On Tuesday night, I stopped by Pianos at 1:30am to see if they'd started playing Guitar Hero yet. But no such luck. When I arrived, there were still bands playing but Blake and Shandi were there (in rock n' roll makeup no less!) waiting for the video game action to begin!
After Motor City I was walking on Rivington to get a slice of pizza and came across a pack of wild rats that were dashing back and forth across the sidewalk carrying delicious trash back to their nest from a huge garbage pile. What rats, you ask? Well, how about we zoom in on this photo a bit.
Check the zoomed view! INFESTATION! I count eight of them! (There are two peeking out behind the green pole in the upper left corner and then six peeking out from under the white door!)
They were wise to me watching them and stayed hidden, but as soon as I took a few more steps down the street, they all made another mad rush for the trash pile! Hahah. It's hard to see them, so how about another zoom?
...and Sarah broke out some KARAOKE VIDEO GAME she'd recently gotten! Some eventually figured out to take this game, combine it with Guitar Hero and add a drum set and it became Rock Band.
Back in May, Matt Rubano and I signed up to take the Improv 101 class at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater! Eight weeks of classes later, I found myself backstage in the UCB's green room about to perform my first "show" with the rest of my class. (Matt couldn't make it because two weeks prior to the show, his band got an offer to play the Live Earth show at Giant's Stadium with The Police and Bon Jovi! I wasn't happy, but I had to admit that as far as excuses for canceling out on your buddies go, his was pretty good).
Our teacher split our class into two "groups." We decided to call our group "The THORgasm Theorem." Clockwise from the left: Andrew, Jim, Thor, Hadley, Lauren, me and Tina!
It was one of the more fun things I've done in a long, long time. If you've ever thought about signing up for improv classes, I highly recommend you give it a shot!
Later that night a whole bunch of people came over to hang and play Cranium! L to R: Josh, Posh, Niki, Amanda, Quinn, Faran, Rosie, Murdo and Ellen with her arms full of dogs!
For a couple of months, Benjamin Apple, Mike Montero and myself were tapped to split away from the rest of the development group at CCI to create some new products. When asked what we wanted to call our "special" team, we came up with TEAM DOUCHE TRUMPET. (Which is the name given to the weird "wah-wah" noise I have a habit of making out of the corner of my mouth). Anyway, Monday was Benjamin's last day at the company, and when we came into work on Tuesday morning, we saw that Benjamin had left a shout out to Mike and I on his two monitors. Hahaha.
On Wednesday night, I went out for drinks with my co-workers Mike and Court. We hit the East Village and met up with Mike's twin brothers. Here's Mike with one of his brothers and his brother's wife!
Around 1am, Mike told us he had to go home which meant he had to pose for this photo of Court and I giving him the "I'm a huge pussy" double thumbs down! Hahaha.
On Thursday night Meredith and I went to see a movie. Little known fact about Meredith: she likes to posh with promotional displays for upcoming movies. Here she is with a baby polar bear. Awwww!
Spy Hunter! They have Spy Hunter there! The only place that had this game when I was a kid was the roller skating rink that I used to go to! I was surprised to learn that it's a whole lot easier to use the gas pedal when you're not wearing roller skates.
On Sunday afternoon I rode my bike up to Central Park to meet Emilie and Mona at the Central Park Zoo! Here they are chowing down on a pre-zoo Chipwich! Mmmmmmm!
A little after midnight later that night, we met back up and headed over to The Annex because Sarah and Karen were throwing a party there and they said there was a fun band playing.
Hahaha. Amazing. The entire Annex was filled with giant sunglasses, glow-sticks and inflatable guitars and giant microphones. Maybe the band that was playing brought them? I have no idea.
...Colin "The King of Karaoke" Schiller was hosting his weekly karaoke party down in the basement of Lit! We said farewell to everyone at The Annex and ten minutes later we were down in a smoky basement...
