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August 24, 2004

Frank never fails to deliver.

August 24, 2004

"Ok, ROCK!"

August 24, 2004

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Frank Picarazzi took the stage for one of his rare karaoke appearances. "Are you all ready to rock?"

August 24, 2004

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Amanda and Frank.

August 24, 2004

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Cutting the cake.

August 15, 2004

Frank and Fatty.

August 15, 2004

Fatty busting out some moves he learned off of his "Kid N' Play Dancetastic" DVD.

August 15, 2004

Seth complementing Frank on his mizzoves while he wipes himself down.

August 15, 2004

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Frank.

August 15, 2004

Frank doing his impression of Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic.

August 15, 2004

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Square dance hoe-down.

August 15, 2004

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Here's Frank shaking his shit-tank.

August 15, 2004

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Heather, Colin (formerly known as "Big Daddy" who from this day forward will be known as "King of Clocks" or K.O.C - go ahead, say it out loud!), Liz and Frank.

August 15, 2004

Yay! Mrs. and Mr. Picarazzi!

August 15, 2004

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Best picture ever! Liz and Frank making the rounds to all the tables. (Boy, this "small party" is getting to seem more and more like a REGULAR WEDDING! And Liz, isn't that like a wedding dress you're wearing? Mrs. Picarazzi totally tricked you two into HAVING A WEDDING! Hahahaha.)

August 15, 2004

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The first dance!

August 15, 2004

Awwww. (Rumor has it that Frank had to go to dance school for the party. Thought you'd be able to avoid that with the whole "sneaky beach wedding" thing, eh? WRONG!)

August 15, 2004

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Yay! Frank and Liz taking a walk down the aisle in front of the crowd. (That'll teach you to sneak off to an island and get married!).

August 15, 2004

Congrats, guys!

August 15, 2004

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Frank kissing Mrs Picarazzi for the very first time.

August 15, 2004

Carrying the bride across the, uh, beach thresh hold.

August 15, 2004

Here's a pic from their ceremony that they emailed out to everyone. Pretty rad, huh?

fatty's birthday and drunk guy jenga

August 15, 2004

Newlyweds Liz and Frank. A little after 1am, I left Fatty's and headed over to Misshapes to visit...

July 31, 2004

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Hey, hey! It's Frank the Bachelor!

July 08, 2004

We finished our meals and after befriending a local crazy man...

July 08, 2004

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Seth, however, was unflagging.

July 08, 2004

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After a long night of boozing, karaoking and nooody-girl watching, the bachelor boy began showing signs of fatigue.

July 08, 2004

4am found us back in the East Village at Odessa's for some late night grub.

July 08, 2004

The gang getting ready to chow down. (PS - Already at this early point in the night, Chef, who you can barely see peeking out behind Colin, was so wasted that he kept screaming at the restaurant and almost had us thrown out).

July 08, 2004

Condom hat and "You're-getting-married" ball & chain: Check.

July 08, 2004

...NEON CHARIOT of military might! We all sang songs...

July 08, 2004

...(even better!) number two.

July 08, 2004

After one more Stevie song courtesy of Seth and the boys...

July 08, 2004

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Seth "Bachelor Mastermind" Miller.

July 08, 2004

Here's the gang cheering him on.

July 08, 2004

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Halfway through the song, he was joined by Shef, who was so drunk at this point he could hardly walk (which may explain why he choose to stay up on the stage trying to sing along with every single person until we eventually had to forceably remove him from stage).

July 08, 2004

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Big Daddy took the mic and kicked a little Lionel Ritchie "Celebration" (and Frank stayed on stage to back him up).

July 08, 2004

...down to its KNEES!

July 08, 2004

Bringing the house down...

July 08, 2004

Grant onstange trying to get the hang of the very unique "FrankDance."

July 08, 2004

Then it was time for the Man of Honor to take the stage.

July 08, 2004

A bachelor isn't officially a bachelor until you've added some embarrassing comedy props. Clown nose: check.

July 08, 2004

Antonio (who you may remember from the night we did karaoke and Tracey Morgan showed up) and Frank.

July 08, 2004

After the (outright boring) trip to the nudy bar, we decided to head to Remote Lounge and take over Sid and Buddy's karaoke night there. (I guess karaoke's becoming a bachelor party trend?)

July 08, 2004

With Frank properly attired, we instructed the driver to make a few victory laps around Soho so we could shoot the shit and have a few drinks before our first destination: Blue Mountain BBQ on Spring St.

July 08, 2004

Bellies full o' BBQ, we hopped back into the limo and looked to Seth for the next destiniation.

July 08, 2004

After a few laps around the hood (and a quick glance at the foot traffic on the sidewalk to ensure no one we knew would see us getting out of SUPERHUMMER) we got to Blue Mountain BBQ.

fireworks go up show at luna lounge

July 08, 2004

And then egged on by our cheering, Grant launched into...

May 28, 2004

He felt the need to climb into one of the trees and express...

May, 2004

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The beauty turned out to be too much for Frank.

May, 2004

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On Sunday, Fatty and I headed out to Brooklyn to meet up with Colin, Heather and Frank in Prospect Park. After a few hours of tossing the 'bee around, Heather suggested we check out the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival at the nearby Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

May, 2004

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...um, his love. (Frank, this picture makes me sofa king happy).

seth's surprise party part two karaoke and afterhours

May, 2004

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Upon returning to NYC, we first drove out to Brooklyn to drop off Liz and say hi to Frank (and tease him about making Liz bring the flannel cat pajamas).

March 13, 2004

Frank eventually joined us, and our little loser, anti-party started giving the real party a run for it's money.

March, 2004

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There's Little Fatty in the background! Then Pepper (wife of Little Fatty), Frank, Liz, Regular-sized Fatty and me.

March, 2004

"Hey Frank, play that one Kings X song that you always play any time there's a guitar. Oh, and could you make sure you make your guitar-face? Yeah, that's it. Thanks."

March, 2004

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Frank and one of his buddies who showed up and killed on the saxophone.

March, 2004

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Frank taking a break from kit.

March, 2004

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After a long day of moving, we all headed back to my apartment on the Bowery where Frank and Liz thanked us with pies from Lombardi's! Mmmmmmmmmm! Best pizza in the world. Then after dinner...

February 28, 2004

...try to brain Frank as he fussed with the mattress. Almost there...

February 28, 2004

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Hey! Here they are! Colin, Frank, Grant and Fatty.

February 28, 2004

...Bingo! ("Sure I'll help you move, Frank. It's going to you cost you a picture with my ballsack, though.")

February 28, 2004

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You too, sweatheart. You deserve to temporarily bask in the wattage of Frank's karaoke glory.

February 26, 2004

Take a bow!

February 26, 2004

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Not only did Frank steal Grant's funny lil' hat (Big guy in a leeeetle hat!), he even pulled up a lass from the crowd to help him on backing vocals.

February 26, 2004

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Anytime you're lucky enough to see Mr. Frank Picarazzi head for the karaoke stage, take a seat. You're in for a treat.

February 26, 2004

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Steve Haase (yep, the guy with the fucking sunglasses on his head. At night) and Frank.

February 26, 2004

Grant, Grant's lil' hat, Chris, Frank and me.

February 26, 2004

Speaking of the boys...Frank Picarazzi!

sarah's birthday bash: part two

February 26, 2004

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Mike: still apparently determined to flood my apartment.

February 07, 2004

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Jamie, Lo, Jenny, Frank, Colin, Fatty's hair and Emma.

sarah's birthday bash: part two

February 07, 2004

Frank Picarazzi pleasing the crowd.

February 07, 2004

Me, Colin and Frank.

February 07, 2004

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Frank, Seth, Vanessa and Danielle.

February 07, 2004

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Frank, Adam's eye, and Colin.

February 07, 2004

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Later that night I went out to Frank and Colin's place in Brooklyn to watch the Superbowl. (They actually had two TV sets set up right next to each other: one with the game on mute, the other showing HBO Sunday night TV! Hahah. Curb Your Enthusiasm was so much better anyway.)

the february roundup

February, 2004

Frank and Liz caught in a gratuitious ass-cupping.

new year's eve

December 31, 2003

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C'mon sing it boys. Took the L back into Manhattan to First Ave and walked down to 8th street to check in on the Fatty's party. I got there at 2:15am and found that things were already in, as they say, "full effect." Here's Setty and Frank.

new year's eve

December 31, 2003

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And then lifted a doubting Frank to doubly prove her point.

new year's eve

December 31, 2003

Liz and Frank dancing. These captions are sort of boring, huh? Well, don't worry, things are about to get a whole lot more interesting.

a karaoke christmas

December 22, 2003

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Liz and Frank. (Who will be married by this time next week! Congrats guys!)

a karaoke christmas

December 22, 2003

Frank Picarazzi on the mic kicking the night off.

a karaoke christmas

December 22, 2003

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With Frank's drum kit taking up the entire rear half of his car, Fatty and I were forced to share the front seat.

em and lo's book reading

November 25, 2003

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Sweaty Frank, Emma and a schoolboyish Fatty.

em and lo's book reading

November 25, 2003

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Before Em & Lo went on, the fabulous Six Piece Nastee took the stage and warmed up the crowd. By the way, four of the six pieces of said nastee are made up by none other Colin (on guitar), Frank (on kit)...

em and lo's book reading

November 25, 2003

...THE TRUTH ABOUT FRANK is revealed!

September 02, 2003

Clearly the breakaway star of the evening, here's Frank doing an impression of his very own "salute dance" that made its first appearance when he sang "The Stroke" at heavy metal karaoke two years ago.

September 02, 2003

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So every once in a while, one of my friends will pull an expression in a photo that just begs to be Photoshopped into something else. Case in point - Frank and Colin were joking around and were pretending to flip a table and and then the next thing you know...

September 02, 2003

Frank, me, and Grant.

September 02, 2003

And then he treated us to even more "Frank dancing." (You should probably take the above image and save it to your desktop - that way, the next time you're feeling down, happiness is only a double-click away.)

September 02, 2003

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As the night gained momentum, we abandoned our little table in the corner and took over the couch directly in front of the stage. Here's Frank, Seth, Colin and Tara.

September 02, 2003

Same goes for this one.

September 02, 2003

Yep, and this one too. (Although, now that I think about it, I think we all might have been singing the four-part back up bit to Aerosmith's "Love In An Elevator" in these last two.)

September 02, 2003

I don't even remember what Frank sang (which again, is why I either need to start taking notes or not wait 3 months before I try to caption these pics), but take a look at his face and you'll probably agree that the song is irrelevant.

September 02, 2003

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Frank and Seth, soaked from the rain - at our lil' table in the corner.