...and then hopped in our rental and headed back to NYC! Here's a picture of Grant, Posh T and Meredith at a rest stop somewhere in the swamps of New Jersey! Congrats Emma & Rob! Thanks so much for having us!
Here's Grant and Posh Tony two hours later at the welcome dinner. Can't you tell how thrilled Grant was to be sharing a table with Posh T? Every time Grant smiled it looked like his face was going to break. Hahaha.
Antony Ellis got in on our rental car action and rode down from NYC to Cape May with us. Here's Grant in his free room pretending to be excited about having to spend the entire weekend with Posh Tony (aka - Grant's ARCH NEMESIS!).
HAHAHAHAHA! Here's a quick photo collage I made to reiterate just how expertly Grant managed to capture Posh Tony's likeness when he angrily scribbled this character of him a few months ago. (Keep in mind, Tony wasn't even around when Grant drew this!)
Posh Tony showed up at midnight (read: two hours late) and then tried to act all shocked and indignant that he'd missed the entire thing. Then after we realized that it was early and that we were already IN Chinatown, we did the only sensible thing...
Then I ran into Posh Tony and some cute (Australian?) girl he was with. (By the way, I don't know if you can tell from this photo, but Posh Tony looks EXACTLY like a "white version" of JB Smoove, the black dude who plays Leon on the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Hahahahah.)
On Monday night I went out drinking with Posh Tony and we ended up shooting pool at Max Fish (where we almost got beat to death with a pool cue because of Posh Tony's inability to shut-the-fuck-up when he's drunk).
Towards the end of the night, I reached into my pocket to get something and realized I was still carrying around the drawing that Grant did of Posh Tony from last month (because every time I was feeling a little down, I'd pull it out and look at it). I got Tony pose with it again to try to gauge the likeness. Hahahaha.
Hahaha. I was hanging out with Grant one night and he was complaining about the fact that I'd become friends with Posh Tony (because apparently I'm only allowed to have ONE British friend with a silly accent). I kept asking Grant why he didn't like Posh and after not being able to verbalize it, he busted out a piece of paper, drew a picture and handed it to me asking "How can you hang out with a guy that looks like...THIS?" Hahahah. I carried it around for weeks and when Posh finally got back into town, I busted it out for a side-by-side comparison! Hahahah. Soooo good. (Don't worry, Posh - it's not just you. Grant's got a long history of being able to draw embarrassingly accurate caricatures of people he knows).
I left Happy Ending, and having been long since abandoned by David, met up with Posh Tony who had just gotten back from tour and was on his way to the Dark Room. On the way there, he and I stopped by Meredith's apartment to try to get her to come out with us (at 2:30am). No dice!
The thing that best explains why Antony "Posh Tony" Ellis is hula-hooping in the kebab shop that's on the corner of Orchard and Houston is the timestamp on the photo: Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:11:52am.
Late, late late night, I met up with Leigh and Posh Tony over at Black and White and we ended up getting shit-hammered. We got so drunk that we somehow ended up becomming best new friends...
