruined it was his "vagina mouth" intrusion. Hahaha.    tags: leigh seth miller tara misshapes vagina mouth Sean hates vagina mouth.    tags: sean dack barf misshapes Then we made stupid faces!    tags: leigh me misshapes sad ugly face Leigh does her impression of a stressed-out elf!    tags: leigh misshapes Tara weighed in large-and-in-charge with RAPTORFACE!    tags: tara bunny ears misshapes ugly face Goodnight!    tags: seth miller tara misshapes Sunday, October 15th Sunday we went to a meeewvie. Leigh holding up the snuck-in (and incredibly chill) Edie in her lil' wiener-sweater!    tags: edie leigh dogs sweater And then later that night we played Cranium! (Man, we really played A LOT of Cranium back then!)    tags: catrinel fatty meredith tara cranium Edie!    tags: edie dogs sweater Fatty working it on the Sensosketch tip!    tags: fatty meredith cranium Tara and Cat.    tags: catrinel tara cranium Tara re-enacting her preggo days! (As I'm writing this, Tara's actually knocked up again for real! Her second kid, a boy named Tex is due in June!). She left for Texas bring and early the next morning! It was great seeing you, Shitbird! Bring Greg and the rugrats next time!    tags: tara preggo Tuesday, October 17th On Tuesday night I went over to the Hotel on Rivington to celebrate the release of one of Em & Lo's new books. And Lo licked my face.    tags: lorelei me lick tongue The hotel is brand new and filled will all sorts of crazy modern furniture like this chair made out of braided rope that'd been sprayed with some sort of epoxy. It looked awesome...    tags: chair ...but felt like ouch. Hahah.    tags: meredith uncomfortable Thursday, October 19th On Thursday night, my co-workers and I took out Rob DeBaun to celebrate his departure from the company. Here's Montero pressuring Rob into drinking a shot!    tags: mike montero piotr rob debaun cci shots Down the hatch!    tags: rob debaun cci shots Once you've managed to convince someone to do one shot, the second one's a piece of cake!    tags: jeff car piotr rob debaun cci shots Coworkers + Beers + Shots usually leads to just one thing...    tags: piotr rob debaun cci shots ...Co-worker Karaoke! After we were all pretty much sauced, we headed up the street to a nearby karaoke bar with private rooms that Dan Kwok knew about! Here's Phil and Dan kicking off the karaoke jams!    tags: dan kwok phil modestin cci karaoke Christine and Julie.    tags: julie mcquade cci karaoke Rob (check out the slow-blink drunkeness! Awww, yeah!) and Levi.    tags: levi rob debaun cci karaoke I sang and...    tags: cci karaoke ...simultaneously did my impression of Sly Stallone. "Yo, Adrian!"    tags: sly stallone cci karaoke yell Hahaha.    tags: ian rob debaun cci karaoke Christine did a lil' go-go dance while Ian sang and Ralph RAGED!    tags: ian mcquade ralph cci karaoke You know a karaoke party is in full effect when people start having difficulty operating familiar technology...like doors.    tags: levi drunk Ralph and Melissa...giving it!    tags: melissa h ralph cci karaoke Hahaha. There's nothing better than a party with your co-worker that gets to the point where all inhibitions have completely vanished. Christine and Ian are singing their hearts out and Rob's just feeling it and dancing. Awesome.    tags: ian mcquade rob debaun cci dance karaoke Levi and Melissa.    tags: levi melissa h cci karaoke Jazz hands!    tags: ralph rob debaun cci jazz hands karaoke Phil and Christine.    tags: mcquade phil modestin cci karaoke Melissa, Levi and Dan...    tags: dan kwok levi melissa h cci karaoke ...chose Hotel California as the final jam of the evening.    tags: karaoke lyrics monitor tv Ralph Bishop won the Karaoke MVP award for using Melissa's leg as a guitar to play the entire guitar solo. Hahahaha.    tags: levi melissa h ralph best cci guitar karaoke "You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave!" Not true! Farewell, Rob! It was great working with you!    tags: levi mcquade melissa h ralph rob debaun cci group karaoke Friday, October 20th Ratso and Roxy! Rats are so funny and smart: any time they have a treat, they're worried that the other rat is going to try to steal it from them. When we gave them both treats at the same time, they experimented with different cage positions before finally settling on the "mutual butt-touching treat-enjoyment position." They back up into each other and know that as long as they can feel the other one's butt, they can enjoy their treat in peace! Hahaha.    tags: ratso roxy best rats I thought that having pet rats would be similar to having a hamster or a gerbil - that they'd just sort of be things that sat in a cage looking cute. But in the first few weeks of having them, I was amazed by how smart and friendly and genuinely interested in people they were! They're like teeny tiny dogs! Hahaha.    tags: ratso roxy climb rats Later that night I met up with Dave and Vin in the East Village for some beers...    tags: dave grois vin ...and some Big Buck Hunter! Triple Buck bonus, y'all. Not once...    tags: buckhunter videogames ..but twice! I'm a video-deer-slaying champion!    tags: buckhunter videogames Hahaha.    tags: vin buckhunter videogames Saturday, October 21st Quality time with Ratso.    tags: me ratso Later that night, Mer and I went out to Siege and Katie's for some Cranium. (Again!)    tags: cranium Mer and Katie basking in the warmth of the fake, TV-fire.    tags: katie meredith cranium Monday, October 23rd I got a text from my friend Miye that she and a bunch of her girlfriends were hosting a karaoke party at 205. I wasn't going to go all the way down there alone, but then I figured I'd at least try texting Amanda before blowing it off (since she's is the only person I know who's insane enough to entertain a "wanna go to karaoke?" text at 1:30am on a Monday night. Hahaha). We got there a little before 2am and found the place in full-effect!    tags: crowd Miye!    tags: me miye hat She took the stage shortly after our arrival...    tags: miye hat karaoke ...for a duet with her friend Banao.    tags: banao miye hat karaoke There wasn't much of a stage, so Amanda hopped up on a crate and got everyone's attention by doubling-up on the mics!    tags: amanda double fist karaoke