SUPER PARTY BUS!!!!!

For Heidi, Glen, and Jake's birthdays we rented a Super Party Bus with room for 30 lunatics.



Boys and girls from near and far converged on the glory that is the Super Party Bus.



With a 50-inch plasma and a killer sound system/party mix. We were ready to go.




Dancing ensued almost immediately.



And there were pole-dancing dance-offs.



The bus driver man hit a few bumps and made a few crazy turns.



KG gave out a few lap dances.



The party was well under way...



...when the bus hit a massive bump and EVERYONE fell down.



It was awesome.



Also there was crowd-surfing.



And wrestling.




And shots.




And a dance-off at some bar.



And a straight kid named Boswell who kept trying to make out with Benny-B.



And again.



And again.



We rode on the bus until about 3am...



....And then stopped for pizza.




And returned to the bus to find some crazy kids going at it.




Party resumed.



But all good things must come to and end.



Goodbye sweet party bus.



Happy birthday, birthday people!

NYC for SUPER PARTY BUS WEEKEND

So I've popped into NYC this weekend for Heidi (and Gen's) birthday celebration.

I figured I'd keep it top secret lest word get back to the little birthday treasure and ruin my surprise.

KG had planned this weekend out a couple months in advance and people should be coming in from all over for the SUPER PARTY BUS taking place tomorrow which promises to be epic.

I surprised Heidi at a little boutique she and Kris were shopping at. She was in the changing room trying on pretty new birthday dresses and I stood just outside her curtain waiting for her to emerge. When she did, she was QUITE surprised...her immediate reaction being a shriek, a bit of furious blinking and head shaking, followed by "SERIOUSLY?!?!?!? OH MY GOD........SERIOUSLY????!??!?! "

It was really cute.

After a yummy sushi dinner with Heidi and KG I met up for a pretty incredible ground lamb pizza with Felly, Steph and friends at this little Mediterranean joint called Moustache (pronounced "Moose-tahsh").



Following dinner we headed over to The Bitter End to catch a show byDowntown Harvest, the really sweet band that Dave Hua (Steph's BF) manages.



I'll be the first to admit that I generally don't have a taste for music that doesn't feature a former boy-bander or teenage starlet, but I thought these guys were really really good.



Though it very well might have been the Goldschlager...



Or the great company...






Happy 25th baby!

Super Coincidences / Sierra's 10th Birthday

Sunday was a day of crazy coincidental bumpings-into.

See, LA is a place where you RARELY bump into people.

Unlike NYC where you walk everywhere, in LA you're always in a car.

It's one thing to bump into someone at a bar or on 3rd St or at the Grove, but it's completely different to bump into someone on some random street corner.

................

So... I woke up Sunday and met up with Doug for brunch at Hugo's.




Afterwards, I had to run off on a photo shoot on the west side.

So I'm on this shoot, and we took a break because my client needed to shave and change.

We're at the corner of Olympic and Sawtelle, where there is absolutely NOTHING to see except a convention hall (where Kristy once had her company Xmas party), a lamp store, a storage facility and a Starbucks which is frequented only by those shopping at the Linens N' Things next door.

So...I realize my friends and I are unique in that we ride airplanes like they're the bus or something, but Katie was in town for a couple of days, and she had texted me a few minutes earlier asking me what I was doing since she hadn't been able to come gay dancing the night before.

I had texted her back as I was going down the escalator heading into this Starbucks at Olympic and Sawtelle saying I was on a photo shoot etc etc, but I'd be hanging out nearby with Felix's cousins Yvonne and Kathy for his niece Sierra's 10th birthday party afterward and she should totally come.....

And as I approach the Starbucks, who do I see crossing Olympic reading the text message I had JUST sent her?

KATIEEEEEE!!!!



She was staying in Venice. I live in West Hollywood. And we both just happened to be in no man's land in West LA. It seriously is the most random corner in Los Angeles. (She happened to be coming from some random work-related party thing of our friend Alex's.)

WEIRD.



We made plans to meet up later in the evening.

I finished my shoot, and I headed over to Yvonne and Kathy's to celebrate Sierra's 10th birthday.

After a bit, we took a break to go shopping at Westside Pavilion which is the most useless and random mall in the world, but happens to be situated right next to their home.

We shopped around. And then Katie met up for a coffee before heading to the airport.

As we're leaving the mall some hot guy came out of nowhere and tackled me outside Macy's.

And it was Doug!



He was there shopping for shoes. And it was especially odd to see him there because Westside Pavilion is basically a women's mall that has zero men's stores.

I'm not sure I've properly conveyed the magnitude of the randomness of these coincidences, but it was mind-blowing. Two places in Los Angeles that nobody ever goes to.

ANYWAY.

Katie left for the airport so I brought Doug back over to Yvonne and Kathy's for delicious Filipino food and Sierra's birthday party.

We mainly just hung out in the kitchen.

Ooooh, and Dakota made a really wonderful Thanksgiving statement-project-thing...




It read:

"We are celebrating Thanksgiving. I am thankful for my parents because I would not be alive. My mom had an egg and my dad had a sperm. Also I'm thankful for all the people in the military. The third thing I'm thankful for is trees because they give me oxygen. I am thankful for all the teachers I had. All of them are very nice."




Children are so wonderful.

Happy Birthday Sierra!