September, 2007

The September Roundup

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

Saturday, September 1st

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

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

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

mandy — Mandy and Andrew were there.

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

leigh, me — Afterwards, Sarah and I went to MisShapes to meet up with this little niblet!

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

Anyway, the crowd was a little strange (in that it wasn't that strange)...

leigh, scott — ...so we went downstairs to the "photo room" to hide out and see what Scott was doing!

leigh, me, scott m — Turns out he was taking photos. "Photos of everyone. Yes, even the ugly people."

leigh, me, scott m — Now with teeth!

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

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

sarah — ...and this one! So glad to be back in NYC!

Sunday, September 2nd

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

aunt elaine, aunt sue, grandma, grandpa, mom — Here's my mom with two of her three sisters and their parents!

aunt elaine, aunt sue, dad, grandma, grandpa, me, mom, uncle wayne — Now with husbands, son (and a dog!) added!

Monday, September 3rd

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

meredith — NOM NOM NOM.

hector — Oh, and later that evening Murdo came by and dropped off Hector so that we could dogsit him for a few days! Yay!

Friday, September 7th

meredith — On Friday I brought Meredith flowers! She is pretty. I am lucky.

Sunday, September 9th

fatty, hector — On Sunday Fatty came over for a hang. And to cuddle Hector like he's a little hairy fox-baby (Which he is).

Tuesday, September 11th

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

david k — ...his owner came out to greet us! And to show us the awesome motorcyle he'd recently purchased.

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

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

hector — The anger quickly disappeared and was replaced by shame and embarrassment. So busted.

Friday, September 14th

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

ralph — Co-workers enjoying food and getting ready to watch...

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

ebby, karl — After being spun around ten times, here's Karl trying to get his bearings to start swinging!

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

candy — Yeah, that's right. Clean that mess up, bitch.

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

(Your beard is good)

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

ian — Not even close!

ian — Uh oh! Uh oh! He's winding up! I'm sorry Tiny Easter Donkey. It looks like you're about to...

...loose your entire body. Now you're Tiny Easter Donkey Head!

hector — I came home that night and found Hector on the couch working on his impression of the Firefox Logo.

hector — Keep at it, Ol' Boy! It's really coming along!

Saturday, September 15th

hector, meredith — Animal FunTime Party House got even better when Leigh came by and dropped off Edie off with us! Look how excited Meredith is to have two little lap-weasels!

hector, meredith — Watch out! They'll lick the shit outta your face!

ratso, roxy — The rats came out to see what all the commotion was about!

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

Monday, September 17th

goldteeth, lord easy — Monday Night at 2am = KARAOKE KILLED THE CAT. Here's Chris and Lord Easy kicking it.

amanda, me — Me and Amander.

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

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

amanda — Amanda getting sultry.

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

...a sexy solo serenade to a stranger in the crowd. E-P-I-C.

Tuesday, September 18th

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

lorelei, me — There's a baby in there! Babies grow in ladies!

Saturday, September 22nd

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

fatty, matt, meredith — Later that night, a buncha people came over to our apartment to play CRANIUM!

fatty, karen, matt, meredith — Team #1: Karen, The Fatty, Joobz and Meredith.

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

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

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

amanda, david lionmane, meredith — Amanda, LionMane and their friend trying to figure out a puzzle before time runs out!

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

amy a, matt j — Matt using Amy like a puppet!

ellen, fatty, matt — Then Dave stuffed dollar bills into Matt's jeans.

david lionmane, karen, matty, meredith — Meredith got squeezed.

david lionmane, karen, matt, meredith — And Karen correctly guessed what all the squeezing was about. Victory!

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

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

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

Sunday, September 23rd

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

meredith — Afterwards we partied on the WienerBus express!

Wednesday, September 26th

me, sarah d — On Wednesday night I went out to meet up with Sarah who was in town visiting from San Diego!

jack d, patrick — I also go to see Jack and Patrick!

Saturday, September 29th

siege — On Saturday, a whole bunch of us went to Brooklyn to help Siege and Katie move!

Loading up the truck!

siege — Siege presents a near-empty apartment! Woooo!

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

fatty, meredith — Siege turned the person-sized door...

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

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

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

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

That also has another room upstairs...

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

meredith — Meredith's face pretty much sums up our collective reaction.

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

fatty — Back in the room that goes out into the garage, the gang was busy discovering all kinds of hidden features.

katie — Like a secret Murphy that folds down! Are you kidding me?

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

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

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

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

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

siege — Still! More! Unloading! To! Do! < / shatner >

katie, siege — All done! Congrats on your new place, you two!

amanda, catrinel, fatty, grant, katie, meredith, siege — After, Kate and Siege took us all out for pizza and beers for helping with the schlepping. Mmmmmm, pizza. Mmmmmm, beer.

Sunday, September 30th

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