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Best Wedding Ever

All other weddings will pale in comparison. Don't believe me?

Here's some video of the post-ceremony action. (Watch for me being carried into the pool.)

SF Mayor Gavin Newsom shows his iPhone

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Later 'gator

I just have to say, once again, that I am giddy with excitement to have a new job. I also have some pretty great friends that came out to celebrate with me last night. Yay!

I really need a vacation

Girl Talk Pretty One Day

(Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis)

After he smashed the wine glass on his head at Friday's Wired Magazine's party, I knew he was my new nerd-boy crush.

And ooh, ooh, the video of him singing Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice." Watch for me taking photos towards the very end of the video.

Magic Bean

I have pneumonia. I've been sick for more than three weeks now. First, I had an on again, off again cold and then when I thought I was all better I was too busy working and going out to take care of myself and bacteria moved down my lungs.

Contrary to popular belief...

Whiskey does not make me violent. It makes me pink cheeked and very friendly. :)

I went to Whiskies of the World Expo on Saturday and it was pretty cool (but everyone was saying that the year previous was much better). I got to try a ton of whiskey, all different and mostly pretty good. I knew I wasn't a huge fan of peat but after trying one whiskey called The Peat Monster I am 100% sure I like them with less peat. I also got to try some fantastic Japanese single malt whiskey from Suntory called Yamazaki. Tasty!!!

Happy Birthday, Rachel

Party at Butter

Turn Your Frown Upside Down

It's not a rainbow, it's a circumzenithal arc. Anyway, the rare sight is just perfect for my mood.

This night did not end well

I LOVE Mekong

Party like a rockstar

Limozeen

limo crew
It's about 11:30 on saturday night and seven people need to get from Martuni's to Supperclub. Did I mention it's Pride weekend and were are but a stone's throw from the Castro? Yeah. Fuck trying to get a cab. We hailed a limo.

Allow me to get totally cheeseball for a moment

Overlooking Stinson Beach Aww, how cute is this photo my brother took of us last weekend at Stinson Beach? Steve organized a beach BBQ and while it was nice earlier in the day by 3pm we were freezing our asses off. It was a nice kicked back day at the beach. Check out this silly photo too.

It's el oh el time!

This photo of a SUV limo getting stuck in Potrero Hill is fucking awesome.

Hangar One photos

I took these with my Lomo.

Coachella photos

Spurned but that's okay

Yeah.

I'm taking a three day break from drinking then it's back to boozing at Voda and then sipping Johnnie Walker Blue Label on Wednesday.

I can't believe everything that happened yesterday happened in one day. I met up with our 18 person group at the Ferry Building early in the afternoon to take the ferry to Alameda. Once we got off the ferry we had to make a 20 minute (?) walk to the Hangar One distillery which is actually in an old airplane hangar. We ended up tasting about 12 different drinks from the company that produces Hangar One, St. George. We had a very smokey whiskey, grappa, raspberry and pear brandies, some other liquers, and a lot of vodka. They had one drink they called Qi Iced Tea which tasted like a Thai iced tea. Very tasty indeed. I loved their straight vodka, it's such a smooth sipping vodka it makes me wonder if it's really vodka at all. The distiller called it the world's most dangerous vodka. After we the tasting we walked back towards the ferry but we thought we had missed it so we took a detour and stopped by Rosenblum. We all chipped in $5 and bought a few bottles to drink while sitting outside and enjoying the incredibly beautiful weather.

At this point I was starting to get mopey watching a couple of lovebirds in our group making out and cuddling at every opportunity. Then someone mentioned that their boyfriend recently disappeared while she was at work and she hasn't heard from him since. Love sucks.

Later on, back in San Francisco, I had dinner with a couple friends before heading to a rooftop party to enjoy the KFOG Kaboom fireworks. We missed most of the fireworks because we were sitting in a cab trying to get to SOMA but I did see the last 5 minutes of it and even that was amazing. The party was relaxed and intimate. I got a chance to talk to a friend who told me that she had a very disturbing dream where I was yelling at her. I told about some of the things that have been going on and she was pretty freaked out by the synchroncity of events and her dream. I felt sad and more distant so I decided to leave the party but once I got outside I feel like going home anymore.

A couple friends and I ended up at 500 Club late into the night. We knew it was time to leave when this crazy, drunken girl tried to put a glow in the dark necklace on me. She had one flip flop on.

Despite it having been a long, full day, I wasn't tired at all. That combined with me having felt mopey the entire day I really didn't want to go home and be tempted to sit on my sofa and listen to sad music so a friend kept me company for a while before I decided I should go home to sleep.

I slept really well even though I didn't sleep for very long.

These are Steve's photos:

At Rosenblum Winery sipping on not so tasty wines. This is my fake smile. Pretty good huh?

Steve licking the sediment off the cork of dessert wine.

Hangar One distillery equipment. It's made of copper.

This is the post-distillery and post-winery photo. See? I'm doing fine! Go my heroic liver!

My mom would be 48 today

Fake Model Photography

I saw this photo on Flickr that totally fooled me into thinking it was a perfectly made model of a beach resort and then I found out how to Photoshop the effect myself.

I tried it out on a photo of mine I took in Switzerland in 2004.

Zzzzzz...

Me listening to Kris yammer on about his photo sharing site, Zoomr, at Meetro HQ on Sunday. Listen to the audio clip.

ed: mar. 27, 2006: vinnie has alerted me to my typographical error in the spelling of ZooOmr. I apologize profusely to Kris and hope that he doesn't make me listen to the schpeil again

Whoa ho!

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I got some serious inner thigh action going. Perhaps my dad was right to say that I needed to wear pantyhose. This is from the Yelp Elite Squad party last night at Shine.

Yelpers in the Photobooth at Shine

Yelpers in the Photobooth at Shine
Photobooths are so much fun and I love this one with Rick, Stephan, me, and Miriam.

Bbbbrrrrrrrrr!!

Miriam took this lovely photo of me last night before the midnight showing of "Say Anything."

This is what I did over the weekend

Losing Team
LoL. OMG... The Meetro BBQ in Palo Alto. I'm the one wearing the hoodie. More photos are here.

Postcards from Paradise

Outrigger Canoe
Me? In the water? Say what?!?



Seeing is believing. More photos and words after I unpack and get some more photos developed.

Who needs E?

20050902 Devin at North Beach Pizza By Mmmonica.
I finally signed up for a Flickr account but I only put up a couple images so far to test it out. If any of you also have a Flickr account I'd love to add you to my contacts. Here's my URL: www.flickr.com/photos/mmmonica