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the september roundup

september, 2007

Here they are! All the pics I took in September of 2007 that didn't end up in their own entry!


Saturday, September 1st
meredith silverman
Here's where we left off! Meredith in a cab smiling about picking up our two pet rats that Mandy was nice enough to look after for us while we took a month-long trip to the United Arab Emirates and then Thailand!

We spent Saturday afternoon getting settled back into our apartment. Meredith was jet-lagged and called it a night...   tags:meredith rats taxi

brian battjer, sarah lewitinn
...but I hit the streets a little after midnight! First stop: The Annex to catch up with this little smidge!   tags:me sarah annex

amanda tannen
Mandy and Andrew were there.   tags:mandy annex

lawrence lewitinn
Brother Lawrence was there playing tunes. BTW, what's he doing in this photo? Writing in his Emo Diary? Signing autographs? Getting mad digits? Careful ladies, Lawrence is like a male-version of the character portrayed in Hall & Oates' incredible funk-synth-ballad, Maneater.    tags:brother lawrence dj

brian battjer, leigh lezark
Afterwards, Sarah and I went to MisShapes to meet up with this little niblet!    tags:leigh me misshapes tongue


Grant! I know you still read this site! What do you think - is that guy with the braids in the yellow shirt THE smelly braids guy that almost handed you a beat down after he almost caught you SNIFFING HIS HAIR waaaay back in the day???. EPIC LOL.

Anyway, the crowd was a little strange (in that it wasn't that strange)...   tags:crowd misshapes smelly braids

leigh lezark, scott jentzen
...so we went downstairs to the "photo room" to hide out and see what Scott was doing!   tags:leigh scott lick misshapes tongue

brian battjer, leigh lezark, scott meriam
Turns out he was taking photos. "Photos of everyone. Yes, even the ugly people."   tags:leigh me scott m misshapes

brian battjer, leigh lezark, scott meriam
Now with teeth!   tags:leigh me scott m misshapes


Ha ha! Everyone at MisShapes has pointy lil' black shoes!   tags:misshapes shoes

leigh lezark, scott meriam
Early morning cab eastward with these two (Nice "drink for the road" you got yerself there, Tinz!)...   tags:leigh scott m taxi

sarah lewitinn
...and this one! So glad to be back in NYC!    tags:sarah taxi


Sunday, September 2nd
, sue mehta
On Sunday I went out to my Aunt & Uncle's house in NJ to see my Aunt Sue and my Uncle Nalin (pictured here with Gma & Gpa) who were up from North Carolina!   tags:aunt sue grandma grandpa uncle nalin

, elaine carrick, stephanie battjer, sue mehta
Here's my mom with two of her three sisters and their parents!   tags:aunt elaine aunt sue grandma grandpa mom

, brian battjer, elaine carrick, stephanie battjer, sue mehta, wayne carrick
Now with husbands, son (and a dog!) added!   tags:aunt elaine aunt sue dad grandma grandpa me mom uncle wayne


Monday, September 3rd

On Monday night I came home to discover that Meredith baked me a belated birthday cake (to make up for the fact that my official birthday cake got eaten by ANTS and I only got to taste a teeny tiny bit of it!). Thanks, Weenis!   tags:birthday cake

meredith silverman
NOM NOM NOM.   tags:meredith birthday bite cake


Oh, and later that evening Murdo came by and dropped off Hector so that we could dogsit him for a few days! Yay!   tags:hector dog smile dogs happy smile


Friday, September 7th
meredith silverman
On Friday I brought Meredith flowers! She is pretty. I am lucky.   tags:meredith 239 e 7th best flower pretty roses


Sunday, September 9th
, david fateman
On Sunday Fatty came over for a hang. And to cuddle Hector like he's a little hairy fox-baby (Which he is).   tags:fatty hector 239 e 7th dogs


Tuesday, September 11th
, meredith silverman
On Tuesday night, Meredith and I were coming home from dinner in Nolita and we passed David's apartment. We called for Lord Alred and he ran to the window to greet us. A couple of minutes later...   tags:lord alfred meredith dogs window

david kreitman
...his owner came out to greet us! And to show us the awesome motorcyle he'd recently purchased.   tags:david kreitman motorcycle

david kreitman
Take a good hard look, Ladies. Not only does he have a sexy beard and awesome motorcyle, he will also make you female-ejaculate like a goddamn fire hose!   tags:david kreitman motorcycle


We came home and Hector was angry with us for having caught him pretending he's being delivered by a stork.   tags:hector bed dogs


The anger quickly disappeared and was replaced by shame and embarrassment. So busted.   tags:hector bed best dogs sleepy


Friday, September 14th
, karl lewelyn
On Friday afternoon, we had our monthly party where you celebrate eveyone who had a birthday and who had an anniversary in the past month. There's always a full-spread of food too!   tags:karl shawn smith cci


Co-workers enjoying food and getting ready to watch...   tags:ralph cci

, karl lewelyn
...some HOT PIÑATA action! I don't really remember why we had piñatas that day, but it was awesome. Here's Karl getting all blindfolded up!   tags:ebby karl cci pinata

, karl lewelyn
After being spun around ten times, here's Karl trying to get his bearings to start swinging!   tags:ebby karl cci pinata

, karl lewelyn
Boo-yah! I totally captured the exact second it exploded! If there were porn movies about piñatas, this would be like the most famous money-shot of all time.   tags:ebby karl cci pinata

candy gemelle
Yeah, that's right. Clean that mess up, bitch.   tags:candy pinata


My co-worker Ralph is handsome and looks like he could be the cousin of Bret from Flight of the Conchords. He even has a beard that is good.   tags:ralph teeth


(Your beard is good)   tags:video

ian spalter
Wait, what's this? Another piñata? I can't believe that I forgot that this was a two-piñata party! Incredible! Here's Ian wildly swinging and whiffing big time!   tags:ian cci pinata

ian spalter
Not even close!   tags:ian cci pinata

ian spalter
Uh oh! Uh oh! He's winding up! I'm sorry Tiny Easter Donkey. It looks like you're about to...   tags:ian cci pinata


...loose your entire body. Now you're Tiny Easter Donkey Head!   tags:head pinata


I came home that night and found Hector on the couch working on his impression of the Firefox Logo.   tags:hector cute dogs firefox


Keep at it, Ol' Boy! It's really coming along!   tags:hector cute dogs firefox


Saturday, September 15th
, edie the dog, meredith silverman
Animal FunTime Party House got even better when Leigh came by and dropped off Edie off with us! Look how excited Meredith is to have two little lap-weasels!   tags:edie hector meredith best dogs pretty

, edie the dog, meredith silverman
Watch out! They'll lick the shit outta your face!   tags:edie hector meredith dogs laugh


The rats came out to see what all the commotion was about!   tags:ratso roxy cage rats

brian battjer
Ratso was getting jealous about us fawning over two dogs so I had to take her over to the couch for a solo pet-down! She liked to rest her chin on your hand while your scratched her back! Rats really are like the world's tiniest dogs. It's a shame that they have such a bad rap - if more people got to see how good they are with people, maybe they wouldn't find them so creepy. (PS - Look, I'm wearing my glasses! I never wear them because my optometrist thought she was doing me a favor by polarizing my glasses for me for free! On the upside, it helps protect my photosensitive eyes from UV rays when I wear them in and/or near sunlight. On the downside, it makes me look like Larry David.)   tags:me


Monday, September 17th
chris ehrhart, lord easy
Monday Night at 2am = KARAOKE KILLED THE CAT. Here's Chris and Lord Easy kicking it.   tags:goldteeth lord easy karaoke

amanda berkowitz, brian battjer
Me and Amander.   tags:amanda me


They're weren't too many people there on this particular night, but every single person that was there totally gave crazy, over the top performances.   tags:karaoke pretty strangers


This guy! (Btw, what in the world is he even singing into? Did he bring a homemade Burryberry-fabric cozy for the mic? Did that actually happen?)   tags:karaoke strangers yell

amanda berkowitz
Amanda getting sultry.   tags:amanda karaoke


The guy started out doing a sexy duet with the blond lady, but about halfway through the song, it turned into...   tags:karaoke strangers


...a sexy solo serenade to a stranger in the crowd. E-P-I-C.   tags:karaoke strangers


Tuesday, September 18th
emma taylor, joey cavella, lorelei sharkey, rob tourtelot
On Tuesday night I went to Greenwich Village to see Em & Lo knocked up at the same time! Check out the dual-preggo action! These two do everything together. So awesome! With proud fathers-to-be Rob and Joey, respectively. Congrats, you guys!   tags:emma joey lorelei rob tourtelot preggo

brian battjer, lorelei sharkey
There's a baby in there! Babies grow in ladies!   tags:lorelei me best excited preggo


Saturday, September 22nd

Saturday = NEW SNEAKS. Hey, say what you will - but at least I'll never get hit by a car while wearing them.   tags:shoes

david fateman, matt rubano, meredith silverman
Later that night, a buncha people came over to our apartment to play CRANIUM!   tags:fatty matt meredith 239 e 7th

david fateman, karen +1, matt rubano, meredith silverman
Team #1: Karen, The Fatty, Joobz and Meredith.   tags:fatty karen matt meredith cranium

, amanda berkowitz
Team #2: Amanda's friend whose name I forgot (sorry!), Amanda and LionMane (keeping things real in his Beetlejuice pants!). Oh, and Ellen also joined this team but I don't think she'd shown up yet!   tags:amanda david lionmane cranium

, amy albano, brian battjer
Team #3: Me, and the newly-engaged Matt & Amy!   tags:amy a matt j me

edie the dog
Oh, and Edie was there and rocking the school bus outfit that Meredith hand-made for her for halloween. Hahaha. Who's a cute little WienerBus?   tags:edie bus cute dogs dressed up

, amanda berkowitz, meredith silverman
Amanda, LionMane and their friend trying to figure out a puzzle before time runs out!   tags:amanda david lionmane meredith cranium

david fateman, karen +1
The tension in the room was unbelievable. (PS - If, perchance, you ever find yourself anywhere in the vicinity of Fatty, and you also, perchance, decide to take out your camera and take a picture and Fatty is not in the frame, there's is a 100% chance that he will lean into the frame at the last second and make an awesome face.)   tags:fatty karen cranium

, amy albano
Matt using Amy like a puppet!   tags:amy a matt j 239 e 7th cranium puppet

david fateman, ellen hart, matt rubano
Then Dave stuffed dollar bills into Matt's jeans.    tags:ellen hart fatty matt 239 e 7th cranium

, karen +1, meredith silverman
Meredith got squeezed.   tags:david lionmane karen matty meredith 239 e 7th cranium puppet

, karen +1, matt rubano, meredith silverman
And Karen correctly guessed what all the squeezing was about. Victory!   tags:david lionmane karen matt meredith cranium

, edie the dog
Lions and Weasels can be friends! Sexy friends. Right after I took this picture, I was suddenly struck by overwhelming nostalgia for my teen years in the late 80s. At first I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what had triggered my sudden nostalgia.   tags:david lionmane edie


But then I realized it was because LionMane is a like the twink-version of...   tags:david lionmane kip winger doppleganger


...Kip Winger! Hahahahahaha. Holy fucking shit. If we got David some AquaNet and teased his shit out a bit, you probably would think that these were photographs of the same guy! The same guy showing off just a couple of shirts from his extensive "skimpy shirts" collection. (PS - if you say "skimpy shirts" out loud repeatedly, you will eventually say "shrimpy skirts" by accident.)    tags:david lionmane kip winger doppleganger


Sunday, September 23rd

On Sunday afternoon, Meredith and I met up with her parents in the West Village to see The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. This movie is amazing. If you haven't seen it, see it soon. There is no way you will not love it.   tags:movie poster

edie the dog, meredith silverman
Afterwards we partied on the WienerBus express!   tags:edie meredith bus


Wednesday, September 26th
, brian battjer
On Wednesday night I went out to meet up with Sarah who was in town visiting from San Diego!    tags:me sarah dolgen

, jack dolgen
I also go to see Jack and Patrick!   tags:jack dolgen patrick


Saturday, September 29th
clayton cubitt siege
On Saturday, a whole bunch of us went to Brooklyn to help Siege and Katie move!   tags:siege moving truck


Loading up the truck!   tags:mirror moving

clayton cubitt siege
Siege presents a near-empty apartment! Woooo!   tags:siege moving

, amanda berkowitz, david fateman, grant stoddard, meredith silverman
Siege and I drove over to their new apartment in the moving truck. When we arrived, we found a whole bunch of new people who had showed up to help unpack!   tags:amanda fatty grant marissa meredith garage moving

david fateman, meredith silverman
Siege turned the person-sized door...   tags:fatty meredith door garage


...into a truck-sized door! We backed the truck up into the garage. And the garage opens up into...   tags:garage moving truck


...one of the coolest NYC apartments I've ever been in. First you walk into this huge room that has a loft over the door and the far wall is made of glass and opens into...


...a private outdoor garden with a single tree! The glass blocks that you see behind the tree make up the wall of another room in the apartment that looks out onto the garden.


You walk down a long hallway to the right of the garden and you come into another huge room.


That also has another room upstairs...


...and a door out to a private rooftop garden! WTF!

meredith silverman
Meredith's face pretty much sums up our collective reaction.   tags:meredith stairs

, grant stoddard
Cat and Grant marveling over the awesome red-tiled bathroom complete with a shower that has a meat-freezer-doorway shower curtain!   tags:catrinel grant shower

david fateman
Back in the room that goes out into the garage, the gang was busy discovering all kinds of hidden features.   tags:fatty murphy bed

katie james
Like a secret Murphy that folds down! Are you kidding me?   tags:katie murphy bed

meredith silverman
And a wetbar in a closet next to the bed. Siege, who are you renting this place from, Austin Powers?   tags:meredith sink sink


After discovering the hide-a-way bed, Marissa (who is like the Marco Polo of new apartments) disappeared around a corner into a nook no one had explored yet! After she didn't re-emerge after a couple of seconds, I started wondering if she'd found a secret room or something! I rounded the corner to chase after her and almost ran right into her!   tags:marissa


Sitting on a toilet! The new "room" around the corner turned out to be a door-less bathroom! Hahahaha. (PS - Marissa, you look really pretty on the toilet!)   tags:marissa pee

katie james
After we were finished exploring, it was time to unload the truck. Here's happy Katie!   tags:katie


Here's the same room about 45 minutes later! Chock full O' stuff!   tags:moving

clayton cubitt siege
Still! More! Unloading! To! Do! < / shatner >   tags:siege moving

clayton cubitt siege, katie james
All done! Congrats on your new place, you two!   tags:katie siege moving

, amanda berkowitz, clayton cubitt siege, david fateman, grant stoddard, katie james, meredith silverman
After, Kate and Siege took us all out for pizza and beers for helping with the schlepping. Mmmmmm, pizza. Mmmmmm, beer.   tags:amanda catrinel fatty grant katie meredith siege best food pizza


Sunday, September 30th

The month ended with another explosive discovery: Meredith's secret recipe for PINEAPPLE CASSEROLE! Happy, September!   tags:recipe

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