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LAST NIGHT'S PARTY

UPDATE: Find Waldo us on the party page of GBH. How obnoxious. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming:

I need to empty my recycle basket. Don't you think?

I like to think that this could be "art" that speaks to the lack of a creative and critical discourse in the modern office in today's capitalist milieu, where paper, which permeates all offices, and it's incredibly discursive quality is minimalized in order to maximize and propogate profit. The physical tabula rasa is used to print rote correspondence seeped in a facade of familiar salutations and amity that only serve to mask the dog-eat-dog nature of business. What I've done here is to crudely equate the perverted symbolism of paper with trash, however by utilizing a recycle basket I'm bluntly screaming that there is no hope. It remains a forever viciously recycled business of corporate robots and soulless peons.

Oh, by and by: I'm selling a limited edition reproduction of this photo for 900 dollars each. And the actual item can be yours for 10,000 dollars.

Speaking of art, on Thursday Carly and I went to an art exhibit in the LES aka an exucuse to drink at the open bar, which was spilling over with uber-hipsters, and three girls who accidentally wandered in ask us what was happening there. So we told them about the exhibit. They looked around and asked us, "Where is The Art?"

Exactly, where IS the art? Hmmm. Deep thoughts. Think about it.

IMG_8770 Ms. Thang.

IMG_8771 Carly and me with my sweet 3-D glasses I found around the office. The place was so jam packed, that she and I ended up chilling out by sitting on the cabinets, quite literally.

IMG_8772 Classy plastic cup.

IMG_8773 Mmm, open bar! (But look at all those barely touched wasted drinks!!! Travesty!)

IMG_8774 Carly's magazine friend Andrew. Thanks dude for hooking us up with free drinks even after the bar 'closed.'

IMG_8775 Andrew (look at his "been frequenting the open bar for quite awhile" eyes...haha) and his super cool friend who is starting her own jewelry company.

IMG_8776 Happy people.

Afterwards, we bounced over to Hiro for Cheeky Bastard partay.

IMG_8779 Haha! This might be the most brilliant photo of Sam. Sam and Nick run a art community website called Heelpress. Go check it out, sign up and join, and upload all your creative efforts.

IMG_8781 Nick--the other half of Heelpress (which later that night as he was talking to a couple girls became a porn site). I think I'm going to bring more prop items out with me. Everyone wanted a turn with those glasses.

IMG_8778 The K to the S doing her best Stevie Wonder impression.

IMG_8782 Pure foolishness.

IMG_8784 A two drink minimum?

IMG_8785 Haha.

LeVar Burton was also there. He kept trying to read us shit from Reading Rainbow, and I was like, "Dude, stop. We're trying to dance!"

IMG_8786 Sweater over shoulder? Yes!

IMG_8788 Haha. As this photo was being taken, Chris--who at the time was flirting with the bartender or something--saw this and thought "I NEED TO BE IN THESE PHOTOS" and he SPRINTED over...just in time to make the next photo:

IMG_8789 Chris literally came to one of those cartoon skidding stops just as the flash went off. Result? Brilliant photo.

IMG_8794 Hot sweaty dance floor mess.

IMG_8795 "And the midget was THIS tall bro! Someone THIS tall can't be calling herself a midget! She was hot though."

IMG_8797 "And this was a tough move, but those How-To Riverdance videos really paid off!"

IMG_8798 Mikey (He can dance better than you) backs up his trunk...and Carly kinda likes it.

IMG_8800 And of course, the night ends with a jump!

Final thoughts: Did I really dance on stage? Did I really see Chris wheelbarreling a girl on the dance floor? Was there really a 50 dollar minimum? Did someone really text message...basically, Pol Pot? And lastly, one thing one should never throw down the gauntlet and call me a pussy.

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WEEKEND UPDATE

First, a few photos kindly sent to me (Thanks Lauren!) from an open bar outing a few weeks ago. IMG_0039 I kind of love this photo.

IMG_0041 This might be one of my favorite photos ever from my party photo set.

Anyway, fast forward to the present. Saturday night was an interesting night...unfortunately the camera was left at home. Played wingman to a friend at his ex's going-away send off party. After Saturday, my friend and I are now even for when I dragged him to play wingman at a terrible club on the west side that played only Oldies music all night long.

On Saturday, my friend Jesus's band Zenen performed at the Delancey to help kick off a new monthly music and art event, Tripnotica.

IMG_8754 Some artist was painting on the main floor of the three level bar.

IMG_8755 Jesus and the White Jackets!

IMG_8757 Industrial rocking it!

Then I met up with Cy and we went to Faluka for some silly hookahing, drinking, and dancing. Some photos...

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IMG_8768 Woa.

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SOCIAL LIFE RECAP

Just a mixmash of randomness... IMG_8732 Some flashing action. WOOHOO.

IMG_8733 "Hark, I see a party, yonder!"

IMG_8735 But first, a jump, natch.

IMG_8737 I have to give C Low a 10 on this jump, if anything for effort because afterwards, he came a-crashing to the ground.

IMG_8738 C is actually 10 feet tall, evidently.

IMG_8742 C and Jamarah look incredibly bored (or hipper than thou arrogance?) at Marquee.

IMG_8743 Ah yea, now it's a partyyyy.

IMG_8745 Take 1: I didn't get the no-smile memo.

IMG_8746 Take 2: Now we're on the same page. I'm going to steal this joke from Chris: Two Alaskans walked into a bar.

IMG_8747 C attempting the sensitive, yet manly tears. Or he was constipated. Not sure which.

P2090009 I'm going for the pound while H is going for the five.

P2090014 H's mouth is radioactive.

P2090019 As my friend Jenn would say, ROAR.

P2090025 Haha.

I'm a modest guy...but I have to say, I think this just may be the hottest picture I've ever had of myself. I'm sorry, I just look GOOD:

P2090032 Yea, you can't get that with plastic surgery. GENETICS baby, genetics.

P2090033 And H is looking pretty good himself here.

P2090036 This is brought to you by the color yellow.

P2090040 Mmm, drinks.

P2090048 P giving the ol' finger to Miami.

P2090052 Haha.

P2090067 OH SNAP, It's a TRAIN!

P2090073 This is brought to you by the color green.

P2090092 I just feel dirty looking at this photo.

P2090103 The coolest girl I know in Miami (after Gloria Estefan).

P2090105 H and S aka my fave getting their groove on.

P2090107 Blurry photo.

P2090113 Haha. I think this is my favorite photo of us dudes.

P2090114 Haha, A in the back was outta control, but in a good way.

P2100125 Hangover breakfast or er, lunch after being out until 7 am.

P2100147 At dinner.

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THIS IS THE SWEET LIFE

The good is a weekend in South Beach.  The bad is going straight to the office after getting back and spending my Sunday evening at work. Thanks Wordpress for letting me get that off my (one-day beach tan) chest and now, back to work.

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CALL ME MATTAMI!

In 12 hours, I'll be going from this:

To this:

Okay, maybe not quite just like that, but this weekend I'll be in Miami, bitches!

The average temperature in NYC while I'm away will hover around the mid to low 30s degrees, while the weather I'm expecting in Miami is 78ish.  Not amazing, but this Alaska boy is looking forward to that a lot more than freezing my ass off in the City.

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SHORT THOUGHTS WHILE WAITING FOR THE SHOWER

Alaskan boy is not happy with this cold weather.

I'm not looking forward to seeing the "hey, I'm just like you guys" smug face of Peyton Manning on every fuckin' commercial.

John Legend's PDA is a hot song.

I found it ironic that the eye doctor said a couple of my tear ducts are blocked up and I could relieve them with a warm compress.

I've been dreaming more and more about work.

Plain cheese and cereal is an awesome dinner.

All that dairy isn't good for someone that is lactose intolerant.

C Low is still in the god damn shower.  Hurry the fuck up.

I want to go snowboarding again and have a "phew, I'm still alive" brush with death.

When you don't have health insurance for a while, it feels really good to have it again.

There's a party for Google on Wednesday.  I probably shouldn't go.

People need to stop leaving voicemails because I don't check 'em.  Ever.  I'm voicemail intolerant.

Instead of saying "I need a haircut" (which I do), I think I'm going to say "I need to get a wax."

I need to get a wax, do laundry, and pay bills before this Friday.

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STORY OF MY CURRENT LIFE

This about perfectly describes my current dating life.  Went to a party a couple weeks ago, a girl chats me up and gives me her card.  I finally get around to sending an e-mail to her.  A few minutes later, I get the following response:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

xxxxxx@xxxxxx.com

Technical details of permanent failure: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 5.1.1 <xxxxxx@xxxxxx.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table

Sing about that, John Mayer!

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RELATIONSHIP STATUS UPGRADE

Remember in Jerry McQuire McGwire McGayer Mcguire(Thanks Google) after his client Ron Tidwell has that huge performance on Monday Night Football (WOOOO! SHOW ME THE MONEEEEEAYYYYYYYYYYY) and an excited Jerry calls his 'wife' Dorthy Boyd and tells her about what a huge night he had, they had, their company had?

That non sequitur aside, last night my roommate Chris aka C-Low and I decided to upgrade our status from "roommate" to "friend." What does this mean for the future? It means that we no longer have to introduce each other to our friends like, "Hey, meet my roommate Chris," but now I can say "Meet my friend Chris." Although, if I'm mad at him because he didn't do the dishes, or because he let Luca shit in front of my door, I'm going to introduce him as my roommate.

I feel that my relationship with my third roommate Kristin aka D Train was upgraded a long time ago. I think she's my friend now and no longer justaroommateIfoundoffCraigslistIlikegatorade. But...this is New York and in New York, relationships are a particularly fickle creature (Totally channeling Sarah Jessica Horseface from Sex and the City right now...wow...I'm having an out of body experience right now...who is this person typing at my computer...), and unless both parties explicitly have an unequivocal discussion--with lawyers and court reporters present--about the status of their relationship (Roommate, Friends, Dating, Open Relationship, Relationship, Random Play, Swinger, Married, Divorced, or Networking Only) and come to an agreement, then their relationship status forever remains abstruse, ambiguous, and even chimerical. One party might think s/he is in a Relationship, while the other party might think s/he is in it for Networking Only. Ouch. So I think I need to have a sit down with D Train and find out where she and I stand. Just roommates (boo!) or friends (yay!)?

As for the apartment resident dog--spoiled brat extraordinaire aka the little guy--Luca and I like to tag team pillows (he takes the back and I take the front), which makes us practically BFF.

Update: So the prescient statement I made above over a year ago is that relationships are a fickle creature in New York. Having to step over an untrained and un-housebroken dog's piss and feces every morning, day, and evening; smelling cigarette smoke every morning, day, and evening; and  trying to deal with unreasonable messiness and hoarding in the common spaces is a whole heap of straw that broke this camel's back. I just want her to give me back my security deposit now.

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SOME OF MY FAVORITE THINGS RIGHT NOW...

1. Luca sleeping on my lap...2. ...while I'm watching Future Weapons on Discovery Channel. 3. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.  (Although kittens totally get my allergy going.) 4. My long green winter jacket. 5. Saturday mornings. 6. Tall model chicks in Russian fur hats.

Some of My Least Favorite Things Right Now...

1. Luca trying to get all up on my food while I'm eating. 2. Sundays at 11 pm. 3. Friend requests on MySpace from terrible, terrible bands. 4. Having a cold. 5. The Bush Administration (kinda goes without saying here on this ol' lib blog...but doesn't hurt to say it every once in awhile). 6. Not having Gatorade in the fridge.

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JOINING A GYM

Why is it that finding and joining a gym (at least in New York--I don't know what this experience is like any where else) feels like buying a used car from snake oil salesmen salespeople?

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SMALL INSIGNIFICANT RANT

I'm hating that Flickr--the repository of my photos--is making "old skool" users (those who joined prior to Yahoo's purchase of Flickr) get rid of their existing logins and instead forcing us to use a Yahoo one.  A big boo to that.  Now I have to use my "HotAZNStuff@yahoo.com" account as my Flickr login. Damn the Man.

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CRYING GAME

I (unintentionally) made my roommate Kristin cry today. I don't know the power of my own narrative.

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WHAT ACTIVITY CAUSED THIS?

My tailbone hurts. My biceps are sore.

My knees ache.

And my thumb joint throbs.

Snowboarding.

It was awesome though. I'm definitely improving with each trip to the mountains and I'm looking forward to pushing myself on the next visit.

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FIRST CAME THE NYPD, THEN 9/11, THEN LOVE.

These two NYPD police officers who fell in love after their valorous efforts on 9/11 got married recently.

Judith Hernandez and Mr. Castro are New York City police officers and, as onetime partners in the department’s housing bureau, they made heroic rescues during the 9/11 attacks.

The searing memory of that day — how they cheated death together, the lives they saved together, and those they could not save — pulled them steadily closer afterward, as did the year of 16-hour days they spent together sifting through the ruins at ground zero. It finally persuaded them to end their police partnership and become partners in marriage.

As great a story as this is, I doubt we'll see it on an episode of Law and Order any time soon.

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MY VICE IS IN THE AIR TONIGHT

I don't think I would ever find myself using the words 'bad ass' and 'Phil Collins' in the same sentence, but then again I never thought I'd ever see [censored]. Check out this scene from the pilot episode of Miami Vice that proves once and for all that convertibles, blazers (cuffs rolled up natch) and Phil Collins do indeed go together like Bacardi and Cola. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tnyp9tRXRo]

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