15:I[50787,["/_next/static/chunks/1q6b9qsnjy0z1.js","/_next/static/chunks/1xnz4xdvfbnkd.js","/_next/static/chunks/07tef3qf5smnw.js"],"default"] 16:T507,Towards the end of August, I called a Buddhist retreat center and monastery upstate to ask if I could come up there for a few days to do a personal retreat. The woman on the phone was very friendly and excited. When I mentioned that I wanted to come up the following week, she told me that a revered teacher was coming to visit the monastery during those dates and that I was welcome to come up and get a blessing (empowerment) from him. Seemed like auspicious timing so I called my friend Kevin and asked if he wanted to come on a roadtrip with me! Here's a description of the event from their website:

"The Padmasambhava Buddhist Center and Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche are honored to receive His Eminence Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche at Padma Samye Ling monastery and retreat center to bless the Three Kaya Temple of Padma Samye Ling & bestow the empowerment of Guru Padmasambhava according to the lineage of the great Terton Taksham Samten Lingpa."

17:T432,Oh, wow! This is a nice trip to reflect upon! (I'm writing this Jan 1, 2020 after returning from a spa day in NJ with Cynthia & Amanda!). Wilhelm Reich is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting people that's lived. He was a Austrian medical doctor. He was Sigmund Freud's main student. He had his books burned by the Nazis for his anti-fascist views and controversial opinions about how human sexual energy is expressed biologically.

He ended up building this private research laboratory in Maine to study a scientific phenonoma he called Orgone. Reich build boxes made out of wood, wool and steel wool that he claimed accumulated this Orgone energy and scientific instruments that were able to measure the effects of acculated Orgone in the enviroment. His clinical trials on cancer paitients claimed sitting in passive, orgone accumulator boxes could heal people. (Similar to the work of also-censored Royal Rife!). The FBI ended up arresting Reich, banning and burning all of his scientific books and papers and he died in prison! 18:T4bf,This is the FIFTEENTH Halloween post on this site. Whoa. See also:
Halloween 1996 - The Very First Post I ever Made
Halloween 1997 - My Senior Year in College
Halloween 1998 - Modem Media
Halloween 1999 - Visiting Boston
Halloween 2001 - Halloween Model Party
Halloween 2002 - Halloween Model Party Again!
Halloween 2003 - In Bas Vegas, Essex!
Halloween 2004 - In San Francisco!
Halloween 2005- NYC
Halloween 2006- NYC
Halloween 2007- NYC
Halloween 2008- NYC
Halloween 2009- NYC
Halloween 2010- In Florida

19:T4cd,

Just when it was starting to get cold in NYC, Ty invited Matt and I to come down to Florida for some sunshine!

Previous Halloween Entries:
Halloween 1996 - The Very First Post I ever Made
Halloween 1997 - My Senior Year in College
Halloween1998 - Modem Media
Halloween 1999 - Visiting Boston
Halloween 2001 - Halloween Model Party
Halloween 2002 - Halloween Model Party Again!
Halloween 2003 - In Bas Vegas, Essex!
Halloween 2004 - In San Francisco!
Halloween 2005- NYC
Halloween 2006- NYC
Halloween 2007- NYC
Halloween 2008- NYC
Halloween 2009- NYC

1a:T44d,Here are all the pictures I took Halloween 2009!

Previous Halloween Entries:
Halloween 1996 - The Very First Post I ever Made
Halloween 1997 - My Senior Year in College
Halloween1998 - Modem Media
Halloween 1999 - Visiting Boston
Halloween 2001 - Halloween Model Party
Halloween 2002 - Halloween Model Party Again!
Halloween 2003 - In Bas Vegas, Essex!
Halloween 2004 - In San Francisco!
Halloween 2005- NYC
Halloween 2006- NYC
Halloween 2007- NYC
Halloween 2008- NYC

1b:T639,

When Meredith and I opted to elope, we found out we had inadvertently messed with Joann's plan to throw us a MEGA-RECEPTION! Not wanting to deprive her mom of party-planning paradise, Meredith told her mom to plan whatever party her heart desired and we'd be happy to attend just as long as neither of us had to be involved in any of the planning (Meredith is a genius!). Joann's eyes lit up, "So I can just plan the party and make all the decisions and then you'll come?" Mer was like "Yep, I'll even let you pick out my dress!" Everybody wins! Wooooo!

Two days before the party, Meredith's mom telephoned, "They're calling for snow and ten out-of-towners have cancelled last-minute! Can you get 10 friends that would be able to RSVP in the next two hours?" We immediately sent out the following email to a few friends we knew were in town:

Dear Friends,

Meredith's parents are throwing us a wedding party this Saturday night at the University Club. We just heard from Meredith's mom last night that 10 people that RSVPed to the party canceled last minute. So if you think it would be fun to get dressed up, come to the fancy University Club (on the Upper East Side) this Saturday night, eat a nice dinner, and see us get announced as Mr & Mrs Battjer in front of our families (and a lot of our parent's friends!) please let me know no later than 6pm tonight!

cancelled Sarah Lewitinn will be there DJing the party so there will be good music to dance to!

Xoxox,
Brian & Meredith

1c:T446,

A couple years back, my parents bought a condo that's ON a golf course in a retirement community in Florida. They'd gone down there a couple of times on vacation, but my mom still had a couple of years left working before she could retire so they were still mainly living in New Jersey. But in 2008, my mom retired and they sold the house in NJ, which meant that in order to spend the holiday with my family we had to go down to Florida to see them!

My brother was spending the holidays with Amy and her family in Ohio. He called me right as we were headed to the airport and I promised to document for him in photographic detail the legendary "retirement condo" that he and I had been hearing about from our parents for years, but had never seen! The few details our parents had given us about the place (a golf cart parked in the garage that had their names airbrushed on the side! WHAT?) had only confirmed our suspicion that it was a real-life version of DEL BOCA VISTA. Meredith and I headed to the airport to hop on a plane and spend Christmas in Florida!

1d:T437,

Here are all the pictures I took Halloween 2008!

Other Halloween Entries:
Halloween 1996 - The Very First Post I ever Made
Halloween 1997 - My Senior Year in College
Halloween1998 - Modem Media
Halloween 1999 - Visiting Boston
Halloween 2001 - Halloween Model Party
Halloween 2002 - Halloween Model Party Again!
Halloween 2003 - In Bas Vegas, Essex!
Halloween 2004 - In San Francisco!
Halloween 2005 - Random Parties in NYC
Halloween 2006 - All over NYC
Halloween 2007 - NYC Stuff Again

1e:T4d4,

I first met Meredith at a karaoke party in the basement of Remote Lounge in March of 2004. I was there was some friends singing karaoke, and she was there celebrating her 24th birthday. We were introduced by our mutual friend, Catrinel. (Here's the very first picture I ever took of Meredith from that night!). I thought Meredith was really cute, but Catrinel told me she had a boyfriend.

Three months later, I ran into Meredith again at Sarah Lewitinn's Memorial Day BBQ at 3A. We started chatting and when she told me that she'd recently broken up with the guy she'd been dating, I slyly suggested that if she "ever wanted to go out sometime, solely for the purpose of making her ex-boyfriend know that she had already moved on" that I was totally available to help. Meredith took me up on it and the rest is history.

Sarah's Memorial Day BBQ in 2008 was the four year anniversary of us getting together, and I figured that it would be the perfect place for me to surprise Meredith and propose! I invited a bunch of our mutual friends to the party to witness the surprise!

1f:T436,

Here are all my photos from Halloween 2007 (the eleventh Halloween chronicled here on IKAD!).

If you get a kick out of these, you'll probably also enjoy:
Halloween 1996 - The Very First Post I ever Made
Halloween 1997 - My Senior Year in College
Halloween1998 - Modem Media
Halloween 1999 - Visiting Boston
Halloween 2001 - Halloween Model Party
Halloween 2002 - Halloween Model Party Again!
Halloween 2003 - In Bas Vegas, Essex!
Halloween 2004 - In San Francisco!
Halloween 2005 - Random Parties in NYC
Halloween 2006 - All over NYC

20:T60d,

Ok, so there's not too much of a narrative here - but there are way too many pictures in here that make me smile to not do an entry out of this night! Lisa and I met on the INTERNET and when she moved to New York City she emailed me. I totally thought she was some internet hussy and that we were totally going to make out. But then I showed up to meet her and she was there with some beardy dude. But I was like, no biggie, because he seemed fun. We sang karaoke and had a decent time, but I was busy and they were busy and we never really called each other.

A couple of months later, I ran into her and the beardy dude (who turned out to be named Pauly, by the way) in a store on 7th Street. We ended up talking and hanging out again, and the second time around we all became friends.

Fast forward to the present and now Lisa and Pauly are our good friends and they come over almost every single Sunday night for "Family Night." That's what we call it when we all buy junk food, order Dominos pizza (have you tried the bread bowl yet? Jesus!), drink beers, smoke trees, eat snacks, and usually play video games (Wii Fit!) or watch TV (HBO when there are series on, Wifeswap if not). I am glad I met them and I thank the internet every day for bringing them into my life.

Ok, enough with the backstory. Here are some pictures of us getting wasted and singing karaoke for Lisa's birthday on Tuesday night!

21:T185a,After a particularly mind-numbing week at my old job, I came into work on Monday morning and realized that I either needed to take a serious vacation, or needed to resign and find a new job. I knew things were bad when I logged into the little HR portal and even after seeing that I had over two weeks of paid time off available, my first thought was "That's totally not enough time." I came home later that night and started complaining to Meredith about how I didn't think that two weeks vacation was gonna make me want to stay at my job and Meredith was like "Uh, fuck it. Why not take a month off then?" I was like "But I can't do that? What if I loose my job?" Meredith was like "You mean you're job that you almost quit today?" And then we both started laughing and decided that we were going to see if we could go to Thailand for a month.

Since pretty much everyone I know is always asking me things like "How the fuck did you get away with that?" I figured I'd write up a step-by-step guide on everything you need to do in order to take an awesome vacation without getting fired and without destroying your savings.

Step 1: Be Good At What You Do
This probably goes without saying, but just in case, I'm gonna go ahead and say it. If you're not good at your job, or if your employer is just looking for an excuse to get rid of you, pulling any kind of "stunt" like this will most likely result in you coming home from your awesome vacation to find yourself totally unemployed. (But hey, on the bright side, at least you'll have a great tan when you're interviewing for new positions!)

Step 2: Check Out Your Company's Policy Regarding Unpaid Time Off
Assuming you work for a decent company, they'll most definitely have some sort of documentation that outlines the requirements for taking an unpaid leave of absence. Usually, they require that you've worked there for at least a year, and that your boss doesn't think that the company will go to shit with you gone. Assuming your company offers unpaid leave and that you're eligible, the next step is to...

Step 3: Don't Care If You Get Fired
Ok, so you've done some policy homework and you're positive that your company offers unpaid leave and that you're eligible, but before we press on, it's time for another reality check. No matter how much preparation you do, no matter how much you may think you're the most-needed and beloved employee at your work, you should realize that any time you tell your employer "I'm taking a month off," there's always the possibility that they'll just be like "How about you don't bother coming back?" So, if you're not person willing to risk a job over a vacation, this is probably not for you.

Step 3: Talk To HR
Ok, moving on! Assuming you've confirmed that you're eligible for unpaid leave and you've also done some soul-seaarching to confirm that you're NOT willing to let THE MAN dictate how much vacation you can or can't have, it's time to swing by HR and make sure that what you're planning isn't violating any company rules. This shouldn't be some big official meeting - you just want to run things by HR and ensure that you're in the green and not incorrectly interpreting any company policies.

Step 4: Handle Your Biz
Hey, Hey! You're halfway there! Now that you've confirmed that you won't be flagrantly violating some stupid company policy that will get you instantly shit-canned, it's time to put together a detailed plan that you can present to your boss that outlines how all of the stuff that you'd normally take care of will be handled in your absence. This part is the hardest to a "guide" about because it's dependent on what kind of job you have. For my job, I put together an outline of all the software projects that would be under development in my absence, and I made sure that I had detailed documentation for each of them along with a person to temporarily drive their development in my absence.

Step 5: Tell Your Boss You're Taking Time Off
Now, as far as this whole thing goes, this is the only tricky part (and when I say "tricky," I mean "requires huge balls"). Seriously though, this is the part that's really easy to fuck up. You can't ask if you can take time off, you have to just matter-of-factly state that you will be taking time off.

If you go in and ask your boss if you can have a month off, of course they're going to say no. That's just basic human nature. If your boss doesn't get to take a month off, why should they let you? So this is where all your preparation comes into play. Instead of asking for time off, you explain that you're going to be taking a month off and then before they can offer any type of objection, immediately launch into an outline of all the preparation you've done: "I've spoken to HR and confirmed that I'm eligible. So I'd like to spend some time reviewing a plan I've put together to ensure that everything I'm responsible for goes smoothly in my absence."

Your boss probably won't be excited about it, but as long as you are able to demonstrate that you're within your rights to do so and you can convince them that you've put time and thought into a plan to ensure that everything you do will be taken care of while you're gone, they'll probably accept it and not give you too hard of a time. (One last disclaimer - if your boss hates you and is just waiting for a reason to get rid of you - you might as well start planning to take two months of vacation because you've totally just fired yourself!)

22:T7c4,After two weeks of frenzied preparation, it was finally time for our vacation! Originally, we had planned on spending an entire month kicking around Thailand, but when I got ready to book our flight, I noticed that a lot of flights from NYC to Bangkok had layovers in the United Arab Emirates, and decided to not book anything until I'd spoken to my friend Bernadette!

Bernadette and I met through mutual friends and had been corresponded online for years, but had never met in person. After graduating school in London, she'd moved to Dubai to take a job as the personal assistant to one of the heads of a very wealthy family in the UAE (a sheik!). A year or so after she moved to the UAE, her boyfriend Philip moved out there to be with her and they got engaged!

I always told her "If you and Philip are ever going to be in New York City, you totally have to stay with us!" To which Bernadette would always reply, "Likewise, if you and Meredith happen to find yourself in Dubai, you totally have to stay with us!" Then we'd always laugh because the idea that Meredith and I would end up in Dubai seemed so unlikely!

The next day I got in touch with Bernadette and told her that if she was serious about putting us up, we'd totally come visit for a few days on our way to Thailand! And she was! Even crazier, Faisal, one of Meredith's good friends from college, grew up in the Abu Dhabai (the other major city in the UAE) and had recently moved back home. When Meredith asked him if he'd be willing to come meet us in Dubai, he told us that not only would he come meet us, but that afterwards, he'd take us back home with him so that we could spend a few days in Abu Dhabi as well!

So that's how our trip to Thailand turned into trip to the United Arab Emirates and Thailand! Yay, the internet! Ok, so now that you know the back-story, here we go!

23:T6cd,Holy shit, I just realized that with this entry, I Keep a Diary now spans ten years of my life! (The very first post I ever did was Halloween 1996!). Wow, just wow. So here it is, the 421st photo-installment of my life!

Halloween 2006 was pretty chill. It always sneaks up on my and I'm forced to come up with a costume at the very last minute possible - this year was pretty much my laziest costume ever (as I'm sure you'll see down below)

Past Halloweens include:
Halloween 1996 - The Very First Post I ever Made (10 years ago!)
Halloween 1997 - My Senior Year in College
Halloween1998 - Modem Media
Halloween 1999 - Visiting Boston
Halloween 2001 - Halloween Model Party
Halloween 2002 - Halloween Model Party Again!
Halloween 2003 - In Bas Vegas, Essex!
Halloween 2004 - In San Francisco!
Halloween 2005 - Random Parties in NYC
24:T7bc,Doug Jaeger is a buddy of mine that started up a company called LVHRD that organizes all sorts of different parties in New York. I received an email from him telling me that LVHRD's next upcoming event was going to be a karaoke competition between six masters of karaoke, and told me that I should go to the audition and try to secure a slot as one of the six competitors!

So I went to the try outs and a few days later I received an email from Chantal, one of the LVHRD organizers telling me that I'd been selected as a competitor. She explained that the competition was going to based on three rounds of karaoke, but that each competitor would only be allowed to select their first song - the songs for the second and third rounds of competition would be selected in a top-secret way that wouldn't be revealed until the night of the event! She then asked me to provide her with three songs to be considered for my first round of karaoke. So I responded with my three of my fave karaoke jams: Gloria by Laura Branigan, Oh, Darling!by The Beatles and You Give Love (a Bad Name) by Bon Jovi! I received the following email back from Chantal:

-----Original Message-----
From: Chantal Strauss [mailto:redacted]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:48 PM
To: Brian Battjer
Subject: Re: Your song selections

Thanks, Brian.

I was told by a little bird that there might be a Gloria ban that evening. I'll let you (and the little bird) know.

See you soon!

Chantal

A ban on Gloria? Apparently word had spread about my karaoke-competition SECRET WEAPON! So I wrote back and submitted another song as an alternate if they decided to enforce the Gloria ban! Ok, on to the night of the competition!

25:T4e7,If you've been reading my site for a while, some of these pics might look familiar to you because I featured some of them in an intro that was on the front page of the site back right after it happened (because I was so giddy about it). But here's a more in-depth recap!

I met my friend Matt Rubano at one of Sarah's birthday parties a few years back. On the day we met, Matt told me he was in a band called Taking Back Sunday, which was a band I'd heard of before, but wasn't really familiar with. Besides, pretty much half the dudes I know in New York are in bands I've heard of, so I never really thought that much about it.

About a year after Matt and I had met, I heard that Lifetime (my favorite band of ALL TIME) had decided to get back together, and were going to be playing at a festival called Bamboozle in NJ. Someone told me that Matt's band was one of the sixty bands that were going to be playing Bamboozle, so I called Matt and asked him if he could put me on his list. Matt was like "Sure thing! I think Lifetime's going to be playing right before us so you should stick around and check out my band too!" Sounded like a plan!

26:T45e,

I met Kim Wilson on my very first day of Middle School (7th Grade). She was the super-cute girl that sat in the desk in front of me in our first period math class. I had a big crush on her and I'd show my affection by making quiet, wet-sounding fart noises with my mouth directly behind her ear during class until she'd start laughing hysterically and get yelled at by our teacher. (The best part is, seventeen years later, that's still one of my "signature moves.")

Kim remained one of my best friends all the way through high school. We were dance partners in a singing "show choir" (in which I was required to wear a gold lam� tuxedo) and Kim was even my date for our Senior Prom!

Since graduating high school, we've only managed to see each other a handful of times, but as is always the case with good friends, that's never managed to dull my affection for her one bit! So when I got an invitation to attend Kim's wedding (she was finally going to marry Greg who she'd been dating for 12 years!), I went right online and bought a ticket to fly down to Charleston, SC!

27:T5fc,

Hi there, Internet. Wow, my life's been busy lately and I haven't been able to find the time to work on this site! But today's a rainy Labor Day weekend (in 2006!) and I don't have much to do so I figured I sit back down and try to crank out a few more entries!

So, if you remember where I left off, I had just got back from a two week trip through Eastern Europe with Grant and Jake. While I was away on that, Meredith emailed me and told me that she'd planned a secret surprise vacation for her and I and that we would be leaving on it the day after I got back from my trip (Feb. 15th).

So I got back to Meredith's on Feb 14th, had a nice Valentine's night and packed a suitcase - I was only told that I should pack for a "tropical destination" - and Meredith set the alarm for 10am because our flight wasn't until the evening.

The next morning I awoke to Meredith crying. Somehow she'd misread the tickets and we'd missed our plane (It left at 6am) to Guatemala (that I learned was our surprise destination). I got on the phone to the airline to learn that their wouldn't be another flight available for another 3 days and since Meredith only took a week off from work, we decided to take a credit on the plane tickets and try to book a last minute trip to anywhere else.

We hit the internet and 40 minutes later we'd booked a week trip to Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Thank you, internet!

28:T4ab,

...the cliffhanger is resoved!

On Sunday we work up around 1pm to discover that Brandon, the guy from Budapest by way of San Francisco, that we'd met upin Berlin after becoming friends over the internet, was, in fact, a normal person (collective sigh of relief)!

If you recall from the last entry, we'd met up with Brandon late the previous night for the very first time and he was acting so crazy that we were starting to worry about whether or not this was a guy that we could stand having as our tour guide for the next week.

Now sober, "Normal Brandon" explained to us that he'd started drinking at around 8pm the previous night figuring that he'd be in the perfect "party zone" to greet us when we arrived around 11ish. But between our plane being delayed and us getting horribly lost on the way over, we didn't end up making it to Ferdinand's (Brandon's friend) house until almost 2am and by that time Brandon was completely shit-canned (or at least that was his excuse for why he spend the entire first night we met him talking in an accent like Borat from Ali G and not even breaking character once! Hahaha). Ok, on with our day!

29:T5a6,

Grant had pitched a story to Flaunt Magazine about parents who spend excessive amounts of money on their children's bar or bat mitzvahs. The piece was tentatively to be titled Bling-bling Bar Mitzvahs. Flaunt was considering several photographers to take the accompanying photos to Grant's piece and I asked Grant if he'd be willing to submit my photo portfolio for their consideration. He did and (somehow!) I was picked as the photographer!

The piece had a tight deadline and we only had a few weeks to try and find two or three extravagant bar or bat mitzvahs that had to be: 1) local 2) totally extravagant and 3) thrown by parents willing us to schmucks attend it for the sake of covering it for a magazine they'd probably never heard of (and the fact that the magazine is called Flaunt didn't exactly help during the pitch).

After hours on the phone, I finally found an event planning company that specialized in bar and bat mitzvahs that was willing to put me in touch with a set of their clients. I pitched Dr. Len Brenner and his wife the idea and they dug it and invited Grant and I to attend their daughter Amara's fancy bat mitzvah out in Cedarhurst (Long Island, baby) NY. (In the end, the Flaunt editor we were working with left the magazine a week later and the piece got killed, but I've gone ahead and included a few of the pics I took for posterity's sake).

2a:T4f7,

Before starting my new job in April, I wanted to have one final "last hurrah" before having to go back to the land of daily obligation. Fatty and Sarah were both going to Austin, TX for the South by Southwest Music Festival (Fatty's band to perform and Sarah because she was covering it for Spin Magazine) and suggested last minute that I should go too. It sounded like a perfect plan until I went on the national interweb and saw the price of a "last minute" airplane ticket to Texas

Just when I'd about given up on the idea of going, Fatty was like "Dude, I've got a ton of frequent flier miles - if you want, how about I just buy you a ticket with those?" Seriously, that's just the kind of guy David Fateman is. Every time you think he couldn't possibly get any nicer, he goes and does something that totally redefines your concept of generousity (and in turn makes you think even harder about what a selfish piece of shit you are). Then when Sarah heard there was a chance I'd be able to get a ticket, she went ahead and asked her hotel bunkmate, Caryn Ganz, if she'd mind me crashing at their hotel. So before this entry even starts, a big thank you to Fatty, Sarah and Caryn. If there are nicer people in the world, I haven't met them yet.

2b:T40f,

My best friend Grant writes a column for Nerve.com called "I Did it For Science" in which he gets dispatched once a month to try something vaguely (or sometimes explicitly) sexual and then writes it up in the format of a 7th grade science lab report. For his August column, he had to take the top ten winners from Nerve's Pick-up Line Contest and try them out on girls at a bar.

When Michael Martin, Nerve's editor, overheard that I had a plus-one invite to the Ford Modeling Agency's Anniversary party, Grant's fate was sealed: not only would he have to try out the pick up lines on actual girls, he'd have to try them out on actual supermodel girls - sneering down at him from their high-heeled tower of hotness! Here we go!

2c:T41c,There's this petite, gay guy in Brooklyn with really long hair that always walks around with supertight, girly pants on. And the thing is, guys are constantly mistaking him for a girl (because hey, he does have a great ass).

I can't tell you how many times I've watched tough-guys walk up the subway platform stairs behind him, all sticking their faces up in his jizzoint and staring at his ass acting all macho and shit only to see him turn and realize that they've been staring at a dude's ass. (You should see the look of panick as they question their sexuality. Priceless.)

So I'm walking on Spring Street on the way home and I see "The Ass" sitting in Lombardi's Pizza by himself getting ready to eat. Realizing that I had my camera with me, I actually walked into Lombardi's and told this dude that I thought he had a "sick onion" and asked if he'd let me photograph it. He was totally game (his only regret, and I quote, was that he wish he'd worn "more ass-aliscious pants" to better showcase his bum.

2d:T5c9,

Hey everybody, this is my friend David Forman. David and I met way back in the summer of 1991 at a place called SuperCamp, which according to their website is a "summer camp where students improve grades, motivation and confidence, gain powerful study skills and develop high self-esteem in an environment that fosters learning and success." Pure marketing hype. Between you and me , SuperCamp was basically a summer camp for kids who were fuck ups. That's right, I said it. Fuck! Ups!

Dave and I instantly bonded when at camp...they gave us a list of things we weren't allowed to do and we solemnly swore to each other that we'd instead use it as a "to do" checklist. (Smoking, drinking, staying up late, boobie touching - you name the rule, we broke it.)

Anyway, our friendship carried over into the next school year, but sometime a year or so later as we both did our own things in high school, we lost touch.

Nine and a half years later, I ran into him at the Bjork show at Carnegie hall. Six months later, we finally managed to meet up...it turns out he lives around the corner in the Lower East Side.

These pics don't tell a story or anything - David just thought he should be introduced properly. So here he is. (Oh, and by the way, David's a kickass musician, check his shit out here).

2e:T4a4,

My dear friend and co-worker Grant Stoddard writes a column for Nerve called "I Did it for Science." The premise is simple: Ross Martin and I think up fucked-up sexual activities that we know Grant has yet to participate in, and we send him out to experience them first hand and report the findings of his maiden sexual voyages. Grant thus far, in the Name of Science, has bought and tried out a cock ring, hooked up with a dude, had sex with his girlfriend on the subway, and flew out to LA to star as an extra in a Vivid Video porno movie (article coming soon).

So when I found out that CakeNYC was looking for men who had never stripped to dance and give lap dances at their upcoming Cake party, I immediately sent an email to the Cake girls requesting that Grant and I be allowed to dance in the Name of Science...

2f:T40d,

Usually I know well in advance what I'm going to be for Halloween. Okay, I'm totally lying. Every year Halloween comes around and I'm totally unprepared...but at last minute, genius will strike and I'll whip up something interesting out of the blue. This year was different: In the wake of the WTC incident, Halloween snuck up on us and caught us still somber.

A few days earlier we had been invited to Grant's bass player's party whose roommate happens to be a Dutch supermodel. So on the afternoon of the 31st, Josh and I set out on our lunch break to find costumes. Good costumes. We'd decided that if there were going to be hot girls around, we would need to disguise ourselves enough so that maybe they'd all think that underneath our costumes we were handsome enough to be talking to them.

After wandering the store forever, I came across the "moustache section," and suddenly inspiration struck. I would go as...

30:T4a8,

As construction on the Indoorvillage (aka - our apartment) neared completion, two of my roommates Andy & Andrew decided that our apartment's first party should have a high-school Prom theme (probably because neither of them went to theirs...). Anyway, Andy & Andrew quickly made a list of everything that would need to be finished building in the apartment before the party could happen. Amy and I looked at the long list of work that needed to be done and suggested that we should have the Prom in late August because after nine straight months of construction, we wanted a bit of a break.

But Andy & Andrew wouldn't hear of it! The Prom couldn't happed in August! Why? Because Proms happen in June, duh! They pretty much took it upon themselves to transform our loft into a Prom-like dream world complete with photo backdrop that all guest could get their pictures taken in front of. Dzija even designed a crazy-ass (an amazing) website dedicated to the event. While they were setting up, I was getting heatstroke with my co-workers at the Mermaid Parade.

31:T6d9,

My girlfriend Jess and her roommate Ryan's birthday are only two days apart. So it was decided that we were going to throw a a birthday party for the both of them. This wasn't going to be some lame, freshmen-free-for-all kegger, this was going to be a classy party. Lots of good food and drink (BYOB on the drink of course), and everyone that attended would be required to get dressed up.

Now, some of you might be thinking, "That doesn't sound like very much of a party," except for one thing... we got a stripper. Actually, it was Jess' idea. She thought that it would be really funny to have this nice party and then have this woman show up and start getting naked. Ryan and I took the burden upon ourselves to head on over to American Dream Girls and pick out the stripper for the party. (Which is a story in itself because Ryan had never been to a nudy bar and was embarrassed as all hell about going.)

So anyway, when we arrived at Dream Girls, we noticed that it was "slim pickins." Most of the girls there weren't exactly walking male fantasies to say the least. So we ended up picking this girl Allie, not because she was the cutest, but because Ryan has an Asian Fetish. (Just kidding Ryan.) We picked Allie because she was the most attractive girl there.

Fast forward two days to the party: Everyone is having fun. DJ Mattymatt is kicking some phat jams, yo. And everyone is anticipating the arrival of the stripper. She shows up and starts dancing in front of Jess. But after about two minutes of that she just walks away from Jess and goes over to Ryan and starts dancing all over him. Only then did things start to get interesting.

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in January 2016 that didn't end up in their own entry. (I'm writing this on Monday, Oct 15, 2018 and I can't believe how far I've fallen behind in doing this site! These pics totally feel like they're from a different era of my life.)\r\n

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Here are all the photos I took in June 2015 that didn't end up in their own entry.

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Here are all the photos I took in January 2015

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Here are all the photos I took in December 2014!

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Here are all the photos I took in May 2014.

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\r\nHere are all the pics I took in April 2014.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in February 2014 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in November 2013 that didn't make it into their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in October of 2013 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in September of 2013 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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Bunch of bros headed to a house in the Poconos to celebrate the end of single J-rod.

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\r\n\r\n

\r\nSee also:
\r\nWhistler - March, 2010
\r\nSummer Visit to British Columbia - August, 2010
\r\nWhistler & Pecha Kucha - April, 2011\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in August 2013 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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Here are all the photos I took in July of 2013 that didn't end up in their own entry

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\r\nHere are all the pics I took in June 2013 that didn't end up in their own entry\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in April 2013.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in March 2013 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in February of 2013 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are the rest of my pics from my acupuncturist-mandated two-week trip to Belize. Back to Part One","link_copy":"Belize: Part 2","link_desc_html":"Belize: Part 2","position":2013120,"published":1,"publish_date":"2015-07-15 09:36:18","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":203},{"id":701,"slug":"belize-part-1","directory_name":"2013_01_18.Belize_Part_1","title":"Belize: Part 1","year":2013,"month":1,"day":18,"date_display":"January 18, 2013","intro_html":"

\r\nI'd been prescribed a 2-week vacation by my Chinatown acupuncturist to help with my diagnosis of depleted yang. Who am I to argue with science? Belize, here I come!\r\n

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\r\nWas feeling a little sad and hermity, and almost stayed in. But at the last minute, I decided to RSVP to Ellen & Han's party because you never regret seeing your friends. ;)\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in December 2012 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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Whenever I have time off from work, I'm always interested in shooting interesting events or people. Through Clayton Cubitt, I heard that Jeff, one of the founders of Voltaic Systems needed someone to help deliver more solar chargers to folks without power in the Rockaways.

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in November 2012 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nOctober was a doozy of a month. Meredith moved out and then Alphabet City got slammed by Hurricane Sandy. Here are all the pics I took.\r\n

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\r\nIt's not everyday your friends' band passes through your city on tour! On Friday evening we went to the Best Buy Theater to see the All-American Rejects play a show for the very first time. After the show, I went home, packed a suitcase and hopped onto their bus for a week-long adventure as a tour-stowaway!\r\n

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\r\nI went out to Boulder with Gurj & Quinn to see Jared play a festival show with 3OH!3 at the world-famous Red Rocks Amphitheater. \r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in September 2012 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nMeredith and I flew out to Cleveland to visit relatives on both her father & mother's side.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in August of 2012 that didn't end up in their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nAfter a big group weekend camping trip we'd planned got rained out, Ellen found an amazing house for rent up in the Catskills and we all headed up there instead!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in July 2012 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nA few weeks earlier, Jared sent an email around suggesting we take a roadtrip out Pennsylvania's Lehigh Gorge State Park to take a whitewater rafting trip. We chose to go during one of the weekends that they release the water from a nearby dam causing class II-III whitewater (\"medium waves with 3-5 foot drops\") covering 12 miles of river in about 4 hours.\r\n

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\r\nFatty's brother Andy invited us up to attend the fifth year of Fateman Jam, a backyard BBQ where everyone we knows gets to play metal songs in front of kids. Yes!

\r\n\r\nSee also:
\r\n2011: Fateman Jame IV
\r\n2010: Fateman Jam III
\r\n

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\r\nSarah grew up attending \"family camp\" with her family every summer at a YMCA camp on Sandy Island, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH. What better place to have a wedding?\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in June 2012 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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Here are all the photos I took in May 2012 that didn't end up in their own entry!

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in April of 2012!\r\n

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\r\nMeredith's good friend from college, Aileen and her husband-to-be Ryan invited us to attend their wedding in the Philippines. We decided to fly out a week and-a-half early so we could do do some exploring on our own before heading out to meet them on Panglao Island! \r\n

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Here are all the photos I took in March 2012 (there aren't that many of them because I spent most of this month in the Philippines!).

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\r\nHere are the photos I took in February of 2012.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in January 2012.\r\n

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\r\nAfter last year's incredible Gatsby-themed New Year's Eve party, Tyson invited us back to the Florida panhandle to attend another big bash he'd been planning for the past few weeks. We were told that the only thing required of us was a costume. This years theme: Seventies Porno.\r\n

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\r\nBack in November of 2010, Meredith and I went to surf camp in Nicaragua! A little less than a year later, my cousins Chris and Steve (who are both really good surfers), invited me to head back to Nicaragua to a house they'd bought there back in the early 2000s for a week of surfing!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in October 2011 that didn't end up in their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nI met Tyson back in August of 2010 and in less than a year of knowing him, he had me down to Florida not once, but twice! When I heard he was going to be in New York for a few days, I wanted return the favor and surprise him. But, the eternal question: what to get the man with everything? Hmmmm, how about a day of JETSKIING on the scenic East River?\r\n

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Here are all the photos I took in September 2011 that didn't end up in their very own entry.

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\r\nBack in July of 2004, my cousin Chris got married. Seven years later, Meredith and I flew out to Ohio to attend my cousin Steve's wedding!\r\n

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\r\nIn August of 2011, Meredith and I had sublet our Manhattan apt and were renting a little beach house in Rockaway Beach. Here are the second half of the photos I took that didn't end up in their own entry. Back to The August Roundup: Part One\r\n

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\r\nHere are the first half of the photos I took in August that didn't end up in their own entry. On to The August Roundup: Part Two\r\n

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\r\nOn Saturday afternoon, a bunch of us met up for a trip to Central Park!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in July 2013 that didn't end up in their own entry! \r\n

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\r\nMy buddy and former Yodle co-worker Patrick and Sue, his bride-to-be, invited us to celebrate their wedding!\r\n

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\r\nGurj asked me if I wanted to spend a long weekend out in San Francisco to do some sightseeing and see two of Jared's shows out there. I'm in!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in June 2011 that didn't end up in their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nWhat better way to spend your birthday than calling out of work sick and going to New Jersey to ride roller coasters?\r\n

","link_copy":"Gurj's Great Birthday Adventure","link_desc_html":"Gurj's Great Birthday Adventure","position":2011190,"published":1,"publish_date":"2013-10-17 23:16:21","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":42},{"id":660,"slug":"jenny-and-joshs-wedding","directory_name":"2011_05_07.Jenny_and_Joshs_Wedding","title":"Jenny and Josh's Wedding","year":2011,"month":5,"day":7,"date_display":"May 07, 2011","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Jenny and Josh's Wedding","link_desc_html":"Jenny and Josh's Wedding","position":2011185,"published":1,"publish_date":"2013-12-03 07:52:42","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":141},{"id":656,"slug":"the-may-roundup","directory_name":"2011_05_00.The_May_Roundup","title":"The May Roundup","year":2011,"month":5,"day":null,"date_display":"May, 2011","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are all the photos I took in May 2011 that didn't end up in their own entry\r\n

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\r\nMy third trip out to Whistler! I got to see Grant & Aki's new apartment and then we headed up to Whistler for PechaKucha and the Ski & Snowboard Festival!

\r\n\r\nSee also:
\r\nSummer Visit to British Columbia - August 2010
\r\nFirst Trip to Whistler - March 2010\r\n\r\n

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\r\nOn Friday afternoon, we headed out to Williamsburg to attend Andrew's 5th (and final), birthday scavenger hunt.

\r\n\r\nSee also:
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\r\nAndrew's 3rd Annual Scavenger Hunt - April, 2009\r\n\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in April 2011 that didn't end up in their own entry!\r\n

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Here are all the photos I took in March of 2011 that didn't end up in their own entry

","link_copy":"The March Roundup","link_desc_html":"The March Roundup","position":2011130,"published":1,"publish_date":"2013-07-05 13:39:07","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":131},{"id":650,"slug":"the-february-roundup","directory_name":"2011_02_00.The_February_Roundup","title":"The February Roundup","year":2011,"month":2,"day":null,"date_display":"February, 2011","intro_html":"

Here are all the photos I took in February 2011

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took during the second half of January that didn't end up in their own entry. Back to Part One.\r\n

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Here's the first half of the photos I took in January 2010. On to Part Two

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\r\nWhen Tyson invited Meredith and I down to Florida to attend a Great Gatsby-themed party he'd been quietly dropping hints about for months, we jumped at the chance to leave New York for nicer weather. \r\n

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\r\nThe day before Christmas, Meredith and I headed down to New Jersey to spend the holidays with my family.\r\n

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Here are all the photos I took in December 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry.

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My good friend Ellen and her friend Emily grew up riding horses together. (Emily still rides them for a living!) Most competitive equestrian shrits were made of old school, dry-clean only fabrics that were super-expensive to clean & iron all the time.

\r\n\r\n

Spotting an opportunity, Ellen & Emily teamed up and designed the first competition-approved riding shirts to be made from modern materials and founded The Ece Equestrian Company They had a arranged for a horse to be brought down to the Copper Square Hotel for their very first photoshoot and asked if I'd be the photographer (you may also recognize one of the models)! Here are my favorite pics from the day!

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\r\nMeredith and I opted out of Thanksgiving for the year and decided to take a vacation and get a some sunshine instead. We ended up booking a trip to go to a surf camp in Nicaragua! (We stayed with Surf Tours Nicaragua and they were great!)\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in November of 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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Mer and I headed to Philadelphia to attend Mandy and Mike's wedding.

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\r\nWe heard from a friend of a friend that the casting director for The Newlywed Game was looking for contestants. Since we still fit their definition of Newleyweds (married within the last 24 months) We figured \"What the heck?\" and emailed in our application. A few days later, we were notified that we'd been accepted!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in October 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nWe decided to get up early on a Sunday and get one more day of fun in at Great Adventure!\r\n

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In the beginning of September, Jenny sent around an email proposing that a bunch of us chip in and rent a house somewhere out in Long Island that's not the Hamptons! We ended up finding an awesome little house with a swimming pool located in on the \"north fork\" of Long Island in Cutchogue.","link_copy":"Cutchogue Weekend","link_desc_html":"Cutchogue Weekend","position":2010370,"published":1,"publish_date":"2012-12-27 09:16:15","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":112},{"id":634,"slug":"the-september-roundup","directory_name":"2010_09_00.The_September_Roundup","title":"The September Roundup","year":2010,"month":9,"day":null,"date_display":"September, 2010","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are the photos I took in September 2010 that didn't end up in there own entry.\r\n

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Back in March I'd flown out to British Columbia by myself to visit Grant. This time around Meredith and I both booked tickets for a 4-day trip!

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in August that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nBack to Part One.\r\n

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\r\nQuinn's parents were out of town so she invited us all to come out and visit her childhood home in PA for a Fourth of July sleepaway party!\r\n

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Here are all the photos I took in July 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry.

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\r\nFatty and his little brother Andy grew up playing metal together in their basement. Fatty was the axeman, and Andy, slappa da bass. Twenty-something years later, they're both grown up with kids, but that don't mean that they can't SHRED! Andy and his wife Pepper have a huge backyard and a few years ago they started inviting everyone that plays an instrument to come together and play metal at backyard BBQ. Fateman Jam, here we come!

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in the second half of June 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry (Back to Part One)\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in the first half of June 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry (On to Part Two)\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in May 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

","link_copy":"The May Roundup","link_desc_html":"The May Roundup","position":2010220,"published":1,"publish_date":"2012-06-17 15:50:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":112},{"id":619,"slug":"medieval-times","directory_name":"2010_04_18.Medieval_Times","title":"Medieval Times","year":2010,"month":4,"day":18,"date_display":"April 18, 2010","intro_html":"

\r\nWe were hanging out with Meredith's parents one night when one of us mentioned in passing that a bunch of our friends had been planning a group-trip out to Medieval Times for someone's birthday, but we ended up deciding it was too much of a hassle. Meredith's mom said \"Well, I have a birthday coming up! Why don't we go there for my birthday?\" Uhhhh, sure?\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the pictures I took in April 2010 that didn't end up in their very own entry!\r\n

","link_copy":"The April Roundup","link_desc_html":"The April Roundup","position":2010200,"published":1,"publish_date":"2012-05-01 00:13:08","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":110},{"id":617,"slug":"whistler","directory_name":"2010_03_26.Whistler","title":"Whistler","year":2010,"month":3,"day":26,"date_display":"March 26, 2010","intro_html":"

\r\nI took a few days off work and booked a ticket to fly out to Whistler, British Columbia (~~Canadian Rockies!~~ Correction from Grant: they're actually part of the Coast Mountains) to visit Grant! \r\n

","link_copy":"Whistler, BC","link_desc_html":"Visiting Grant in Whistler, BC","position":2010190,"published":1,"publish_date":"2012-05-01 00:13:08","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":87},{"id":616,"slug":"the-march-roundup","directory_name":"2010_03_00.The_March_Roundup","title":"The March Roundup","year":2010,"month":3,"day":null,"date_display":"March, 2010","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are all the photos I took in March 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry. \r\n

","link_copy":"The March Roundup","link_desc_html":"The March Roundup","position":2010180,"published":1,"publish_date":"2012-05-01 00:13:08","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":78},{"id":615,"slug":"funeral-in-la","directory_name":"2010_02_28.Funeral_in_LA","title":"Funeral in LA","year":2010,"month":2,"day":28,"date_display":"February 28, 2010","intro_html":"

\r\nTowards the end of February, one of Meredith's cousins died in a terrible accident. We flew out to LA with her family to attend the funeral.\r\n

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\r\nOn Saturday night we took a church bus out to Staten Island to celebrate Katie's 40th birthday at ROLLERDISCO!\r\n

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\r\nOn Thursday evening I went to Tribeca to celebrate Niki's 30th birthday dressed in \"Masquerade finery\" which meant black tie or costume.\r\n

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\r\nOn Wednesday night Mer and I went down to Rivington to celebrate Sarah's 30th birthday!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in February 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nOn Sunday night I walked over to Lit to wish Ellen Stagg a happy birthday! NSFW!\r\n

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\r\nOn Monday night I headed down to Fontana's for the very last Sid & Buddy Karaoke party ever! Matt & Matt had decided to celebrate their departure from the karaoke business by naming Larson (aka \"Captain Goodtimes\") as the emcee heir to their karaoke empire!

\r\n\r\nThanks for all the hard work and magic you guys put into helping people let it all hang out on stage over all these years, Matt & Matt! \r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in January 2010 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nMeredith and I flew down to Florida for four days to spend Christmas with my parents!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in December 2009 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nTwo weeks before official Thanksgiving, Meredith and I rented a car and drove down to DC to enjoy Brett & Amy's annual PRE-THANKSGIVING FEAST!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in November 2009 that didn't end up in their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in October 2009 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos from the second half of September 2009!\r\n

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\r\nBack to: Part One, Part Two\r\n

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\r\nA few hours after getting married on Lake Tahoe, we hopped into our rental car and headed to the Reno airport. Final honeymoon destination: Bali, Indonesia!\r\n

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\r\nOur original plan was to fly to Bali and elope. After we'd decided our destination, we started telling people that we were planning on eloping. That's when we learned rule number one about eloping: don't TELL people that you're eloping! Duh! Both of our parents told us that they really wanted to attend our wedding, and since they kind of birthed us and all, we figured, what the heck, let's give these parents a wedding! We told them that we'd look for an interesting place that we could stop off and get married on our way to Bali. My parents ending up finding a place to stay in Lake Tahoe and we said \"Sounds perfect!\" \r\n

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\r\nOn Tuesday afternoon I was sitting in a meeting at work when I got a text from Geordon: \"Do you and Meredith want to come see Britney Spears at MSG with us tonight?\" AWESOMETOWN!\r\n

","link_copy":"It's Britney, Bitch","link_desc_html":"It's Britney, Bitch (Britney Spears at MSG)","position":2009360,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-08-01 21:42:45","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":26},{"id":593,"slug":"my-33rd-birthday","directory_name":"2009_08_08.My_33rd_Birthday","title":"My 33rd Birthday","year":2009,"month":8,"day":8,"date_display":"August 08, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nOn Saturday I turned thirty-three!\r\n

","link_copy":"My 33rd Birthday","link_desc_html":"My 33rd Birthday","position":2009355,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-08-01 21:42:45","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":55},{"id":591,"slug":"suburban-nj-summer-paradise","directory_name":"2009_08_01.Suburban_NJ_Summer_Paradise","title":"Suburban NJ Summer Paradise","year":2009,"month":8,"day":1,"date_display":"August 01, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nLeigh got a free car rental for the weekend and we all decided to pile in and head to the Jersey shore for a day at the beach!\r\n

","link_copy":"Suburban NJ Summer Paradise","link_desc_html":"Roadtrip to Suburban NJ Summer Paradise","position":2009350,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-08-01 21:42:45","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":69},{"id":590,"slug":"the-august-roundup-part2","directory_name":"2009_08_00.The_August_Roundup_Part2","title":"The August Roundup: Part Two","year":2009,"month":8,"day":null,"date_display":"August, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are all the photos I took in the second half of August that didn't end up in their own entry. T-minus 10 days until our wedding! Back to August Roundup: Part One\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The August Roundup: Part Two","position":2009340,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-08-01 21:42:45","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":82},{"id":589,"slug":"the-august-roundup-part1","directory_name":"2009_08_00.The_August_Roundup_Part1","title":"The August Roundup: Part One","year":2009,"month":8,"day":null,"date_display":"August, 2009","intro_html":"

Here are the first half of the photos I took in August that didn't end up in their own entry

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"The August Roundup Part One","position":2009330,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-08-01 21:42:45","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":93},{"id":588,"slug":"leighs-25th-birthday","directory_name":"2009_07_29.Leighs_25th_Birthday","title":"Leighs 25th Birthday","year":2009,"month":7,"day":29,"date_display":"July 29, 2009","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Leigh's 25th Birthday ","link_desc_html":"Leigh's 25th Birthday ","position":2009320,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-08-01 21:42:45","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":587,"slug":"merediths-bachelorette-party","directory_name":"2009_07_11.Merediths_Bachelorette_Party","title":"Merediths Bachelorette Party","year":2009,"month":7,"day":11,"date_display":"July 11, 2009","intro_html":"

Meredith's mom hosted a bachelorette brunch party for Meredith at their apartment followed by an after-party at our apt.

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\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Fourth of July","link_desc_html":"Fourth of July at the Jersey Shore","position":2009300,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-06-29 09:00:48","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":56},{"id":585,"slug":"the-july-roundup","directory_name":"2009_07_00.The_July_Roundup","title":"The July Roundup","year":2009,"month":7,"day":null,"date_display":"July, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are the photos I took in July that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

","link_copy":"The July Roundup","link_desc_html":"The July Roundup","position":2009290,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-06-29 09:00:48","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":131},{"id":583,"slug":"bryon-and-victorias-wedding","directory_name":"2009_06_20.Bryon_and_Victorias_Wedding","title":"Byron and Victoria's Wedding","year":2009,"month":6,"day":20,"date_display":"June 20, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nByron and Victoria, friends Meredith met in school, invited us to attend their wedding!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in June 2009 that didn't end up in their very own entry.\r\n

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\r\nAs soon as Fatty, er, Dave (hey, it's his wedding entry!) started dating Marina, we all knew she was THE ONE! We got the wedding invite and saw that the wedding was going to be held upstate in Andy and Pepper's backyard. A whole gang of us in New York decided to rent a van together and turn the wedding into a mini-vacation celebration!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in May that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nIn April of 2009, Sarah was promoting a new documentary about Anvil, a Canadian heavy-metal band who inspired huge acts like Metallica, but never really had much success. The last time Sarah invited me to a movie premiere, I got to meet Neil Patrick Harris AND Keanu Reeves, so I was in.\r\n

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\r\nAfter having an amazing time at Andrew's 2nd Birthday Scavenger Hunt, I was totally stoked to attend Andrew's 3rd Annual Scavenger Hunt Birthday party! Wooooo! \r\n

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\r\nHere are the rest of the pictures I took in April 2009 that didn't end up in their own entry. \r\n

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\r\nRight in the beginning of April, Leigh and her boyfriend of a couple years split up. She had mostly been living at his place and when she moved out, her room back at her apt with Scott was so full of stuff that she couldn't really stay there. Haha. So she started crashing at our place! We turned our spare bedroom into Heartbreak Hotel and so began PARTY SPRING 2009! Yay!\r\n

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\r\nOn Friday night we headed over to B-Side to celebrate Scott's birthday.\r\n

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\r\nBack in May of 2006, my friend Leigh got a miniature daschund. I remember that when she first told me the breed she'd decided on, I thought to myself \"Ew, why would you want to get a wiener dog?\" The only daschunds I'd ever met were sort of crummy and yappy. But then when I met her puppy Edie, everything changed. Over the next couple of years, we ended up dog-sitting for Edie regularly and she made us really fall in love with wiener dogs. \r\n

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\r\nOn Saturday night I went to Siege's Mardi Gras-themed Birthday party out in Williamsburg.\r\n

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\r\nOn Thursday night we had a whole bunch of people come over our place to celebrate Meredith's 29th birthday!\r\n

","link_copy":"Meredith's 29th Birthday","link_desc_html":"Meredith's 29th Birthday","position":2009170,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-02-27 19:42:58","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":17},{"id":568,"slug":"the-march-roundup","directory_name":"2009_03_00.The_March_Roundup","title":"The March Roundup","year":2009,"month":3,"day":null,"date_display":"March, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nIf you like Puppies, Babies and/or Punk, you are going to LOVE my photos from March 2008. Here we go.\r\n

","link_copy":"The March Roundup","link_desc_html":"The March Roundup","position":2009160,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-02-27 19:42:58","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":81},{"id":567,"slug":"a-puppy-named-maddy","directory_name":"2009_02_27.A_Puppy_Named_Maddy","title":"A Puppy Named Maddy","year":2009,"month":2,"day":27,"date_display":"February 27, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nWhen I asked Meredith what she wanted for her upcoming birthday, she told me \"I don't know how much longer I can go on not having a dog.\" So began our quest for our first pooch. After falling in love with Leigh's dog, Edie, I really wanted to get a miniature dappled daschund. After a couple of weeks looking locally, we finally found a daschund breeder out in Kentucky (Roxane's Daschunds) with a dame who'd just had a litter of dappled pups, and so a about week before Meredith's birthday...\r\n

","link_copy":"A Puppy Named Maddy","link_desc_html":"A Puppy Named Maddy","position":2009150,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-02-27 19:42:58","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":569,"slug":"the-february-roundup","directory_name":"2009_02_00.The_February_Roundup","title":"The February Roundup","year":2009,"month":2,"day":null,"date_display":"February, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are the photos I took in February 2008 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

","link_copy":"The February Roundup","link_desc_html":"The February Roundup","position":2009140,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-02-27 19:42:58","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":36},{"id":565,"slug":"brett-and-amys-wedding","directory_name":"2009_01_22.Brett_and_Amys_Wedding","title":"Brett and Amy's Wedding","year":2009,"month":1,"day":22,"date_display":"January 22, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nAt the end of January, Meredith and I flew down to Captiva Island (off the west coast of Florida) to attend Brett and Amy's wedding (where I was honored to be his best man!).\r\n

","link_copy":"Brett and Amy's Wedding","link_desc_html":"Brett and Amy's Wedding","position":2009130,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-02-10 21:45:41","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":133},{"id":564,"slug":"ellens-26th-birthday","directory_name":"2009_01_18.Ellens_26th_Birthday","title":"Ellens 26th Birthday","year":2009,"month":1,"day":18,"date_display":"January 18, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nOn Saturday night we had a party at our apartment to celebrate Ellen's 26th birthday!\r\n

","link_copy":"Ellen's 26th Birthday","link_desc_html":"Ellen's 26th Birthday","position":2009120,"published":1,"publish_date":"2011-01-25 21:35:09","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":26},{"id":563,"slug":"visiting-brett-and-amy","directory_name":"2009_01_09.Visiting_Brett_and_Amy","title":"Visiting Brett and Amy","year":2009,"month":1,"day":9,"date_display":"January 09, 2009","intro_html":"

\r\nWith my brother and Amy's wedding in Florida only two short weeks away, Meredith and I headed down to DC for a pre-wedding visit!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in January 2009 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nMeredith and I bundled up and headed to Williamsburg to bring in 2009 at Siege and Katie's lovely New Year's Eve Party!\r\n

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\r\nHere are the second half of the pics I took in December of 2008. (Back to Part One)\r\n

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\r\nHere are the first half of the pics I took in December of 2008. (On to Part Two)\r\n

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\r\nMeredith and I flew out to Cleveland to attend her ten-year high school reunion!\r\n

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\r\nI've known Emily since her freshman year of high school (I was a \"way older\" senior). We've kept in touch over all the years and nothing made me happier than attending her and Tim's wedding in Redondo Beach. Congrats you guys!\r\n

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\r\nI had to attend a 3-day work conference near San Francisco and then immediately after, drive down to Redondo Beach to attend Emily & Tim's wedding! Meredith decided to come with me and make a week out of it.\r\n

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\r\nWhoa, remember when no one was sure if Obama would get elected and we'd be stuck with John McCain and maybe even Sarah Palin if McCain dropped dead? Those were crazy times. Here are the photos I took on that historic election day.\r\n

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\r\nHere are the photos I took in November 2008 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nAmy Albano has been in my life for a long time! We went to high school together. We were roommates in college. And when I moved to NYC a year after graduation, it was Amy who put me up in her Gowanus apartment. We moved out of Gowanus together and undertook the huge task of building a two-story, four-bedroom house inside an empty loft in Greenpoint. Needless to say, she is great. Nothing made me happier than to attend her and Matt's wedding. Congrats, you guys!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in October that didn't end up in their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the pictures I took in September 2008 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the pics from my 32nd birthday. \r\n

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\r\nA bunch of my co-worker got together on Sunday morning to go skydiving upstate at The Ranch. It was my first time. Whoa.\r\n

","link_copy":"Skydiving with Yodle","link_desc_html":"Skydiving with Yodle","position":2008390,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-09-08 20:58:27","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":51},{"id":545,"slug":"the-august-roundup-part-2","directory_name":"2008_08_00.The_August_Roundup_Part_2","title":"The August Roundup: Part Two","year":2008,"month":8,"day":null,"date_display":"August, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are the rest of the pictures I took in August of 2008 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The August Roundup: Part Two","position":2008380,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-09-04 09:52:53","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":96},{"id":543,"slug":"the-august-roundup-part-1","directory_name":"2008_08_00.The_August_Roundup_Part_1","title":"The August Roundup: Part One","year":2008,"month":8,"day":null,"date_display":"August, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are the first half of the pics I took in August of 2008 that didn't end up in their own entry!\r\n

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"The August Roundup: Part One","position":2008370,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-09-04 09:52:53","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":81},{"id":542,"slug":"rachaels-nj-pool-birthday","directory_name":"2008_07_19.Rachaels_NJ_Pool_Birthday","title":"Rachael's NJ Pool Birthday","year":2008,"month":7,"day":19,"date_display":"July 19, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nFor Rachael's 29th Birthday, Emily and Tim invited everyone to come out to their new NJ house for a sleepover pool party!\r\n

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\r\nOn Thursday night I went out to Brooklyn to celebrate Catrinel's 28th birthday!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the photos I took in July of 2008 that didn't end up in their own entry!\r\n

","link_copy":"The July Roundup ","link_desc_html":"The July Roundup ","position":2008340,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-08-02 23:03:58","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":67},{"id":539,"slug":"the-june-roundup-part-2","directory_name":"2008_06_00.The_June_Roundup_Part_2","title":"The June Roundup: Part Two","year":2008,"month":6,"day":null,"date_display":"June, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are all the photos I took during the second half of June 2008 that didn't make it into their own entry.\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The June Roundup: Part Two","position":2008330,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-07-20 21:36:01","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":74},{"id":538,"slug":"the-june-roundup-part-1","directory_name":"2008_06_00.The_June_Roundup_Part_1","title":"The June Roundup: Part One","year":2008,"month":6,"day":null,"date_display":"June, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are the first half of the pics I took in (a party-packed!) June 2008 that didn't end up in their very own entry.\r\n

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\r\nMy awesome (former) Yodle co-worker, Ammon Brown organized an unofficial work trip to go play paintball at Skirmish out in Pennsylvania!\r\n

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\r\nOh, man. I'm excited to finally get to this entry! (I'm writing this in May 2010). Up until a few weeks ago, my good buddy Matt Rubano was in a band called Taking Back Sunday. Two years ago last week, they played Madison Square Garden with My Chemical Romance. It's not everyday (or in my case EVER) that you get to see your friend's bands play at MSG in NYC. Needless to say, everyone in our group in attendance was ready to GO BIG.\r\n

","link_copy":"Madison Square Garden","link_desc_html":"Taking Back Sunday at Madison Square Garden","position":2008290,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-05-19 18:33:13","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":74},{"id":534,"slug":"the-may-roundup-part-2","directory_name":"2008_05_00.The_May_Roundup_Part_2","title":"The May Roundup: Part Two","year":2008,"month":5,"day":null,"date_display":"May, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are the the photos that I took during the second half of May 2008 that didn't make it into their own entry!\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The May Roundup: Part Two","position":2008280,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-05-19 18:33:13","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":69},{"id":533,"slug":"the-may-roundup-part-1","directory_name":"2008_05_00.The_May_Roundup_Part_1","title":"The May Roundup: Part One","year":2008,"month":5,"day":null,"date_display":"May, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are all the photos I took in the first half of May that didn't make it into their very own entry.\r\n

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"The May Roundup: Part One","position":2008270,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-04-27 10:22:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":59},{"id":532,"slug":"andrews-scavenger-hunt-birthday","directory_name":"2008_04_05.Andrews_Scavenger_Hunt_Birthday","title":"Andrew's Scavenger Hunt Birthday","year":2008,"month":4,"day":5,"date_display":"April 05, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nIn 2007, my buddy Andrew organized a big scavenger hunt for his birthday. I didn't get to attend it, but the stories I heard about it were so legendary that I spent the early months of the winter of 2008 counting down the days to....ANDREW'S 2ND ANNUAL SCAVENGER HUNT BIRTHDAY!\r\n

","link_copy":"Scavenger Hunt Birthday","link_desc_html":"Andrew's 2nd Annual Scavenger Hunt Birthday","position":2008260,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-04-06 19:02:42","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":66},{"id":531,"slug":"the-april-roundup","directory_name":"2008_04_00.The_April_Roundup","title":"The April Roundup","year":2008,"month":4,"day":null,"date_display":"April, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are all the pics I took in April 2008 that didn't end up in an entry of their own!\r\n

","link_copy":"The April Roundup","link_desc_html":"The April Roundup","position":2008250,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-03-21 21:43:19","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":73},{"id":530,"slug":"egypt-part-5","directory_name":"2008_03_27.Egypt_Part_5","title":"Egypt Part Five","year":2008,"month":3,"day":27,"date_display":"March 27, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nPyramids of Giza, layover in Abu Dhabi and the trip home! \r\n

","link_copy":"Part Five","link_desc_html":"Egypt: Part Five - Pyramids of Giza & Layover in Abu Dhabi","position":2008240,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-03-21 21:43:19","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":63},{"id":529,"slug":"egypt-part-4","directory_name":"2008_03_23.Egypt_Part_4","title":"Egypt Part Four","year":2008,"month":3,"day":23,"date_display":"March 23, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nDiving in Dahab & Climbing Mt. Sinai\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Four","link_desc_html":"Egypt: Part Four - Diving in Dahab & Climbing Mt. Sinai","position":2008230,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-03-21 21:43:19","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":82},{"id":528,"slug":"egypt-part-3","directory_name":"2008_03_21.Egypt_Part_3","title":"Egypt: Part Three","year":2008,"month":3,"day":21,"date_display":"March 21, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nTemples of Karnak & Hurghada\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Three","link_desc_html":"Egypt: Part Three - Temples of Karnak & Hurghada","position":2008220,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-02-22 18:34:49","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":95},{"id":527,"slug":"egypt-part-2","directory_name":"2008_03_19.Egypt_Part_2","title":"Egypt: Part Two","year":2008,"month":3,"day":19,"date_display":"March 19, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nIslamic Cairo & First Day in Luxor!\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"Egypt: Part Two - Islamic Cairo & First Day in Luxor","position":2008210,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-01-24 15:16:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":121},{"id":526,"slug":"egypt-part-1","directory_name":"2008_03_16.Egypt_Part_1","title":"Egypt: Part One","year":2008,"month":3,"day":16,"date_display":"March 16, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nI had a little more than three weeks off between jobs and got the idea to take a trip some where crazy! Meredith was in the middle of her final semester of graduate school and told me that she wasn't going to be able to leave NYC, but that I shouldn't let that stop me from going somewhere fun. \r\n\r\n

\r\nA couple minutes later, I started rattling off possible travel destinations and it because an instant joke that with each and every place I named, Meredith would yell something like \"NO! Not there!\" Or, \"DEFINITELY NOT THAT ONE. You have to go there with MEEEEEE!\" So I'd name a couple more and each time it would be more of the same: \"ANYWHERE BUT THEEEEEEERE!\" Hahaha.

\r\n\r\nFinally, after exhausting all sorts of tropical paradises (Belize, Fiji) and exotic treks (Eastern Island, Machu Picchu), I blurted out \"EGYPT!\" Meredith, (who'd traveled through North Africa before) smiled and said \"I've already been and you should definitely go.\" Ta-da! Egypt it is!

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"Egypt: Part One - Arrival in Cairo","position":2008200,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-12-30 12:02:53","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":128},{"id":525,"slug":"the-march-roundup-part2","directory_name":"2008_03_00.The_March_Roundup_Part2","title":"The March Roundup: Part Two","year":2008,"month":3,"day":null,"date_display":"March, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are the rest of the pictures I took back in March of 2008 that didn't end up in their very own entry. (See also: The March Roundup: Part One)\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The March Roundup: Part Two","position":2008180,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-12-06 20:28:14","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":61},{"id":524,"slug":"the-march-roundup-part1","directory_name":"2008_03_00.The_March_Roundup_Part1","title":"The March Roundup: Part One","year":2008,"month":3,"day":null,"date_display":"March, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are all the pics I took during the first half of March 2008!\r\n

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"The March Roundup: Part One","position":2008170,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-11-22 18:42:29","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":86},{"id":523,"slug":"johns-karaoke-birthday","directory_name":"2008_02_08.Johns_Karaoke_Birthday","title":"John's Karaoke Birthday","year":2008,"month":2,"day":8,"date_display":"February 08, 2008","intro_html":"

\r\nOn Friday night I went to a Korean restaurant in the East Village for my buddy John's birthday party.\r\n

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\r\nIf you've been reading this site for any length of time, this probably goes without saying, but just in case you're new to this site, any party at Siege and KT's place usually means that the ensuing entry will most definitely not be work safe! Got that?

\r\n\r\nTHIS POST = NSFW!

\r\n\r\nOk, on to the inappropriateness! \r\n

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\r\nHere are all the pictures I took in February 2008 that didn't end up in their own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the pictures I took in the second half of January 2008 that didn't end up in their very own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere they are! All of my pics from the first half of January 2008!\r\n

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","link_copy":"New Year's Eve 2007","link_desc_html":"New Year's Eve 2007","position":2008040,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-10-12 19:54:03","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":23},{"id":514,"slug":"the-december-roundup-part-2","directory_name":"2007_12_00.The_December_Roundup_Part_2","title":"The December Roundup: Part Two","year":2007,"month":12,"day":null,"date_display":"December, 2007","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are all the pics from the second half of December 2007 (almost 2 years from the time I'm writing this! Eeep!) that didn't make it into their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nHere are all the pics from the first half of December 2007 (almost 2 years from the time I'm writing this! Eeep!) that didn't make it into their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nOn Thursday night, we went to the Nerve.com offices (my former place of employment) at 520 Broadway to attend a launch party for the new site that Nerve Media was launching - which turned out to be Babble.com, a parenting site for \"hip\" parents. \r\n

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\r\n\r\nI told them I'd swing by for ONE DRINK because, if I remember correctly, I had \"a bunch of stuff to do.\" One drink turned into two, and then two drinks led to me purchasing a ticket for the PARTY EXPRESS. Because everyone knows that once it hits your lips, it's so good. Not much of a narrative here, but these pics all still make me laugh!

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\r\nHere are all the rest of the random pics I took during November that didn't end up in their own entry! (Back to Part One)\r\n

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\r\nWoot, woot! Here are the first half of all the random pics I took in November 2007. \r\n

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\r\nHere are the rest of the pics I took in October 2007 that didn't end up in their very own entry.\r\n

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\r\nHere are the first half of the photos I took in October that didn't end up in an entry of their very own\r\n

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\r\nI was at the the very first MisShapes back in February of 2004. Three and a half years later I found myself heading over to Don Hill's to attend the last weekly MisShapes party. It was the end of an era that left all of us wondering \"Well, now what are we going to do on Saturday nights?\"\r\n

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\r\nThe last time I saw Doug, he was in town visiting from the Czech Republic and was dating a Czech girl! A little over three years later, and this time he was visiting from Finland with his Finnish girlfriend, Inka! (Happy to report that I'm writing this a year and a half later and they're still together!). \r\n

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

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\r\nAfter all our sightseeing, elephant riding and river tubing in Khao Sok National Park, we were looking forward to taking the relaxation up a notch in Koh Phi Phi with some beach time, diving and night life.\r\n

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\r\nAfter the amazing time we had touring Chieow Laan Lake, we decided to go back into Khao Sok park on our last day and check out some of the other famous attractions!\r\n

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\r\nAfter an incredible couple of days in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, it was ready for us to head to Thailand for another three and a half weeks of vacation!\r\n

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\r\nPart Two is a whopping 118 photos of recapping our last day in Dubai and then our two days out in Abu Dhabi at Faisal's!\r\n

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Leigh turned twenty-three! We had two parties to celebrate!

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Here are the second half of the photos I took back in July of 2007. [Click here to go back to Part One]

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Scott and Erika got married! Here are the pics from the reception. [Back to the Part One: The Wedding Ceremony]

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Way back in 2000, my best friend Scott got married and ended up having two kids with his first wife. A few years into their marriage, they separated, and a few months after their separation, she was killed in a car accident...horrible, horrible stuff). Years later, Scott's son Liam started going to pre-school and Scott ended up hitting it off with, and eventually dating Liam's pre-school teacher; a woman who we all came to call Miss Erika for the next several years (Hahaha). After a few years of dating, Scott proposed to Miss Erika and she and her son Michael (who is a few months older than Liam) moved in with Scott and his two kids, Liam and Abby. Two families coming together Brady Bunch Style!

\r\n\r\n

In late June, Meredith and I headed out to my hometown in New Jersey to celebrate Scott and Erika getting married!

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\r\n\r\nBut, sho'nuff, ten months after our trip to Great Adventure, Matt called us up and told us that the last date on their tour was going to be at the House of Blues in Atlantic City and that we were all invited down to see the show and crash in the huge-ass suite the venue had put him up in! So a bunch of us decided to rent a car head down to AC so we could wish Matt a happy \"end of tour\" (and to give him a ride back to NYC!).

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","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The April Roundup: Part Two","position":2007640,"published":1,"publish_date":"2008-06-29 20:31:19","views":1804,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":64},{"id":87,"slug":"the-april-roundup-part-1","directory_name":"2007_04_00.The_April_Roundup_Part_1","title":"The April Roundup: Part One","year":2007,"month":4,"day":null,"date_display":"April, 2007","intro_html":"Here's the first half of the photos I took back in April 2007! It's the April Roundup Part One!

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","link_copy":"The October Roundup","link_desc_html":"The October Roundup","position":2006380,"published":1,"publish_date":"2008-03-13 17:36:53","views":2970,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":111},{"id":47,"slug":"the-september-roundup","directory_name":"2006_09_00.The_September_Roundup","title":"The September Roundup","year":2006,"month":9,"day":null,"date_display":"September, 2006","intro_html":"Here they are, all the pics I took back in September of 2006!

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\r\n\r\n(Go back to Part One)
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After a marathon IM session back and forth, we decided to go to Grand Cayman for a week! I bought tickets and booked a week at a remote diving resort with a beach!
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\r\n\r\nHere they are: All the pics I took in August that didn't end up in their very own entry!\r\n\r\n

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","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The April Roundup: Part Two","position":2006200,"published":1,"publish_date":"2007-11-12 23:03:35","views":3203,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":52},{"id":15,"slug":"the-april-roundup-part-one","directory_name":"2006_04_00.The_April_Roundup_Part_One","title":"The April Roundup: Part One","year":2006,"month":4,"day":null,"date_display":"April, 2006","intro_html":"I took so many random pics in April that the April Roundup needed to be split into a two-parter! Here we go!\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"The April Roundup: Part One","position":2006190,"published":1,"publish_date":"2007-11-12 23:03:35","views":3532,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":83},{"id":7,"slug":"tara-and-gregs-wedding-in-tx","directory_name":"2006_03_11.Tara_and_Gregs_Wedding_in_TX","title":"Tara and Greg's Wedding in Houston","year":2006,"month":3,"day":11,"date_display":"March 11, 2006","intro_html":"Tara is one of my bestest friends whom I met randomly one awesome night back when she lived in New York. She left NYC and moved back to Texas in September of 2003 and just a few nights after being back home she told me that she'd met a boy named Greg that she really liked a lot! Fast forward three years and Meredith and I got an invitation in the mail to fly out to Texas and attend Greg & Tara's wedding! So we hopped a plane and headed to Texas!
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","link_copy":"Marryoke","link_desc_html":"Marryoke Wedding Spectacular","position":2006160,"published":1,"publish_date":"2007-10-31 09:49:47","views":2777,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":76},{"id":12,"slug":"niki-and-kts-two-birthday-parties","directory_name":"2006_02_04.Niki_and_KTs_Two_Birthday_Parties","title":"Niki and Katie's Two Birthday Parties","year":2006,"month":2,"day":4,"date_display":"February 04, 2006","intro_html":"Saturday night was a birthday party double-whammy! Early on in the evening Niki was having a little birthday get together at our apartment, and then later I headed out to Brooklyn to celebrate Katie's birthday!
","link_copy":"Two Birthday Parties","link_desc_html":"Niki and Katie's Two Birthday Parties","position":2006150,"published":1,"publish_date":"2007-10-31 09:49:47","views":3222,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":28},{"id":11,"slug":"the-february-roundup-part-two","directory_name":"2006_02_00.The_February_Roundup_Part_Two","title":"The February Roundup: Part Two","year":2006,"month":2,"day":null,"date_display":"February, 2006","intro_html":"Here they are! The rest of the photos I took all the way back in February of 2006! I hope they make you laugh!
(Go back to Part One)
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\r\nI'm so not a person who likes to celebrate New Year's Eve. (Hell, I bitched about this holiday so much online that I even ended up getting quoted about it in a newspaper column that ran all over the country!) Rather than run from party to party, this year Niki and I decided to have a small get together at our place!

\r\n\r\nSee Also:
\r\nNew Year's Eve 2004
\r\nNew Year's Eve 2003
\r\nNew Year's Eve 2002
\r\nNew Year's Eve 2001
\r\n

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\r\nI pretty much hate all organized religion and I'm a devout (ha!) atheist, but I there's nothing I love more than cozying up during the winter and celebrating family & friends with food, drink and lotsa presents. December 2005 turned into a holiday celebration of epic proportions! Settle on in for 150+ pictures of Holiday Cheer.

\r\n\r\nSee Also:
\r\n
\r\nChristmas with The Battjers 2003
\r\nChristmas with the Battjers 2002 (includes White Power Santa!)
\r\nA Christmas Story 2001
\r\nAn Indorvillage Xmas
\r\nModem Media Christmas Party 1998
\r\nA Holly Jolly Crackhouse Christmas 1997
\r\n

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\r\n On Saturday night, I met up with Grant and the Fatty and we all headed out to Brooklyn together to attend Frank and Liz Picarazzi's Holiday Party!\r\n\r\n

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\r\nDecember turned out to be all about me getting everyone I know to make the ugliest face possible; so it's only fitting that on December 1st, I sang karaoke and asked people to make ugly faces. \r\n

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\r\n\r\n Here's the December round up: all the pics from December that don't merit their own individual entry. This entry should really just be called \"Ugly Face Month\" because right around this time all of the \"party photo sites\" were becomming popular and it seems like everytime I tried to take a photo of anything, someone would strike a goddamned \"glamour pose.\" So instead, I started telling everyone I took photos of to make their \"ugliest face possible,\" which turned out to be way more funny than making sexy faces. \r\n

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\r\nThanksgiving means it's time to take the train out to New Jersey and spend time with the family.

\r\n\r\nPrevious Thanksgivings:
\r\nThanksgiving 2004
\r\nThanksgiving 2003
\r\nThanksgiving 2002\r\n

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\r\nAmy Albano and I drove up to Vermonth to celebrate Jess D's 31st birthday.

\r\n\r\n( Jess is one of the few people whose full names I can't use on this site because she's the district psycologist a public school system up in Vermont and a whole bunch of grade school kids that have her Googled her and found pics of her partying her tits off and puking from way back in college!)\r\n

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After all the fun Meredith and I had our bowling date, I decided to step my woo-ment up a notch and decided to take Meredith on a roadtrip date! So we rented a car (er, actually - Meredith had to rent the car because I'd let my driver's license expire by accident. Doh!) and decided to check out the Storm King Art Center - a sprawling park filled with MASSIVE sculptures that's about an hour or so north of NYC.

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\r\n Here are all my pics from November of 2005 that didn't make it into their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nIt's Halloween 2005! If you get a kick out of this entry, for shits and giggles you might also want to check out:

\r\n\r\nHalloween 1996 - The Very First Post I ever Made!
\r\nHalloween 1997 - My Senior Year in College
\r\nHalloween 1998 - Modem Media
\r\nHalloween 1999 - Visiting Boston
\r\nHalloween 2001 - Halloween Model Party
\r\nHalloween 2002 - Halloween Model Party Again!
\r\nHalloween 2003 - In Bas Vegas, Essex!
\r\nHalloween 2004 - In San Francisco!
\r\n\r\n

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\r\n After weeks of being cryptic about an upcoming \"surprise guest\" that was going to DJ at Misshapes, Leigh finally came clean and told us to that it was going to be Madonna. We were all like \"Whaaaaat? Like, the real Madonna?\" Yes, Madonna.\r\n

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\r\n Here are some random Saturday night pics from Movida and Misshapes. \r\n

","link_copy":"Random Night at MisShapes","link_desc_html":"Random Night at MisShapes.","position":108,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/10_15_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_10_15_misshapes","include_tags":1,"photo_count":30},{"id":473,"slug":"the-october-roundup","directory_name":"2005_10_00.The_October_Roundup","title":"The October Roundup","year":2005,"month":10,"day":null,"date_display":"October, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n Here are all my pics from October that didn't merit their own entry! \r\n

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\r\nSo after taking almost a year off to travel and goof off in New York, I started a new job at Community Connect (a company that runs a bunch of different niche social networking websites). One of my new job responsibilities was to figure out the company's wireless strategy so on my 11th day of work, they sent me out to San Francisco to attend the CTIA Wireless Conference. \r\n

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\r\n Hey, hey! Here they are: all the pics from the 2nd half of September that were swell but didn't merit their own entire entry!\r\n

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\r\n Here are all my pics from the first half of September 2005! \r\n

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\r\n After arriving back in Tokyo after our Beach Party adventure in Kamakura, we decided to head back to Harajuku Station to see all the kids that hang out on the Bridge of Harajuku on Sundays for \"cosplay\" (costume play). \r\n

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\r\n After a month of teaching English at two camps in South Korea, my friend Mike suggested that we reroute our flights home through Japan for a four-day layover...\r\n

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On with the continuing adventures of me teaching English in Korea for one month... \r\n\r\n

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\r\n This is the story of how I got a call out of the blue and ended up going to South Korea to teach English for a month 26 hours later. \r\n

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\r\n So one afternoon back in the summer of 2004, Grant and I were walking down Ave. C in the Lower East Side and we noticed a new mural that had been spray painted on one of the walls:\r\n

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\r\nOn Monday I got a text-message from Leigh. \"Josh is styling a video for a band and I'm one of the fly video hos. Come!\" I mean, what else can you do, right?\r\n

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\r\n The previous night at Misshapes, a bunch of us decided that we were going to wake up early the next morning and have a Sunday beach day at Rockaway Beach! \r\n

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Hey, hey! Here they are: all the pics from the 2nd half of July that were swell but didn't merit their own entire entry!

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\r\nJuly was an action-packed month! There was so much fun stuff that this month's round up needed to be broken down into two entries! Let's get started with part one!\r\n

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\r\nFor Father's Day weekend I headed out to the Jerz to spend some quality time with the fam. Then, on Sunday evening, my dad and I drove down to the Jersey Shore so that we could get up early the next morning and drive to the Mid-Atlantic Highlands to get a charter and go fishing for the day (which has turning into somewhat of a yearly tradition). \r\n

\r\n\r\n

\r\nSee also:
\r\nFishing With Pappi: Part One (October 5, 2002)
\r\nFishing with Pappi: Part Two (June 6, 2003)
\r\nFishing with Pappi: Part Three (July 19, 2004)
\r\n

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\r\n\r\n Friday was my first morning back in Chiang Mai after returning from a three-day hill tribe trek. I got up early, headed to a travel agency to figure out where to travel to next. I had been considering heading to Cambodia to check out Angkor Watt, but when I learned from the travel agent that it would take me at least three full days of travel to get there from Chiang Mai, I decided to stay in Thailand figuring it would be a better use of my remaining six days!

\r\n\r\n I ended up deciding to head to Koh Chang, a mellow island in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Thailand. After booking my trip, I emailed all the guys that I'd been on the trek with, told them that I was heading to Koh Chang and to hit me up if any of them were heading that way. \r\n

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\r\n\r\n On to day two of our three-day trek to visit different hill tribes in northern Thailand (just south of the border on Myanmar). \r\n

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\r\nAfter a solid night's sleep at the Libra Guest House, I decided to sign up to go on a three day \"guided trek\" up by the border of Myanmar (the country formerly known as Burma) and go through several different \"Hill tribe\" villages. The trip didn't leave until the next day, which left me with a day to do some sightseeing in Chiang Mai. I decided to rent a scooter and... \r\n

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\r\n So I'm writing this on Sunday, February 2nd, 2007 - let's travel back in time and take a look at what was going on 1 year and 9 months ago. Yay, internet time machine! I had just gotten back from a month in Thailand so this round up starts almost halfway through the month. \r\n

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\r\nAfter staying up until sunrise the previous night at the Full Moon Party (aka - The Raver's Revenge), I slept until the early afternoon and then made it my first priority upon waking up to bust out my guide book and figure out where to head next. After some page-flipping, I decided to head to Phi Phi Island.

\r\n\r\nThus far, all the islands I'd been to had been in the Gulf of Thailand and were unaffected by the Tsunami that had a hit a few months prior to my arrival. But Phi Phi Island, located off the south western shores of Thailand is in the open ocean and was the part of Thailand that was most devastated by the tsunami. So I decided to go out there, volunteer to help rebuild housing and throw some money into the suffering, tourist-depandent economy.\r\n

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\r\n\r\n So I decided to go to Thailand for a little over a month. No reason in particular besides I'd heard from a few people that it was gorgeous, that you could spend a lot of time there and not spend too much money and I was looking to do some freelance photography stuff. So I bought a ticket and hopped on a plane. \r\n

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\r\n\r\nMy friend Heidi Gallant heads up a three piece band called Quarterslot and the Good Vibrations. This band is basically about Heidi dressing up in a slutty outfit, and then screaming out a set of bluesy rock songs like she's Robert Plant with great legs (for real).\r\n\r\nYou can usually count on some simulated sex acts, whipped cream and there are homemade brownies (made by Heidi herself!) at every show. So basically, if you ever hear they're going to be playing a show, you should go check it out. Grant and I headed down to the Pussycat Lounge to watch a very special birthday edition of Heidi doing her thang.\r\n\r\n

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Hey, hey! It's the April Round up! This one's sort of a mini-entry because on April 11th I left to spend a little over a month in Thailand. So this entry covers all the random photos up until I left on my trip. \r\n\r\n

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\r\nAfter having had so much fun the previous year (see SXSW 2004 Part One & Part Two) I decided to head out to South by Southwest again. Special thanks to Sarah who was kind enough to let me (and like 5 other people!) crash in her hotel room again!\r\n

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\r\nSaturday night was Jonathan Crowley's birthday party! Jonathan (who you may remember as my partner in crime for the infamous \"Hipster Jenga\" incident of 2004. My version or his version) is Dennis' little brother, and before he quit doing his blog (like 2 years ago), he was pretty much one of my favorite photobloggers. (If you 've never read past gems of his like Operation: Racoon Bye-Bye or The Nugget King! do yourself a favor and take a little detour right now!)

\r\n\r\nOk, so on Saturday night he was celebrating his bday at Ace Bar and I wanted to pop in to say hi (ok, and to play some Buck Hunter) before heading out for the night.\r\n

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Awwww, guess who turned the big two-five? That's right! Baby girl did (er, like 18 months ago). Here's a recap of the party we had the night before her birthday, counting down to the birthday hurrah at midnight.\r\n\r\n

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\r\nHey hey, so guess what? I just realized that this is the last event Meredith wrote up on her website before she stopped doing it! So after this it's all uncharted diary territory! Ooooooh! Ok, on to the entry!

\r\n\r\nFor our buddy's Siege's birthday, his gal Katie planned a White Trash-themed surprise party! Grant and I were given the mission to keep Siege out of the house while the party was set up and guests arrived. \r\n

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\r\n Here they are: all the miscellaneous pictures from the month of March that didn't end up in a larger entry. Ladies and gents, the March Round Up! \r\n

","link_copy":"The March Roundup","link_desc_html":"Whoomp, there it is. The March Roundup.","position":34,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/03_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_03_00_misc","include_tags":1,"photo_count":134},{"id":437,"slug":"accidental-vacation-in-jamaica","directory_name":"2005_02_16.Accidental_Vacation_in_Jamaica","title":"Accidental Vacation in Jamaica","year":2005,"month":2,"day":16,"date_display":"February 16, 2005","intro_html":"$27","link_copy":"Jamaica","link_desc_html":"Accidental Vacation in Jamaica!","position":32,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/02_16_jamaica/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_02_16_jamaica","include_tags":1,"photo_count":152},{"id":436,"slug":"baltic-vacation-part-09-final-leg-of-the-trip","directory_name":"2005_02_11.Baltic_Vacation_Part_09_Final_Leg_of_the_Trip","title":"Baltic Vacation Part Nine: Final Leg of the Trip","year":2005,"month":2,"day":11,"date_display":"February 11, 2005","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Part Nine","link_desc_html":"Baltic Vacation Part Nine: Final Leg of the Trip","position":30,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/02_00_baltic_vacation_part_09/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_02_00_baltic_vacation_part_09","include_tags":0,"photo_count":97},{"id":435,"slug":"baltic-vacation-part-08-exploring-budapest","directory_name":"2005_02_09.Baltic_Vacation_Part_08_Exploring_Budapest","title":"Baltic Vacation Part Eight: Exploring Budapest","year":2005,"month":2,"day":9,"date_display":"February 09, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n

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\r\nAfter staying up all night the previous night at an indoor tropical resort on the outskirts of Berlin, we dropped our rental car off and hopped on a Budapest-bound plane.\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Seven","link_desc_html":"Baltic Vacation Part Seven: On to Budapest","position":26,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/02_00_baltic_vacation_part_07/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_02_00_baltic_vacation_part_07","include_tags":0,"photo_count":69},{"id":433,"slug":"baltic-vacation-part-06-adventure-in-the-tropics","directory_name":"2005_02_06.Baltic_Vacation_Part_06_Adventure_in_the_Tropics","title":"Baltic Vacation Part 06 Adventure in the Tropics","year":2005,"month":2,"day":6,"date_display":"February 06, 2005","intro_html":"$28","link_copy":"Part Six","link_desc_html":"Baltic Vacation Part Six: Adventure in the Tropics","position":24,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/02_00_baltic_vacation_part_06/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_02_00_baltic_vacation_part_06","include_tags":0,"photo_count":100},{"id":432,"slug":"baltic-vacation-part-05-on-to-berlin","directory_name":"2005_02_05.Baltic_Vacation_Part_05_On_to_Berlin","title":"Baltic Vacation Part Five: On to Berlin","year":2005,"month":2,"day":5,"date_display":"February 05, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\nDespite how late we'd stayed up the previous night, we managed to get out of bed before noon on Saturday so we'd at least have some time to enjoy our last day in Tallinn before flying to Berlin later that afternoon. \r\n

","link_copy":"Part Five","link_desc_html":"Baltic Vacation Part Five: On to Berlin","position":22,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/02_00_baltic_vacation_part_05/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_02_00_baltic_vacation_part_05","include_tags":0,"photo_count":64},{"id":431,"slug":"baltic-vacation-part-04-back-in-estonia","directory_name":"2005_02_02.Baltic_Vacation_Part_04_Back_in_Estonia","title":"Baltic Vacation Part Four: Back in Estonia","year":2005,"month":2,"day":2,"date_display":"February 02, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n So after a (relatively) shenanigan-free reunion in Helsinki, Grant, Jake and myself took the ferry over to Estonia. We arrived a little after 7pm and... \r\n

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\r\nAfter four days in traveling alone in Tallinn, Estonia, it was finally time for me to meet to head across the water and meet up with Grant and Jake. \r\n

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\r\n The February Round up's a little thin because I spent two weeks of it traveling through Eastern Europe with Grant and Jake and one week of it in Jamaica with Meredith. Here's the rest of the pics from the month. \r\n

","link_copy":"The February Roundup","link_desc_html":"The February Roundup","position":31,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/02_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":29},{"id":428,"slug":"baltic-vacation-part-02-traveling-solo-in-estonia","directory_name":"2005_01_29.Baltic_Vacation_Part_02_Traveling_Solo_in_Estonia","title":"Baltic Vacation Part Two: Traveling Solo in Estonia","year":2005,"month":1,"day":29,"date_display":"January 29, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\nGrant and Jake had left a few days before me to go on an all-expenses-paid tour of Finland and Lapland (courtesy of Finlandia Vodka). After they were done, the plan was for us to all meet up and head out on a ten day trip through several countries. I found a cheap flight into Tallinn, Estonia. So my plan was to fly into Tallinn, hang out there on my own for two days - take the quick ferry over to Helsinki, Finland to meet up with Grant and Jake (and crash at the ridiculous hotel that Finlandia was picking up the tab for).

\r\n\r\nAfter a wild time in Helsinki, the three of us would then head back to Tallinn, then to Berlin where our plan was to meet up with a total internet stranger that I met because he reads this site who offered us free places to stay in Berlin and Budapest, Hungary. Got all that? Ok, here we go, let's get it on!\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"Baltic Vacation Part Two: Traveling Solo in Estonia","position":14,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/02_00_baltic_vacation_part_02/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_02_00_baltic_vacation_part_02","include_tags":1,"photo_count":63},{"id":427,"slug":"baltic-vacation-part-01-grant-and-jake-in-finland","directory_name":"2005_01_26.Baltic_Vacation_Part_01_Grant_and_Jake_in_Finland","title":"Baltic Vacation Part One: Grant & Jake in Finland and Lapland. ","year":2005,"month":1,"day":26,"date_display":"January 26, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\nHey everyone! Guest-writer Grant Stoddard here! So Jake and I scored an all-expenses-paid trip to Finland. Here's a look at our seven crazy-ass days before meeting up with Brian in Helsinki!\r\n

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"Baltic Vacation Part One: Grant & Jake in Finland and Lapland. ","position":12,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/02_00_baltic_vacation_part_01/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_02_00_baltic_vacation_part_01_comment","include_tags":1,"photo_count":136},{"id":426,"slug":"visiting-dave-upstate-and-snowstorm-misshapes","directory_name":"2005_01_22.Visiting_Dave_Upstate_and_Snowstorm_MisShapes","title":"Visiting Dave Upstate and Snowstorm MisShapes","year":2005,"month":1,"day":22,"date_display":"January 22, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n Somehow I got the dates on a set of my pics mixed up which resulted in me excluding my visit to David's from the January Roundups! So I've decided it's easier to just include them here. Forgive the anachronism!\r\n

","link_copy":"Visiting David Upstate","link_desc_html":"Visiting David Upstate and Snowstorm Misshapes.","position":10,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/01_22_sarahs_dave_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_01_22_sarahs_dave_misshapes","include_tags":1,"photo_count":31},{"id":425,"slug":"fiasco-show-and-matt-lessers-birthday","directory_name":"2005_01_21.Fiasco_Show_and_Matt_Lessers_Birthday","title":"The 2nd Fiasco Show and Matt Lesser's Birthday","year":2005,"month":1,"day":21,"date_display":"January 21, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n On Friday night we all headed over to Rothko to see Fiasco's second show. (The turn out was pretty decent considering that it was the coldest day of the year so far. Ugh). Afterwards, we headed out to Galapogos to wish karaoke king, Matt Lesser (aka Sid of Sid and Buddy) a very happy birthday.\r\n

","link_copy":"The 2nd Fiasco Show and Matt Lesser's Birthday","link_desc_html":"The 2nd Fiasco Show and Matt Lesser's Birthday.","position":8,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/01_21_2nd_fiasco_show_matts_bday/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_01_21_2nd_fiasco_show_comment","include_tags":1,"photo_count":48},{"id":424,"slug":"first-misshapes-of-2005","directory_name":"2005_01_08.First_MisShapes_of_2005","title":"First MisShapes of 2005","year":2005,"month":1,"day":8,"date_display":"January 08, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n There's not going to be much of a narrative on this one. Had a nice mellow Saturday and then a whole bunch of us headed over to Josh's apartment to have some food, watch a movie and get our warm-up drink on to prepare for the first Misshapes of the year.\r\n

\r\n","link_copy":"First MisShapes of 2005","link_desc_html":"First MisShapes of 2005.","position":6,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/01_08_first_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_01_08_first_misshapes_comment","include_tags":1,"photo_count":67},{"id":423,"slug":"the-january-roundup-part-2","directory_name":"2005_01_00.The_January_Roundup_Part_2","title":"The January Roundup: Part Two","year":2005,"month":1,"day":null,"date_display":"January, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n<--- Back to Part Onel\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The January Roundup: Part Two","position":4,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/01_00_misc_part_two/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_01_00_misc_part_two_comment","include_tags":1,"photo_count":100},{"id":422,"slug":"the-january-roundup-part-1","directory_name":"2005_01_00.The_January_Roundup_Part_1","title":"The January Roundup: Part One","year":2005,"month":1,"day":null,"date_display":"January, 2005","intro_html":"

\r\nHere they are - all the pics from January that didn't merit their own entry but still deserve a lil' loving.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"The January Roundup: Part One","position":2,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:40:17","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2005/01_00_misc_part_one/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_01_00_misc_part_one_comment","include_tags":1,"photo_count":81}]},{"year":2004,"entry_count":95,"photo_count":4779,"entries":[{"id":417,"slug":"new-years-eve-2004","directory_name":"2004_12_31.New_Years_Eve_2004","title":"New Years Eve 2004","year":2004,"month":12,"day":31,"date_display":"December 31, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n Yeah, so this site is a year behind. I'm writing this on December 30, 2005. It's been a crazy year and captioning these photos from last New Year's Eve is getting me excited for tomorrow night. Well anyway, here's what happened last year!\r\n

","link_copy":"New Years Eve 2004","link_desc_html":"New Years Eve 2004.","position":2004922,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/12_31_new_years_eve/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_12_31_new_years_eve_comment","include_tags":1,"photo_count":81},{"id":416,"slug":"holiday-reindeer-at-the-bronx-zoo","directory_name":"2004_12_30.Holiday_Reindeer_at_the_Bronx_Zoo","title":"Holiday Reindeer at the Bronx Zoo","year":2004,"month":12,"day":30,"date_display":"December 30, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nMeredith's friend Tristan was in town visiting from Boston. We decided to hop the 6 train uptown (waaaay uptown) to check out the Holiday Reindeer at the Bronx Zoo!\r\n

","link_copy":"Holiday Reindeer","link_desc_html":"Holiday Reindeer at the Bronx Zoo.","position":2004920,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/12_30_bronx_reindeer/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_12_30_bronx_reindeer_comment","include_tags":1,"photo_count":21},{"id":415,"slug":"christmas-with-the-battjers","directory_name":"2004_12_23.Christmas_with_The_Battjers","title":"Christmas with The Battjers","year":2004,"month":12,"day":23,"date_display":"December 23, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nMeredith (a Jew!) came out to New Jersey to experience Christmas with my family (minus my little brother who was in Ohio with his girlfriend's family. Traitor).

\r\n\r\nSee Also:
\r\nChristmas with The Battjers 2003
\r\nChristmas with the Battjers 2002 (includes White Power Santa!)
\r\nA Christmas Story 2001
\r\n

","link_copy":"Christmas with the Battjers","link_desc_html":"Christmas with the Battjers, 2004 Edition. ","position":2004918,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/12_23_xmas_with_the_fam/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_12_23_xmas_with_the_fam_comment","include_tags":1,"photo_count":91},{"id":414,"slug":"fiascos-first-show-at-the-delancey","directory_name":"2004_12_17.Fiascos_First_Show_at_The_Delancey","title":"Fiasco's First Show at The Delancey","year":2004,"month":12,"day":17,"date_display":"December 17, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nSo as some of you may remember, back in October of 2004 I traveled from San Francisco to NYC to see FiASCO's first show (the super-band made up of Grant Stoddard, Dave Fateman (who you all probably better know as \"The Fatty\"), Amanda Berkowitz and Frank Picarazzi) but the venue got shut down less than 24 hours before the show and they didn't end up playing. Fast forward six weeks and I'm back living in NYC and was therefore on hand to witness FiASCO's legendary first performance.

\r\n\r\nYou can listen to a few of Fiasco's songs on their MySpace profile (make sure to add them as your friend). If you like what you hear, come to their next show: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10pm at Rare in NYC (416 West 14 Street (between 9th Ave & Washington Street).\r\n

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\r\n\r\n After the getting back on the Sunday the 12th from my roadtrip to LA, I spent most of Monday morning packing. Later Monday night, Alysha proposed a Goodbye San Francisco Bowling Party for my second to last night in town.\r\n\r\n

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\r\n\r\nWith only five days remaining in San Francisco before my big move back to NYC, Michael, Mike and I decided to cut out of work on Friday and take a road trip down to LA to visit some friends. Roadtrip, woooo! \r\n

","link_copy":"Road Trip to Los Angeles","link_desc_html":"Rental Car Road Trip to Los Angeles","position":2004912,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/12_10_trip_to_LA/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2005_12_10_trip_to_LA_comment","include_tags":0,"photo_count":75},{"id":411,"slug":"heeb-magazine-crew-in-san-francisco","directory_name":"2004_12_08.Heeb_Magazine_Crew_in_San_Francisco","title":"Heeb Magazine Crew Visits San Francisco","year":2004,"month":12,"day":8,"date_display":"December 08, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n With only a week left in SF before I'd be moving back to NYC, I got an email from my good buddy Adam Baruchowitz (one of the guys involved with started HEEB Magazine: The New Jew Review) that he'd be heading out to SF on business and wanted to know if I'd still be out there to show him a good time. \"I'm here to show you as much of a good time as I've been able to find out here in California,\" I promised him.\r\n

","link_copy":"Heeb Magazine Crew Visits","link_desc_html":"Heeb Magazine Crew Visits San Francisco.","position":2004910,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/12_08_heeb_crew/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":0,"photo_count":35},{"id":410,"slug":"alyshas-30th-birthday-in-tahoe","directory_name":"2004_12_03.Alyshas_30th_Birthday_in_Tahoe","title":"Alyshas 30th Birthday in Tahoe","year":2004,"month":12,"day":3,"date_display":"December 03, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\nMy good friend Alysha Naples hit the big three-oh. We threw down big. \r\n

","link_copy":"Alysha's 30th Birthday ","link_desc_html":"Alysha's 30th Birthday and Snowboarding in Tahoe.","position":2004908,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/12_03_alyshas_30th_tahoe/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":0,"photo_count":50},{"id":409,"slug":"the-december-roundup-part-2-home-sweet-home","directory_name":"2004_12_00.The_December_Roundup_Part_2_Home_Sweet_Home","title":"The December Roundup Part Two: Home Sweet Home","year":2004,"month":12,"day":null,"date_display":"December, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n Here are the rest of the pics from (my totally busy and overwhelming) December. (Click here for Part One)\r\n

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\r\n\r\nI ended up being away from San Francisco for almost the entire 2nd half of November (first for a business trip to Vegas with Philip, then to NYC for some meetings, Bev's Wedding and Thanksgiving with the Fam). On my first day back at work with Philip, he sat me down and broke the news that (much to my relief) he didn't think the job that I'd moved out to SF to take was going to work out. I'd only been out in San Francisco a little over three months, and despite meeting a few great people (Mike and Mike and Mary!) I never really seemed to be able to make the adjustment to West Coast living. So on December 1st, I started making plans to MOVE THE FUCK BACK TO NEW YORK CITY! Wooooo! The second thing I did was...\r\n

","link_copy":"Leaving San Francisco","link_desc_html":"The December Roundup Part One: Leaving San Francisco","position":2004904,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/12_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":0,"photo_count":63},{"id":407,"slug":"thanksgiving","directory_name":"2004_11_25.Thanksgiving","title":"Thanksgiving","year":2004,"month":11,"day":25,"date_display":"November 25, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n\r\nFor Thanksgiving I headed out to New Jersey to my parents house with two very special guests in tow...

\r\n\r\nSee Also:
\r\nThanksgiving 2002
\r\nThanksgiving 2003\r\n

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\r\nHere's the second half of my multi-day visit to NYC. (Back to Part One)\r\n\r\n

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\r\n After years of dating, Matt Schneider finally had the good sense to pop the question to the lovely Beverly Chase (I mean, how many times in your life are you gonna get the chance to marry the \"Class Wit\" of Roxbury High School's Class of '95? It's about time he wised up!).\r\n

","link_copy":"Bev and Matt Get Married","link_desc_html":"Bev and Matt Get Married","position":2004898,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/11_20_bevs_wedding/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":0,"photo_count":50},{"id":404,"slug":"back-in-nyc-again-part-1","directory_name":"2004_11_18.Back_in_NYC_Again_Part_1","title":"Back in NYC Again: Part One","year":2004,"month":11,"day":18,"date_display":"November 18, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\nAfter Vegas with Philip, I hopped a plane and headed east to NYC for a couple of business meetings, my friend Bev's wedding and for Thanksgiving with the family. Since the SF-based November roundup kind of sucked, consider this an addendum.\r\n\r\n

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\r\n\r\nMid-November, Philip and I headed out from San Francisco to Las Vegas to talk about AdBrite at some advertising conference there

\r\n\r\n(See also: Business in Vegas - June 15, 2003)\r\n

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\r\n\r\n Here they are - all the pics from (my very sad) November that didn't merrit their own entry but still deserve a lil' loving.\r\n

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\r\nAs my brother Brett was unemployed in Washington DC, sitting listless and bored and waiting to hear back about various job opportunities (he's since taken a job as a consultant for Accenture), I decided to fly his Playstation-addicted, destitue ass out to SF for a little bro-down.\r\n\r\n

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\r\n\r\nTowards the end of October, I flew from San Francisco to NYC to visit everyone, but more importantly, witness Grant, Fatty, Frank and Amanda's new band, Fiasco, play their very first show on Saturday night (too bad that Rothko, the venue they were supposed to play the gig at got shut down due to fire-code violations the night before the show! Doh!)\r\n\r\n

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\r\n\r\n Emily C. was out in the Bay Area during the week for work and decided to stay the weekend so that we could hang out! Yay!\r\n

","link_copy":"Emily Visits","link_desc_html":"Emily Visits Me in San Francisco!","position":2004870,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/10_15_emily_visits/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":40},{"id":398,"slug":"leigh-visits-san-francisco","directory_name":"2004_10_07.Leigh_Visits_San_Francisco","title":"Leigh Visits San Francisco","year":2004,"month":10,"day":7,"date_display":"October 07, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nIn the beginning of October, Little Miss Leigh Lezark (know to me as the Tinny, but known to many of you as THE TASTEMAKER. Hahaha) got on a plane and flew her tiny self out to visit little old me in San Francisco. \r\n

","link_copy":"Leigh Visits","link_desc_html":"Leigh Visits Me in San Francisco!","position":2004860,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/10_07_leigh_visits/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_10_07_leigh_visits","include_tags":1,"photo_count":94},{"id":397,"slug":"the-october-roundup","directory_name":"2004_10_00.The_October_Roundup","title":"The October Roundup","year":2004,"month":10,"day":null,"date_display":"October, 2004","intro_html":"

Hey, hey! So we're on to my second month living out in San Francisco. Most of my month was spent working or entertaining people from out of town. Leigh, Emily and my little brother all took separate trips out to visit in October (and those visits all get their own entry!). Plus, I spent three days visiting NYC...but here are all the other random pics from the month that don't merit their own entry.

","link_copy":"The October Roundup","link_desc_html":"I made friends! The October Roundup ","position":2004850,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/10_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":41},{"id":396,"slug":"meredith-visits-san-francisco","directory_name":"2004_09_25.Meredith_Visits_San_Francisco","title":"Meredith Visits San Francisco","year":2004,"month":9,"day":25,"date_display":"September 25, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nSo like I mentioned earlier, I moved out to San Francisco knowing only 2 people in the entire Bay Area - and between being busy with my new job and San Francisco nightlife sort of sucking a cock in general (literally, ha!), I was having trouble meeting kids my own age. (New City + Weird New Job + No Friends = Depression!) St. Meredith decided to fly west and help me try to have fun in my new town.\r\n

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\r\n\r\n It's now June of 2005 and I'm finally getting around to posting pics from my short-lived stay out in San Francisco. (I took a job with a start-up that didn't work out and ended up moving back to NYC a mere four months later!). Keep in mind, when I first got out there, I hardly knew anyone and (besides Meredith's visit, which is a separate entry) didn't do all that much. \r\n

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\r\n\r\n Well, here it is. After five weeks of frantically preparing to move out to San Francisco (not to mention having the craziest going away party), the big day had finally arrived - my last day in NYC before moving.\r\n

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\r\nOk, so here's the deal - back in June of 2004 I got offered a job out in San Francisco to work for a start up that a buddy of mine founded. I was getting a little tired of New York (no, seriously) and the job sounded really interesting. So I decided to take the plunge and give the job and San Francisco a shot. Figuring I could be out there for a few years, I decided a \"Goodbye NYC\" party was in order.

\r\n\r\nAfter I packed up all my shit and actually moved to SF, it turned out that the both San Francisco and the job weren't really a great fit and I ended up moving back to NYC in late December (I only lasted about 100 days in SF!) But regardless, thanks to everyone who turned up and stayed out super late on a Wednesday night. You all made this party one of the most memorable nights I've had. I did my best to try to reconstruct a semi-cogent narrative of the night below. (Enjoy all 243 pictures of it).\r\n

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\r\n\r\n Not much of a narrative here - my good friend Doug (who had been living in Prague for a few years) moved back to the States and was down visiting NYC from Boston. We rallied at my house and then headed out to Misshapes for a night of acting stupid.\r\n

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\r\n\r\n My friends Frank Picarazzi & Liz Reisch were on a Caribbean cruise and stopped off on the island of St. Thomas to quickly get hitched! When they got back into town, Frank's super-Italian mom (who'd been planning his wedding for years) freaked out and insisted that she be allowed to put together a \"small party\" to celebrate the union. Well, this small party pretty much turned into a full-scale Italian style wedding reception. Hahaha. A few weeks after they returned from their trip, we all headed up to Connecticut to celebrate Mr. and Mrs. Picarazzi! Woooo!\r\n

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\r\n On Friday night I met up with Meredith and Leigh and we headed into Brooklyn to see Karen and Sarah DJ a party at Red & Black.\r\n\r\n

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Another year, already? Fuck me, I'm getting old. (Actually, eight months have already passed since I took these pics and now I'm staring down the barrel of 29, whaaaa?). Here's pics from my birthday.\r\n\r\n

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\r\n\r\nOn Friday night, my brand new friend Amy called me up and invited me to go to her friend Meredith's birthday party. I was like \"Uh, but I don't know your friend whose birthday it is?\" Amy was like, \"That doesn't matter, I'm inviting you because we're getting a private KARAOKE ROOM.\" I was sold. So, um, here's me singing karaoke with a buncha people I don't really know.\r\n\r\n

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\r\n\r\n On Wednesday morning I managed to convince Meredith (not that it took all that much convincing, mind you) to play hooky from work and head to Jone's Beach with me.\r\n

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\r\n Here's part two of the August Roundup.\r\n

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\r\n August was a busy, busy month. I was running around like a nut packing up my stuff and trying to have fun \"saying goodbye to NYC\" as I prepared to move out San Francisco - a move that actually only ended up being for three and a half months. Here's the first half of the August roundup. \r\n

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\r\n It's the Fatty's birthday! A bunch of us headed over to the birthday boy's apartment to wish him well!\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Fatty's Birthday and Drunk Guy Jenga","link_desc_html":"Fatty's Birthday and Drunk Guy Jenga","position":2004710,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_31_fattys_bday_drunk_jenga/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_31_fattys_bday_drunk_jenga","include_tags":1,"photo_count":43},{"id":382,"slug":"leighs-birthday-parties","directory_name":"2004_07_24.Leighs_Birthday_Parties","title":"Leigh's Birthday Parties","year":2004,"month":7,"day":24,"date_display":"July 24, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nLook whose little birthday it is! That's right, Little Miss Leigh Lezark decided to go ahead an be born (age not disclosed) and so we all went to Misshapes to give her a super celebration! Don't expect much of a narrative, but do expect lots of pictures of people sticking their tongues out, licking each other, grabbing each other and stuff like that. (Special thanks to Grant for giving me all of the photos he took from this night as well!)\r\n

\r\n","link_copy":"Leigh's Birthday Parties","link_desc_html":"Leigh's Birthday Parties","position":2004700,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_24_leigh_bday_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_24_leighs_bday","include_tags":1,"photo_count":80},{"id":381,"slug":"fishing-with-pappi-part-3","directory_name":"2004_07_19.Fishing_with_Pappi_Part_3","title":"Fishing with Pappi: Part Three","year":2004,"month":7,"day":19,"date_display":"July 19, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nBeing no-good bums with nothing else to do, Grant and I decided to meet up with my dad and then head down to my parent's beach house for a little fishing.

\r\n\r\nSee also:
\r\nFishing With Pappi: Part One (October 5, 2002)
\r\nFishing with Pappi: Part Two (June 6, 2003)
\r\n

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\r\nMid-July, we all headed out to Coney Island for the Siren Festival and then came back to town for a night out.\r\n

","link_copy":"Siren Festival at Coney Island and MisShapes ","link_desc_html":"Siren Festival at Coney Island and MisShapes ","position":2004680,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_17_coney_island_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_17_coney_island_misshapes","include_tags":1,"photo_count":46},{"id":379,"slug":"random-thursday-karaoke-delancey","directory_name":"2004_07_15.Random_Thursday_Karaoke_Delancey","title":"Random Thursday Night of Karaoke at The Delancey","year":2004,"month":7,"day":15,"date_display":"July 15, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nNot too much of a narrative here, just a random Thursday night out on the town.\r\n

","link_copy":"Random Thursday Night","link_desc_html":"Random Thursday Night of karaoke and stuff. ","position":2004670,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_15_delancey_karaoke/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_15_delancey_karaoke","include_tags":1,"photo_count":28},{"id":378,"slug":"kelly-gets-married","directory_name":"2004_07_09.Kelly_Gets_Married","title":"Kelly Gets Married","year":2004,"month":7,"day":9,"date_display":"July 09, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nI met Kelly when I was 14 years old at a summer camp for fuckups that was called (I kid you not) SUPERCamp (the very same camp where I met superfriend David Forman). Anyway, Kelly and I have stayed in touch over the years and fourteen years after the summer we met, I was invited to attend her wedding in Connecticut.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Gets Married","link_desc_html":"Kelly Gets Married!","position":2004660,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_09_kelly_huff_wedding/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_09_kelly_huff_wedding","include_tags":1,"photo_count":24},{"id":377,"slug":"frank-picarazzis-bachelor-party","directory_name":"2004_07_08.Frank_Picarazzis_Bachelor_Party","title":"Frank Picarazzi's Bachelor Party","year":2004,"month":7,"day":8,"date_display":"July 08, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nWith our good friend Frank Picarazzi soon to be married to the lovely and wonderful Liz Reisch, a bachelor party was in order. Seth \"Limo Rental\" Miller stepped up to the planning plate and headed down from Boston to direct the festivities.\r\n

","link_copy":"Bachelor Party","link_desc_html":"Frank Picarazzi's Bachelor Party ","position":2004650,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_08_franks_the_bachelor/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_08_franks_the_bachelor","include_tags":1,"photo_count":61},{"id":376,"slug":"a-diamond-dave-4th-of-july","directory_name":"2004_07_04.A_Diamond_Dave_4th_of_July","title":"A Diamond Dave 4th of July","year":2004,"month":7,"day":4,"date_display":"July 04, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nInstead of going out to Brooklyn like last year, this year we stayed in Manhattan and went to Sarah's for a Fourth of July rooftop BBQ.\r\n

\r\n","link_copy":"Fourth of July","link_desc_html":"A Diamond Dave Fourth of July!","position":2004640,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_04_fourth_of_july/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_04_fourth_of_july","include_tags":1,"photo_count":26},{"id":375,"slug":"cousin-chris-gets-married","directory_name":"2004_07_03.Cousin_Chris_Gets_Married","title":"Chris and Jen Get Married","year":2004,"month":7,"day":3,"date_display":"July 03, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nMy cousin Chris Battjer got married! I headed out to north Jersey to meet up with my fam before heading down to south Jersey for the wedding.\r\n

","link_copy":"Chris and Jen Get Married","link_desc_html":"Chris and Jen Get Married","position":2004630,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_03_chris_wedding/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_03_chris_wedding","include_tags":1,"photo_count":56},{"id":374,"slug":"the-july-roundup-part-2","directory_name":"2004_07_00.The_July_Roundup_Part_2","title":"The July Roundup: Part Two","year":2004,"month":7,"day":null,"date_display":"July, 2004","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The July Roundup: Part Two","position":2004620,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_00_misc_part2/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_00_misc_part2","include_tags":1,"photo_count":63},{"id":373,"slug":"the-july-roundup-part-1","directory_name":"2004_07_00.The_July_Roundup_Part_1","title":"The July Roundup: Part One","year":2004,"month":7,"day":null,"date_display":"July, 2004","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"The July Round Up: Part One","position":2004610,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/07_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_07_00_misc","include_tags":1,"photo_count":74},{"id":372,"slug":"gay-pride-at-fort-tilden","directory_name":"2004_06_27.Gay_Pride_at_Fort_Tilden","title":"Gay Pride at Fort Tilden","year":2004,"month":6,"day":27,"date_display":"June 27, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nAfter a crazy-ass night celebrating Karen's birthday at MisShapes, on Sunday a bunch of us got up bright and early, rented a van and decided to have a beach day at Ft. Tilden in Brooklyn.\r\n

","link_copy":"Ft. Tilden Pride","link_desc_html":"It's ok to be gay. We've got Ft. Tilden Pride! ","position":2004600,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_27_ft_tilden_pride/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_06_27_ft_tilden_pride","include_tags":1,"photo_count":32},{"id":371,"slug":"brunch-and-karens-23rd-birthday-party-at-misshapes","directory_name":"2004_06_26.Brunch_and_Karens_23rd_Birthday_Party_at_MisShapes","title":"Brunch and Karens 23rd Birthday Party at MisShapes","year":2004,"month":6,"day":26,"date_display":"June 26, 2004","intro_html":"

Uh, not much of an intro to write here. On Saturday I had brunch and then later on, went over to MisShapes to celebrate Karen's 23rd birthday!\r\n\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Karen's 23rd Birthday Party","link_desc_html":"Brunch and Karen's 23rd Birthday Party at MisShapes.","position":2004590,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_26_misshapes_brunch/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_06_24_karens_birthday","include_tags":1,"photo_count":38},{"id":370,"slug":"sarahs-prom-part-with-the-killers","directory_name":"2004_06_24.Sarahs_Prom_Part_with_The_Killers","title":"Sarah's Prom Party with The Killers","year":2004,"month":6,"day":24,"date_display":"June 24, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nMay certainly is prom season! After her ridiculous birthday party at my house, Sarah asked me if Spin Magazine could maybe throw an \"Ultragrrrl\" party there and have a band play. I was like \"Uhhhh, fuck yeah!\" But then as the scope of the party's plan grew, it became clear that maybe my apartment wasn't exactly the most choice venue. A few secretive weeks later, Sarah finally announced she too would be having a prom-themed party. Except that The Killers would be taking a night off from their European tour and flying in just to play at it (WTF?).\r\n\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Sarah's Prom Party with The Killers","link_desc_html":"Sarah's Prom Party with The Killers","position":2004580,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_24_killers_prom/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_06_24_killers_prom","include_tags":1,"photo_count":34},{"id":369,"slug":"job-interview-in-san-francisco","directory_name":"2004_06_22.Job_Interview_in_San_Francisco","title":"Job Interview in San Francisco","year":2004,"month":6,"day":22,"date_display":"June 22, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nAfter a few month of friendly chatting, my buddy Philip raised some money to grow his online advertising marketplace and I was asked to fly out to San Francisco to interview for the job. \r\n

","link_copy":"San Francisco","link_desc_html":"Job interview out in San Francisco","position":2004570,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_22_san_fran_interview/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_06_22_san_fran_interview","include_tags":1,"photo_count":17},{"id":368,"slug":"the-misshapes-prom-party","directory_name":"2004_06_13.The_MisShapes_Prom_Party","title":"The MisShapes Prom Party","year":2004,"month":6,"day":13,"date_display":"June 13, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\nIn the middle of June the MisShapes kids decided to throw a prom-themed party. We all put on gay little outfits and headed on over. Woo!

\r\n\r\nSee Also:
\r\nProm in Brooklyn (September 14, 2002)
\r\nThe Indoorvillage Prom (June 24, 2001)
\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"MisShapes Prom","link_desc_html":"The MisShapes Prom Party.","position":2004560,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_13_misshapes_prom/index.html","comment_thread_key":"06_13_misshapes_prom","include_tags":1,"photo_count":57},{"id":367,"slug":"emilys-25th-birthday-at-great-adventure","directory_name":"2004_06_09.Emilys_25th_Birthday_at_Great_Adventure","title":"Emily's 25th Birthday at Great Adventure","year":2004,"month":6,"day":9,"date_display":"June 09, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nEmily and I grew up in New Jersey together. So in order to celebrate her 25th birthday (25??? Holy cuh-rap!) Em, Ben and I decided to take the day off and head down to Six Flag's Great Adventure!\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Great Adventure","link_desc_html":"Emily's 25th Birthday at Great Adventure","position":2004550,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_09_MLE_great_adventure/index.html","comment_thread_key":"06_09_MLE_great_adventure","include_tags":1,"photo_count":42},{"id":366,"slug":"misshapes","directory_name":"2004_06_05.MisShapes","title":"Another night at MisShapes","year":2004,"month":6,"day":5,"date_display":"June 05, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nThere is absolutely no narrative here whatsoever. Just some pictures of some people I know (and a few of a guy I don't, who just happens to be wearing women's panties).\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"MisShapes","link_desc_html":"Another Night at MisShapes","position":2004540,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_05_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"06_05_misshapes","include_tags":1,"photo_count":30},{"id":365,"slug":"vice-magazine-after-hours","directory_name":"2004_06_02.Vice_Magazine_After_Hours","title":"Vice Magazine After Hours Party","year":2004,"month":6,"day":2,"date_display":"June 02, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nVice Magazine threw a party at the newly opened Delancey - I had planned on stopping by earlier on in the night, but a few people texted me and told me it was way too overcrowded and to not even bother. But around 1am later on in the night, Sarah called me and told me that they had just asked her to DJ until 4am and gave her a few extra bottles of booze and mixers and to swing by.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Vice Magazine After Hours Party","link_desc_html":"Vice Magazine After Hours Party","position":2004530,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_02_late_night_vice_party/index.html","comment_thread_key":"06_02_late_night_vice_party","include_tags":1,"photo_count":13},{"id":364,"slug":"the-june-roundup","directory_name":"2004_06_00.The_June_Roundup","title":"The June Roundup","year":2004,"month":6,"day":null,"date_display":"June, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n Ah, summer time in New York City. Here's 98 photos from the lovely month of June that didn't make it into larger entries.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"The June Roundup","link_desc_html":"Tell your Grandma, The June Roundup is here.","position":2004520,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/06_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_06_00","include_tags":1,"photo_count":90},{"id":363,"slug":"sarahs-memorial-day-bbq","directory_name":"2004_05_31.Sarahs_Memorial_Day_BBQ","title":"Sarah's Memorial Day BBQ","year":2004,"month":5,"day":31,"date_display":"May 31, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\n On Memorial Day, Sarah and her roomies had planned on having a barbeque on their apartment building's rooftop - but then Monday came around and the weather was terrible so Sarah and co. scaled the party down and moved it inside.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Sarah's Memorial Day BBQ","link_desc_html":"Sarah's Memorial Day BBQ","position":2004510,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_31_sarah_bbq/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_31_sarah_bbq","include_tags":1,"photo_count":25},{"id":362,"slug":"trash-at-don-hills","directory_name":"2004_05_30.Trash_at_Don_Hills","title":"Trash at Don Hill's","year":2004,"month":5,"day":30,"date_display":"May 30, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nOn Sunday night Vin and I went over to Don Hill's to see Sarah spin at Trash - and also to see our friend Joanna and her friends strip.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Trash at Don Hill's","link_desc_html":"Music! Strippers! Puke! It's Trash at Don Hill's.","position":2004500,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_30_trash_don_hills/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_30_trash_don_hills","include_tags":1,"photo_count":23},{"id":361,"slug":"bbq-and-misshapes","directory_name":"2004_05_29.BBQ_and_MisShapes","title":"BBQ and MisShapes","year":2004,"month":5,"day":29,"date_display":"May 29, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nOk, there's not even a narrative to this entry. Normally I would've just included this day in the May Roundup, but there were just too many pictures I liked so I decided to give it its very own entry.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"BBQ and MisShapes","link_desc_html":"Back Porch BBQ and MisShapes.","position":2004490,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_29_bbq_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_29_bbq_misshapes","include_tags":1,"photo_count":29},{"id":360,"slug":"fireworks-go-up-show-at-luna-lounge","directory_name":"2004_05_28.Fireworks_Go_Up_Show_at_Luna_Lounge","title":"Fireworks Go Up Show at Luna Lounge","year":2004,"month":5,"day":28,"date_display":"May 28, 2004","intro_html":"

Here's another little mini-entry. On Thursday night a bunch of us went to Luna Lounge to see Grant and Fatty play in the (the now defunct) Fireworks Go Up!\r\n\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"Fireworks Go Up!","link_desc_html":"Fireworks Go Up! play at Luna Lounge.","position":2004480,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_29_fwgu_show/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_29_fwgu_show","include_tags":1,"photo_count":14},{"id":359,"slug":"jamie-kirkpatricks-bachelor-party","directory_name":"2004_05_20.Jamie_Kirkpatricks_Bachelor_Party","title":"Jamie Kirkpatrick's Bachelor Party","year":2004,"month":5,"day":20,"date_display":"May 20, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nOh man, prepare yourself for some of the best karaoke photos to ever appear on this site. So here's the deal, Jamie Kirkpatrick's best friend Brian was in charge of planning Jamie's bachelor party.

\r\n\r\nBrian and a few other of Jamie's friends picked Jamie up in a stretch limo, blindfolded him and drove around Manhattan for 35 minutes to give Jamie the impression that he was being taken to some strip club way out in Queens. They drove in circles while the driver said stuff like \"Hey, should I take the 59th Street bridge?\" to throw Jamie off.

\r\n\r\nAfter they were certain that Jamie had been fooled into thinking he was outside of some strip club in Queens, they pulled up to Remote Lounge... \r\n

","link_copy":"Jamie Kirkpatrick's Bachelor Party","link_desc_html":"The Utter Insanity of Jamie Kirkpatrick's Bachelor Party.","position":2004470,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_20_jamies_bachelor_party/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_20_jamies_bachelor_party","include_tags":1,"photo_count":73},{"id":358,"slug":"a-lazy-sunday-in-the-park","directory_name":"2004_05_16.A_Lazy_Sunday_in_the_Park","title":"A Lazy Sunday in the Park","year":2004,"month":5,"day":16,"date_display":"May 16, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n Just some Sunday. We started off in Prospect Park in Brooklyn...\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"A Lazy Sunday in the Park","link_desc_html":"Kicking Back with A Lazy Sunday in the Park","position":2004460,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_16_day_in_the_park/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_16_day_in_the_park","include_tags":1,"photo_count":19},{"id":357,"slug":"poughkeepsie-sex-city","directory_name":"2004_05_15.Poughkeepsie_Sex_City","title":"Poughkeepsie Sex City","year":2004,"month":5,"day":15,"date_display":"May 15, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nIn May, Grant was hired by Nerve to write a piece tentively titled \"Poughkeepsie Sex City.\" If it worked out, there would be potential for a column where each month Grant would travel to a city that one wouldn't typically think of as \"sexy\" and try to see if he could manage to dig up where all the naughty stuff happens in each town. Siege was brought on as the photographer, and I just wanted to tag along because, hey, free trip to Poughkeepsie!\r\n

\r\n","link_copy":"Poughkeepsie Sex City","link_desc_html":"Roadtrip to Poughkeepsie Sex City","position":2004450,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_15_poughkeepsie/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_15_poughkeepsie","include_tags":1,"photo_count":24},{"id":355,"slug":"misshapes-photo-shoot","directory_name":"2004_05_08.MisShapes_Photo_Shoot","title":"MisShapes Photo Shoot","year":2004,"month":5,"day":8,"date_display":"May 08, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nIn the beginning of May, Nerve hired me to write a piece called \"Sex\r\n Advice from DJs.\" I was told I'd be interviewing Leigh and\r\n Geordan from Misshapes and then I'd have to come up with two\r\n other DJs willing to answer my questions and have their photos\r\n taken (I ended up interviewing Sarah and\r\n my friend Matty). After completing the interviews, I brought\r\n my fancy cam to Misshapes to take pics of Leigh and Geordan.
\r\n
\r\n You can read the final article here. Enjoy.\r\n \r\n

","link_copy":"MisShapes Photo Shoot","link_desc_html":"The MisShapes Photo Shoot for Nerve.","position":2004430,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_08_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_08_misshapes","include_tags":1,"photo_count":27},{"id":354,"slug":"the-ss-farley","directory_name":"2004_05_07.The_SS_Farley","title":"The SS Farley Sails Tonight","year":2004,"month":5,"day":7,"date_display":"May 07, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nOn Friday afternoon my best friend Scott (who lives in the town I grew up in) called and asked if I wanted to head out to the Jerz for a visit. \"Why, what's going on?\" I asked. \"Oh, nothing.\" Scott replied. \"That is if you call taking Timmy's boat and sailing across Lake Hopatcong to go drinking at the Tidal Wave nothing!\" Quickly understanding the potential for comedy, I called Grant and Fatty and we headed for the Holland Tunnel.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"The SS Farley Sails Tonight","link_desc_html":"Land Ho, Matey! The SS Farley Sails Tonight.","position":2004420,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_07_ss_farley/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_07_ss_farley'","include_tags":1,"photo_count":18},{"id":353,"slug":"the-may-roundup-part-2","directory_name":"2004_05_00.The_May_Roundup_Part_2","title":"The May Roundup Part Two","year":2004,"month":5,"day":null,"date_display":"May, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n Ok, on with the second half of the round up. Click here for Part One.\r\n\r\n

","link_copy":"The May Roundup Part Two","link_desc_html":"Yet Another Bad Creation: The May Roundup Part Two!","position":2004410,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_00_misc_part2/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_00_misc_part2","include_tags":1,"photo_count":66},{"id":352,"slug":"the-may-roundup-part-1","directory_name":"2004_05_00.The_May_Roundup_Part_1","title":"The May Roundup: Part One","year":2004,"month":5,"day":null,"date_display":"May, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nMay was so eventful that this monstrosity of a round up had to be split up into two parts. Enjoy.\r\n

","link_copy":"The May Roundup: Part One","link_desc_html":"Color me Badd, it's The May Roundup: Part One! ","position":2004400,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/05_00_misc_part1/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_05_00_misc_part1","include_tags":1,"photo_count":69},{"id":351,"slug":"vins-28th-birthday","directory_name":"2004_04_24.Vins_28th_Birthday","title":"Vin's 28th Birthday","year":2004,"month":4,"day":24,"date_display":"April 24, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nYay, it's Vinay's 28th birthday! Here's the day I spent with my bestest buddy!\r\n

","link_copy":"Vin's 28th Birthday","link_desc_html":"Cream yer shorts! It's Vin's 28th Birthday! ","position":2004390,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/04_24_vins_bday/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_04_24_vins_bday","include_tags":1,"photo_count":38},{"id":350,"slug":"morrissey-release-party-and-carlos-ds-birthday","directory_name":"2004_04_21.Morrissey_Release_Party_and_Carlos_Ds_Birthday","title":"Morrissey Release Party and a Crashed Interpol Birthday Party","year":2004,"month":4,"day":21,"date_display":"April 21, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nA random night of partyhopping. Pianos, C-Tav, the Hole and then right back to Pianos.\r\n\r\n

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\r\nOk, here's another action packed random day that I couldn't manage to fit into The April roundup.\r\n

","link_copy":"Tax Day and Movie Party Karaoke","link_desc_html":"Tax Day and Movie Party Karaoke","position":2004370,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/04_15_tax_day_karaoke/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_04_15_tax_day_karaoke","include_tags":1,"photo_count":27},{"id":348,"slug":"thai-food-aventure-and-misshapes","directory_name":"2004_04_10.Thai_Food_Aventure_and_MisShapes","title":"Thai Food Aventure and MisShapes","year":2004,"month":4,"day":10,"date_display":"April 10, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nAhhh, good old Saturdays! This entry's not anything over the top, but there wasn't any room for it in this month's whopping April Roundup - so, here goes!\r\n

","link_copy":"Thai Food Aventure and MisShapes","link_desc_html":"Thai Food Aventure and MisShapes","position":2004360,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/04_10_thai_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_04_10_thai_misshapes","include_tags":1,"photo_count":30},{"id":347,"slug":"bling-bling-bat-mitzvah-and-misshapes","directory_name":"2004_04_03.Bling_Bling_Bat_Mitzvah_and_MisShapes","title":"Bling Bling Bat Mitzvah and MisShapes","year":2004,"month":4,"day":3,"date_display":"April 03, 2004","intro_html":"$29","link_copy":"Bat Mitzvah and Misshapes","link_desc_html":"Bling-bling Bat Mitzvah and Misshapes booty shaking! ","position":2004350,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/04_03_bat_mitzvah_misshapes/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_04_03_bat_mitzvah_misshapes","include_tags":1,"photo_count":37},{"id":346,"slug":"the-april-roundup","directory_name":"2004_04_00.The_April_Roundup","title":"The April Roundup","year":2004,"month":4,"day":null,"date_display":"April, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nHoly fuck, at a whopping 120 photos, this is by far the beefiest monthly roundup entry yet. (96 photos. If I was able to manage a minute per caption - which I don't - this entry would have still taken an hour and a half to write. Next time you're thinking about leaving a crybaby comment about how I should update more, think about that!) Usually I split entries this big into two parts. But fuck it, I'm lazy and now everyone has broadband! Enjoy!\r\n

","link_copy":"The April Roundup","link_desc_html":"A super-sized monster! It's The April Roundup! ","position":2004340,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/04_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_04_00_misc","include_tags":1,"photo_count":96},{"id":345,"slug":"stellastarr-at-irving-plaza","directory_name":"2004_03_31.Stellastarr_at_Irving_Plaza","title":"Stellastarr* at Irving Plaza","year":2004,"month":3,"day":31,"date_display":"March 31, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nFirst off, I'm writing this on November 11 from San Francisco. I've been crazy busy with my new job and haven't had the time to even think about this website for weeks. Looking back at these photos almost seems like someone else's life - but I guess photo albums always sort of make you feel that way.

\r\n\r\nAnyway, enough of that. Let's get into to the past-present tense. Ready then? Here we go. So on Wednesday night I went to Irving Plaza to see Mandy's band play with Ambulance LTD.\r\n

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\r\n...I hopped a cab alone and headed a few blocks outside of town to check out the Vice Magazine after party. I didn't have a pass to this party either, but I ran into Suroosh (one of the guys who started Vice) at the door and he sort of remembered me and motioned for the bouncer guy to let me in.\r\n

","link_copy":"SXSW Part Two","link_desc_html":"SXSW Part Two: More bands and visiting Tara in Houston! ","position":2004320,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/03_18_SXSW_part2/index.html","comment_thread_key":"03_18_SXSW_part2","include_tags":1,"photo_count":66},{"id":418,"slug":"sxsw-part-1-bands-in-austin","directory_name":"2004_03_18.SXSW_Part_1_Bands_in_Austin","title":"SXSW Part One: Bands in Austin","year":2004,"month":3,"day":18,"date_display":"March 18, 2004","intro_html":"$2a","link_copy":"SXSW Part One","link_desc_html":"SXSW Part One: Seeing bands in Austin. ","position":2004310,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/03_18_SXSW_part1/index.html","comment_thread_key":"03_18_sxsw_part_one","include_tags":1,"photo_count":63},{"id":344,"slug":"seths-surprise-party-part-2-karaoke-and-afterhours","directory_name":"2004_03_13.Seths_Surprise_Party_Part_2_Karaoke_and_Afterhours","title":"Seth's Surprise Party Part Two Karaoke and Afterhours","year":2004,"month":3,"day":13,"date_display":"March 13, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n<---- Back to Part One\r\n

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\r\nLiz, Fatty and I got an email from Seth's girlfriend Erinne, inviting us up to Boston for a surprise birthday party she was organizing for him. We decided to take a Friday off, go up to Vermont and do a little skiing, and then head down into Boston for Seth's party on Saturday night. Here we go.\r\n

","link_copy":"Skiing in VT and Seth's Surprise Party","link_desc_html":"New England Roadtrip Part One: Skiing in VT and Seth's Surprise Party","position":2004290,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/03_11_vermont_boston_surprise_1/index.html","comment_thread_key":"03_11_vermont_boston_surprise","include_tags":1,"photo_count":53},{"id":342,"slug":"fatty-quits-and-two-karaoke-nights","directory_name":"2004_03_01.Fatty_Quits_and_Two_Karaoke_Nights","title":"Fatty Quits and Two Karaoke Nights","year":2004,"month":3,"day":1,"date_display":"March 01, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nAfter almost six months of having to listen to Grant and I talk about the awesomeness of not having real day jobs, Fatty decided he'd had enough of his job and quit (Homeboy had been commuting from Manhattan up to Stamford, CT for five years!). We met up on Fatty's first Monday as a free man to goof off and celebrate. \r\n

","link_copy":"Fatty Quits and Two Karaoke Nights","link_desc_html":"Fatty Quits and Two Karaoke Nights","position":2004280,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/03_01_fatty_quits_two_karaoke_nights/index.html","comment_thread_key":"03_01_fatty_quits_2_karaoke_nights","include_tags":1,"photo_count":66},{"id":341,"slug":"the-march-roundup","directory_name":"2004_03_00.The_March_Roundup","title":"The March Roundup","year":2004,"month":3,"day":null,"date_display":"March, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nHere they are: all the photos from March that don't get their own entry but still deserve a lil' loving.\r\n

","link_copy":"The March Roundup","link_desc_html":"Buckle up, it's The March Roundup! ","position":2004270,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/03_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":"03_00_2004_misc","include_tags":1,"photo_count":66},{"id":340,"slug":"moving-day-and-sieges-birthday","directory_name":"2004_02_28.Moving_Day_and_Sieges_Birthday","title":"Moving Day and Siege's Birthday","year":2004,"month":2,"day":28,"date_display":"February 28, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nOn Saturday morning, a whole bunch of us headed out to Park Slope Brooklyn to help Frank and Liz move out of their separate apartments and into a new apartment together. Let the taming of Francesco Picarazzi begin!\r\n

","link_copy":"Moving Day and Siege's Bday","link_desc_html":"Adventures in Brooklyn: Moving Day and Siege's Bday!","position":2004260,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/02_28_moving_day_siege_bday/index.html","comment_thread_key":"02_28_moving_day_siege_bday","include_tags":1,"photo_count":28},{"id":339,"slug":"welcome-back-grant-party","directory_name":"2004_02_26.Welcome_Back_Grant_Party","title":"Welcome Back Grant Party","year":2004,"month":2,"day":26,"date_display":"February 26, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nIf you're like me, you've gone through the last few months of entries and thought to yourself, \"These entries are sort of funny...but I dunno, they just seem to be missing something.\" Well, my astute friend - that certain something you've been missing has bee....GRANT STODDARD! If you remember correctly, Grant left NYC back towards the end of September to first go to LA to work on a TV pilot, and then spent the next several months living on a ranch in upstate CA working on a book.\r\n

\r\n\r\n

\r\nOn Thursday night a bunch of us gathered at Remote Lounge to welcome back the one, the only, Grant Stoddard!\r\n

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\r\nOn Monday night we headed first over to Pianos to celebrate the release of Em & Lo's newest book, Nerve's Guide to Sex Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen $\"\"$ .\r\n

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\r\n<---Back to Part One\r\n

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\r\nYo, straight up, Sarah Lewitinn is one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world. So when the venue she'd been planning on having her birthday party at fell through, I was only too honored to offer forth my apartment for the festivities. What follows is a two-part recap of what was, hands down, the most fun I've ever had a party in NYC (and it wasn't even really my party so yes, I'm totally allowed to say that).\r\n

","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"Sarah's Insanely Fun Birthday Bash: Part One! ","position":2004220,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/02_07_sarahs_bday_part1/index.html","comment_thread_key":"02_07_sarahs_bday","include_tags":1,"photo_count":64},{"id":335,"slug":"stellastarr-and-w-hotel-party","directory_name":"2004_02_03.Stellastarr_and_W_Hotel_Party","title":"Stellastarr and W Hotel Party","year":2004,"month":2,"day":3,"date_display":"February 03, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nApparently, I had an action packed February 3rd!\r\n

","link_copy":"Stellastarr and W Hotel Party","link_desc_html":"Karaoke with Stellastarr and W Hotel Party! ","position":2004210,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/02_03_stellastar_W_hotel/index.html","comment_thread_key":"02_03_stellastarr_w_hotel","include_tags":1,"photo_count":21},{"id":334,"slug":"the-february-roundup","directory_name":"2004_02_00.The_February_Roundup","title":"The February Roundup","year":2004,"month":2,"day":null,"date_display":"February, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nHere they are: All the photos from February that don't merit their own entry but still deserve a lil' loving.\r\n

","link_copy":"The February Roundup","link_desc_html":"Holy Cramoly, it's The February Roundup!","position":2004200,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/02_00_misc/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_02_00_misc","include_tags":1,"photo_count":72},{"id":333,"slug":"aruba-vacation-part-6-last-night-in-town","directory_name":"2004_01_30.Aruba_Vacation_Part_6_Last_Night_in_Town","title":"Aruba Vacation Part 6: Last Night in Town","year":2004,"month":1,"day":30,"date_display":"January 30, 2004","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Last Night in Town","link_desc_html":"Aruba Vacation Part 6: Last Night in Town","position":2004190,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/01_22_aruba_vacation/part_6/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_aruba_part_6","include_tags":0,"photo_count":29},{"id":332,"slug":"aruba-vacation-part-5-scootering","directory_name":"2004_01_30.Aruba_Vacation_Part_5_Scootering","title":"Aruba Vacation Part 5: Scootering","year":2004,"month":1,"day":30,"date_display":"January 30, 2004","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Scootering","link_desc_html":"Aruba Vacation Part 5: Scootering","position":2004180,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/01_22_aruba_vacation/part_5/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_aruba_part_5","include_tags":0,"photo_count":55},{"id":331,"slug":"aruba-vacation-part-4-bbqing-big-shirleying","directory_name":"2004_01_29.Aruba_Vacation_Part_4_BBQing_Big_Shirleying","title":"Aruba Vacation Part 4: BBQing, Big Shirleying","year":2004,"month":1,"day":29,"date_display":"January 29, 2004","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"BBQing, Big Shirleying","link_desc_html":"Aruba Vacation Part 4: BBQing, Big Shirleying","position":2004170,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/01_22_aruba_vacation/part_4/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_aruba_part_4","include_tags":0,"photo_count":18},{"id":329,"slug":"aruba-vacation-part-3-beach-sitting-bird-catching","directory_name":"2004_01_26.Aruba_Vacation_Part_3_Beach_Sitting_Bird_Catching","title":"Aruba Vacation Part 3: Beach Sitting, Bird Catching","year":2004,"month":1,"day":26,"date_display":"January 26, 2004","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Beach Sitting, Bird Catching","link_desc_html":"Aruba Vacation Part 3: Beach Sitting, Bird Catching ","position":2004160,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/01_22_aruba_vacation/part_3/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_aruba_part_3","include_tags":0,"photo_count":53},{"id":330,"slug":"aruba-vacation-part-2-car-sleeping-drunk-driving","directory_name":"2004_01_23.Aruba_Vacation_Part_2_Car_Sleeping_Drunk_Driving","title":"Aruba Vacation Part 2: Car Sleeping Drunk Driving","year":2004,"month":1,"day":23,"date_display":"January 23, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\n...the next morning.\r\n

","link_copy":"Car Sleeping, Drunk Driving","link_desc_html":"Aruba Vacation Part 2: Car Sleeping, Drunk Driving","position":2004150,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/01_22_aruba_vacation/part_2/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_aruba_part_2","include_tags":0,"photo_count":59},{"id":327,"slug":"aruba-vacation-part-1-leaving-nyc-and-first-night-in-aruba","directory_name":"2004_01_22.Aruba_Vacation_Part_1_Leaving_NYC_and_First_Night_In_Aruba","title":"Aruba Vacation Part 1: Leaving NYC and First Night In Aruba","year":2004,"month":1,"day":22,"date_display":"January 22, 2004","intro_html":"Back in December, I was down in South Jersey with my family visiting my Uncle Bruce for the holidays. After dinner, Bruce turned to me and said \"Hey, you're not working right now are you?\" Me, \"Nope, I'm still looking for an interesting job. Why, you know of something?\" Bruce: \"Nope, but I just realized that I have to go on a business trip and I'm not going to be able to make it to Aruba to use my timeshare there and it's too late to cancel. Do you want a free week at a nice resort in Aruba?\" Me: \"Ummm, yeah.\" Bruce: \"Cool, if you can find cheap tickets on short notice, it's all yours.\" And that's how Scott and I ended up taking a low-budge trip Aruba during the last ten days of January!

\r\n\r\n\r\nOur tale begins late Wednesday night (technically early Thursday morning). Scott had a friend drive him in from NJ to my place in Manhattan, and he got to my place a little after midnight.

\r\n","link_copy":"Leaving NYC and our Crazy First Night in Town","link_desc_html":"Aruba Part 1: Leaving NYC and our Crazy First Night in Town","position":2004140,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:39:52","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2004/01_22_aruba_vacation/part_1/index.html","comment_thread_key":"2004_aruba_part_1","include_tags":1,"photo_count":45},{"id":326,"slug":"a-random-night-at-lit","directory_name":"2004_01_21.A_Random_Night_at_Lit","title":"A Random Night at Lit","year":2004,"month":1,"day":21,"date_display":"January 21, 2004","intro_html":"

\r\nA random Wednesday night at Lit somehow turned into a veritable photo orgy for two.\r\n

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\r\nPhotos of the Bowery apartment I share with my wonderful roommate Victoria!\r\n

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\r\nIt's November 26, 2011 and while going back and adding tags to some entries from 2003 and 2004, I discovered a few \"unpublished\" entries in the system. Not too much of a narrative, but fun to discover pics from when Scott came into town to stay with me at the Chinatown loft. We met up with Emily, went to Michael T's birthday party at Bar 13, and then went to sing Sid & Buddy Karaoke at the short-lived place on Kenmare!\r\n

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\r\nHere they are: All the pics from the random days of January that don't merit their own entry but still deserve a lil' love.\r\n

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\r\nEff New Year's Eve! I hate it. My least favorite holiday. For some reason this night always makes me antsy. I can never stay in one place.\r\n

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\r\nAfter an epic night of karaoke, Tuesday morning I woke up, ran a few errands around the city and then hopped a Jersey-bound train at Penn Station to head home and hang with the fam for the holidays.\r\n

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\r\nThe day after I got back from my trip to California, I met up with the gang and headed to Nolita Tavern for Sid & Buddy's Karaoke Christmas party. I wanted to get one last fix in before heading home to NJ the next morning to spend the holidays with the fam.\r\n

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\r\nNot working sure leaves you with a lot of free time...Facing the beginning of winter in New York, I bought a cheap Jet Blue ticket and headed out to California to visit Ross, Jordana, Grant and a slew of others and three-legged trip to Los Angeles, San Francisco and finally, North Fork, California (to visit Ross & Jord's family ranch where Grant moved for a few months to work on his book).\r\n\r\n

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\r\nFor Thanksgiving I headed out to my parent's house in NJ.\r\n

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\r\nTuesday night I headed up the street a few blocks to the Bowery Poetry Club to catch a special performance my favorite sex advice columnists (and very dear friends) Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey (aka - Em & Lo).\r\n

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\r\nWell, not exactly back to back, but \"Twice in a couple of Days Karaoke Just didn't have the same ring to it - anyway, here's some pics from the good old days back when Sid & Buddy karaoke used to rule the world two nights a week at Nolita Tavern. (You know I've been doing this site too long when these photos seem tame compared to other infamous Sid & Buddy nights).\r\n

","link_copy":"Sid & Buddy Karaoke","link_desc_html":"Two Nights of Sid & Buddy Karaoke!","position":2003948,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2003/11_19_two_karaoke_nights/index.html","comment_thread_key":"11_19_two_karaoke_nights","include_tags":1,"photo_count":43},{"id":298,"slug":"grants-surprise-party","directory_name":"2003_11_07.Grants_Surprise_Party","title":"Grant's Surprise Party","year":2003,"month":11,"day":7,"date_display":"November 07, 2003","intro_html":"

\r\n\r\nAfter last year's failed attempt to actually surprise Grant with his surprise party, we decided we'd try one more time.\r\n\r\n

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\r\nOk, here it is, the big anticlimatic finale of our twelve-day European Vaction. Seriously, these pics are pretty much for posterity's sake, if you're looking for a climax, go to the previous entry of our night out in Essex.\r\n

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\r\nHere they are! All the pics from November that didn't make it into their own entry!\r\n

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\r\nAfter finishing dinner (and gargling for 20 minutes trying to hide our curry stink breath) we drove to center of Essex nightlife, which is made up of a couple of bars and clubs located in a giant mall in Basildon. A place which Grant's lil' sister so brilliantly nicknamed Bas Vegas.\r\n

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\r\nHalloween in Essex! Hoo-ah! Our plan for the day was for Grant to show us around where he grew up, get some fish and chips and then try to find some inexpensive \"shiny shoes.\" (Later that evening, we planned to head over to nearby Baseldon's big mall, meet up with Charlene and the girls and check out the nightclubs there. And according to Grant, we wouldn't be let in unless we had button-down shirts and shiny dress shoes). See? Essex really is the UK equivilent of New Jersey!\r\n\r\n

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\r\nThursday morning we work up early, packed up all of bags, and walked outside into winds of near-hurricane proportions. We had heard that Crete could get windy in the late fall, but this was beyond anything we'd imagined. We packed up the car and headed to the airport wondering if we'd be able to even take off (you hoser, eh?). Sorry, that one was for all the Canadian readers out there.\r\n

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\r\nWe parked our bikes and took a few pictures up on the mountain top near the entrance to the caves. We were pretty excited, all we knew about the place was that it was formerly used for cult worship during the Neolithic, Minoan and Archaic periods. Maybe we'd get to see a torture chamber (or at least a human sacrifice altar!!) just yet!\r\n

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\r\nAfter our entire day of relaxing on Tuesday, we woke up on Wednesday with a hunkering for some action. So we packed our bags, piled into the car and headed over to the SCOOTER RENTAL PLACE! Wooooo!\r\n

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\r\n So the early Tuesday morning Grant and I woke up (well, it was more like 10am, but after not getting to bed until 7am the previous night, 10am sure felt early), hopped in the car and drove into Rethymnon to go back to the Buddha Cafe and see if Tymber would be there.\r\n

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\r\nAfter finishing up dinner (around 1:30am) we walked around town looking for a bar or club that was going on. The first place we popped into, Buddha Cafe, wasn't really all that jumping, but we decided to head in and have a drink and see if it picked up.\r\n

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\r\nMeals are so long and drawn out in southern Europe that after you get the check you only have a few minutes before you start thinking about where you will be eating your next meal. Not that we were complaining. After days of nothing but Greek food (lamb, fish, etc) we decided that we were in the mood for some serious steak action for dinner and raced back to the apartment to freshen up before heading into town.\r\n

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\r\nAfter a few days of scootering, beach exploring, leering at Cretan girls' ridiculous bums and being accosted by hookers posing as go-go dancers, we thought that it was high time that we injected some culture into the proceedings. Greece, after all is the birthplace of important stuff that we take for granted like democracy, the Olympics (special and regular) yogurt and of course, anal. Are you familiar with the Labyrinth (and we're not talking about the seminal Bowie cinematic classic) and the Minotaur of ancient Greek mythology? Well it turns out that where that shit went down thousands of years ago was just an hour away from our condo. We decided to get up bright and early and chizzeck it out.\r\n

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\r\nAgain, while it didn't look too far on the map, the drive from Agia Galini to Matala turned out to take much longer than we'd imagined.\r\n

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\r\nSunday morning we got up early and decided to hop in the car and drive down to the south side of the island to check out two beaches: Aglia Galini (pronounced Ah-yah Guh-LEEny) and Matala.

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\r\nAfter we got back to the resort, we realized that we'd left the keys to our condo locked in our rental car which was parked back at the scooter rental place. Fatty and Grant elected to stay at the resort and relax while Chris and I headed off our scooters to retrieve the keys

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\r\nSaturday morning we woke up after very little sleep and decided, based on the amazing weather, that we were going to rent four scooters and do some island exploring.\r\n

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\r\nAfter bidding farewell to the Ross Ogre, we claimed our bags and headed over to the rental agencies to see about getting a car for the week. By the time we took care of bidness and headed outside to locate our car it was 7:15am. \r\n

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\r\nWhen we'd gotten back to Charlene's the previous night, she made a big pot of tea. I didn't realize how much caffeine English tea has in it and I ended up not being able to get to sleep until like 6am.

\r\n\r\n

\r\nOn Thurday morning, the plan was to get up and head into London to do some sightseeing with Grant's family (who were coming into town from nearby Essex) and to get our plane tickets to Crete, which we'd had delivered to their house.

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\r\nSo after the crazy-ass first leg of our trip, we all finally managed to get some decent sleep in actual beds at Charlene's place\r\n

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\r\nLittle did we know that...we'd be seating right in the midst of a group of about 35 English high school seniors returning to London after their week-long class trip to Iceland. They spent the entire flight laughing, yelling, screaming, talking, jumping and switching seats (making sure to use the backs of our seats to help pull them up out of their own seats everytime they did so). In other words, we didn't sleep a fucking wink. \r\n

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\r\nWe grabbed the car and in a few short minutes we were headed southwest towards Grindavik (just south of where we'd landed):

\r\n\r\n $\"map$
\r\nto check out Blaa Lonio (The Blue Lagoon), which according to their website is \" a natural geothermal spa surrounded by a lava field and black sandy beaches.\"\r\n

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\r\nWe landed in Keflavik at 5:35am local time (1:35am NYC time). After getting through customs, we figured we'd have about nine hours to explore Iceland. The plan was to rent a car, drive into Reykjavik (which as far as we could tell was only about 80km from the airport) and then play it by ear from there. Time Elapsed With No Sleep:15h 5m\r\n

","link_copy":"Reykjavik, Iceland. ","link_desc_html":"European Vacation Part 2: Reykjavik, Iceland. . ","position":2003800,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/10_21_1_EV_reykjavik/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":34},{"id":276,"slug":"ev-part-01-leaving-nyc","directory_name":"2003_10_20.EV_Part_01_Leaving_NYC","title":"European Vacation Part 1: Leaving NYC","year":2003,"month":10,"day":20,"date_display":"October 20, 2003","intro_html":"

\r\nAfter weeks of planning, vacation had finally arrived. The first leg of our trip was an exercise in sleep deprivation - The plan was to leave JFK in NYC on a 8:45pm flight that would arrive in Keflavik, Iceland at 6:20am (1:20am NYC time). We'd have just about 10 hours to explore Iceland before having to catch a 4:10pm (11:10am NYC time) flight to Heathrow in London where we'd be picked up by our friend Charlene and head out for a night of partying in London.

\r\n\r\n

\r\nGrant wasn't able to come along for the first leg as originally planned because he was in LA and the filming of the pilot for his TV show was running a few days late (Seriously ladies, his own TV show. Fuck him now before he's famous, kay?). Grant was bummed about missing Iceland, but would be meeting up with us in London Wednesday morning. Ok, got all that? Ready? Here we go:\r\n

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\r\nHere's my last day of errand running and goofing off before leaving NYC for a twelve day trip to Iceland, England and Crete!\r\n

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\r\nYou'll notice that the month of October was pretty quiet. Grant had left for LA and Tara had moved back to Texas. I spent most of the month staying home and trying to save some money for the upcoming European Super Vacation that we were leaving for on the 21st. So here's a smattering of pics from when I actually left my house in October. Enjoy!\r\n

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\r\nSo Grant and Tara, my two best friends in New York City, both ened up leaving town within a few days of each other. Grant headed out to LA to film a pilot for a TV show, and Tara decided to move back to her hometown of Houston, TX *sniffle*. Before she left, we decided to send her off in style with a Happy Birthday / Goodbye Party! Wheee!\r\n

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\r\nOh man, this was a dooooooooozy of a Saturday...\r\n

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\r\nOh man, I don't even know what to write as an intro to this entry - It was just a regular old Saturday night and a whole bunch of us decided that later on we'd head over to Nolita Tavern for a little Sid & Buddy Karaoke action. Well, the planents must've aligned in some bizarre way because every single person we'd invited showed up...and then some.\r\n

","link_copy":"Karaoke Blowout","link_desc_html":"A Super-sized Karaoke Blowout! ","position":2003740,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/09_21_karaoke_blowout/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":47},{"id":270,"slug":"day-off-upstate","directory_name":"2003_09_12.Day_Off_Upstate","title":"Day Off Upstate","year":2003,"month":9,"day":12,"date_display":"September 12, 2003","intro_html":"

\r\nWith Emily C. having recently moved into town from Boston, and the weather still holding out - Grant and I decided to play hookey from work on a Friday, hop in Nina's car and drive upstate looking for something fun to do.\r\n

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\r\nBlessed with the beautiful weather of a late Indian Summer, we managed to make two September trips to the lovely (and top secret) Fort Tilden beach in Brooklyn.\r\n

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\r\nAfter our busy Friday, we needed a full day of maxin' an' relaxin' on Saturday - so Grant, Tara and myself grabbed a Frisbee and a few towels for napping on and headed up to the Sheep's Meadow in Central Park to enjoy the lovely, late-summer Saturday sunshine.\r\n

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\r\n\r\nJust a bunch of pictures from an action-packed Friday. Woo!\r\n\r\n

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\r\nOur friend Seth (yep, the one of \"Boys Weekend Parts One and Two\" notoriety) was in town from Boston (where his fancy-ass runs a big ol' software company). To celebrate, we put the word out the wire for a night of karaoke mayhem at Fez. Despite a torrential downpour, the gang all showed...and things got a little out of hand.\r\n

","link_copy":"Karaoke with Seth","link_desc_html":"It's Karaoke with Seth (f. special guest star, Seth) ","position":2003690,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/09_02_karaoke_with_seth/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":23},{"id":265,"slug":"bizarro-me","directory_name":"2003_09_00.Bizarro_Me","title":"Bizarro Me","year":2003,"month":9,"day":null,"date_display":"September, 2003","intro_html":"

\r\nThey say everyone's got a doppelganger - apparently, I've got several. Check em out.\r\n

","link_copy":"Bizarro Me","link_desc_html":"Seriously unsettling, check out Bizarro Me!","position":2003680,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2003/09_00_bizzarro_me/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":8},{"id":500,"slug":"the-september-roundup-part-2","directory_name":"2003_09_00.The_September_Roundup_Part_2","title":"The September Roundup Part Two","year":2003,"month":9,"day":null,"date_display":"September, 2003","intro_html":"

\r\nHere's the rest of the pictures from the September Roundup (or click here to go to Part One)\r\n

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\r\nThe Roundup is something I do each month where I post all the pictures from stuff that doesn't merrit their own entry but still deserves a little rememberence. In September, I took so many pictures of random stuff that the Roundup Entry actually needed to be split into two parts! Holy cuh-rap! Ready? Here we go...\r\n

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Way back in November of 2001, Grant and I were male strippers for a party group called Cake (for an article he was writing). Through that, we became friends with Emily and Melinda, the co-founders of Cake, and have since been graciously put on the list for some of their out of hand parties. It seemed like the perfect event to bring our new acquaintances, the French girls, to.

\r\n\r\n

See also:
\r\nCake Party Strippers (November 7, 2001)
\r\nCake Party Part One (March 28, 2002)
\r\nCake Party Part Two (May 17, 2002)
\r\nCake Party Part Three (August 27, 2002)
\r\n

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\r\nSaturday night Vin and I headed out to Brooklyn to stop by two different BBQ parties that were going on. The plan was to visit some friends, drink some beers and get our free-food BBQ groove on. \r\n

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So I'm sitting in the office working on Thursday, getting through the day pretty well considering how late I'd been out the night before, when suddenly, around 4:15pm, all the power goes out in our office.

\r\n\r\n

A minute or so later, my friend Colin, whose office is three blocks north of ours on Broadway calls me on my cell. He asks \"Hey, is your power out there?\" \"Yep,\" I reply. He gets all funny and goes, \"Yeah, well the power's out up here too.\" I'm like, \"Well, that makes sense. You're only up the street three blocks. We're probably on the same power grid.\" Colin pauses dramatically and says, \"Nope. I'm actually in a meeting up in Time Square. There's no power up here either.\"

\r\n\r\n

That's when I realized that this was more than just an ordinary power outage.

","link_copy":"NYC Power Blackout of 2003","link_desc_html":"The NYC Power Blackout of 2003","position":2003650,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/08_14_blackout_03/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":24},{"id":261,"slug":"using-pick-up-lines-at-the-ford-modeling-party","directory_name":"2003_08_13.Using_Pick_Up_Lines_at_the_Ford_Modeling_Party","title":"Pick Up Lines at the Ford Modeling Party","year":2003,"month":8,"day":13,"date_display":"August 13, 2003","intro_html":"$2b","link_copy":"Pick-up Lines at the Ford Modeling Party","link_desc_html":"Using Pick-up Lines at the Ford Modeling Party","position":2003640,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/08_13_pick_up_line_ford_models/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":36},{"id":260,"slug":"karaoke-with-brett","directory_name":"2003_08_09.Karaoke_with_Brett","title":"Karaoke with Brett","year":2003,"month":8,"day":9,"date_display":"August 09, 2003","intro_html":"

The day after my birthday my little brother Brett and his girlfriend Amy came into NYC to visit, have some dinner and then cap the night off with some KARAOKE! (After graduating from college, Brett moved back to New Jersey but after a few weeks, moved back out to Indiana).

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Another birthday already? Man, alive! Where in the world does the time go? Instead of having a big party like last year, for the big two-seven I decided to keep it simple: just a few drinks out with some good friends (which led to an unexpected reunion with a very special lady from my past).

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My friend Sarah, who used to be the cocktail waitress for Sid & Buddy's Monday Night Karaoke, invited me to her (and Herman's) Wednesday night Lingerie Karaoke Birthday Extravaganza!

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Sunday morning we all woke feeling surprisingly alright (considering the amount of drinking we all did). We were a tad achey, but hey, nothing a big, greasy diner breakfast wouldn't be able to fix!

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With Seth having arrived, our group was complete. We headed out for dinner and a night of trouble. Little did the denizens of Newport know of what was in store for them (Heck, Montreal's still recovering from our last trip).

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The rest of the boys showed up shortly thereafter and we headed out for a Friday night on the town in Newport.

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Ever since our crazy-ass \"Boys' Weekend in Montreal\", we'd been talking about the need to make a new trip. Almost nine months after our first adventure, the six of us piled into our repective vehicles and headed out to meet up in Newport, Rhode Island. Four whole entries are needed to fully capture the range of shenanigans!

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On Friday morning I had a meeting down in Atlanta, so I wasn't in NYC to do the fun drive up to Newport with Grant and Fatty. I ended up having to fly from Atlanta to Boston where I rented a car and drove to Providence, RI. Grant and Fatty were nice enough to come and pick me up in Providence and then we all drove down to Newport together.

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But luckily, Fatty had his camera with him and they managed to do a great job documenting their day up until we all met up! Here's their take on the day...

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So, as always, here are the pics from the month of August that didn't merritt their own entry, but are still site-worthy. Greasy bitches better recognize!

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Yet another fabulous business trip for work! (Previously: Bidness in Madison, Bidness in Cali, and Bidness in Vegas). Usually, my business trips are during the week - but because I was only out in LA for a meeting that was on a Friday afternoon, I decided to stay through the weekend and hang out with Kate and Laura.

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Woke up early on Sunday morning to the most beautiful day ever and we decided to hit the beach! Grant, Erica and myself met up with Grant's friends Jeanette and Stuart...

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Despite the stiffling heat (and the mediocre line up of bands), Tara and I hopped on the subway and headed for the annual Siren Festival out on Coney Island.

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So I get a call from Vin telling me that I should meet up with him because he's going to the birthday party of some cute girl he knows and he wants to introduce me and Marco to all of her cute friends.

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\r\nVin and I were planning on wasting a Saturday bumming around Manhattan. We had some brunch, walked around a bit, and ended up hanging out in Washing Square Park...

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A few Fridays ago a bunch of us headed uptown to see our (wonderfully talented) friend, Frank Picarazzi play a gig Merchant's. Out of the blue, the evening took a very interesting turn...

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It doesn't get more all American than The Ramones, hotdogs and fireworks. So in honor of our nation's independence, we decided to hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach (which none of us had ever been to before) to catch some sun before the evening's celebratory fireworks.

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\r\nCan I get a what what? Here they are: all the wonderful pics from July piecemealed together for one fantastiliscious �berEntry!

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Very few thing in the world are better than a not-too-hot summer Saturday in New York City when you've got nothing to do.

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Hellbent on showing Charlene (in town visiting Grant from London) a good time, Grant and I played hookey from work on Friday and we all headed out to Coney Island together.

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Grant's friend Charlene came into town from London and we all pulled together to try to show her a crazy night out on the town.

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\r\nMy dad needed help moving the shed at my parent's beach house in South Jersey. So I took the train out to north Jersey to meet up with my brother and we headed down to the shore together late Friday night.

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On short notice I found out that I had to go out to Vegas for a few days for work. Most of you that know me can attest to the fact that I'm well-known for my ability to have obscene amounts of fun on what should be boring work-related business trips (see: Bidness in Madison and Bidness in Cali). Tara having recently gotten laid-off (noooo!), was bored outta her mind in NYC and decided (after I cleared it with my boss, aka - Mr. Bestest Boss in the Whole World) to tag along.

","link_copy":"Vegas, Baby, Vegas","link_desc_html":"Business trip to Vegas, Baby, Vegas. ","position":2003420,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/30_rhs_reunion/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":34},{"id":238,"slug":"random-rhs-reunion","directory_name":"2003_06_12.Random_RHS_Reunion","title":"Random RHS Reunion","year":2003,"month":6,"day":12,"date_display":"June 12, 2003","intro_html":"

So check it out: Hope Stevenson, this girl I went to high school with (who was two grades older and was one of the dreamy older girls that we all had crushes on...awwwww) somehow came across my website and emailed me. Turns out she's dating PJ, another guy we went to high school with - and invited me and Amy Albano (who ALSO went to Roxbury High School) to go out to Brooklyn and see PJ's new band, The Love Scene, play.

","link_copy":"Roxbury High School Reunion","link_desc_html":"It's a totally Random Roxbury High School Reunion! ","position":2003410,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/30_rhs_reunion/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":234,"slug":"fishing-with-pappi-part-2","directory_name":"2003_06_09.Fishing_with_Pappi_Part_2","title":"Fishing with Pappi Part 2","year":2003,"month":6,"day":9,"date_display":"June 9, 2003","intro_html":"

Since graduating college, my brother Brett has been temporarily living with my parents in New Jersey while he figures out what he's going to do next. I took a Monday off from work and went deep sea fishing down in south NJ (at Mid-Atlantic Highlands) with my dad and brother.

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Instead of going out on my dad's boat like last year, this time we upped the ante and went out on a larger, chartered boat with some of my dad's former co-workers.

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\r\nHere they are! All the pics from the month of June that didn't merritt their own entry, but still deserved a little love.

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My good friend Emily (who I know all the way back from high school) had a job interview in NYC, so she came down a night early and we hit the town!

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For Memorial Day Grant, Fatty and I decided to get out of the city and head down to John and Lori Craven's beach house in Asbury Park, NJ. (Who you may remember from this most bestest entry from last year).

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\r\nIn May I had to go through all kinds of crazy horse-shit in order to get a motorcycle license (that I never even ended up getting).\r\n

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Back to Part One

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Okay, so I'd been planning on having a \"Spring is Here\" party for a really long time...the only problem was, spring still hadn't really shown up. So when my dear friend Emma Taylor asked me if we could have her 30th Birthday party at my apartment, we decided to turn it into a \"Emma's 30th Birthday/The Weather's Sorta Nice\" all-out bash.

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We were going to have it over the weekend, but then we realized it was Memorial Day and that most people would prolly be out of town. So we said \"Fuck it. Let's have it on Wednesday and see who's hardcore.\"

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My friends Matt Lesser and Matt Lavin (aka - \"Sid and Buddy\") started throwing a kick-ass Monday night karaoke party just a few blocks from my house. They took the basement of the Nolita Tavern and turned it into a custom karaoke room! If you combine the fact that I'm a karaoke ham with the fact that I rarely leave a 15 block radius of my apartment, that adds up to me pretty much being there most Monday nights from 12-4am. (These pictures are taken from 5 different Monday nights that I was there. Yeah, I know. \"Hi, my name is Brian and I have a karaoke problem.\")

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Through my job I get invited to lots of parties, but they're mostly \"indy\" movie parties. My friend Sarah Lewitinn on the other hand works for Spin Magazine, so she gets invited to all the \"real deal, Holyfield\" parties. So when she called me and asked if I wanted to go to the party Maverick Records was throwing for \"The Matrix: Reloaded,\" (they released the soundtrack) I grabbed the digi and hopped a cab.

","link_copy":"The Matrix: Reloaded ","link_desc_html":"The Matrix: Reloaded Premiere Party.","position":2003335,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/23_matrix_party/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":13},{"id":228,"slug":"guest-bartending-at-iggys-keltic-lounge","directory_name":"2003_05_08.Guest_Bartending_at_Iggys_Keltic_Lounge","title":"Guest Bartending at Iggy's Keltic Lounge","year":2003,"month":5,"day":8,"date_display":"May 08, 2003","intro_html":"

A few weeks ago, Grant, Lorelei, Emma and myself were in the LES looking for a nice, quiet bar where we could sit down and get a few drinks and actually hear our voices over the jukebox. After ducking our heads into a few ridiculously packed places, we stumbled on a deserted Irish bar called Iggy's Keltic Lounge. We sat at a table, had a few rounds and left later that night.

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Two weeks later, I got an email from the bartender there. Turns out she recognized me because she reads this site. She was going to say something to me the night I was there but she \"felt like a stalker because she knew all my friend's names.\" She told me that the bar we were at has \"Guest Bartending Nights\" and asked if I wanted to guest bartend. She further explained, \"Basically, you invite all your friends to come and then you get them wasted.\"

\r\n","link_copy":"Guest Bartenders","link_desc_html":"Grant and I Are Guest Bartenders","position":2003310,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/20_guest_bartending/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":22},{"id":227,"slug":"bretts-college-graduation","directory_name":"2003_05_05.Bretts_College_Graduation","title":"Brett's College Graduation","year":2003,"month":5,"day":5,"date_display":"May 05, 2003","intro_html":"

My little brother Brett was graduating from Indiana University (with a degree in Music Education) so I decided to hop a plane and head out for the commencement.

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Fatty and Grant both got new apartments! Fatty was moving out of the apt he'd been sharing with Jimmy and Viola because he bought a rad studio on St. Mark's & 1st. Grant (who's basically been a homeless wanderer for the last six months), got our friend Mark Bibbin's great apt over on 14th and C.

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Here they are! All the pics from the month of May that didn't merritt their own entry, but still deserved a little love.

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\r\nI live on Bowery between Grant and Hester. This is what's going on.\r\n

","link_copy":"Where I Live","link_desc_html":"Where I Live","position":2003270,"published":1,"publish_date":"2010-12-20 21:22:15","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":8},{"id":223,"slug":"tuesday-at-sin-sin","directory_name":"2003_04_22.Tuesday_at_Sin_Sin","title":"Tuesday at Sin Sin","year":2003,"month":4,"day":22,"date_display":"April 22, 2003","intro_html":"

Vin and I headed out with no plans other than to walk around and find something fun to do.

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I've wanted a motorcycle for a long time and now that I no longer have my car (I sold it), I decided it was time to start working on getting my motorcycle license. After all sorts of fiascos at NY DMV, I finally finagelled myself a motorcycle learner's permit and started taking lessons at a driving school in Brooklyn.

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Grant and Erica invited me to head down to Philadelpia with them for a Saturday. The plan was to bum around Philly for a few hours (you'd think it wouldn't be hard to kill a few hours in a city like Philadelphia, right?) meet up with our friend Chris (who has a car), and then on the way back to New York, we'd stop at a benefit BBQ held in remembrance of one of Erica's friend's dad.

\r\n\r\n","link_copy":"Trip to Philly","link_desc_html":"Saturday Trip to Philly. ","position":2003240,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/15_trip_to_philly/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":17},{"id":220,"slug":"loreleis-31st-birthday","directory_name":"2003_04_08.Loreleis_31st_Birthday","title":"Lorelei's 31st Birthday","year":2003,"month":4,"day":8,"date_display":"April 08, 2003","intro_html":"Looking for a repeat performance of last year's spectacular celebration in honor of Lo's Birthday, the gang gathered once again - this time in Chinatown. First we met up for some delicious dinner at Pongsri Thai Restaurant and then with very full bellies we walked exactly one door over Winnie's for some karaoke action.\r\n","link_copy":"Lorelei's 31st ","link_desc_html":"Lorelei's 31st Birthday Party.","position":2003230,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/14_los_31st_bday/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":28},{"id":219,"slug":"saturday-night-out","directory_name":"2003_04_04.Saturday_Night_Out","title":"Saturday Night Out","year":2003,"month":4,"day":4,"date_display":"April 04, 2003","intro_html":"

We started out at Emma's friend's book release party in the East Village...

\r\n","link_copy":"Saturday Night Out","link_desc_html":"A Saturday Night Out on the town. ","position":2003220,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/13_saturday_night_out/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":18},{"id":218,"slug":"the-april-roundup","directory_name":"2003_04_00.The_April_Roundup","title":"The April Roundup","year":2003,"month":4,"day":null,"date_display":"April, 2003","intro_html":"

Here are a lot of random nights out that didn't have enough pics to merrit their own entry but are still fun enough to be included.

","link_copy":"The April Roundup","link_desc_html":"A mishmash of entries! It's The April Roundup. ","position":2003210,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/16_april_roundup/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":31},{"id":217,"slug":"grant-gets-gay","directory_name":"2003_03_27.Grant_Gets_Gay","title":"Grant Gets Gay","year":2003,"month":3,"day":27,"date_display":"March 27, 2003","intro_html":"

Hooooo-boy! This one's a doooozy! So for Grant's latest column he was required to go to a gay bar, act gay (which if you know Grant you know isn't much of a *ahem* stretch) and try to see if he can get picked up by gay guys.

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Best explained by the man himself, here's an excerpt from the full article:

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\"What if I were to interact with a group that ostensibly thought and acted like me? Namely, other gentlemen. I'm guessing that, like hetero guys, gay men like to at least talk straight. And, as men, they also think about sex every seven seconds on average. In a setting where I could shrug off the whole Mars/Venus residency issue, would my advances be more enthusiastically received?\"

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On with the experiment...

","link_copy":"Grant Gets Gay ","link_desc_html":"The wait is over: Grant Gets Gay ! ","position":2003200,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/12_grant_gets_gay/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":24},{"id":216,"slug":"karaoke-at-lucky-chengs","directory_name":"2003_03_26.Karaoke_at_Lucky_Chengs","title":"Lucky Cheng's Karaoke","year":2003,"month":3,"day":26,"date_display":"March 26, 2003","intro_html":"

Here's pics from a random Wednesday night at Lucky Cheng's in the East Village. We were just wandering around and suddenly it struck us \"Hey, you know what's fun? Karaoke.\"

","link_copy":"Lucky Cheng's","link_desc_html":"Yet another night at Lucky Cheng's! ","position":2003190,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/11_lucky_chengs/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":10},{"id":215,"slug":"spun-movie-premiere","directory_name":"2003_03_06.Spun_Movie_Premiere","title":"Spun Movie Premiere Party","year":2003,"month":3,"day":6,"date_display":"March 06, 2003","intro_html":"

Nerve hosted the premiere and party for the movie Spun. Free drinks! Free food! Celebrities! Yay!

","link_copy":"Premiere of the movie Spun","link_desc_html":"The NYC Premiere of the movie Spun. ","position":2003180,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/10_spun_premiere/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":16},{"id":214,"slug":"karaoke-at-sweetups","directory_name":"2003_03_04.Karaoke_at_Sweetups","title":"Sweet Ups Karaoke","year":2003,"month":3,"day":4,"date_display":"March 04, 2003","intro_html":"

So check this out - All last year we used to go to Karaoke night at Enid's in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Then somewhere along the line, the neighbors complained and they stopped doing it. Fast forward six months: the guy who used to emcee the evening went to Google, did a search for \"karaoke and enid's\" and found all the pics on my site.

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Anyway, to make a long (read: uninteresting) story short, he emailed me and invited me to a new karaoke night that he was hosting at a bar called Sweet Ups (over in Billyburg). Grant roused the troops and...

","link_copy":"Karaoke At Sweet Ups","link_desc_html":"Hold on to yer tits, it's Karaoke At Sweet Ups! ","position":2003170,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/09_sweetups_karaoke/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":26},{"id":213,"slug":"tiffanys-birthday","directory_name":"2003_03_01.Tiffanys_Birthday","title":"Tiffany's Birthday","year":2003,"month":3,"day":1,"date_display":"March 01, 2003","intro_html":"

\r\nOn Saturday night we went over to Pianos to meet up for Tiffany's birthday. When we got there, there was a line to get in and the place was mobbed. So we made and inpromptu move down to Max Fish's.

\r\n","link_copy":"Tiffany's Birthday","link_desc_html":"It's Tiffany's Birthday Party. ","position":2003160,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/08_tiffs_bday/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":11},{"id":212,"slug":"reunited-in-brooklyn","directory_name":"2003_02_27.Reunited_in_Brooklyn","title":"Reunited in BK","year":2003,"month":2,"day":27,"date_display":"February 27, 2003","intro_html":"

So the weather's been so shitty that I haven't been going out much - and when I do go out, I've been staying close to home. Consequently, I haven'd seen the \"old gang\" out in Brooklyn very much. Long overdue for some quality time, I headed out to Red and Black (right in the heart of Billyburg) and met up with Josh, Vin, Dave and company.

","link_copy":"Reunited in Brooklyn","link_desc_html":"Reunited in Brooklyn and it feels so right.","position":2003150,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/07_reunited_in_bk/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":5},{"id":211,"slug":"filter-14","directory_name":"2003_02_26.Filter_14","title":"Filter 14","year":2003,"month":2,"day":26,"date_display":"February 26, 2003","intro_html":"

Wednesday night, I went to the Girlsn'boys party at filter14 because Laurent was djing there. It was pretty lowkey when I got there, but somehow it ended up getting zany (chalk it up to the free drinks?) along the way.

","link_copy":"Filter14","link_desc_html":"Getting zany at Filter14.","position":2003140,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/06_filter14/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":210,"slug":"the-february-roundup","directory_name":"2003_02_00.The_February_Roundup","title":"Random February Pics","year":2003,"month":2,"day":null,"date_display":"February, 2003","intro_html":"

Much like January, the weather in February was so crappy and miserable that I really didn't go out all that much. And when I did, I didn't take too many pics. So rather than a bunch of in-depth narratives, here's a sampling my February.

\r\n","link_copy":"Five Random Nights","link_desc_html":"Coverage of Five Random Nights througout February. ","position":2003130,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/05_random_feb_shizzit/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":24},{"id":209,"slug":"end-of-january-roundup","directory_name":"2003_01_18.End_of_January_Roundup","title":"End of January","year":2003,"month":1,"day":18,"date_display":"January 18, 2003","intro_html":"

Ok, so winter in NYC totally sucks. I love New York with all my heart, but man oh man, by the end of January I'm ready to say \"fuck it\" and move to LA. Who cares if everybody there is a self-absorbed asshole, at least the weather's nice.

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Anyway, lately the weather's been so cold and miserable that I haven't really felt like going out much. And on the rare occasion that I did go out, I'd sorta half-heartedly snap a few pics and then go home to eat snacks and read. Here's a recap of my not so exciting January.

","link_copy":"Six Random Nights","link_desc_html":"Coverage of Six Random Nights throughout January. ","position":2003120,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:38:11","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2003/04_random_january_shizzit/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":18},{"id":208,"slug":"nerve-and-spring-streets-holiday-party","directory_name":"2003_01_16.Nerve_and_Spring_Streets_Holiday_Party","title":"Nerve and Spring Streets' Holiday Party","year":2003,"month":1,"day":16,"date_display":"January 16, 2003","intro_html":"Nerve & Spring Street meant to throw a holiday party in December, but for some reason it kept getting canceled and never happened. But because we had a bunch of cases of vodka at the offices (left over from a film premiere party) we decided to invite a bunch of people over to a bar in the East Village to drink for free and get rowdy. The results were very similar to the the last time our companies tried something like this.

\r\n\r\nThe pics below were compiled from multiple cameras (mostly to ensure maximum coverage of embarrassing moments). Mad props to Stefan, Ganesh and Keith for letting me use some of their pics!

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\r\nSarah Dolgen, had two little get togethers for her birthday. The first was a big, old party (she had with her friend DeeDee) on Wednesday, and then on Saturday (her real bday) a few of us met up for a mellower dinner.

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","link_copy":"New Year's Eve","link_desc_html":"New Year's Eve deep in the heart of BK. ","position":2002930,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":16},{"id":205,"slug":"heavy-metal-karaoke-at-arlenes-grocery","directory_name":"2002_12_30.Heavy_Metal_Karaoke_at_Arlenes_Grocery","title":"Heavy Metal Karaoke at Arlenes Grocery","year":2002,"month":12,"day":30,"date_display":"December 30, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nSPECIAL GUEST COMMENTARY BY GRANT STODDARD (Beyond a byline, this is a disclaimer in case he's not funny. If he is, then I wrote it.) Without further ado, here's Grant.

\r\n\r\nYo Yo Yo! Wassup? G-Sto in the hizzouse! Okay, first off I wanna call this entry The Four Horsemen of the Karaokopolipse. With the help of four gallons of tepid P.B.R, Big Daddy, Fatty, B-Batch and me tore the roof of the joint that night. Introducing.......

\r\n","link_copy":"Heavy Metal Karaoke","link_desc_html":"Heavy Metal Karaoke - With special-guest commentary! ","position":2002920,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":19},{"id":204,"slug":"xmas-with-the-fam","directory_name":"2002_12_25.Xmas_With_the_Fam","title":"Xmas With the Fam","year":2002,"month":12,"day":25,"date_display":"December 25, 2002","intro_html":"

The Holidays just wouldn't be the holiday without my wacky family. So I headed out to tha EnJay to spend some quality time with the three lunatics otherwise known as my mom, my dad and my brother.

","link_copy":"Christmas with the Fam","link_desc_html":"Home in NJ for Christmas with the Fam!","position":2002910,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":22},{"id":203,"slug":"goodbye-siany","directory_name":"2002_12_02.Goodbye_Siany","title":"Goodbye Siany","year":2002,"month":12,"day":2,"date_display":"December 02, 2002","intro_html":"Sarah's friend Siany was leaving NYC to head back home to Austrailia and they were throwing her a karaoke going away party at Pangaea. Hot girls? Free drinks? Karaoke? Count me in, playa! (Mad apologies to Sarah - I promised I'd have these pics up within a day or two and now that I'm finally getting around to it it's um, February 23. Doh.)

","link_copy":"Goodbye Siany","link_desc_html":"Goodbye Siany - Karaoke at Pangaea. ","position":2002900,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":7},{"id":202,"slug":"grant-gets-wasted","directory_name":"2002_12_01.Grant_Gets_Wasted","title":"Grant Gets Wasted","year":2002,"month":12,"day":1,"date_display":"December 01, 2002","intro_html":"Fatty, Grant, Colin and myself were kickin' it over at Don Hill's on Saturday night when we got a call from Sarah. Her parents were in town from CA and we went over to Lotus (yep, she was chilling with her parents at Lotus!) to meet up!

","link_copy":"Grant Gets Wasted","link_desc_html":"Partying in NYC, Grant Gets Wasted!","position":2002890,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":17},{"id":201,"slug":"the-jentzen-kids","directory_name":"2002_11_29.The_Jentzen_Kids","title":"The Jentzen Kids","year":2002,"month":11,"day":29,"date_display":"November 29, 2002","intro_html":"The day after Thanksgiving, Doug and I headed up to visit Scott who was home babysitting the kids while Amy was at work.

","link_copy":"The Jentzen Kids","link_desc_html":"Hanging out with The Jentzen Kids","position":2002880,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":8},{"id":200,"slug":"thanksgiving","directory_name":"2002_11_27.Thanksgiving","title":"Thanksgiving","year":2002,"month":11,"day":27,"date_display":"November 27, 2002","intro_html":"I headed home to NJ to enjoy delicious turkey with the fam and catch up with all my cracka-ass friends from high school.","link_copy":"Thanksgiving","link_desc_html":"Thanksgiving - At home with the Fam in NJ. ","position":2002870,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":17},{"id":199,"slug":"trip-to-montreal","directory_name":"2002_11_22.Trip_to_Montreal","title":"Boys Weekend in Montreal","year":2002,"month":11,"day":22,"date_display":"November 22, 2002","intro_html":"So eight of us decided to take a long-weekend vacation up in Montreal. Five of us departed Friday morning from New York City, and the other three guys left from Boston and we met up at our fancy hotel in Montreal. We spent the next two days having fun, catching up, and hitting the town to abuse the pathetic Canadian dollar...

","link_copy":"Boys' Weekend in Montreal","link_desc_html":"Boys' Weekend in Montreal - Eight dudes, one road trip. ","position":2002860,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":19},{"id":198,"slug":"laura-visits","directory_name":"2002_11_15.Laura_Visits","title":"Laura Visits","year":2002,"month":11,"day":15,"date_display":"November 15, 2002","intro_html":"Laura Sosin (aka \"Special Sos\") was in town visiting from Los Angeles and Grant had some of his goddamned Limey friends in from \"across the pond.\" We headed out in the East Village to flash our gang signs (repping our various crizzews, y'all) and have some drinks.

","link_copy":"Laura Visits","link_desc_html":"Laura Visits - Special Sos comes back to NYC. ","position":2002850,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":10},{"id":197,"slug":"grants-26th-birthday","directory_name":"2002_11_04.Grants_26th_Birthday","title":"Grant's 26th Birthday","year":2002,"month":11,"day":4,"date_display":"November 04, 2002","intro_html":"Grant's birthday was on a Monday so the original plan was to head over to Arlene's Grocery for some heavy metal/punk rock karaoke...but last minute we found out that instead of heavy metal/punk rock, they were siging cheesy 70's love ballads instead...a dismayed Grant cancelled his own gathering last minute. In an attempt to surprise him, Tookie and I figured it would be fun to throw him a surprise party later on that week....but then Tookie forgot it was a surprise and aksed him about it. Bah!

\r\n\r\nAnyway, here are some pics of both nights...Grant's actual birthday on Monday and then the (Not Really A Surprise At All) Surprise Party on Friday.

","link_copy":"Grant's 26th Birthday","link_desc_html":"Two nights out for Grant's 26th Birthday","position":2002840,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":23},{"id":196,"slug":"halloween-2002","directory_name":"2002_10_31.Halloween_2002","title":"Halloween 2002","year":2002,"month":10,"day":31,"date_display":"October 31, 2002","intro_html":"My friend Doug arrived on a train from Colorado at 3:30pm on Halloween. After not having left his monastery for like 2 years, and spending 3 days on a train, he was feeling a little rowdy and looking to raise a little heck.

","link_copy":"Halloween","link_desc_html":"Doug comes to town for Halloween.","position":2002830,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":27},{"id":195,"slug":"scotts-27th-birthday","directory_name":"2002_10_26.Scotts_27th_Birthday","title":"scott's 27th birthday","year":2002,"month":10,"day":26,"date_display":"October 26, 2002","intro_html":"My best friend Scott and two of my other high school friends came into New York for the night to celebrate Scott's 27th birthday (come along and watch as they proceed to mow a swatch of drunken Jersey-mayhem through the streets).

","link_copy":"Scott's 27th Birthday. ","link_desc_html":"RHS in NYC for Scott's 27th Birthday. ","position":2002820,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":23},{"id":194,"slug":"the-rules-of-attraction-movie-premiere","directory_name":"2002_10_10.The_Rules_of_Attraction_Movie_Premiere","title":"The Rules of Attraction Movie Premiere","year":2002,"month":10,"day":10,"date_display":"October 10, 2002","intro_html":"Nerve hosted the New York premiere of the new Lion's Gate movie, The Rules of Attraction and then had a fancy schmancy after party at Serena.

\r\n","link_copy":"Premiere Party ","link_desc_html":"The Rules of Attraction Premiere Party .","position":2002810,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":25},{"id":193,"slug":"bidness-in-cali","directory_name":"2002_10_10.Bidness_in_Cali","title":"Bidness in Cali","year":2002,"month":10,"day":10,"date_display":"October 10, 2002","intro_html":"Louis and I hit the West Coast for various bidness meetings....

\r\n","link_copy":"Trip to California.","link_desc_html":"Brian and Louis take a bidness Trip to California..","position":2002800,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":13},{"id":192,"slug":"the-dougman-cometh","directory_name":"2002_10_07.The_Dougman_Cometh","title":"The Dougman Cometh","year":2002,"month":10,"day":7,"date_display":"October 07, 2002","intro_html":"My friend Doug lives at a Buddhist monestary in a trailer on a mountaintop in Colorado... before that he lived in a monestary in the MiddleOfNowhere, VT. Back when he was in Vermont, I used to randomly get letters from Doug mailed to me that contained pictures with no explanation, no letter, just pics.

\r\n\r\nFast forward a few years, and now with the miracle that is the National InterWeb, the other day instead of receiving a letter, I get an email that simply says:

\r\n\r\n\"My train gets in on Halloween at 3:15pm. Be ready.\"

\r\n\r\nAttached to the cryptic message were the following pictures.

\r\n","link_copy":"Dougman Cometh","link_desc_html":"The Dougman Cometh - More Letters from Doug. ","position":2002790,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":6},{"id":191,"slug":"goodbye-martins","directory_name":"2002_10_06.Goodbye_Martins","title":"Goodbye Martins","year":2002,"month":10,"day":6,"date_display":"October 06, 2002","intro_html":"Ross & Jordana Martin (AKA - Russ & Joanna Morgan, ha!) are taking their brand new baby and moving out to Los Angeles (booooo!). Grant and I hopped in my car and headed out to Ross' parents house in NJ one more time to see the three of them off at a little going away party!

","link_copy":"Goodbye Morgans","link_desc_html":"Goodbye Morgans - The gang bids farewell. ","position":2002780,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":5},{"id":190,"slug":"fishing-with-pappi","directory_name":"2002_10_05.Fishing_With_Pappi","title":"fishing with pappi","year":2002,"month":10,"day":5,"date_display":"October 05, 2002","intro_html":"My parents recently bought a little house in Mannahawkin, NJ right near Long Beach Island. The house came with a big dock in the backyard...so it was only a matter of time before Pappi managed to talk my mother into letting him (yep, that's right - I said \"let.\" We all knows who wears the pants) get a boat. So Grant and I headed down to check it out and go fishing!\r\n","link_copy":"Fishing With Pappi","link_desc_html":"Grant and Brian go Fishing With Pappi.","position":2002770,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":189,"slug":"brian-meets-the-ass","directory_name":"2002_10_02.Brian_Meets_The_Ass","title":"brian meets the ass","year":2002,"month":10,"day":2,"date_display":"October 02, 2002","intro_html":"$2c","link_copy":"The Ass","link_desc_html":"Brian meets The Ass ","position":2002760,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":2},{"id":188,"slug":"chris-and-mandy-get-married","directory_name":"2002_09_21.Chris_and_Mandy_Get_Married","title":"chris and mandy get married","year":2002,"month":9,"day":21,"date_display":"September 21, 2002","intro_html":"Chris and Mandy met because they lived nextdoor to each other in college. Chris lived with me in 111 Redfield and Mandy lived nextdoor in 115 (What about 113 you ask? Well their house was split into two halves and 113 was inhabited by a bunch of fucking hippies that we never even talked to...but that's not the point of the story here). So almost five years later - after moving to NYC and living in Brooklyn, they've decided to get married. The gang all packed up and headed to Westchester to bear witness.\r\n","link_copy":"Get Married","link_desc_html":"Chris and Mandy Get Married.","position":2002750,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":25},{"id":187,"slug":"prom-party","directory_name":"2002_09_14.Prom_Party","title":"a second prom","year":2002,"month":9,"day":14,"date_display":"September 14, 2002","intro_html":"In June of 2001, my former roommates and I (the original inhabitants of the Indoorvillage) threw a Prom Themed Party. Well word must have gotten around Brooklyn about how dizzope our shit was, because almost a year and a half later *ahem* we were invited to somebody else's Prom party. Grant and I being dorks, we ended up having to share the lovely Emma as our date (and for the record, she was Grant's date...so to be more accurate...I'm a dork and Grant was gracious enough to share his date).","link_copy":"Second Prom","link_desc_html":"The Second Prom in Brooklyn. ","position":2002740,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":16},{"id":186,"slug":"little-dashielle-martin","directory_name":"2002_09_14.Little_Dashielle_Martin","title":"little dashiell martin","year":2002,"month":9,"day":14,"date_display":"September 14, 2002","intro_html":"My friends Ross & Jordana Martin had their first baby! Little Dashiell! On the way back from fishing with my pappi in New Jersey, Grant and I stopped by Ross' parent's home to see the little bugger!

","link_copy":"Little Dashiell Martin. ","link_desc_html":"Visiting with Little Dashiell Martin. ","position":2002730,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":6},{"id":185,"slug":"two-days-at-fort-tilden","directory_name":"2002_09_07.Two_Days_at_Fort_Tilden","title":"two days at fort tilden","year":2002,"month":9,"day":7,"date_display":"September 07, 2002","intro_html":"So my friend Suzi told me about, then gave me directions to a TOP SECRET beach that's only 8 miles from Manhattan: Fort Tilden Beach. It used to be a depot for Nike Air Defense Missiles in the Cold War, but the base has since been closed down and now it's a public beach.

\r\n","link_copy":"Beach Days at Fort Tilden","link_desc_html":"Two Lovely Beach Days at Fort Tilden. ","position":2002720,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":21},{"id":184,"slug":"cake-party-part-3","directory_name":"2002_08_27.Cake_Party_Part_3","title":"cake party: part three","year":2002,"month":8,"day":27,"date_display":"August 27, 2002","intro_html":"My friends Emily and Melinda started a club called Cake. Cake's mission statement reveals that it's \"committed to examining and demystifying the politics of female sexuality,\" and \"is an active forum for sexual exploration, education and discovery and is a safe, informative, and enjoyable context for women's sexual expression.\"

\r\n\r\nThose of us in the know that all that rhetoric is a thinly-veiled guise to disuade less-sophisticated men from attending the hands-down biggest make-out parties in New York City.

\r\n\r\nSee also:\r\nCake Party: Part One
\r\nCake Party: Part Two\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Three","link_desc_html":"Cake Party - Part Three.","position":2002710,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":16},{"id":183,"slug":"abbeys-christening","directory_name":"2002_08_24.Abbeys_Christening","title":"abbey's christening","year":2002,"month":8,"day":24,"date_display":"August 24, 2002","intro_html":"So my best friend from high school went ahead and got married and now has two kids. Holy Cuh-rap. I took a weekend trip out to my NJ hometown to attend his 5-month-old daughter's Christening

\r\n","link_copy":"Abbey Rose's Christening ","link_desc_html":"Little Abbey Rose's Christening - Back to NJ, baby. ","position":2002700,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":23},{"id":182,"slug":"new-jersey-weekend","directory_name":"2002_08_16.New_Jersey_Weekend","title":"new jersey weekend","year":2002,"month":8,"day":16,"date_display":"August 16, 2002","intro_html":"

Yep, that's right, I grew up in tha EnJay (that's the Garden State, mind you), I'm not embarrassed to admit it. But now that I look through all the pictures in this entry, I'm beginning to think that maybe I should be embarrassed.

\r\n\r\nAnyway, my parents bought a little, tiny summer house down in Lavalette, NJ (the town on the mainland of New Jersey across from Long Beach Island). So I took a Friday off of work to head down there, hang out with my little brother (who was in town from Indiana) and celebrate my parents 32nd wedding anniversary (holy crap). So I went to beach with my family and all my cousins, but I left my camera at the house! So there aren't any pictures of my insane immediate family here (if you want to see those clowns, you can just click here). Okay, on with the pics.

","link_copy":"New Jersey Weekend","link_desc_html":"New Jersey Weekend - New Pictures of my Balls!","position":2002690,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":21},{"id":181,"slug":"my-26th-birthday-party","directory_name":"2002_08_10.My_26th_Birthday_Party","title":"my 26th birthday party!","year":2002,"month":8,"day":10,"date_display":"August 10, 2002","intro_html":"To celebrate my 26th bday I put the word on the wire: big party at my new digs. Not wanting to be Vanity Smurf, I billed the party as a \"Birthday / Housewarming /It's-Summertime-And-Really-Nice Out\" Party (the latter category was so that people that hate me could still attend and not feel like they were selling out. Noice, right?).

\r\n\r\nTo make things even better, a week before the party Grant Stoddard found out that his visa to stay in the US was approved which gave us one more thing to celebrate (Grant not getting his Limey-ass deported). As always, hilarity ensued.

","link_copy":"Birthday Party ","link_desc_html":"My 26th Birthday Party !","position":2002680,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":36},{"id":180,"slug":"geeks-gone-wild","directory_name":"2002_08_07.Geeks_Gone_Wild","title":"Geeks Gone Wild","year":2002,"month":8,"day":7,"date_display":"August 07, 2002","intro_html":"

It started out as routine: Every other Wednesday Spring Street and Nerve head out together and have drinks...it's supposed be a nice relaxing time where everyone can kick back, have a drink or two and catch up with their co-workers in a nice, easy social setting...

\r\n\r\nand then the next thing you know...

","link_copy":"Geeks Gone Wild","link_desc_html":"Geeks Gone Wild - There are no words. ","position":2002670,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":27},{"id":179,"slug":"nh-vacation-part-7-the-ride-back-home","directory_name":"2002_07_29.NH_Vacation_Part_7_The_Ride_Back_Home","title":"nh vacation part seven: the ride back home","year":2002,"month":7,"day":29,"date_display":"July 29, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nMonday turned out to be nicer than every other day we'd had so we decided to spend half the day swimming and playing before hitting the road back to the big, bad city.

","link_copy":"The Ride Back Home","link_desc_html":"NH Vacation Part Seven: The Ride Back Home","position":2002660,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":4},{"id":178,"slug":"nh-vacation-part-6-lake-jumpers","directory_name":"2002_07_27.NH_Vacation_Part_6_Lake_Jumpers","title":"nh vacation part six: lake jumpers","year":2002,"month":7,"day":27,"date_display":"July 27, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nTookie was the first person to jump in the lake. Just by luck, I managed to capture a really cool pic of her just about to break the surface of the perfectly still water. The pic was cool enough to start an epidemic - for the next 3 days anytime somebody jumped in the water somebody was snapping a pic of it. The best are compiled below for your enjoyment!

","link_copy":"Lake Jumpers","link_desc_html":"NH Vacation Part Six: Lake Jumpers","position":2002650,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":23},{"id":177,"slug":"nh-vacation-part-5-night-swimming","directory_name":"2002_07_27.NH_Vacation_Part_5_Night_Swimming","title":"nh vacation part five: nightswimming!","year":2002,"month":7,"day":27,"date_display":"July 27, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nI built a fire that got so damn hot that we had no choice but to go outside and take a swim to cool down.

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\r\nWe all took so many goddamned photos that it was really hard to organize them into any sort of coherent, linear narrative. So for this page, I basically just took a bunch of pics that I felt were representative of the time we spent and put them up.

","link_copy":"Playing, Swimming, Cooking...","link_desc_html":"NH Vacation Part Four: Playing, Swimming, Cooking...","position":2002630,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":19},{"id":175,"slug":"nh-vacation-part-3-no-such-thing-as-nh-nightlife","directory_name":"2002_07_27.NH_Vacation_Part_3_No_Such_Thing_As_NH_Nightlife","title":"nh vacation part three: there is no such thing as nh nightlife","year":2002,"month":7,"day":27,"date_display":"July 27, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nBoth Saturday and Sunday nights started off with booze and Cranium (which is pretty much the best game ever).

","link_copy":"(there is no such thing as) NH Nightlife","link_desc_html":"NH Vacation Part Three: (there is no such thing as) NH Nightlife ","position":2002620,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":9},{"id":174,"slug":"nh-vacation-part-2-mountain-climbers-berry-pickers","directory_name":"2002_07_27.NH_Vacation_Part_2_Mountain_Climbers_Berry_Pickers","title":"nh vacation part two: mountain climbers, berry pickers","year":2002,"month":7,"day":27,"date_display":"July 27, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nSaturday morning we woke up all decided to go hiking (except Lo, who decided to stay behind and do some drawing).\r\n

","link_copy":"Mountain Climbers, Berry Pickers","link_desc_html":"NH Vacation Part Two: Mountain Climbers, Berry Pickers","position":2002610,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":15},{"id":173,"slug":"nh-vacation-part-1-the-drive-up","directory_name":"2002_07_26.NH_Vacation_Part_1_The_Drive_Up","title":"NH Vacation Part One: The Drive Up","year":2002,"month":7,"day":26,"date_display":"July 26, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nTo celebrate summer (and the completion of Em & Lo's upcoming book), five of us, Isabella, Joey, Em, Lo & Me, (Grant couldn't go because he was in the UK taking care of his visa) crammed into my little, tiny car and headed up to Isabella's family lakehouse in West Ossippe, NH.

\r\n\r\nThe following seven entries (yep, seven) were compiled from pictures taken from the cameras of Joey, Lo and myself.

","link_copy":"The Drive Up","link_desc_html":"NH Vacation Part One: The Drive Up","position":2002600,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":7},{"id":172,"slug":"goodbye-uncle-stephen","directory_name":"2002_07_07.Goodbye_Uncle_Stephen","title":"goodbye uncle stephen","year":2002,"month":7,"day":7,"date_display":"July 07, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nMy Uncle Stephen was one of the most influential people in my life. Back in the day when I was a teen fuckup, Uncle Steve was one of the only people in my life (beyond my parents) that gave me the benefit of the doubt.

\r\n\r\nBeyond being kind and wonderful and wise, he was also one of the coolest cats that I ever had the pleasure of knowing. He passed away in January of 2002 down in Key West, but he wanted his ashes to be buried on the grounds of his summer home on Beech Island up in Bow Lake, NH. So this summer we all gather to remember Stephen and say goodbye.

","link_copy":"Goodbye Uncle Stephen","link_desc_html":"Goodbye Uncle Stephen - The family says goodbye. ","position":2002590,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":23},{"id":171,"slug":"kara-saks-gets-married","directory_name":"2002_06_30.Kara_Saks_Gets_Married","title":"kara saks gets married","year":2002,"month":6,"day":30,"date_display":"June 30, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nJesus, I don't even know what to write up here for my clever little summary. Kara Saks, whom I've known since 7th grade, and who was my dancing partner in high school, got married. Holy cuh-rap.\r\n

","link_copy":"Kara Saks Gets Married!","link_desc_html":"Holy Moly! Kara Saks Gets Married!","position":2002580,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":21},{"id":170,"slug":"lucky-cheng-karaoke","directory_name":"2002_06_28.Lucky_Cheng_Karaoke","title":"lucky cheng karaoke","year":2002,"month":6,"day":28,"date_display":"June 28, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nSpring Street is working with Nerve to create the concept for a personals television show. My friend David agreed to be the subject of one of the video personal ads for the pilot. Kristen, the woman producing and editing the clip, wanted footage of David and his friends (uh, that would be Grant, Jess and myself) all signing and hamming it up, so we headed over to Lucky Cheng's to rock the mic like a vandal...

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Monday night Nerve held the premiere and afterparty for the British film Ganster Number One. After getting our free drink on in Chelsea, we hopped a cab out to Greenpoint, Brooklyn for (yet another) Monday night karaoke action at Enid's.

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\r\nThis year's Mermaid Parade out at Coney Island wasn't nearly as much fun as last year's (when we actually got dressed up and participated in the parade), but it was still a pretty good time.

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\r\nI think at this point, you all know that my good friend Grant writes a column where I have the amazing opportunity to help think up all the fucked up shit that he has to do.

\r\n\r\nFor this assignment he had to wrestle a woman (people pay up to $250 an hour to wrestle...who knew?) David and I were lucky enough to be allowed to tag along and take pictures as Grant squared off against Maxine).

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\r\nEmily Cmielewski came all the way down from Beantown to celebrate her 23rd bday witha little drinking action in NYC with Rachael and myself. Unfortunately, the majority of the pics I took this night somehow got corrupted during transfer. These are the ones that made it.

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\r\nOn Wednesday, Louis \r\n and I flew out to Madison, WI to attend the annual conference for the \r\n Association of Alternative \r\n Newsweeklies. Our mission: convince all in attendance that they \r\n should should join our \r\n network of personals. Coincidentally enough, my good friend Sarah \r\n Landy had just graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison \r\n and promised to take me out on the town and show me the finer points \r\n of Madison nightlife.

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\r\nMotherfucker is a party that is thrown only on the eve's of major holidays. Amanda gets to go for free because she's a superstar, and she was kind enough to bring me as her plus one. (Andrew W.K. is nice and all, but I was hoping for more free drinks.)

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\r\nIn the face of her permanent departure from the east coast, Kate and I decided to try to put \"post breakup awkwardness\" behind us once and for all. I headed up to Boston one last time to see her off.

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\r\nFriday night out on the town! Went to see Amanda \"play\" in her new band, W.I.T. (Whatever It Takes), Larry Tee's new, all-girl, electro-clash, lipsynch project!.

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\r\nGrant and myself had just gotten out of seeing a movie at The Angelica, and before heading out for the night, we decided, since we were only a few blocks away, that we'd pop into our offices, take a quick piss, drop off our jackets, then we'd hit the town. We got into the elevator at 520 Broadway a few minutes shy of midnight. The elevator made it up to the fifth floor, then suddenly lurched to a stop, and then paused for a second before freefalling six or seven feet scaring the living FUCK out of us. The elevator paused again, dropped 3 or 4 more feet, and then stayed stuck in between the 3rd and 4th floors.

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\r\n Went to see at the Bowery Ballroom with Vin and Josh. The lead singer's antics (Tim) made their art-rock surprisingly tolerable!\r\n

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\r\nMy friend Philip runs a website called FuckedCompany. \r\n Anyway, somehow this cracker managed to finagle his pimp-ass-self a \r\n motherfucking book \r\n deal. After throwing a bunch of promotional parties around the country, \r\n he finally brought the party to NYC.

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\r\nDon't misunderstand the title of this piece, because Vice Magazine does indeed know how to party. This party was put together to celebrate Vice's most popular (and brutal) column, the fashion Do's and Don'ts.

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\r\nHoly cuh-rap. So I totally let this one fall through the cracks. I shrunk the pics, put them into HTML and everything, but for some reason I just never got around to adding my clever captions!

\r\n\r\nSo, lemme try to remember...the weather was just starting to get nice and Grant and myself decided to take Grant's friend Colin (who was in visiting from Boston) out to Coney Island. (And so I could play around with my camera and take \"artsy\" pictures. I hope you like them.)

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\r\nSaturday night started off at Rosemarie's Greenpoint Tavern where a bunch of Syracuse croonies all gathered to honor Kevin Malko who was up visiting from Florida.

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\r\nLisa Carver is having a baby! Knowing that Lisa's not much for people making a fuss over her, her husband Dave organized a big, super-secret baby shower for her up in New Hampshire to welcome the forthcoming Mercedes into the world.

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\r\nLisa Carver's husband called Grant about a surprise baby shower he was throwing for her up in Dover, NH. When we realized that Tookie's family (aka - Isabella) had a getaway cabin in the woods nearby, we decided to make a weekend of it and roadtrip it on up.

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\r\nIt's not everyday that one of your bestest friends turns 26. The whole crew reps to give Vin some Indian-food Birthday-loving followed by a night of drinking at (where else?) Cherry Tavern. Usually I'll write a bunch of captions to help narrate the evening, but I think these photos pretty much speak for themselves.

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\r\nNerve held a screening for the indy movie Somebody at the Sunshine Landmark and then had a small little after party across the street at Abaya.

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\r\nMy friend Alisa knows every big fancy pants in NYC. It was through her that I got introduced to restaraunteur Brian McNally who invited us to come to a tasting at his new cafe on Spring & Elizabeth.

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\r\nKaren Marsala turned twenty-six on Tuesday so we all met up at Drinkland on Friday to celebrate.

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\r\nOur friend Ray, who tattoos up in da Bronx, recently started working out of a rad little barber shop on 8th & D. Josh and I popped in to check on Vin's new forearm piece.

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\r\nWith only two weeks notice *doh!*, I manged to find a subletter to take over my room in the Indoorvillage. With my room completely empty, it was time to drop my stuff over at Brian Chamber's place, my new place, then help him get moved into his new waterfront place in the West Village.

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\r\nOn the eve before moving out of Brooklyn for good, I headed out with some friends to Rosemary's Greenpoint Tavern (which isn't even in Greenpoint!).

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Sometimes, just to do something completely new and different, we say fuck it and go drinking. Yep, and sometimes we enlist two girls named Karen to join us in drink and merriment.

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\r\nFor Lorelei's 30th birthday, Joey planned out a scavenger hunt that eventually led her over to Plant Bar where a bunch of us were waiting to surprise her!

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Going out in Manhattan on a Friday or Saturday night is just plain out of the question...it's amateur night in full-effect. Every schmoe from New Jersey and Connecticut who hasn't gotten a chance to go out and blow off steam during the week descends upon our small island to make up for lost time by smoking too much, drinking even more and wearing Dockers with pleats.

\r\n\r\nSometimes you just gotta mix shit up...so we turned the tables and headed out to New Brunswick, NJ to visit some friends. (I went out there to meet my friend Rachal, and Josh went out with Debbie to visit some of her friends. We agreed to meet up a crappy Irish bar and play the kick ass jukebox).

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\r\nAfter countless hours spend converting a giant, empty loft-space into a two storey four bedroom apartment (affectionately know to all as the IndoorVillage), I'm moving out. A friend of mine is moving out of his loft on Bowery & Grand and I've decided to take his place.

\r\n\r\nBefore I pack all my stuff up, I wanted to document how bitching the place turned out. Keep in mind, when we moved in, there wasn't anything in here...it was just a big empty room.

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\r\nFor Amy's 26th birthday, Jess, Ryan and Josh invited a bunch of over to their apartment (located in the loft two doors down from mine) and Jess proceeded to crank out an eight course (yep, eight) meal. I'm still full.

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\r\nEaster Weekend was pretty uneventful...oh wait, except my best friend Scott and his wife Amy had their second baby! (Holy Cuh-rap!)

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\r\nSo Wednesday nights have been blowing up lately. My friend Peter Makobich (pronounced, I shit you not, \"mack a bitch\") spins records at Abaya, and the Cake Girls (whom Grant & I stripped for back in the day) have been throwing a new weekly party over at Flow. On some Thursday nights, Matty has been spinning at Abaya too. So these pictures are just a random collection of several nights between those two places. Check it.

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\r\nVery few things in life are as funny as a Matt Weiner-made face. Matt and I have known each other since kindergarten. Our houses were back to back and our yards overlapped. I used to let him play with my space shuttle and he used to let me play in his treehouse. Our childhood friendship was abruptly truncated when after peeing in his clubhouse, he sought revenge by dropping a brick on my head (No seriously, I've still got a big-ass scar from it).

\r\n\r\nAnyway, Matt ended up going to college with me, and now he lives in NYC just like me! Vin, Josh, Liza and myself were all out one night remeniscing about how fucking funny Matt is and more-so, how fucking funny the faces he makes are. I swear, every time a camera comes out, Matt's got one ready. Here are some classics from the man himself, and then each of us giving our own interpretations of some of our beloved \"Matt Weiner Faces.\"

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Our friends Tyler, Mary and Josh are in a band called The Coastal Drag. In preparation for their upcoming Saturday night show in Brooklyn (at Rockstar Bar, no less) we all decided to meet up at Union Pool for some celebratory drinks...

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\r\nNerve co-hosted the screening and afterparty for the NYC premiere of the Mexican movie 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' (literally, \"and your mother too\") at the Tribeca Grand. (Free booze, y'all).

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\r\nWent all over the town taking stoopid pictures the whole time (Cherry Tavern to Botanica to Centro Fly to Abaya and then over to One and One to meet up with Hannah Taylor who'd just gotten to town from London).

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\r\nBecause we recently found out that Monday is the new Thursday (didn't you know?), Grant, John Roche and myself decided to kick it Greenpoint-style at Enid's Monday Night Karaoke.

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\r\nMid-Saturday afternoon I got a call from my good friend (and ex-high school girlfriend, awww) Rachael; she was headed in to town from NJ with a bunch of her friends to celebrate her former college roommate's birthday. The were headed over to Pioneer Bar on Bowery...and since it's only a hop, skip and a jump from the foot of the BillyBurg bridge, I headed out to meet them.

","link_copy":"Rachael Comes to Town","link_desc_html":"Rachael Comes to Town for a visit","position":2002200,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2002/rachael_visits/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":10},{"id":131,"slug":"hangspace-reunion","directory_name":"2002_02_24.Hangspace_Reunion","title":"Hangspace Reunion","year":2002,"month":2,"day":24,"date_display":"February 24, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nI met Pierre at my first job right out of college (Modem Media). Right at the end of 1999, I moved from Connecticut to NYC and the three of us started a company called HangSpace.com. (The idea was to create a place online where artists could upload mp3s to showcase their music and get feedback from A&R reps at record labels). The idea was very similar to what MySpace would eventually become four or five years later...the internet wasn't really big enough yet, and record labels weren't in enough financial trouble yet to have much interest in what we were trying to do. After two and half years of trying to get traction, we called it quits in March of 2001 after our funding dried up after the dot com bubble burst.)

\r\n\r\nAfter spending 80 hour weeks together for 18 months, after the company dissolved, we didn't see much of each other for a year...

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\r\nWe all gathered at Ludlow bar to celebrate Kristin Z's birthday. But considering it was a Friday (c'mon, who goes out on Friday night?) we all packed it in early.\r\n

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\r\nAn Equation: Invite 500 people to show up to a 150-person capacity space filled with remote-controlled cameras. Charge a $10 cover and provide four hours of all the vodka you can drink = MAKEOUT.\r\n

","link_copy":"Make-Out Party","link_desc_html":"Nerve throws a big Make-Out Party. ","position":2002170,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2002/nerve_makeout_party/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":14},{"id":128,"slug":"random-february-parties","directory_name":"2002_02_00.Random_February_Parties","title":"Random February Parties","year":2002,"month":2,"day":null,"date_display":"February, 2002","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Random Parties","link_desc_html":"Random Parties I went to through work. ","position":2002160,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2002/random_parties/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":11},{"id":127,"slug":"megans-25th-birthday","directory_name":"2002_01_27.Megans_25th_Birthday","title":"Megans 25th Birthday","year":2002,"month":1,"day":27,"date_display":"January 27, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nVin received an invitation to attend his \"friend\" Megan's 25th birthday party. Megan? Megan who? Exactly! Megan was a girl who Vin had only hung out with once when they worked together at Pearl Paint one day. He had smooched her once in the past, but hadn't spoken to her in well-over two month...so when he told us that he'd been invited to her birthday, we explained to him that the unexpected birthday invitation could only mean one thing: he was being summoned to be Megan's Birthday Make-Out Booty Call! The big night came and Josh and I tagged along for moral support (oh, and so I could take pictures)...

","link_copy":" Megan's 25th Birthday","link_desc_html":" Megan's 25th Birthday - Vin gets a Bday Booty Call. ","position":2002150,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2002/megans_25th/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":126,"slug":"holobek-moves","directory_name":"2002_01_26.Holobek_Moves","title":"Holobek Moves It","year":2002,"month":1,"day":26,"date_display":"January 26, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nOur college friend (and former Crackhouse Resident in '96) Brian Holubek, decided to take the plunge and move in with Natalie, his long time girly-girl. Homeboy decided to have a little get together to say goodbye to his bachelor-esque, Williamsburg-industrial-park-stylin' loft.

","link_copy":"Holobek Moves It","link_desc_html":"Holobek Moves It - Brian's going away party. ","position":2002140,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2002/holo_moves/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":6},{"id":124,"slug":"boyz-nights-out","directory_name":"2002_01_22.Boyz_Nights_Out","title":"Boyz Nights Out","year":2002,"month":1,"day":22,"date_display":"January 22, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nHmmm, nothing too exciting here. Just me and my gay-ass friends out on the town two nights in a row trying to kick it to the lovely ladies of the East Village.

","link_copy":"Boyz Nights Out","link_desc_html":"Boyz Nights Out - Lock up yer daughters... ","position":2002120,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2002/boyz_nights_out/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":15},{"id":125,"slug":"nerves-hbo-debut-parties","directory_name":"2002_01_19.Nerves_HBO_Debut_Parties","title":"Nerve Celebrates its HBO TV Show","year":2002,"month":1,"day":19,"date_display":"January 19, 2002","intro_html":"

After more than a year of work, Nerve's TV show aired on HBO on January 19th at 11pm. In that first week the show aired 4 times...and being Nervites, we decided to do what we do best...throw a party. Okay, two parties.

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\r\nI'd had a sore throat and really swollen lymph nodes for like two weeks, but I figured that I was just fighting off a cold. Then after two serious nights of drinking (the later or which involved a whole lot of making out with a complete stranger) I woke up pretty sick on Sunday morning. Achy, fevery, sore throat, the works so I tried to just take it easy...but it was too late and I woke up deathly ill on Monday morning. I thought I had the flu so I decided to stay in bed and rest. By Wednesday things had only gotten worse my fever was higher, I couldn't get out of bed and was having trouble drinking water...it was time to see the doctor.

\r\n\r\nTurns out, the sore throat that I'd had for a few weeks had been caused by Strepp and because I hadn't rested or treated it, it'd developed into acute tonsillitis. Yuck. I missed a whole week of work.

","link_copy":"Being Sick Sucks","link_desc_html":"Being Sick Sucks - Big Bri gets put out of commision for a week. ","position":2002110,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2002/being_sick_sucks/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":4},{"id":122,"slug":"one-messy-weekend","directory_name":"2002_01_11.One_Messy_Weekend","title":"One Messy Weekend","year":2002,"month":1,"day":11,"date_display":"January 11, 2002","intro_html":"

\r\nFriday and Saturday consisted of two solid nights of drinking and being out way too late. Here's the two evenings that led to me waking up dead sick on Sunday. Blarg.

","link_copy":"Twice in a Row","link_desc_html":"Drinking lots and staying out all night Twice in a Row will certainly get you sick. ","position":2002100,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:35:28","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"http://ikeepadiary.com/diary/2002/messy_weekend/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":19}]},{"year":2001,"entry_count":19,"photo_count":228,"entries":[{"id":121,"slug":"new-years-eve","directory_name":"2001_12_31.New_Years_Eve","title":"New Year's Eve","year":2001,"month":12,"day":31,"date_display":"December 31, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nOur dear friend (and Scotsman!) Jack Wright recently bought a little getaway house in upstate New York (about 90 miles northwest of NYC). He invited about 20 or so of us up to bring in the New Year in his in-the-process-of-being-renovated new home!\r\n

","link_copy":"New Year's Eve","link_desc_html":"New Year's Eve in Upstate New York","position":2001190,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2002/nye2002/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":18},{"id":120,"slug":"its-christmas-with-the-battjers","directory_name":"2001_12_25.Its_Christmas_with_the_Battjers","title":"It's Christmas with the Battjers!","year":2001,"month":12,"day":25,"date_display":"December 25, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nSee, the thing about everyone in my family is that when any of sees something that want, we pretty much buy it right then and there...so picking out Christmas presents for each other is always really difficult because everyone pretty much has everything they want (except my mom, who never wants anything and thinks everything is too extravagant or expensive...typical Xmas request from my mom: \"Well I'm almost out of soap. Maybe you could get me soap for Christmas?\")

\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, Xmas morning is a big joke around my house...we've usually long since given our presents to each other, but yet every year we still wake up early and gather around the tree as a family to exchange our dinky presents.\r\n

","link_copy":"It's Christmas with the Battjers","link_desc_html":"A Christmas Story Part 4: It's Christmas with the Battjers!","position":2001180,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/xmas/xmas_day/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":11},{"id":119,"slug":"clark-w-griswold-lives-in-nj","directory_name":"2001_12_23.Clark_W_Griswold_Lives_in_NJ","title":"Clark W. Griswold Lives in NJ","year":2001,"month":12,"day":23,"date_display":"December 23, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nRachael and I were despondent: it was December 23rd and yet it still didn't fell like Christmas. So we decided that we were going to try to do some Christmassey type things to get in that \"Holiday Mood.\" We considered driving down to see the Christmas Lights that they put up every year at the Garden State Art Center...but the fact that we'd have to drive 45 minutes plus the fact that we'd have to pay $20 (and the fact that we're both lazy bastards) made us reconsider. \r\n

\r\n","link_copy":"Clark W. Griswold Lives in NJ","link_desc_html":"A Christmas Story Part 3: Clark W. Griswold Lives in NJ","position":2001170,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/xmas/griswolds_house/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":118,"slug":"roxbury-high-school-reunion","directory_name":"2001_12_22.Roxbury_High_School_Reunion","title":"Roxbury High School Reunion","year":2001,"month":12,"day":22,"date_display":"December 22, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nEvery time I go home for the holidays, I hit all the local bars in search of random people that I went to high school with. Kim Wison, Jess Kain and myself hadn't all been in town together for over a year (Kim lives in NC, Jess lives in CA) so we decided to hit the town and start sniffing them out...\r\n

","link_copy":"RHS Reunion","link_desc_html":"A Chirstmas Story Part 2: RHS Reunion!","position":2001160,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/xmas/rhs_reunion/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":117,"slug":"midget-madness","directory_name":"2001_12_21.Midget_Madness","title":"Midget Madness","year":2001,"month":12,"day":21,"date_display":"December 21, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nFor the holidays this year I packed up the car and headed home for an extended visit with my family out in New Jersey. I spent the majority of those seven days sitting down in my parent's basement with my little brother (he's home from college in Indiana) playing PS2, XBox and eating more junkfood than I think I've ever eating in my life. In between pushing buttons and stuffing my yob, I did manage to leave the house a few times.

\r\n\r\nI know, I know, with the title of this page, you're dying to get right to the part about the midget (and friend, who can blame you?), but before we get to the midget, there's a little side story that must be told...\r\n

","link_copy":"Midget Madness","link_desc_html":"A Christmas Story Part 1: Midget Madness","position":2001150,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/xmas/midget_madness/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":11},{"id":116,"slug":"every-party-has-a-pooper","directory_name":"2001_12_15.Every_Party_Has_a_Pooper","title":"Every Party Has a Pooper","year":2001,"month":12,"day":15,"date_display":"December 15, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nFive people in our office all have birthdays within the same week, so in order to honor the birthdays of Deb, Martin, Jock, Stephan and himself, Brian Chambers threw a big old shindig in his phatty Chinatown pad (and like usual, some funky-ass shit ended up going down).\r\n

","link_copy":"Has a Pooper","link_desc_html":"Every Party Has a Pooper","position":2001140,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/nerve_bdays/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":13},{"id":115,"slug":"a-very-merry-drunks-xmas","directory_name":"2001_12_12.A_Very_Merry_Drunks_Xmas","title":"A Very Merry Drunk's Xmas","year":2001,"month":12,"day":12,"date_display":"December 12, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nMy friends Tyler, Mary and Sean sent around the following email:

\r\n\r\n\"It's the festive time of the year so we thought it would be fun to have a few drinks with all our friends (or the \"Superbitchin' Super Squad\" as we call them) for a change of pace. Please join us in some Yuletide cheer....and by that, of course, we mean snorting Drano. Mike and Tyler are spinning records from their personal collections, so make sure your ears are ready for suck! Santa hats are optional, but strongly encouraged. Santa thongs are even more optional. Look, we don't want to have to use the phrase \"drunken high school makeout party\" here, but we think it's going to be a drunken high school makeout party. \"\r\n

","link_copy":"Drunk's Xmas","link_desc_html":"A Very Merry Drunk's Xmas","position":2001130,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/drunks_xmas/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":17},{"id":114,"slug":"i-guess-i-deserved-this","directory_name":"2001_12_10.I_Guess_I_Deserved_This","title":"My Big Secret","year":2001,"month":12,"day":10,"date_display":"December 10, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nI work for a company called Spring Street Networks, we were recently spun out of Nerve.com. Spring Street provides private-label, online personals for media entities including Nerve.com, Salon.com, Time Out New York (and a bunch more...including The Onion in Jan. 2002!)

\r\n\r\nAnyway, my ad was recently the \"Featured Ad of the Day\" across all of our partners' homepages...which led me receiving a ton of (admittedly deserved) emails from people I know ridiculing me (not for using personals, but for having a photo of me where I looked what was oft described as a \"member of a boy band.\" Here's the worst of it...my co-worker Joey Cavella photoshopped together this masterful lampoon and proceeded to send it around the office. Oy vey.\r\n

","link_copy":"This","link_desc_html":"I Guess I Deserved This","position":2001120,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/oh_the_horror/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":2},{"id":113,"slug":"joey-cavellas-birthday-bash","directory_name":"2001_11_29.Joey_Cavellas_Birthday_Bash","title":"Joey Cavella's Birthday Bash","year":2001,"month":11,"day":29,"date_display":"November 29, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nSo I finally went out and bought a digital camera (New job means new toys! Woohoo!) and my friend and co-worker, Joey Cavella, was considerate enough to have a birthday so that I could snap some snazzy new photos. So here's us getting pretty sloppy drunk at 7B in honor of Joey's 33rd (He doesn't look THAT old, I know!) birthday.\r\n

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\r\nMy good friend and fellow Nerve co-worker Ross Martin (and his wife, Jordana) decided (in the face of anthrax) to pack it all up and leave Manhattan for the (relative) saftey of Bronxville, NY. Being the good friends that we are, Grant, Jock and myself agreed to donate our Sunday to helping pack up all his stuff and move him \"upstate.\" Grant and I showed up in the wake of Connor's birthday party and we were running on less than 2 hours of sleep. (or at least I was. Considering that Grant left Connor's party at the embarrassingly-early time of 1am, I'm pretty sure he got a full night's sleep...)\r\n

","link_copy":"Moves","link_desc_html":"Ross Martin Moves","position":200180,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/rossmoves/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":5},{"id":108,"slug":"conors-birthday-party","directory_name":"2001_10_27.Conors_Birthday_Party","title":"Conors Birthday Party","year":2001,"month":10,"day":27,"date_display":"October 27, 2001","intro_html":"Conor lives right around the corner from me (yup, that makes him just one of the sixteen Syracuse University students in my building). We headed all the way around the corner to rock out for his birthday","link_copy":"Birthday Party","link_desc_html":"Connor's Birthday Party","position":200170,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/connor_bday/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":9},{"id":107,"slug":"the-coming-out-dance-at-sarah-lawrence","directory_name":"2001_10_06.The_Coming_Out_Dance_at_Sarah_Lawrence","title":"The Coming Out Dance at Sarah Lawrence","year":2001,"month":10,"day":6,"date_display":"October 06, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nOur friend Nina (former Nerve intern and girlfriend of Grant) attends Sarah Lawrence College. For those of you who don't know about SLC, it's a small, liberal arts college tucked away in Bronxville, NY about 20 miles from NYC.

\r\n\r\nThe unique thing about Sarah Lawrence is that it's pretty much a girl's school. There are a few guys that go there, but the ratio of women to men is like 9:1. Anyway, once a year, Sarah Lawrence has a party called \"The Coming Out Dance.\" Basically, the party is just an excuse for the girls to get dressed up all naughty, invite up a bunch of boys...and molest them.

\r\n\r\nAs journalists, we had an obligation to attend. So Vin, Grant, and myself headed up to Sarah Lawrence with Nina to see if this party could live up to all the legendary stories we'd heard (it did).\r\n

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\r\nAfter ignoring the phone 3 times, I finally got out of bed to answer it and see what was up. It was my roommate Dzija's father. He asked me if Dzija was around and I replied that he was most likely at work. At this point Mr. Dzija seemed upset and asked me to get up and check to see if Dzija was around. I got up and confirmed that he wasn't home and then asked if I could take a message. Mr. Dzija was like \"A plane just hit the World Trade Cener.\" (Where Dzija works). I was like \"What?\" and Mr. Dzija told me \"Uh, you should probably turn on the TV.\"

\r\n\r\nI turned on the TV and like 35 seconds later, the second plane hit. Several minutes later my other roommate Barlow came home, he'd been walking across the Pulaski footbridge, saw the 2nd plane hit and figured that it might not be such a good idea to head into Manhattan. Not knowing what else to do, we went up to our roof to watch firsthand.

\r\n","link_copy":"September 11th, 2001","link_desc_html":"September 11th, 2001","position":200150,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/the_day_the_world_ended/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":6},{"id":105,"slug":"indoorvillage-prom","directory_name":"2001_06_24.Indoorvillage_Prom","title":"Indoorvillage Prom","year":2001,"month":6,"day":24,"date_display":"June 24, 2001","intro_html":"$30","link_copy":"Indoorvillage Prom","link_desc_html":"Indoorvillage Prom","position":200140,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/prom/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":14},{"id":104,"slug":"the-mermaid-parade","directory_name":"2001_06_24.The_Mermaid_Parade","title":"The Mermaid Parade","year":2001,"month":6,"day":24,"date_display":"June 24, 2001","intro_html":"

\r\nSometimes people's jobs require that they attend certain events or conferences outside of the 9-5 office day. Usually these events, conferences or meetings are a drag. However, when you work for a sex-magazine, they usually prove to be pretty interesting.

\r\n\r\nCase in point: The Mermaid Parade at Coney Island. Basically every year people get dresssed up in some sort of sea-related costume, get really drunk and parade around Coney in bitching classic cars and the girls all show their boobies. Nerve entered into the parade and came up with a \"Grease\" theme. The four guys were T-Bird greasers and we had with us a bevy of Mermaid \"Pink Ladies.\"

\r\n\r\nThe parade was fun but poorly organized. We spent 4+ hours on hot, black macadam, dressed in dark blue jeans, waiting for our turn to perform our routine for the judges. By the time we got to perform, we were a sorry bunch. After the parade was over, we all headed back to my place for the Indoorvillage Prom.\r\n

\r\n","link_copy":"The Mermaid Parade","link_desc_html":"The Mermaid Parade","position":200130,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:34:57","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2001/mermaid_parade/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":6},{"id":103,"slug":"nerve-magazine-hbo-party","directory_name":"2001_06_07.Nerve_Magazine_HBO_Party","title":"Nerve Magazine HBO Party","year":2001,"month":6,"day":7,"date_display":"June 07, 2001","intro_html":"Nerve Magazine was throwing a giant party that was going to be filmed by HBO to be a segment on Nerve's upcoming HBO TV show (premieres January 19th, 2002). I had just been hired at Nerve several weeks earlier, but hadn't started working there yet...but they told me that I should definitely come to the party. I asked if I could bring two dates, and they said yes. So I grabbed Kate and Sarah and we headed out to rock. The funny thing is, I don't even have any pictures of the actual party itself...I just have pics of us going there and then there are pics of us afterwards, butt-ass-wasted.

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\r\nIndoorvillage wishes you a Happy Holiday!

\r\n\r\nWhen we moved into the IndoorVillage, we all planned on going to the local photography studio at Sears and getting a giant \"family photo\" taken of the four of us so we could frame it and hang it over the fireplace that we don't have. Like most things that we plan as a house...that didn't happen. So instead, we decided to take a group \"Holiday Cheer\" picture that we could get turned into a photo greeting card to send out to all of our friends and loved ones. We all bought matching, white cable-knit, holiday sweaters on the street for $5 bucks a pop, slicked back our hair and gathered around our fancy tree.\r\n

","link_copy":"Happy Holiday","link_desc_html":"Indoorvillage wishes you a Happy Holiday","position":200090,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:51","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2000/indoorvillage_xmas/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":6},{"id":101,"slug":"vacation-in-st-thomas-part-3","directory_name":"2000_10_10.Vacation_in_St_Thomas_Part_3","title":"Vacation in St Thomas: Part Three","year":2000,"month":10,"day":10,"date_display":"October 10, 2000","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Part Three","link_desc_html":"Vacation in St Thomas: Part Three","position":200060,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:51","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2000/theperfectweek/index3.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":10},{"id":100,"slug":"vacation-in-st-thomas-part-2","directory_name":"2000_10_08.Vacation_in_St_Thomas_Part_2","title":"Vacation in St Thomas: Part Two","year":2000,"month":10,"day":8,"date_display":"October 08, 2000","intro_html":null,"link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"Vacation in St Thomas: Part Two","position":200055,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:51","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2000/theperfectweek/index2.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":10},{"id":99,"slug":"vacation-in-st-thomas-part-1","directory_name":"2000_10_05.Vacation_in_St_Thomas_Part_1","title":"Vacation in St Thomas: Part One","year":2000,"month":10,"day":5,"date_display":"October 05, 2000","intro_html":"

\r\nAfter a rough couple of months, Kate and I both desperately needed a vacation. We packed up and headed to St. Thomas for some rest and relaxation, big pimpin style, yo.\r\n

\r\n","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"Vacation in St Thomas: Part One","position":200050,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:51","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2000/theperfectweek/index1.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":17},{"id":111,"slug":"indoorvillage-featured-in-the-village-voice","directory_name":"2000_09_05.Indoorvillage_Featured_in_the_Village_Voice","title":"Indoorvillage Featured in the Village Voice","year":2000,"month":9,"day":5,"date_display":"September 05, 2000","intro_html":"

\r\nIndoor Village was featured in the Shelter column of the September 5th issue of the Village Voice! I've copied over the body of the article down below (just in case they ever lose it or take it down). They keep moving the article around, but the last time I checked, you can check out the article on the Village Voice's website here.\r\n

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\r\nConstruction continues but the place is starting to take shape!\r\n

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\r\nAs construction intensifies, Barlow officially decides to become the fourth and final \"Indoorvillager\" and moves into the space, sharing a tent (gay!) with Dzija.\r\n

","link_copy":"Part Two","link_desc_html":"The Making of Indoorvillage: Part Two","position":200020,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:51","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2000/indoorvillage_part2/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":14},{"id":95,"slug":"the-making-of-indoorvillage-part-1","directory_name":"2000_06_00.The_Making_of_Indoorvillage_Part_1","title":"The Making of Indoorvillage: Part One","year":2000,"month":6,"day":null,"date_display":"June, 2000","intro_html":"

\r\nDzija and I got fed up with living in regular apartments and decided that together we'd find a raw loft-space and turn it into an indoor Tiki-themed \"village.\" Instead of rooms, we were going to build huts that were going to be covered in bamboo and have thatched roofs.

\r\n\r\nAfter weeks of fruitless searching, we finally found a space we liked in a still-functioning cardboard box factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Dzija and I brought our friend Amy Albano into the mix and the three of us signed a five year lease on a 1,250 sq. foot room with 16' ceilings.\r\n

\r\n","link_copy":"Part One","link_desc_html":"The Making of Indoorvillage: Part One","position":200010,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:51","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"2000/indoorvillage_part1/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":13}]},{"year":1999,"entry_count":3,"photo_count":33,"entries":[{"id":82,"slug":"halloween-in-boston","directory_name":"1999_10_31.Halloween_in_Boston","title":"Halloween in Boston","year":1999,"month":10,"day":31,"date_display":"October 31, 1999","intro_html":"

\r\nVin and I hopped in my car and drove north to spend Halloween in Boston with Josh and Emily (and Emily's best-friend Kate that I'd met two weeks earlier that I had a big ol' crush on!)

","link_copy":"Halloween","link_desc_html":"Halloween in Boston","position":199903,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:21","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1999/halloween/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":10},{"id":81,"slug":"visiting-sammy","directory_name":"1999_10_01.Visiting_Sammy","title":"Visiting Sammy","year":1999,"month":10,"day":1,"date_display":"October 01, 1999","intro_html":"

\r\nHaving just recently broken up with my girlfriend, I decided to head down and visit my friend Sam \"Dicktricks\" M. (last named removed because of Google!) and do all sorts of stuff that would've gotten me in trouble had I still had a girlfriend.

","link_copy":"Visiting Sammy","link_desc_html":"Visiting Sammy ","position":199902,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:21","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1999/visiting_sam/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":12},{"id":80,"slug":"happy-birthday-frenchy","directory_name":"1999_03_12.Happy_Birthday_Frenchy","title":"NAMBLA Loves Frenchy G","year":1999,"month":3,"day":12,"date_display":"March 12, 1999","intro_html":"

\r\nIt's a know rule: If your birthday is coming up, you're required to notify your co-workers so they can have a quiet little shin-dig for you. People that break this rule and try to hide the fact that their birthday is coming up (people like Geoff G.) must suffer the consequences of public humiliation!\r\n

","link_copy":"NAMBLA Loves Frenchy G","link_desc_html":"NAMBLA Loves Frenchy G","position":199901,"published":1,"publish_date":"2012-02-20 18:43:20","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1999/frenchy/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":11}]},{"year":1998,"entry_count":12,"photo_count":118,"entries":[{"id":79,"slug":"modem-media-christmas-party","directory_name":"1998_12_00.Modem_Media_Christmas_Party","title":"Modem Media Christmas Party","year":1998,"month":12,"day":null,"date_display":"December, 1998","intro_html":"Pics from my very first holiday office party!

","link_copy":"Christmas Party","link_desc_html":"Modem Media Christmas Party","position":199812,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1998/xmas98/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":14},{"id":78,"slug":"halloween","directory_name":"1998_10_31.Halloween","title":"Random Halloween Photos","year":1998,"month":10,"day":31,"date_display":"October 31, 1998","intro_html":"

\r\nHere are a bunch of random Halloween-related photos. Not much of a narrative here, but still worth posting.\r\n

","link_copy":"Random Halloween Photos","link_desc_html":"Random Halloween Photos","position":199811,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1998/halloween/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":7},{"id":77,"slug":"modem-media-ipo-party","directory_name":"1998_10_00.Modem_Media_IPO_Party","title":"Modem Media IPO Party","year":1998,"month":10,"day":null,"date_display":"October, 1998","intro_html":"

\r\nIn October of 1998, Modem Media became one of the first \"internet companies\" to go public with an initial public offering of stock (IPO). With dreams of riches dancing in our tiny minds, we all left work early and headed to a bar in Norwalk...

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I used to work at Modem Media on the Compaq account. When Modem announced it was going to go public (right at the height of the dot.com boom), they asked Compaq to commit to a huge contract guaranteeing a big chunk of business. Compaq refused and Modem resigned the account, opting instead to take on IBM (a move that they thought would impress investors not taking into consideration that it would instead ruin their employee's lives...nameley, mine.) Anyway, after we had made the announcement, we had to transition all of our projects over to an interim agency. My former client, Scot Petit and some of his new folks flew out to CT from Texas to say goodbye...and we all headed out for Hibachi dinner.

","link_copy":"Hibachi Dinner","link_desc_html":"Compaq Hibachi Dinner - Plus Tony leaves MMPT.","position":199809,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1998/hibachi/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":13},{"id":75,"slug":"strangers-in-the-night","directory_name":"1998_07_00.Strangers_in_the_Night","title":"Strangers in the Night","year":1998,"month":7,"day":null,"date_display":"July, 1998","intro_html":"

\r\nMy friend Doug and I went to Hoboken for the evening to visit Amy Albano, my former college roommate (and friend since middle school). We went to Amy's house and started drinking some beers and then Doug and I decided that we were going to walk down the street and get some take-out to eat before we headed out for the evening. On the way to pick up our food order, we randomly decided that we were going to start taking pictures of each other with strangers in the background. The object of the game was to see how far you could go to \"obviously\" get your picture taken with a stranger while at the same time pretending that you weren't doing it. The game caught on and we played all night (getting braver as we go drunker).

","link_copy":"Strangers in the Night","link_desc_html":"Strangers in the Night - Drunk and dissheveled in Hoboken","position":199808,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1998/strangers/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":14},{"id":73,"slug":"random-summer-pics","directory_name":"1998_07_00.Random_Summer_Pics","title":"Random Summer Pics","year":1998,"month":7,"day":null,"date_display":"July, 1998","intro_html":"

These pics don't belong anywhere in particular, so they get their own lonely little section.

","link_copy":"Random Summer Photos","link_desc_html":"Four Totally Random Summer Photos","position":199807,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1998/random_summer/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":4},{"id":72,"slug":"letters-from-doug","directory_name":"1998_06_00.Letters_From_Doug","title":"Letters From Doug","year":1998,"month":6,"day":null,"date_display":"June, 1998","intro_html":"

\r\nMy friend Doug lives at a Buddhist monastery in northern Vermont. Besides spending eight hours a day meditating, there's not much else to do...so, sporadically I'll receive random letters from Doug, usually with interesting photos enclosed. Keep in mind, these photos never have any explanation. He just takes pictures that he'll think I'll like and mails them to me. Here are scans of some of the photos he enclosed.

","link_copy":"Letters From Doug","link_desc_html":"Letters From Doug","position":199806,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1998/lettersfromdoug/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":6},{"id":71,"slug":"the-end-of-college","directory_name":"1998_05_00.The_End_of_College","title":"The End of College","year":1998,"month":5,"day":null,"date_display":"May, 1998","intro_html":"

These photos are all mixed up and out of order, but they all come from my last several months of college (*sniff*sniff). If I can find the time, I'll throw in some clever captions later! Lucky you!\r\n

","link_copy":"End of the Year '98","link_desc_html":"End of the Year '98 - Wellspring, Blockparty, Graduation & More!","position":199805,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1998/end98/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":22},{"id":70,"slug":"we-meet-the-sarge","directory_name":"1998_04_00.We_Meet_The_Sarge","title":"We Meet The Sarge","year":1998,"month":4,"day":null,"date_display":"April, 1998","intro_html":"

\r\nSo, the WWF showed up the Newhouse's career fair looking to recruit graduates for employment. Knowing the competition for student's attention would be tough, the WWF pulled out the big guns and dispatched the none other than WWF superstar Sgt. Slaughter to bedazzle us. The Sarge pressed some palms and doled out nuggets of mat-gleaned wisdom. I wish I had brought my camera (but who thinks to bring a camera to a career fair?), so this autographed glossy will have to suffice...\r\n

","link_copy":"Sgt. Slaughter","link_desc_html":"Sgt. Slaughter in the (New)House","position":199804,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"/1998/slaughter/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":2},{"id":69,"slug":"spring-break-98","directory_name":"1998_03_00.Spring_Break_98","title":"Spring Break 98","year":1998,"month":3,"day":null,"date_display":"March, 1998","intro_html":"

\r\nWell, I finally got around to posting these pictures. I've been so busy lately that I haven't had the time to put them up. Anyway, I spent spring break down in West Palm Beach, Florida with Caitlin, Marion and Nisara. (We took a lot more pictures than this, but I'm still waiting for Marion to get her God damned film developed. So whenever she gets around to it, I'll post more pictures. And the reason that Caitlin isn't in many pictures is because she censored most of the ones that I wanted to put on because she didn't like them.) Retard.

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\r\n \"FunFunFun At OneOneOne\" (111 Redfield Place, that is). I'm not going to waste a lot of time here talking about what a big disaster this party was because you can read about it in my \"About Me\" section. (Actually, the people who attended the party had a great time, it was only a disaster for Dzija and I.)

\r\n\r\n(Sorry it took so long to put these photos up. I had them developed two days after the party but I didn't have the time to scan them before spring break, but now I'm back, and now I have some time, so here they are. I hope you like them.)\r\n

","link_copy":"FunFunFun@OneOneOne","link_desc_html":"FunFunFun@OneOneOne","position":199802,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1998/germanparty/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":13},{"id":67,"slug":"the-get-pimped-party","directory_name":"1998_01_24.The_Get_Pimped_Party","title":"The Get Pimped Party","year":1998,"month":1,"day":24,"date_display":"January 24, 1998","intro_html":"

\r\nLast semester there were four of living in this house (David, Andrew , Brad, and myself) but Brad graduated leaving only the three of us to share this huge house (and it's huge utility costs). And when a $300+ heating bill for the month of December arrived in the mail, we decided it was time for a party.

\r\n\r\nSo Dzija and I made ourselves busy creating and distributing as many flyers as we could (showing off our Mad Newhouse Advertising Skills, yo). Needless to say, with seven DJ's spinning, the word got out almost too well, but with Big D bouncing at the door, there weren't any problems. So thanks to the 400+ friends and strangers who stopped by to drink, laugh, dance, and most importantly, pay our heating bill.

","link_copy":"Get Pimped Party","link_desc_html":"The Get Pimped Party","position":199801,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:33:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":0,"legacy_url":null,"comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":11}]},{"year":1997,"entry_count":8,"photo_count":72,"entries":[{"id":57,"slug":"jess-and-ryans-stripper-birthday-bash","directory_name":"1997_11_15.Jess_and_Ryans_Stripper_Birthday_Bash","title":"Jess and Ryan's Stripper Birthday Bash","year":1997,"month":11,"day":15,"date_display":"November 15, 1997","intro_html":"$31","link_copy":"Stripper Birthday Bash","link_desc_html":"Jess and Ryan's Stripper Birthday Bash","position":199708,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1997/birthday/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":13},{"id":65,"slug":"halloween-and-homecoming","directory_name":"1997_10_31.Halloween_and_Homecoming","title":"Halloween and Homecoming","year":1997,"month":10,"day":31,"date_display":"October 31, 1997","intro_html":"

Homecoming and Halloween were a blast this year. Doug, one of my best friends, flew out from San Diego (he's in Indonesia now) to come stay with me for a week. Then, our friend Mike came up from Scanton to hang out, making it just like old times. Keystone College in 'da house, boyeee.

\r\n\r\nAnyway, after only one day, Mike had to scurry back home to Scranton because his girlfriend has him wrapped. Haha. So he missed our slamming Halloween party (invite pictured below)

","link_copy":"Halloween Visit","link_desc_html":"Halloween Visit from Doug & Mike","position":199707,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1997/halloween/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":10},{"id":64,"slug":"archers-of-loaf-with-doug","directory_name":"1997_10_24.Archers_of_Loaf_with_Doug","title":"Archers of Loaf with Doug","year":1997,"month":10,"day":24,"date_display":"October 24, 1997","intro_html":"

\r\nDoug Toth is one of my favorite people. He and I met up in Boston to see Archers of Loaf, one of our favorite bands!

","link_copy":"Archers of Loaf Show","link_desc_html":"Archers of Loaf Show with Doug","position":199706,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1997/archers/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":7},{"id":63,"slug":"visiting-boston-with-cousin-katie","directory_name":"1997_08_00.Visiting_Boston_with_Cousin_Katie","title":"Visiting Boston with Cousin Katie","year":1997,"month":8,"day":null,"date_display":"August, 1997","intro_html":"

\r\nAt the end of a week visiting my Uncle Stephen, who spends his summers at his island lakehouse in New Hampshire, my cousin Kate decided that she was going to accompany me to Boston to visit my best friend Scott.

","link_copy":"Visiting Boston","link_desc_html":"Visiting Boston with Cousin Katie","position":199705,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1997/bostonsummer/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":9},{"id":61,"slug":"syracuse-bbq-stylin","directory_name":"1997_07_00.Syracuse_BBQ_Stylin","title":"Syracuse BBQ Stylin'","year":1997,"month":7,"day":null,"date_display":"July, 1997","intro_html":"

\r\nWell, I finally got around to putting up some photos of what I did over the summer (mostly, I spent my time either working at my Lucent job, or hauling my butt up to Syracuse to visit Jess).

","link_copy":"Summer in Syracuse BBQ Stylin'","link_desc_html":"Summer in Syracuse BBQ Stylin'","position":199704,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1997/summer/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":9},{"id":60,"slug":"end-of-the-year","directory_name":"1997_05_00.End_of_the_Year","title":"End of the Year","year":1997,"month":5,"day":null,"date_display":"May, 1997","intro_html":"

\r\nThese photos are all from around the last three months of the school year so I just decided to group them all together.

","link_copy":"Springtime / End of School Year '97","link_desc_html":"Springtime / End of School Year '97","position":199703,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1997/spring/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":13},{"id":59,"slug":"first-warm-day","directory_name":"1997_02_26.First_Warm_Day","title":"First Warm Day","year":1997,"month":2,"day":26,"date_display":"February 26, 1997","intro_html":"

\r\nMy buddy Sammy Miriello and his lamo girlfriend at the time Terry (who is noticeably absent from all of these pictures because she was annoying), came up to visit from Millersville. Sam realized what a poop Terry was, and promptly dropped her ass as soon as he got back to Millersville. Haha!

","link_copy":"First Warm Day","link_desc_html":"First Warm Day Came Early","position":199702,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1997/firstwarmday/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":5},{"id":58,"slug":"valentines-day","directory_name":"1997_02_14.Valentines_Day","title":"Valentine's Day","year":1997,"month":2,"day":14,"date_display":"February 14, 1997","intro_html":"

\r\nThe first few pictures on this page were taken on Valentine's Day. For any of you who may not know, this was my first \"date\" I went on with my girlfriend Jess. Well, at this point, it still really wasn't a date per se, but it was the first time that we ever really went out somewhere together. We didn't manage to last very long at the party because Jess had drank a bunch of beers and several glasses of wine at my house before the party, and then proceeded to drink way too many mixed drinks once we arrived at the party. Can you guess what happened? Uh-oh.

","link_copy":"Valentine's Day Party","link_desc_html":"Amy Werner's Valentine's Day Party","position":199701,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:36","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1997/valentine/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":6}]},{"year":1996,"entry_count":2,"photo_count":8,"entries":[{"id":55,"slug":"a-very-merry-crackhouse-christmas","directory_name":"1996_12_00.A_Very_Merry_Crackhouse_Christmas","title":"A Holly Jolly Crackhouse Christmas","year":1996,"month":12,"day":null,"date_display":"December, 1996","intro_html":"

800 Euclid decided to throw a Holly, Jolly Xmas bash. And there was only one requirement to get in the door: you had to have a wrapped present with you. All the gifts were placed under the Crackhouse's Christmas Tree (see below). Several hours later, the 100+ people that were left, all crowded into the living room around the tree. Someone yelled \"Ready....Go!\" and everyone raced to the presents under the tree to try and get their hands on the present that they had been eyeing all evening.

\r\n\r\nSome of the better gifts included: A stack of nudy magazines, sunglasses, lollipops, various marital aides, douches, diapers...I think you get the idea. Anyway, it was a fun time.

\r\n\r\n","link_copy":"Crackhouse Christmas","link_desc_html":"A Holly Jolly Crackhouse Christmas","position":199603,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 22:31:10","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1996/xmas/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":4},{"id":56,"slug":"halloween","directory_name":"1996_10_31.Halloween","title":"Crackhouse Halloween","year":1996,"month":10,"day":31,"date_display":"October 31, 1996","intro_html":"

Last year, if it was a dope party, chances are that it was held at 800 Euclid A.K.A.,The Crackhouse. (and no, they didn't really sell crack there, it was just a really crappy, beat up house that way too many people lived/hung out at.) Anyway, they decided to throw a big Halloween party and over 500 people showed up. Syracuse's finest must have received several complaints because they promptly showed up around midnight and made everyone leave. But about an hour later, most of the upperclassmen returned to have a little after hours where most of the pictures below were taken.

","link_copy":"Halloween","link_desc_html":"Halloween at the Crackhouse","position":199601,"published":1,"publish_date":"2009-07-22 14:05:04","views":0,"is_new":0,"is_legacy":1,"legacy_url":"1996/halloween/index.html","comment_thread_key":null,"include_tags":1,"photo_count":4}]}],"totals":{"entries":755,"photos":45575}}]}]