On Wednesday night I got the call that Doug had arrived and we met up for a drink! Here's the first pic of our epic reunion. Unfortunately, I thought we were both going to do the whole "smiling nicely thing" while Doug clearly thought it was "funny face" time.
Then later that night, I met up with Doug! Doug had been living in Prague with his Czech girlfriend and then the two of them moved to Boston and decided to come down for a visit. (He's now living in Finland and is engaged to a Finish girl! This guy's always on the moooooooooove).
Take three is the winner. After catching up at Meredith's apartment, we all headed a few hundred feet down the street to go to Orchard Bar for Sarah and Karen's weekly party.
Doug was still in town visiting and was kind enough to run all over town with me and help set up for the party. It was a BYOB affair, but because all the bodegas in my hood close at 9pm, we scored a shitload of cases of PBR and a buncha bottles of booze for back-up.
And here he is a few minutes later trying to knock the camera out of my hand after he suddenly woke up when I giggled too loud while leaning in close to take another "sleepy guy" photo.
...then Doug and I took the NJ Transit train down to Sea Side Heights to meet up with my buddy Scott who was down there on vacation with his sister and his two kids. Here's Doug crashed out on the train with his sleepy seatmate.
After a few drinks (and oh, about 25 cartridges of Polaroid film that I managed to snag for free) we headed over to Misshapes where Doug defended his territory with the Miagi crane-kick.
After laughing like two crazed loons at the mop photos, Doug decided it would be funny to capture an action shot of him breaking something...here's him mid-throw with a CPU monitor we found on the street.
My camera captures photos in a pretty high resolution...but when I shrink down the photos for this site, a lot of the detail ends up getting lost. So here, for your amusement, is a collage of some of the better faces Doug made that I managed to catch in film during the mop fiasco.
Doug and I pounded our Big Buds and made a quick run to the store to pick up some more beeyahs. When we returned we started looking for Josh to give him his beer and we found that he had....
Okay, so check this out: We're back in Manhattan and we're walking down Houston towards my place and this woman is talking on her cellphone and walking towards us. She gets like 8 feet from us and we both suddenly hear this huge fart and as she passes us she says to her friend on the phone "Oh shit, I think these white boys just heard me fart!" and starts laughing. So we chased her down the street and asked her if she'd pose for a pic! In this pic, Doug and I are yelling "Ohhhhhh!" while she's telling her friend on the phone "Oh shit! Oh shit! The white boys that heard me farting is taking my picture and shit! They're taking my picture!" Soooo funny.
A block past the farting woman, Doug finds a mop on the street and decides that he going to use it, as he said, for some "Good ol' fashioned mop-pole-vaulting." Here is off the stairs....
This is probably the funniest pic of the night (or at least 2nd runner up behind Josh Teixeira passed out standing up against a wall...hehe). Bonus points for Doug's face in the background.
Right when we got to Jordan's party we ran into Josh Teixeira who continued his "80's Movie Costume Theme" by dressing up as Gilbert from "Revenge of the Nerds."
It's become a tradition that Doug never figures out what he's going to be for Halloween until right before we head out. And rather than relying on a Halloween store, Doug will usually use, um, "local items he finds lying around" (aka - picked out of the dumpster) to make his costume. (This famed process led to such Halloween costume hits as 1997's Tantric Mysticism of Lippy Magraw and many others).
Anyway, when Doug first rolled into town, he declared that he was going to be William Wallace (the character that Mel Gibson played in Braveheart.) Here's Doug trying to hurriedly dig out a piece of wood to fashion William Wallace's shield from (while I laugh and take his picture and scream "Trashpicker! Trashpicker!" at the top of my lungs).
Doug had just cut off all of his hair so he had to pencil in his "devil-lock" hair with make-up. HAHAHAHA! We hopped into a cab and headed uptown to go to Dave and Viola's party (which you may remember from last year.
Doug couldn't manage to salvage enough trash to make a good William Wallace costume (he needed a shield and a sword), so I talked him into dressing up as a Misfit with me. Doug got to be Doyle...
Random photo of Scott and Doug with my little brother. We were all home for the holidays and realized that we had never taken my brother out to Frank's Chicken House to celebrate his 18th birthday. (Located in Manville, Frank's is NJ's premier all-nude strip club)
Doug, once again pretending he's visiting from "across the pond" convinces the hot dog vendor guy to pose with him in a picture. (Bonus points for having his arm aroun him.)
This girl was checking Doug out all night and he asked us "Should I ask her if I can have my picture taken with her?" We told him, "Only if you pretend your from England when you do it." So Doug walked up to her and with the absolute worst British accent you've ever heard said "Allo! Ahm frahm Ehnglahnd! Cahn I taike yer pictchar?"
This crazy old guy was on to us. We kept setting up scenarios where we could capture him on film but he wasn't having any of it. Finally, Doug mosied up to the bar and got him. Doug get bonus points for the face he's making.
First Victims. We kept walking back and forth in front of this couple that were eating their dinner outside trying to get them to look. Finally, Doug got their attention by pretending to yell at me for taking his photo.
This woman is the sister of the woman who owns the bar. For this photo, the plan was that I would distract her with conversation while Doug snapped our photo. She wanted to know why we were taking pictures so we explained our little game to her. She thought it was funny and suggested that...
Doug lives so far north in Vermont that he's practically in Canada. Here he show's his love of the Canadian ceral "Shreddies" in his homemade Shreddies Fan-shirt.
Left to right: Doug, Amy, Jess, Mandy (as Janice from the Muppets), Kate, Dan (as ghost), Monica (as stupid mask girl?), and Kristen in the corner as a Piece of Candy Corn.
left to right: Stormy (yes, that is her real name) as "That girl from the 'The Craft'", Kasum as Olivia Newton John ala Xanadu, and as I mentioned before, Doug had just flown out from California and didn't have a costume. But with a pair of scissors, a little paper, and a whole lot of artistic talent, Doug transformed himself into Lippy Magraw.
Here are my favorite two bastards, Doug and Maytia. Chilling down in Mexico (Baha I think.) They're dead. (not literally, but they sure are gonna get it.)
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