1
And once again that rising sun is droppin’ on down
…And once again, you my friend, are nowhere to be found…
I always remember.
12.20.83-5.17.98
oh what a week this will be…
We’re All Wonderwall Dorks
Okay so I sorta took what I had and combined it with what Media Junkyard did for their vidcast and voila, a brand new idea was born that directly lead to me getting 4 hours of sleep and having 45 minutes to finish up YuBlog.org stuff for today and pack for my straight-from-work trip back to Long Island this weekend. All this traveling is seriously starting to wear me down; I wish we could just pull a Potter and Apparate/Disapparate whenever and wherever we pleased. But anyways, here’s what the end of a long week of fun/being awake since 2am did to all of us who let’s face it would probably have done it regardless of when we’d woken up or our previous days’ adventures.
In other news, TGIF. Peace.
Oh and P.S. since Jay just pointed it out again, yeah, this is a blatant rip off of what Rob & Chris did but since they’re mostly my pictures with 2 or 3 from Adam, I’m going to split the difference and called it “loosely inspired”.
Oh double P.S. I’m looking for new submissions to YuBlog.org so if you have anything you’d like to contribute in any topic at all, please email YuBlog.org@gmail.com or get in touch with me. Gracias!
And After A Long Day at Comic Con, We Want Margaritas
Posted by Colleen on Jul 24, 2009 in Clif Armstrong, Comic Con, Friends, Good times, Jay Glatfelter, Picture Post, Podcasting Adventures
As usual, I’m running late, so I’ll make this quick. I’m working on sorting thru a crapload of pictures from yesterday for YuBlog.org (Nudia.tv’s community blog site) but I’ve literally sorted through hundreds of awesome ones from people who’ve contributed, so it’s just taking a wee bit longer than it did yesterday. We are heading to the convention center in 5 minutes to get some Exhibit Hall time in before Jay and Jack’s live podcast at 12PST in the Sails Pavilion. I’m finishing this during the live Lost Podcast. The actual Con pics will be on YuBlog.org soon enough but I wanted to get some personal pics from our time in San Diego up here first.
Psych panel, woot.
It’s Nudia.tv’s Street Team
Chris, Sue, Alirio, Adam
Bunny ears
Sexy.
Much better.
Carne Asada Burrito con Queso
Tequila!
Sour face.
Smile.
Loooots of Ghostbusters swag in that bag…
Group shot.
Comic Con 2009 Preview Night
Posted by Colleen on Jul 23, 2009 in Clif Armstrong, Comic Con, Friends, Good times, Jay Glatfelter, Lost, Video
So yesterday was Day 1 of San Diego Comic Con 2009 aka Preview Night. Woot. After Jay & I picked up our rental car (an oh-so-hot PT Cruiser), we made a much anticipated stop at In N Out Burger in Mission Valley. There, we (me, Jay, Jana & Clif) met up with Ryan & Jen Ozawa from the Transmission podcast and Alirio “I Have Free Health Care in Canada” of PauseCast.
We got our badges at about 2pm and then sat around the Convention Center outside Ballroom 20 for 4 hours until the doors opened for the Exhibit Hall at 6pm. I wanted to get a Benjamin Linus Bobble Head doll but by the time I got over there after my stop at the Diamond Toys booth to pick up Stay Puft Marshmellow Man limited edition banks for Jay, Derek, and Kim, the line was too long and I wanted to go up and see the previews for V (looks awesome) and The Vampire Diaries (craptastic-minus-the-tastic-until-Boone-gets-on-45-mins-into-it). Afterwards, we hit up some local bar for food/drinks with friends like Chris in Boston & friends, Adam of the Randy Rando Randonopolis podcast, Desiree in Pensicola, Alirio and Michael the Friendly Communist. Good times, good times.
Video and pictures below:
Criffy-Crif!
Ryan & Jen at In N Out
Jack, Clif, me, and Jay with Jay & Jack listener UKJay aka @jhewlett
Some random boys causing trouble.
Jen, JOpinionated, me, Jay, Jack, Clif, Alirio, Adam
Jay, Stuart, & Adam going to see the “V” screening
haha, I <3 Stuart
A motley crue
Adam and Chris in Boston
So a Drunk Guy Breaks Into a Liquor Store…
This is just a little touch of awesome to help brighten this rainy weekend. Best. Criminal. Ever.
Thanks, Clif!
Aladdin + Margaritas…Okay, No Blame Falls on the Margaritas
Posted by Colleen on Mar 9, 2009 in Clif Armstrong, Friends, Good times, Movies, Sing along, Video, Weekend
It’s been a very, very long and busy week since I officially moved in to my apartment here in Raleigh, NC. My days (literally) consist of this: Applying for jobs, hunting for furniture and general apartment stuff, unpacking/setting stuff up, and trying to get un-lost from the places I’m trying to find. I have a video that I am working on that’s from the actual move-in and morning after, but I’ve just been too busy to actually sit down and really put it together.
However, yesterday (March 8 ) was our friend Clif’s 28th birthday. Jay & I had him over for hamburgers and margaritas (since honestly, margaritas are the only thing that we can really make). Friday night (March 6), we went to see “Watchmen” - which I thought was good but very long. I think that my best assessment of the movie is that it must be to Watchmen/comic book fans what the Lord of the Rings trilogy was to the rest of us Tolkien fans/geeks. It was way graphic, even for me, but I liked it a lot anyways. Saturday (March 7) was my sister Katelyn’s 22nd birthday :) I went to garage sales from 7am til 10am, when I met up with Sara, her mom, and sister. Her sister and I tried on our bridesmaid dresses for Sara & TJ’s wedding on September 5. Afterwards, I resumed the cheap furniture hunt (I REALLY freaking need a kitchen table), visited Jay at work, then went for a looooooong ass walk in the 80-degree Raleigh weather.
But more about all of that later. Maybe even a bridesmaid dress picture if I feel like it.
So last night, we had Clif come over for burgers and margaritas to celebrate his 28th birthday.
The king of making margaritas Clif’s birthday drink!
We watched the end of Back to the Future on TV, then Jay & Clif played some video games. After that got old quickly, we were looking for a movie to put on and since Jay hasn’t brought over many of his DVDs yet, it was up to yours truly’s collection of such classics like America’s Sweethearts, Mean Girls, Now and Then, and The Notebook. Even classics like High Fidelity, Anchorman, Dogma and That Thing You Do were vetoed. So finally, Clif just went, “I want to watch Aladdin!”
So we did. And it’s amazing just how much an almost-24-year-old, a 25-year-old, and a 28-year-old can still recite an entire Disney movie. We even still remembered (almost) all the lyrics of the songs.
UPDATE: YouTube and the evil that is a music group I shall not name in case of search engine hits have silenced my previous video because apparently playing a 30-second clip of only music from a song is a violation of copyright laws. And if you’re a douchebag and reported me to YouTube for copyright violation, then I hope that karma comes around to f*ck you in the ass so hard you can’t sit down for the next 4 years. Cause just remember that nobody likes a tattletale, especially over 30 seconds of singing-less music. k thnx bye! Sorry for the less than fabulous quality of this version:
And with that, I must return to the job hunt so that I can then continue with the furniture hunt. Woot. I’d really like it if like $1,000 just fell into my lap right now.
25th Birthday Recap
Posted by Colleen on Feb 9, 2009 in Ali Caruana, Amanda "Pookie" C., Amanda Giordano, Annie Russell, Bobby Shortle, BreakThru Radio, Claudio Schneider, Friends, Good times, Ian Topping, Jay Glatfelter, Julia Graham, Matt Dunning, NYC, Picture Post, Podcasting Adventures, Randy "Princess Cupcake Assface" Green, Weekend
So thus far today, my packing has been this successful: I threw shit out from my desk (that I don’t even need to go through) and packed both my U.S. and British editions of Harry Potter and my Lord of the Rings books. Yeah, this is not good lol. I can’t really do anything outside of the house before 3:30pm each day because I’m on doggie nurse duty for Strider - 13 pills a day, including diuretics which means he has to be taken outside to go to the bathroom at least once every 1.5-2 hours. My dad does the pills but it’s a huge ordeal because some are so large that they have to be literally shoved down his throat. I feel badly because the dog will unintentionally bite down on his hand at least 4 times each session & this morning he drew blood.
My birthday parties were fun. I gotta admit that on Friday, I was just totally not feeling doing anything birthday-related. It took longer to pick Strider up from the doggie cardiologist than I thought it would and I missed the train into Manhattan, so I just drove in to Astoria and took the subway to Hi-Fi to meet up with the BTR crew. Annie made me FUNFETTI CUPCAKES, which I think I had 4 of. It was fun and nice to see everyone who could make it.
Also on Friday, I had a surprise. Jay couldn’t make it this weekend and knew how disappointed I was so he sent me beautiful flowers to make up for it :) Aren’t they purdy?
So, Saturday was the big party at Stout in Herald’s Square. I didn’t end up going to New York Comic Con because I was just drained from the previous 2 days and needed to try to chill before the all-nighter. Katelyn and her friends Kelly & Eddie came in with me at 7pm so we could get a lot of seats for everyone at the bar.
Everyone tricked in from around 7:30pm-10:30pm. I was so excited to see everyone and even more excited to accept multiple birthday drinks. In fact, at around 12:50am, Randy & Claudio got me a double shot of Tequlia and for some reason, I then thought that it would be a good idea for Katelyn & Eddie to take the last “early” train home at 1:12am without me and I’d just take one at like 3am and get a cab for the 25 minute ride back. Yeah, I don’t know either. Sooooo around 1:30am, I wanted to go home and was “stuck.” So what did I do? My grandparents were staying at the Marriott Downtown for a conference that night & I decided to go drunkely visit them. Then I slept over in their hotel room. Yeah. Don’t even say a word.
We did a family party yesterday but it was quieter. My mom’s been sick the last few days and we wanted to keep it low-key so the dog didn’t have a heart attack, but it was cool. Still lots of good food. My aunt & uncle told me that I should enjoy 25 because everything beyond is just “early 30.”
So yeah, that’s my birthday story. Also, I know that this could come across wrong, but I’m just sorta “woah” to have seen this:
In 2 years podcasting, I’ve never ever been on any iTunes featured list or top something. It’s in the Audio Podcast list of the TV/Film category. Jay & I started the ChuckCast as a joke but then decided we liked doing because it took a total of 1 hour a week with recording and editing (knock on wood) and seemed like fun we should keep having! :) I’m actually not going to look at any reviews because I remember the last time that I did something that was more in Jay’s “territory” and 75% of the people who commented hated me. I wasn’t trying to come off poorly but damnit that sucked hardcore and I’d rather just say “screw it” and be kept in the dark this time.
Anyways, I have a bunch of pictures from my birthday party, but I’m putting them after the jump because there are quite a few (I’ll put more up on Facebook when I feel like it). My camera’s crazy ass flash makes me look like I haven’t been out in sunlight in 3 years and I also look drunk basically from an hour in (I think it was more like 2.5 hours in though…). I’m also aware I’m in desperate need of a haircut & am getting on on Friday. Much thanks to everyone who came out and who left me messages on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, message boards, etc.
Blogging Like Bored People Blog
Posted by Colleen on Jan 28, 2009 in Amanda "Pookie" C., Amanda Giordano, Friends, Good times, Ian Topping
Okay so we’re having dismal snowy/rainy weather on Long Island today. My first-half of the day counterpart didn’t come in today and the weather was all snow this morning, so there were a decent amount of cancellations. Basically, I’ve got not a lot to do & I’m bored so I’m doing what bored people do: blogging. I used to like having time to kill at work but the last 6 months has put me out of practice haha. So let’s see what I can entertain myself by yakking about.
- New Lost tonight. I may or may not have seen it already. Go ahead, hate on me. I wouldn’t go back & unwatch it for anything. I’ve had to stop discussing the show with my fellow geeks since I’m afraid of giving something away because there were (IMO) a lot of puzzle pieces that start to fit together more and I don’t want to disprove something someone says by going, “Well, that can’t be because…” And if you think that Jay & I talk about Lost because of the podcast, guess again. 85% of the time, we only talk about it if we’re surrounded by friends who bring it up.
- Moving date approaches. I’m nervous but I’ve got a lot of fun things going on the next 2 weekends. I’m going to see Michael Ian Black do stand-up comedy in NYC with Pookie this Saturday night, January 31. She asked me if I wanted to go see it at 8pm or 10:30pm & my first thought was, “Why on EARTH would we go at 10:30pm? That’s so late.” Which then prompts me to think, “25? Fuck, I’m old.”
- The following weekend is my “last weekend” in NY. The weekend of my 25th birthday. Annie is throwing together a Birthday/Going-Away Soiree with the BTR crew on Fri, Feb. 6. It’s going to be good times. Well, duh. Cause with Annie’s cupcakes, how could it not be good times? Also, I’m having a gathering in Herald’s Square on Feb. 7. I don’t care if the bar is a controversial choice. It’s close to Penn Station, where I’m probably coming from & it’s still cold in NYC. Therefore, that’s where I’m having it. It’s for Ian-face’s birthday too (naturally). Good times will ensue as well.
- Fun Fact: My & Ian-face’s 25th birthday coincides with the 2nd anniversary of Anna Nicole Smith’s death.
- I’d really like to go to New York Comic Con again this year (Feb. 6-8), but the only day that I could make it is Saturday. This isn’t a problem except that the freaking cast of my new favorite show Chuck is going to be there on Sunday! Also, the casts of Fringe & Joss Whedon’s new show are going to be there Sunday as well. Yeah, I’m a geek. Stupid birthday.
- If you haven’t already heard already, Scarlett Johansson is doing a cover of my boy Jeff Buckley’s “Last Goodbye.” I’m going to defer all discussion on this to Amanda.
- And finally, I’m thinking about making this blog into an actual website or at least updating the format/template a little bit. But more about that another time, I suppose.
Okay, I think I’ve successfully killed a little bit of time. I’ve actually written this blog twice because it didn’t save the first time when I went to publish it and then it was gone. I was way wittier the first time, but oh well. At least it’s 6pm now. May 7pm come fast & may 9pm come even faster. That’s what she said.
East Village Reunion
Saturday night was a little Marist reunion of sorts, organized by Eddie (who’s birthday is today - HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOME FRY!!!) and the rest of the boys from the Deceitful Whore (the name for Eddie’s apartment our junior/senior years). It didn’t end up being on the Upper West Side, but rather in the East Village. Yay L Train! (Sarcasm.) I forget the name of the bar we went to, but it was this little Irish pub type place that was really fun. Caught up a little with Julia and Anthony, who I haven’t seen in way too long, so that was fun. Nothing really of note happened except the girl who was in the one-stall ladies room for way long, then some dude came out and after like 25-minutes and went, “Oh, she’s really sick in there.” Suuuurrreeeee. “Sick.” If by “sick” you mean —- ah, I’m trying to keep this PG-13, so use your imagination. But it’s exactly what you’re thinking.
So anyways, pictures below, yadda yadda. Nothing too exciting.
To note: Check out the new Billy Joel song, which is from the perspective of a soldier and sung by this dude from LI. I want Billy Joel to write a song for ME to sing. Granted, I don’t really sing or do anything musical anymore except work in the music industry, BUT I’d totally sing a song in public if Billy Joel told me to. That’s all, the end.
Home Fries Reunited!
Julia likes to stare at my chest.
Julia likes to stare at my chest.
What’s up, asshole?
Roommates!
Group photos are fun.
Amanda’s new Facebook photo?
Apparently I bite.
Random pic that looked like a cross between Ronald Reagan and Satan.
"We want to be as irresponsible as possible, without being illegal."
Posted by Colleen on May 30, 2007 in Brian Verderosa, Claudio Schneider, Friends, Good times, Ian Topping, Weekend
Hooray for 3 day weekends. After the weekly trip to Shiro’s with Uncle Lou last Friday (holler hibachi), I went back to Ridge. On Saturday, I picked up Ian-face & Claudio and off we went to Hartford to visit Brian for his 23rd birthday. After enduring 3 hours of “Colleen’s a bad driver, we’re going to die” taunts from the boys, we finally got there. Because Brian’s the greatest friend ever, he had 2lbs of wings, fries & onion rings waiting for us. Ian-face, also the greatest friend ever, had purchased 2 cases (yes, cases) of Sam Adams Boston Lager for the celebration.
We hung around Brian’s kick ass apartment for a while & dicked around. I managed to get the boys to reprise their rendition of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” which was hysterical. At our senior prom back in high school days, Bri, C-dawg, & Ian had gone up to a teacher that Brian had a crush on and sung it to her in the middle of the party hall. It was so funny; I felt that after 5 years, it needed to be busted out again. I took a video of part of it. Despite their severe “this is NOT going to appear on the Internet or your blog” warnings, I’m putting it up anyway. I miss the good old days when this was the shit we did every single day.
After a rousing game of darts (no poker for once), we kicked around the idea of driving to either Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun (casinos in Connecticut), as Ian-face really wanted to go. We decided to hit up Brian’s favorite bar first since the rest of us were ambivalent about going. Because I’d drank the least, I wasn’t going to drink at the bar in case we decided to go, as I’d (of course) end up having to be the driver. We met up with one of Bri’s friends from work. This is the bar (Vegas) that’s famous for having liters (yes, liters) of beer. At one point, I walked with Brian to a gas station so he could buy cigarettes. We were still debating going to a casino, despite it being midnight at this point, but the big issue was whether or not they could go the hour it would take to get to either one without drinking. So Brian decides to call the Hartford police station & ask the desk sergeant if there’s an open container law in Connecticut (you can’t have open containers of alcohol in a car in NY at all). He was on hold for roughly 23 minutes, but we got our answer: Nope. As long as the driver wasn’t drinking, the passengers could be.
In typical Brian fashion, he thanks the officer (O’Brien) and goes, “Thanks, man. We want to be as irresponsible as possible, without being illegal.”
Yes, that is a direct quote. He even repeated it when the cop went, “Um, WHAT?!”
I love my friends.
We didn’t end up going to the casino because at this point, it was 1am and I was tired of not being able to drink. We walked back to Brian’s apartment & chilled there. And by “chilled” I mean, “Claudio passed out almost immediately while Bri, Ian & Brian’s friend Mike D. did shots of cheap orange vodka that Colleen knew better not to touch because cheap orange vodka means trouble.” Naturally, we had to fuck with C-dawg while he was sleeping, hehe. The night got better when we put on Arrested Development & I totally dorked out. I’ve been stressed out because of work stuff and moving preparations & couldn’t sleep at all, so I ended up doing the 3 weeks’ worth of dishes that had built up in Brian’s sink. It took me over an hour, til almost 5am. Claudio had passed out in the most inconvenient way possible on the couch & Ian-face had fallen asleep on the bathroom floor (cheap orange vodka always means trouble) soooo I ended up sleeping for an hour & a half on the most uncomfortable chair ever. But it was all good.
We were celebrating Uncle Lou’s birthday on Sunday, so I got the boys up early, dropped them off at the ferry so they could get to Port Jefferson & headed to Syosset for bday weekend, round 2. On the way back, I was starting to think about work/moving shit & making lists of everything I have to do this week in my head. I totally wasn’t paying attention and ended up getting pulled over for speeding (74 in a 50, go me) right before I crossed the Throg’s Neck bridge. Now, honestly, I’ve been pulled over like 6 times before. Thank heavens for Uncle Lou’s PBA card, which has gotten me out of all of them. I figured that this time, my luck was out, it would just be fitting with everything lately that I’d get a ticket and have to worry about going to court and getting points off my license and paying a zillion dollars and giving up a day to taking a defensive driving class to make up the points, etc. I was so distracted, so exhausted that when the cop came to the window, I was literally shaking. Then fate stepped in (again).
Cop: Why are you shaking?
Me: I’m nervous.
Cop: Why are you nervous? Because you’re a Yankees fan (I was wearing my Mariano Rivera shirt) and they’re losing?
Me: (nervous laugh) Yeah, I was at the game on Tues. It was awful.
Cop: Tuesday? So was I!
Me: Didn’t you just want to cry after that first inning Manny home run?
Cop: Tell me about it. Tell you what. You stay put. Whose card is this?
Me: My uncle’s.
Cop: I called the number and the guy said he didn’t know you!
Me: (Look of horror) WHAT?! I live with him! His badge number is [###]!
Cop: (Laughing) I’m just kidding. You can stop shaking, it’s okay. It was just speeding, that’s all! Unless you have any weapons of mass destruction in here that I should know about.
(At this point, I’m PRAYING that the boys didn’t leave any beer in my car.)
Me: Umm, I just have a lighter…
Cop: You were just speeding. Go home, relax, stop shaking. It’s fine. Have a good weekend. Let’s go Yankees!
Yeah. So…that happened. Thank you, universe. Thank you, thank you.
ANYWAY, Monday, I hit up Smith’s Point Beach with Ian-face, Claudio & Frankie, which was awesome. Okay this never-ending post is finally over. It really wasn’t that bad of a way to spend the last 15 minutes… 