1/30/09

denver = boring scenery, good eats and babies, ...

so i'm heading back to work. only now the guys had gone from rapid city SD to denver CO.

on my way there i flew over good old chicago. i can't wait to get home. the number of things i miss there are not even funny. seriously, not at all.

everything i miss in chicago is pictured below...



everyone says denver and the surrounding rocky mountains are a beautiful site.

i'm was not that impressed...



my first night back was pretty cool. adam called up an old friend of his that happened to be an old friend of mine too.

knauf... jason knauf...



knauf is doing great in denver. he plays the villain in a traveling juggling/dancing/super performance show. check out the company...www.handsomelittledevils.com/

we had the next day off, which was great. we ate a ton. there was this place called KT's bbq...



it seriously was some of the best bbq i have ever had. second only to pheobe's in philadelphia on 22nd and south.

here's what i ordered...



i started eating right away, totally forgetting about taking a picture to preserve the memory.

my sandwich and i instantly hit it off. to be honest i kind of fell for her...



then i ate that bitch up. love was a battlefield that day...



and i won. although the black bean chili put up a decent fight...



this was my army...



they also work there.

here some random things. we'll get back to the food.

the other night at the show i found my long lost twin marcus. drew-burger said it was the same haircut that was making me think that and the differences between us were to obvious to ignore...

.

but still.

also, did you know comedy doesn't always work...



and good times are not always "dy-no-mite"...



back to food.

downtown denver has a nyc style pizza shop...



i had to find out if it was good or not. the owner, joey, grew up on staten island but has been living in denver for 22 years.

usually people that boast nyc style pizza don't know their ass from their elbow. let's just say joey knew perfectly well where his elbow was, on his arm...



good job joey!!!

that night a friend of aaron's who lives in denver invited us over for a dinner party. it was really nice to have a home cooked meal.

here we are...



here is aaron and his college friend, who was super nice, travis...



they had a toilet with two settings...



one was for poop and one was for pee.

they also had kids. if there is one thing i learned this evening is how good i am with children.

seriously, like candidate for "acquaintance of a friend of a friend who has babies and lets you hold them for more than five seconds but less than twenty two seconds" of the year award.

colton, age 2...



riley, age a couple of months or something...



i did however get her to smile...



more random things.

i dry humped a three story tall blue bear...



talk about throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

1/29/09

my uncle passed...

i had to leave touring for awhile.

i found out mid day january 20th, 2009 that my uncle Anthony Richard Serrone had passed.

the funeral was scheduled for january 24th, 2009.

my trip started in rapid city, SD. here's their airport...



they had a cool statue of abraham lincoln...



but still, nothing about the city was rapid...



from there i had a layover in minneapolis MN.



their airport was super trippy...like an acid trip.

the security guard in the background was hysterical....



his conversation with a 60 something year old woman.

security guard - "where you going?"
60 something year old woman - "aspen."
security guard - "why?"

also, the sign thanks you for taking part in security today.

thank you sign.

although the layover was only an hour i managed to join a doo-wop group in minneapolis. the group consisted of me, ted, mickey and greg.



ted, mickey and greg were wooden wolves. they were just ok at singing.

after that i finally made it to new york.

here is our nations first bridge, the george washington bridge...



i arrived on friday, the funeral was saturday.

Anthony left behind a son who was his world...



and a wife whom he loved completely...



the one on the right is my mother. the one on the left is my aunt, anthony's wife.

Anthony Richard Serrone, born June 6, 1951 - January 20, 2009.
my uncle anthony was one of the hardest working people i have ever known. before you realilzed it he would have done 10 things to make your life easier. he loved watching the ny mets and discussing sport statistics with anyone who would. his honesty in himself was inspiring, much like he was. i know it sounds cliche but he truly was/is a great man. i did not grow up with a father but i had three uncles who never for a minute let me realize it, he was one third of that equation and a huge part of my life.

i will forever miss you Anthony. may you rest in peace...

1/26/09

landscapes and sonic...the restaurant...

man what a couple of days. we are in cheyenne wy. right now and the sky is beautiful. that dot in the middle is mars. or at least that's what someone told me. they could be lying.



i often tell people marissa tomei was discovered when her boobed popped out on six flags great america's scream machine and their roller coaster cam caught it. the next time she was on film was"my cousin vinny". i tell people this in hopes that it will somehow get back to me. they would speak with confidence that marissa tomei was discovered by a candid boob shot. its funny i once read she doesn't even like roller coasters. really.



oh you...

if you've ever asked yourself what kind of establishment serves clams at a buffet...



i believe the answer would be "china buffet"



maurices had fried chicken. really.

day time...



almost night time...



even almoster night time...



night time and sonic...



i've never been to a sonic before. i see commercials for them all the time but never had the pleasure of eating at one. once, a couple of months ago we GPS'ed a sonic and it was closed. supposedly it had been closed for some time and converted into a car dealership. at first i thought it was chrysler la baron night at sonic. it wasn't.

we walked there because it was a surprising 53 degrees. or at least it was earlier that day. i think it probably was around 35 degrees when we went. but still we were in that 53 degree mentality that one often falls into when chill'n and drinking forties. we were doing neither, but i think the food equivalent is sonic.

it was sooooooooooo cool!...



and they were sooooooooooo nice...



later that night we had a show. they advertised for us on napkin dispensers all while an internet themed eatery was right at their finger tips...



here's us pre-show...



i've been taking "myspace" type pictures (the ones that you take of yourself to capture the good time you may or may not be having) during shows on stage. i think the bit of self indulgence can come off funny at times...



sometimes, maybe not all the times. perhaps this is a bad example.

anyway it was a fun show.

and i met a lady...



she was an animal...



but like one with brittle bones and couldn't really do much...

i was two dates away from touching her where she pee's...really.

1/23/09

tire man, as oppose to rocket man...

saw a tire man today...



he mooned me...



it was deep.

one love! yo.

1/21/09

bowling motherfucker!!!...

so we left chicago a couple of days ago.

bye chicago...



you will notice that i post a lot of landscape pictures. i don't fancy myself a photographer or anything. i think it has more to do with weed. i remember taking this picture thinking "holy shit! the sears tower shrank, fuck you rick moranis. you fucking prick."

this is the mi spring 2009 tour group.



and this is how we roll...



sorry about that, it was pretty lame. the whole connection between the motion of a bowling ball and a slang terminology describing how one acts and/or holds oneself in public was a little to easy.

drew was strong...




i was passionate...



in the end strength won and passion came in 3rd...



we decided to play again only this time it was for keeps. anything off of wendy's dollar menu, which also consist of things over a dollar.



after 10 grueling frames...



i was triumphant!!!

for once "poo" was number 1



bowling was a blast. it truly was the best summer ever...almost.

on our way home we ran into a lion...



i was trying to be nice and everything but the lion kept pushing me...



once i called his mother a whore that god damn lion bit me in the ass...



making it only the third best summer ever. still pretty good.