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June, 2010

The June Roundup: Part Two

Here 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)

Friday, June 18th

On Friday, a package was delivered to me at work. I opened it up to find a wooden box...
gift
...with a pecan pie inside!
gift ˆ pie
tara
I had recently helped Tara launch a new online store for Leviticus Jewelry and she sent me a pie as a delicious thank you!
card ˆ tara
After work, I went to a BBQ at the Soho Grand.
bbq
leigh, randy
Leigh, Randy and Edie!
edie ˆ sunglasses ˆ leigh ˆ randy
leigh, maddy
Inverted beak-kiss!
kiss ˆ sunglasses ˆ leigh ˆ maddy
maddy, sophia l
Hounds in shades!
dogs ˆ sunglasses ˆ maddy ˆ sophia l
It's hard to look cool when you've got a nose dribble, Edie.
dogs ˆ dogs in outfits ˆ edie ˆ sunglasses

Saturday, June 19th

me, meredith
We managed to leave the apartment early on Saturday to head to Far Rockaway!
sunglasses ˆ us ˆ me ˆ meredith
meredith
Stopped at Hot N Crusty (the unfortunate actual name of the restaurant/bodega) and got a pizza bagel before getting on the L!
food ˆ pizza ˆ meredith
Right before you get to Broadway Junction, the L train goes through a massive cemetery.
cemetary ˆ subway
meredith
Meredith was reading Cook's...
magazine ˆ subway ˆ meredith
EXTREME BANANA BREAD! Six bananas? Can you handle even handle the extremity?
magazine
me
Next stop, Nerd Beach.
ipad ˆ nerd ˆ subway ˆ me
Crossing over to Rockaway.
best ˆ subway
We got off at Beach 66 and it turned out Gurj and Jared were on the same train in a different car!
far rockaway ˆ subway platform
The ocean view from the train platform.
beach ˆ far rockaway ˆ ocean
Underpass.
far rockaway ˆ nyc
jared, jeet
Love these two.
far rockaway ˆ jared ˆ jeet
Under the subway platform and to the beach.
far rockaway ˆ nyc ˆ walking
Wildflowers.
beach ˆ far rockaway ˆ flower
Empty boardwalk.
boardwalk ˆ far rockaway
Gurj brought a beach bag with built in boom-box iPod speakers.
bag ˆ boombox
jared, jeet, meredith
It was a perfect day and the beach was practically deserted!
beach ˆ far rockaway ˆ jared ˆ jeet ˆ meredith
jared, meredith
Sun naps.
beach ˆ far rockaway ˆ squinty ˆ jared ˆ meredith
me, meredith
We packed up our things a little before four.
beach ˆ sunglasses ˆ us ˆ me ˆ meredith
Empty boardwalk.
best ˆ boardwalk ˆ far rockaway
Empty waves.
far rockaway ˆ ocean
jared, jeet, meredith
No better way I'd rather spend a Saturday.
boardwalk ˆ far rockaway ˆ jared ˆ jeet ˆ meredith
Did you know horseshoe crabs are considered LIVING FOSSILS? They've been around unchanged for over 450 million years!
crab
jared, jeet
Looks who's ready for a post-beach nap!
subway ˆ jared ˆ jeet
me, meredith
Beach hair!
beach hair ˆ subway ˆ me ˆ meredith
Subway snacks!
treats
maddy, me
Later that night Edie got dropped off at our place!
dogs ˆ edie ˆ maddy ˆ me
maddy
Edie and Maddy are almost the same size and they look like negatives of each other!
dogs ˆ edie ˆ maddy
ellen, matt, meredith
Later that night we met up with for a late dinner at Black Market!
ellen ˆ matt ˆ meredith
charles, sarah
Charles was in town visting and came out with Sarah!
charles ˆ sarah

Sunday, June 20th

On Sunday morning my parents drove into town to visit. We took them to Back Forty for brunch to celebrate Father's Day!. Started out with some warm homemade doughnuts in strawberry rhubarb sauce.
brunch ˆ donut
dad
Steak and eggs. Check out that smile! Happy Father's Day, dad! Love you!
brunch ˆ food ˆ dad
mom
Mom got a waffle.
brunch ˆ food ˆ waffle ˆ mom
Some white bean jim jam.
brunch ˆ food
dad, maddy
After, they came back to our place and played with the hounds.
couch ˆ dogs ˆ edie ˆ dad ˆ maddy

Sunday, June 20th

meredith
On Sunday we went to Meredith's parents house. We found these glasses in the basement.
sunglasses ˆ meredith
me
Party time, incorporated.
sunglasses ˆ me
Got home and cleaned up the living room all nice in anticipation for family night.
e9th apt
matt, pauly
Pauly and Matt showed up first and they had matching haircuts and beards FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A ROW! Haha.
twins ˆ matt ˆ pauly
matt, pauly
So good!
best ˆ doppleganger ˆ twins ˆ matt ˆ pauly
matt, pauly
We even managed to get them to hold a photo of them matching the first time!
best ˆ doppleganger ˆ get a load of this guy ˆ meta ˆ twins ˆ matt ˆ pauly
matt, pauly
The first time back in October 2009! (Grant just saw this photo and commented "Whoa, look at those two hair-farmers!" Hahaha).
doppleganger ˆ get a load of this guy ˆ twins ˆ matt ˆ pauly
matt, meredith, pauly
Still beardtastic, though.
twins ˆ matt ˆ meredith ˆ pauly

Monday, June 21st

meredith
On Monday I came home and Meredith was making homemade empanadas.
cooking ˆ kitchen ˆ meredith
YES!
food
maddy
Hoping for crumbs.
maddy
meredith
Meredith showing off one of her homemade screens before installing it in the shower window. Mosquitoes be gone!
bathroom ˆ meredith

Wednesday, June 23rd

fatty
Fatty came over on Wednesday night!
computer ˆ e9th apt ˆ fatty

Friday, June 25th

meredith
Friday night shower peep cam!
shower ˆ meredith
matt
We headed over to Bleecker Street to see Matt play a reunion show with Schleigho!
matt
fatty, karen, matt, meredith
Everyone do "fusion" on the count of three!
fatty ˆ karen ˆ matt ˆ meredith
Flyer at the venue advertising an upcoming show by Bonerama.
flyer
karen, meredith
These two'll do anything to get backstage.
karen ˆ meredith
matt, meredith
Even haul your gear.
suitcase ˆ matt ˆ meredith
We went to Matt's for a San Loco taco festival.
food ˆ taco
biggy, karen
(Insert your own bone-related joke here)
boobs ˆ phone ˆ biggy ˆ karen
matt
Matt busted out massive Fla-vor-ices for dessert!
freeze pop ˆ matt
matt, me
Too much?
freeze pop ˆ gay ˆ tongue ˆ matt ˆ me
karen
Good times.
freeze pop ˆ laugh ˆ karen

Saturday, June 26th

meredith, tracy
Meredith's Aunt Tracy was visiting from LA.
meredith ˆ tracy
Later, we took her on a tour of one of the community gardens on our block.
nyc ˆ park
maddy, meredith
Came home later to find these two curled up together.
book ˆ couch ˆ maddy ˆ meredith
maddy, meredith
Things worth noting: Meredith reads Heinlein and Maddy sleeps with her arms out and eyes half-open like a tiny zombie!
book ˆ couch ˆ maddy ˆ meredith
matt, meredith
Later that night we were walking to the movie theater with Matt and Ellen when we got waylaid by the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.
ice cream ˆ matt ˆ meredith
Awesome.
sign
I went with the Salty Pimp.
ice cream ˆ sign
ellen, matt, meredith
Ellen, Matt and Mer!
ellen ˆ matt ˆ meredith

Sunday, June 27th

meredith
On Sunday we took the train back out to Far Rockaway.
far rockaway ˆ walking ˆ meredith
Funny cans of hangover remedy sold at the local bodega.
weird foreign food ˆ wtf
meredith
Does it still count as leering if it's your wife?
beach ˆ far rockaway ˆ meredith
meredith
We stayed until just after 5pm.
sunglasses ˆ meredith
meredith
I cah-rush your head.
far rockaway ˆ meredith
me
The fact that there are huge lots of open real estate between the beach and a running subway line is shocking to me.
far rockaway ˆ me
me, meredith
Team Hobo forever.
far rockaway ˆ sunglasses ˆ us ˆ me ˆ meredith
One of my favorite things to do after riding the A train back from the beach is to get off at Canal Street for some...
chinatown
...vegetarian dim sum!
dim sum ˆ food
If it's not fried...
dim sum ˆ food
...I'm not interested!
dim sum ˆ food
leigh
After a well-deserved nap, later on in the evening I hung out with Leigh and Scott. They were in the midst of packing up to move out of their 3rd St apartment!
moving ˆ leigh
scott m
Email break!
laptop ˆ moving ˆ scott m
After I finished admiring the pigeon hatchlings that were living in their window flower-box...
bird ˆ window
leigh
...I told Leigh I'd help her try to recover some files from her old laptop. She neglected to mention...
laptop ˆ leigh
...that the laptop was running some old school IBM operating system that seemed was totally unusable and absurd. (BTW, 0 != > 1)
laptop ˆ wtf
We couldn't even manage to get past the basic set up screens.
laptop
Every time we made a mistake, we'd be taken to this ERROR page (with its cryptic "NO HANDS ALLOWED" symbol) that also included an animated flapping duck and three, five-digit numbers. It was like a plot-device from an episode of LOST.
laptop ˆ wtf
leigh
Fantastically, entertaining though.
best ˆ computer ˆ cry ˆ laptop ˆ laugh ˆ leigh

Tuesday, June 29th

fatty, marina
On Tuesday night I went out to Brooklyn to have dinner with Marina and Dave. (T-minus six months until baby Henry!)
preggo ˆ thai food ˆ fatty ˆ marina
fatty
Dave had some leftover 'works leftover from a recent out of state trip and donated them for me to bring out to PA for the 4th of July.
fireworks ˆ happy ˆ fatty
me
Not the most inconspicuous bag in the world; I took a cab home.
bag ˆ fireworks ˆ me
Check out the stash unpacked! (I was planning to bring these out to PA but when I heard there might not be anywhere to shoot them, I just ended up getting rid of them!) A transgression that twelve year-old me find unforgivable.
fireworks
Meredith was up in the loft reading and I noticed some sort of a strange, home-made device sitting on the top of my dresser. It consisted of a wooden dowel, with a plastic knife-handle taped to the end (with black, electrical tape) and a brass-eyelet screwed into the top.
wtf ˆ you made that
Close up of the knife handle / tape job. I was totally perplexed. Meredith saw me looking at totally stymied and started cracking up.
you made that
meredith, ta-da
She explained it was a device she'd fashioned earlier in the evening that allowed her to turn off the lights in the room without having to get out of the loft. Check her out demonstrating THE DEVICE in action. TA-DA!
best ˆ meredith ˆ ta-da
I was skeptical that she'd be able hook the metal loop around the switch, but she showed me that she was already operating the thing like a pro.
you made that
ENGINEERING GENIUS!
you made that
meredith
So goddamn funny. Happy June 2010!
bed ˆ laugh ˆ meredith

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