Late photos from Matt's birthday

June 3rd was my 31st birthday. We had a get-together with some friends at the new place in Berkeley. We haven't moved any furniture up, so people sat on boxes of books (I'd packed 'em solid for that very purpose). It was good party, and I got a ton of loot.

Unfortunately, most of the pictures came out radically out of focus. The ones I'm posting here are not a representative sample, they're just the ones that turned out. Many thanks to all who attended. It was a great birthday.


Here's Brian Kraatz holding Tiny Man. London was extremely well behaved at the party. He was roaming around, flirting with everyone, and generally working the room like a pro.


Here Emily Hunter (left) demostrates Iceman's ice-shooting method, for Sarah Ginn (blue), Ilsa (black), and Vicki (white). Emily is marrying Nick Pyenson tomorrow. I've been lobbying hard for Nick to take her name. Think about it: can he really pass up the opportunity to become Nick Hunter? With a name like that, he could become an international man of mystery in no time.



Here I am with Andrew Lee, and someone, possibly Joel Abraham, is distracting me from my cake.

This may be the most poorly-composed photo I've ever taken, but here you go. From left to right, the folks in the picture are Emily, Nick, Lauryn Benedict, London, Lauryn's S.O. Bill, Anne Peattie, Vicki, Ilsa, and Sarah. I think I took this after Joel split. He's been traveling his butt off lately, so he had to jet a little early.


And if you'd like to see what those people look like from the front, here are Lauryn and Bill, Nick and Emily, and a certain busy boy. What you can't see is that London is playing with a big can of lipstick; Vicki had a little Mary Kay party in the corner. But don't fret. London is all man. I fed him a whole bottle of Tabasco sauce that night just to make sure.