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See, this is what happens when I don’t take enough photos during the weekend. If you go back to Matt and Kristen’s BBQ you will see that Dan spray painted my toe yellow because we were drunk. I shower almost regularly and wash my toes, but there is still some yellow paint on the nail. After it finally goes I will know exactly how long it takes to regrow my big toenail. Pause. To quote my Aunt Carole, “Yeah, who gives a fuck?” I was kind and used the out of focus photo, to see the real one click here. Sometimes art is not pretty. I consider myself young and good looking, but my own toes gross me out.
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Spent a lot of money for a pair of drinks last night at the Unions Square Ballroom. Everyone there was black, rich, and decked out in the finest of urban apparel. I was dressed like a member of Weezer and for once my alternative garb was alternative. No one cared. The evening was a fun adventure with a friend.

Today’s pic clears up some loose ends(but not all). Clockwise from upper left:
– Aaron coaches me while I try to use the force to summon beer, women.
– The aforementioned mentioned drunken Ben and lovely Holly.
– October bender, night two at Joe’s Bar.
– Three turkeys. No, Sean and some birds. No, Got Chicken? I got nothing.
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I had a musing this morning while brushing my teeth that I wanted to share with all of you. I thought of a word to help me remember it, but after I got ready it was gone from my head. I tried to recall it on the way to work, but all I could remember is that it began with “T”. I never did get it, but I did have some thoughts about other T words. For example, I never want to smack someone so much as when they are playing the tambourine.

WEEKEND RECAP:(Pics in camera…on coffee table…at home…will post tonight)
In a nutshell, drunk, tired, drunk, made a friend, tired, well-fed.

Important points: We finally met Holly, Ben’s LD girlfrienddelightful and photogenic. Stayed out way, way too late Friday. I like out of towners. Slept on own couch. Saturday ordered cheese sticks, waffle fries, twenty hot wings, two waters, and two cokesstill felt terrible. State lost.
Saw a friend’s all-girl band called–I kid you not–Booby Trap. Went home early. In bed reading, called back out by crazy friends and out of towners. Danced to 80’s punk until sun up. Ate Wasabi peas. Cleaned. Walked. Cooked. Dinner party and Sopranos.

I’m at home today, resting, so I can’t get my pictures off the camera. To make up for it, I promise to put up something interesting this weekend. In the meantime, here is a shot of Floquet’s bum.

Colin, Tyler, Erik, and myself hosting trivia. Two of the hosts drink for free and we were paid $50 for writing the questions, which was most easily divided by using it to by rounds. After a night like that you can imagine how I felt getting up for an 8:30AM dentist appointment to have a cavity filled. My face is still numb.
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I just gave $90.30 to WKXP, the only decent radio station in the country. Normally I prefer to steal from charities, but it’s about the music this time. And a free knit hat.
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Just now, on my way back from lunch, I was walking on the street and I looked up to see a haze obscuring a building. I thought it was steam, but then I saw more billowing from a neighboring building and I could smell that it was smoke. Moments later three cacophonious fire trucks pulled up right to where I was standing and the fighters began to dismount. Suprised by the whole thing, I dumbly exclaimed, “I didn’t do it!” Luckily, they ignored me.

A hottie named Tammy I met at The Edge last night. Shortly after this photo her boyfriend beat me up.
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Is there a tax in Hollywood of which film makers can be exempt if they include Philip Seymour Hoffman in their picture? He sure is in a lot of them.

My coffee guy. On the weekends he makes films and is learning digital editing. Only in this town.
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Some random thoughts:

Watching the Steelers and the keep showing players who went to Penn State. I could live in any city, but the Western Pennsylvania and football will always be in my blood.

I like the new Cadillacs. I think they are punk rock. My friend Ben and I use the term “punk rock” to refer to anything that is cool and a result of independent thinking. It also implies that the item in question is actual good. So actually punk rock is no longer really “punk rock”. Cooking a really good steak for yourself is very punk rock.

One of the great moments in life is being by yourself and happy. One of the worst is being alone and sad. Thus, cell phones were invented.

People sometimes comment about how that guy Matt on my site is good looking. Oh yeah? Well, now what do you think?
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I saw Badly Drawn Boy last night at Roseland. He played most of the About a Boy Soundtrack which I really enjoyed. If you don’t own it I strongly recommend picking it up.

Get out and see the colors this weekend. This is a shot of the woods near where I grew up, taken this morning.
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I’ve got nothing else. I’m in town this weekend so I may do an update tomorrow, even though I normally take the weekends off.
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Wednesday and yesterday the site set all time attendance records, which proves that people like boobs.

I have a meeting, but when I get back I’ll write a description of the GQ Awards.
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Meeting is over. Last night Susan took me as her date to the GQ Men of the Year Awards at Hammerstein’s Ballroom. We arrived and were sent down the red carpet with Heath Ledger and Naomi Watts on our heels. The paparazzi forms a complete faceless wall of camera lenses and they just silently stared at Susan and I but blinked and clicked in a mad frenzy for Heath and Naomi. They ducked in the “little people” entrance with us to avoid interviews. Upon entering the lobby we were given bad wine and herded up to the balcony to make small talk with fifty other people in advertising. Below us four hundred or so stars and assistants picked at bad food. The show began with a decent performance by Chris Isaac and then some bombing by Dennis Miller. I liked his jokes but the crowd didn’t really have the attention span to catch his obscure references. He did slam the terrible Ron Galotti and referred to his previous gig as “Mute”.

They presented the awards quickly and a lot of the recipients had mailed in taped thank-you speeches. Of the ones who were there, Hugh Grant and Tom Brokaw gave the best responses. Hugh was clever in that scripted British way and was thoughtful enough to thank Nick Hornby. Tom thanked the journalists still in the field and then walked out with his hand on Jane Pauley’s rump.

After a while I was getting a little bit bored so I snuck downstairs to get Susan and I more drinks. The area behind the tables had opened up as a lounge for smokers. I walked right down on the floor to one of the bars while Dr. J was presenting an award to Jason Kidd. Apparently stars do not tip, because I did and it made the bartender my best friend for the next hour. I was about to go back upstairs when I noticed Dre (short) and Big Boi (short) of Outkast just hanging out. They were very friendly and approachable so I asked a PA to take a picture of Dre and me. He smiled more for a picture with a few ladies moments before this one, but he was still very nice to me. Drank Poland Spring water the whole night. Very short. Shortly after I talked with Dre, Jason Kidd (tall) came walking through and an excited fan handed her camera to an unrecognized Big Boi and ordered him to snap a pic of her and Kidd, which he amicably did.

As the show ended, we followed Molly Sims (tall) and Tara Reid (short) up to the seventh floor for the after party. It was smoky affair with only the B-list celebrities like Monica Lewinsky (big, in taffeta) and Jacob Dylan (short) still in attendance, so we had a few more drinks and went home.

I’m not a big celebrity gawker, but it is fun to indulge once in a while as part of the New York experience. When I had arrived I tried to be hipster cool and said that my only goal was to meet Jonathan Safran Froer, but by the end of the night I was staring at Samuel L. Jackson and today I’m dropping names like a coke dealer. Well, everyone should be allowed to be hypocritical on their own website.