grant + me

June 27, 2003

Sunburnt Face, meet my friend Patchy Sunburnt Neck.

June 27, 2003

sunburn ↗+

Look! It's the ARMY OF DUDES. Can seven guys get into a nightclub on Friday night with only one female?

June 27, 2003

After a shower and a nap, we headed out later on in the evening to meet up with Chris Apostalou for dinner at Lovely Day...

June 27, 2003

Here's us teasing Colin about his nicknamed being changed from "Big Daddy" to "P.Dinky." (The entire story will be explained in a diary entry that probably won't be allowed to be realeased until the year 2030 *sigh*).

June 27, 2003

Subway ride home...

June 27, 2003

Yay, beach friends!

June 27, 2003

charlene ↗+

Hey, look! They named a grocery store after us! (*wink, wink*)

emma's 30th birthday: part two

June 27, 2003

coldlamp ↗+

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Dancing with multiple cameras. Sarah, me and Grant.

the hole and p diddy

June 25, 2003

sarah ↗+

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Charlene, Emma, Grant, Tara and me.

the hole and p diddy

June 25, 2003

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Saturday morning, we woke up early, hopped the Amtrak train and headed out into dirty Jerz.

memorial day out in nj

May 26, 2003

fatty ↗+

Josh, Grant and myself with Jess and her "two friends." (Dennis Crowley said it best in a recent email: "this may be one of the best photos ever snapped with a digicam.")

May 21, 2003

Lo, Grant, Emma (pulling her patented "I'm pretty drunk" face) and me.

emma's 30th birthday: part two

May 21, 2003

"Hey Slim! What did you do with our friend?"

emma's 30th birthday: part one

May 21, 2003

david f ↗+

Just in case you're wondering why Vin's making that face it's because Grant kept holding his arm up next to Vin's and being like "Look, I'm darker than you! I'm supposed to be white and you're supposed to be the brown one, but I'm browner! Me!"

emma's 30th birthday: part one

May 21, 2003

Me, Grant and my roommie, Victoria.

emma's 30th birthday: part one

May 21, 2003

Complete with mad Twister scramble during the instrumental break...

sid & buddy karaoke

May 19, 2003

Me, Grant and Herman.

sid & buddy karaoke

May 19, 2003

herman the cowboy jew ↗+

And for the big finale of the night, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody!"

sid & buddy karaoke

May 19, 2003

All three of us (that's Bret over there on the right) in bartending action! Yahtzee!

guest bartending at iggy's keltic lounge

May 08, 2003

Special Guest Commentary from Grant Stoddard via IM: "As we learned early on, the main perk of bartending is having total control of the juke box *and* full license to play air guitar along to the metal anthems you select."

(Major bonus points taken away from whoever took this pic and managed to almost crop me completely out while I'm making what looks like it could've been the best "metal face" I've ever pulled. Curse you!)

guest bartending at iggy's keltic lounge

May 08, 2003

Neither Grant nor I had ever tended bar before in our lives. We arrived a little before 8pm for some "basic training" from Bret.

guest bartending at iggy's keltic lounge

May 08, 2003

bartender ↗+

Haha. This is me and Grant with the staff at the Homestyle Cafe Diner. He and I have eaten lunch there a couple days a week for years and we've all become friends over the years.

where i live

April 23, 2003

Oh, wait. This picture, that's what.

the may roundup

May, 2003

Grant with a beer big enough to put his light-weight ass in the hospital.

the may roundup

May, 2003

The jacket may have quickly been retired, but the "ElectroGrantClash-2k3" theme song it spawned lives on. (Make sure you ask me to sing it next time you see me).

the may roundup

May, 2003

Erica, Grant and me.

trip to philly

April 19, 2003

erica ↗+

We ended up eating across that street at some god-awful, faux, Tex-Mex place where the bill was like $65 for the three of us to eat lunch. Lunch! Sixty-five bones! Bah!

trip to philly

April 19, 2003

sunglasses ↗+

Michael, relatively new to our "scene," clearly missed his cue to troe down a gangsign for the cam.

lorelei's 31st birthday

April 08, 2003

Winnie's didn't have paper tablecloths so Grant was forced to draw his nightly picture of me on a karaoke request slip and hold it up for the cam.

lorelei's 31st birthday

April 08, 2003

EmEm, me and Grant.

saturday night out

April 04, 2003

...and we finally managed to blend in at The Hole. "Haaaaaay!"

grant gets gay

March 27, 2003

The Hole: 10pm. (Me, Grant and Eric).

grant gets gay

March 27, 2003

Josh, Grant, and Vin.

sweet ups karaoke

March 04, 2003

josh ↗+
vin ↗+

Grant, me, Emma.

sweet ups karaoke

March 04, 2003

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Erica, Grant and me.

tiffany's birthday

March 01, 2003

erica ↗+

Saturday night Grant and I stayed in watching TV at my house until like 1am (losers) and then finally got our asses in gear to go meet Seth (who had just come down from Boston) and a bunch of other people at Antarctica. (L to R: Seth, Big Daddy, Grant [looking tres Billyburg in his gay-ass, cocked, camo hat] and me).

end of january

January 18, 2003

colin ↗+
seth ↗+

Grant licks Lorelei's hair while I try to make the "I can't believe Alex made out with half of our interns" expression go away.

nerve and spring streets' holiday party

January 16, 2003

From L to R: Lorelie, Tookie, Alisa, Grant and me

nerve and spring streets' holiday party

January 16, 2003

Thumbs up from the boys!

nerve and spring streets' holiday party

January 16, 2003

And give the birthday girl a smooch.

January 11, 2003

Grant (pulling yet another Pomodoro Pizza Guy Face), Tiff, Sarah and me.

January 11, 2003

Yeah, that's right - it's what all the cool kids are doing these days.

January 11, 2003

sticker ↗+

Grant and I headed over to their "Cookies N' Creme-themed" party at Suede. Here's Grant (pulling his Pomodoro Pizza Guy face) and myself with Bday girl, Sarah.

January 11, 2003

Here the New York Five homeward bound on Sunday evening.

November 22, 2002

Here's a picture taken to document Grant's promise to me that he would under go "saline augmentation of the scrotum" for his next "I Did It For Science" column. Booyah!

November 22, 2002

Seth, Seven Layer (sans bib), Grant and me.

November 22, 2002

Saturday night we went the Quatro steakhouse where we all prompty fell in love with...

November 22, 2002

....a night out on the town! Seth being a pimped-ass high roller, he called in to have a limo chaffeur our asses around all night. Nothing says class like a white-stretch with neon underrunners, baby.

November 22, 2002

In Montreal, we met up with the three other guys (who drove in from Boston). Seth (the guy next to me), Chef (not pictured because he's being blocked by Fatty's head) and the uber-scary (and therefore edited out of most of the pictures) Ethan (gee, can you figure out which guy is the sociopath in the pic...c'mon, look carefully.).

November 22, 2002

Here's the New York Five, coldlamping in front of our pimpin' rented Blazer. From Left: Grant, Dave "Fatty" Fateman, Colin "Big Daddy" Gentle and Frank "Seven Layer" Picarazzi.

lisa carver's suprise baby shower

November 22, 2002

Who's my little birthday boy? Grant is! Yes he is! Yes he is!

grant's 26th birthday

November 04, 2002

Some random bar, four hours later.

scott's 27th birthday

October 26, 2002

Grant, Me and Pappi.

fishing with pappi

October 05, 2002

I think this photo should be called "Luckiest Girl in the Whole Wide World."

a second prom

September 14, 2002

Thanks for letting me cut in on your date, guys!

a second prom

September 14, 2002

emma ↗+

On Saturday Grant, Sarah and I woke up to a beautiful sunny day and scrambled to get out to our secret beach as fast as we could.

two days at fort tilden

September 07, 2002

No stranger to whipping out my own bag, I handed over the camera and teamed up with Grant for this amazing photo. (Look at our faces!!! nd bonus points to me for actually resting my nuts on the guys chair.)

new jersey weekend

August 16, 2002

Hear no evil, hear no evil, see no evil. Doh.

the mermaid parade 2002

June 22, 2002

Turns out that there wasn't anything going on - but that doesn't mean I don't want to take pictures!

the mermaid parade 2002

June 22, 2002

After coming to the realization that we weren't going to die we decided we should probably start working on getting out the elevator. We pushed the "HELP" button and were promptly connected to repair company that maintains our elevator. The man we spoke to told us that he'd dispatched a mechanic and that he'd be there in 45-60 minutes. (45 minutes! Faaack! Keep in mind, we'd gotten in the elevator to go up to work because we both had to pee!). Further complicating matters, our building's front door is locked so the dispatch guy tells us we're going to have to get in touch with someone who can come down and let the elevator repair guy into our building.

idiots in an elevator

May 16, 2002

Rowdiness in the kitchen.

teen loft party

May 11, 2002

ken ↗+
vin ↗+

Grant was getting sentimental watching all the little kids get swung around by one of the Dads there. Hating to see him down, I was happy to indulge him in a little trip down memory lane.

May 05, 2002

best ↗+

Grant makes eyes at the locals.

new hamshire roadtrip

May 04, 2002

diner ↗+

Roadtripping Idgits.

new hamshire roadtrip

May 04, 2002

Early mornin' mountain men. These were taken on the back porch. The house sits on sort of a penninsula and is surrounded by the lake on three sides.

new hamshire roadtrip

May 04, 2002

Grant and Josh earned the friendship bracelets I made them for helping me move. These are two swell friends.

moving to manhattan

April 14, 2002

We tried to pose all tough and look like movers from the 1930's. I think the only thing that happened is that Grant managed to look like an ostrich.

moving to manhattan

April 14, 2002

Dave G (The Ladies' Choice) has got to get with the program! He's all in the background making his "Party Guy Face" when we clearly told him that it was a "Blue Steel" moment.

goodbye, billyburg

April 13, 2002

Ladies and gentlman, I present to you "The Second Gayest Photo of Us Ever Taken." (Yeah, it's pretty gay, but it's got nothing on this photo.)

y tu mama tambien movie premiere

March 13, 2002

gay ↗+

Then closing the night out at The Abbey, we ran into one of Nina's friends, Easter Island Head! Yay!

karaoke at enid's

February 25, 2002

easter island ↗+

"You gotta 'nother thing coming!" (Grant, me, John).

karaoke at enid's

February 25, 2002

john roche ↗+

Nina, Grant and ChrisTheGreek.

nerve make-out party

February 21, 2002

Chris, Nina, Grant "I Did it for Science" Stoddard, me. (BTW, ever notice that as soon as I get a few drinks in me, okay more than a few, I have my mouth open in every photo? 1 in a series of 3.)

nerve celebrates its hbo tv show

January 19, 2002

HAP-PY NEW YEAR! (Grant, Nina, Lo, Hannah and me).

new year's eve

December 31, 2001

I knew the competition to earn a slot dancing for the night would be fierce, so I quickly busted out my Photoshop skillz and whipped up two tasty fliers advertising our masculinity that I knew would tantalize those Cake minxes. Here's the first image I sent along...

November 07, 2001

...and when that didn't get an immediate response, I upped the ante with "beefcake" version (check out Grant's sassy, coy lil' smile! Tee-hee!) ...and SHA-POW! It worked. Grant and I got the green light: we were going to become male strippers.

November 07, 2001

Our Nerve co-workers Em & Lo were right in the front row and were supposed to immortalize our maiden strip performance on film for my photo album, but according to Lo, "We got so excited when you two came out that we were so busy yelling and screaming with our arms up in the air that we forgot to take photos."

November 07, 2001

At one point in the night, Grant and I gave dirty lap dances to Em & Lo up on stage in front of everyone. (Check out Emma trying to escape my grasp! Hahahaha).

November 07, 2001

After watching the end of "tighty whitie" man's performance, Grant hustled back to the dressing room to reapply his mustache!

November 07, 2001

...and here's the view of us peeking out on to the mayhem that was on the stage!

If you look to the right and you'll see Grant and myself waiting our turn to put on our big strip show (Can you see how nervous we are?).

November 07, 2001

We returned to the safety of the Nerve offices the next day only to receive a standing ovation upon our entrance. We had returned from the land of crazed girls with our egos intact and a fistful of cash taboot. Thanks Cake!

November 07, 2001

After carefully absorbing the knowledge they bestowed upon us, we struck our first of many "Sexy Poses" of the night.

November 07, 2001

moustache ↗+

Don't forget about the "bun view!"

November 07, 2001

...our inner pimps were released. Here we see "Blonde Business Guy" and "70's Karate Man" in full effect and ready to dampen some female seats.