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It’s been one year since supperclub opened here in San Francisco, so last night was our big anniversary party… It was fabulous.. New Chef Jon Stevens whipped up some awesome tasty treats.. anchovy stuffed olives, some crab things, and fois gras.. mmmmm.

As for entertainment.. there were these awesome contortionists, the mystic pixies and one of those suspended ribbon dancer people (I’m not sure what to call it).

Andy took some nice pics of the event…

Happy anniversary supperclub!! If you haven’t been there yet, come by! Food is super good and it’s a great time..

So.. the fantastic folks over at Shine have this neat-o photobooth in the back that takes your pic and automagically posts it onto flickr.. Yah, it’s kind of geeky.. but what would you expect from a place that is at 1337 Mission… (and if you get THAT reference, then you are truly geeky).

Anyway.. Brian made a kickass timelapse video of the photobooth.

I’m in there somewhere.

Woo.. what a weekend… I opened the weekend with the Superstars first victory of the season. (ok, it was a forfeit, cuz the other team didn’t have enough guys, but a win’s a win.) But, we still scrimmaged, and I got my first hit of the season, an RBI single. Woo. I was 0/5 before the broken ankle, and now I’m 1/5 after the broken ankle, so statiscally speaking, the broken ankle improved my batting average.. not that I recommend it.

Anyway, Jablow, Kai and Pius share the same birthday (the 13th) and Michelle’s is this week too, so they (minus Pius, cuz his moochie-ass is back in Jersey) had a fabulous birthday celebration at Hog Island Oyster Company, which is like 50 miles north of San Francisco in Marshall, CA… Up there, you can buy sacks of oysters for like $36 bucks or something, and sit there, shuck them, drink beer, bbq and in general have a frolicking, oystery good time. Good stuff. Happy birthday Jablow, Kai, and Michelle (oh, and Pius too).

Dana organized a fabulous trip to Pigeon Point this weekend, which is about 50 miles south of San Francisco right on the California.. The Pigeon Point lighthouse has a hostel there, that we all stayed at (for which Dana has been trying for years to get reservations) — it’s $30 a night, and arguably one of the best locations for a hostel in the world… Perched right on the cliffs of the California coast, right underneath a gorgeous working lighthouse.

It was a fantastically warm, clear, fog-free night… and we even spent a few hours in the hot tub, which was perched right on the cliff’s edge. Sooo nice… True to hostelling style, we cooked a tasty dinner in the communal kitchen (although since we had a big group, we basically filled one of the houses).

Most of the folks had biked down the 1 that morning from San Francisco (about a 50 mile ride), and I decided to ride with them back up to the city on Sunday.. We took a different route back than they had taken on Saturday, so we ended up going past the San Gregorio General Store (super cool market with a bar and bluegrass music).. then up La Honda (um.. it was like a 15 miles of UPHILL riding.. ouch) to Alice’s Restaurant for lunch… Then, up Skyline to Crystal Springs (with some awesome downhill.. I hit a max speed of 39.7 mph.. woohoo).. When we reached Crystal Springs, my legs were dead tired, so instead of continuing the 25 miles back up to SF, I chickened out and dropped off the ride at my parents’ house, who convienently live like a few miles from Crystal Springs. Considering that I only just got back on my feet from my broken ankle a few weeks ago, I was happy with the 47 miles that I did.. That said, congrats to Dana, Davin, Dan, Chris, John and Mike who all did 125 miles this weekend.. that’s awesome…

I made a little wayfaring map of the part of the bike ride that I did this weekend.. granted, it doesn’t show elevation change, but I promise that there’s a HUGE hill in between the coast and the inland bits, so that’s why I’m so tired today…

Woo! It’s good to be in California.

Update: Dana posted her pics from the weekend here.

My good friend Shooey has invited me to spin at her regular party at Anu tonight.. So, I’m dusting off my records and I’m gonna go spin tonight! It’s been awhile since I’ve played out, so I’m super excited to be playing.. It’s been on my list to get out there and start promoting myself to get more gigs and such, so maybe tonight will give me the necessary kick in arse to get that whole ball rolling…

I’m on at 10pm, so swing by and say hi, I’ll buy you a drink.

Here are the details:

7/27 Thursday
Cheeky @ Anu
43 Sixth Street b/t Mission & Market St
10:00pm-2:00am
NO cover!

Cheeky Productions newest residents DJs Scottino and shOOey (aka ScottOOey) are back to bring you an evening of booty shakin’ beats. We’re excited to once again share the spotlight with one of our favorite DJ’s you’ve never heard of! This week, Sinned will start our evening off with his ice breaking breaks sound that will surely heat up the dance floor! Come drink a drink and dance a dance with us!

:: Lineup ::
1000 – Sinned (MSG)
1115 – shOOey (In Deep / Cheeky)
1230 – Scottino (FiX / Cheeky)

This weekend was chock full o’weddings… First, I flew down to Burbank for Nancy & Mike’s wedding.. and then back up here to SF to drive up to Sonoma for Dan & Anne’s wedding.. fun fun fun..

Nancy & Mike’s wedding was at the Universal City Hilton — they served a traditional Chinese 10 course wedding meal.. so much tasty food!!! Nancy and I started at Anderson Consulting in the same start group waaaay back in 1997.. There were 20 of us in that start group, and none of us still work at AC (now Accenture). But, many of us still remain in touch, so it was great to see many of them at the wedding.. For one part of the wedding, Nancy and Mike asked their wedding party to perform skits about how Nancy & Mike were before they met, how they met, and how they are now… The wedding party worked really hard on their skits, and did a fantastic job…

Dan & Anne’s wedding was at the St. Francis winery up in Sonoma… Set at the base of a huge mountain and surrounded by a huge vineyard, it was a gorgeous setting for a wedding. Dan’s rabbi from Ohio came in for the wedding and gave a fantastic service, which was followed by a super tasty dinner and then dancing. Woo dancing! I was informed that I won the award for ‘best dancer’ despite my broken ankle. Woo! Who likes dancing? Me!

I had my new camera for both of the weddings, and had an awesome time documenting everything… So, make sure to check out the pictures here and here.

Congrats and best wishes to Nancy, Mike, Dan and Anne!

Well, I’m back in SF now from my brief East coast tour… I was out there for AJ’s 30th birthday party in Philly, so Happy Birthday AJ!! 1976 rocks!

A bunch of us descended upon Philadelphia for the AJ-fest, and we went out in Philly’s old city to celebrate the 30 years of AJ that have transpired so far.. Well, we didn’t really make it that far in old city cuz we really just stayed in at AJ’s friend Dave’s house and drank there… I’ve never really been out in Philadelphia before, it’s pretty nice… kinda feels small towny hiphoppy, but the whole Old City part seems really rejuvenated… Then, Sunday AJ’s parents had a lovely BBQ at their house in New Jersey… The whole weekend was documented very, very, very, very well…

What was also exciting about this trip was that this was the first time I got to travel with the whole new broken (now mended) ankle.. I still have this huge walking boot on there, which has a ton of metal in it, so when I walk through the metal detector, the thing goes crazy. On my way out east, the SFO folks were very thorough in asking me to sit down, remove the boot (which they then sent through the x-ray machine, along with my fancy new cane)… And then they ran the metal detector wand thing over my leg, and when it got to my ankle.. yup.. BEEEP. Oh boy. Everyone always jokes about the whole screws in the ankle setting off metal detectors and all — I guess it’s true. I just wonder if I’m gonna set off the metal detector every time now (after I get the boot off)…

Now, contrast my SFO experience with the friendly folks at JFK… I walk through the metal detector, which beeps like crazy — I now know to walk over to the “wait here cuz the thing beeped” line.. I wait there patiently for a little bit, and then am motioned to sit in the “sit here cuz the thing beeped” chair. I sit patiently for about 5 minutes, and then one of the security people is like.. “What are you doing there? You can go now.” Oh. Um, I don’t argue or anything, but… yah, I suppose there’s a few holes here and there in the whole security process, which is slightly disconcerting. Yah. Hmm.

So, I’m off to the airport again tomorrow.. flying down to LA for Nancy & Mike’s wedding on Saturday.. Then, back here Sunday morning so that I can head up to Sonoma for Dan & Anne’s wedding. Yup, it’s a crazy wedding weekend… woo.

So my friend Kane recently bought the Fulton Street Social Club, and has been remodelling it into a new place called Poleng Lounge… Social Club was a great venue with a booming sound system, and we threw our bad ass Holla’ Ween party there last year, so I’m looking forward to seeing what Kane and his crew have done to the place..

For their opening party on Thursday, May 18th, Kane has booked Chromeo!!

Chromeo ROCKS! I first heard of them when I saw their video for Needy Girl at RESFEST, which was one of their “10 Great Music Videos from 2004“…

So yah.. be there.. May 18th.. I’ll still be in my ankle cast, but I’ll be rockin..

UPDATE:

The show isn’t at Poleng yet (I guess there were some delays to get it open, no surprise from my supperclub experiences)… So, it’s at Mighty Now…

Dan’s getting married in June, so Masnick and I took him out for a little bachelor party.. We went to Chick-fil-A in the Fairfield Mall for lunch, where Dan picked up THREE Chicks-fil-A (get it? haha.. man, I’m hilarious). And then the craaaaaaazy fun continued when we stopped off at the Jelly Belly factory.

Woo. We’re wild and crazy. I forgot that you’re not supposed to speak about the crazy shite goes down during bachelor parties, but.. I’m just that reckless. But man.. I didn’t get back home till like.. 4 o’clock!! (PM, that is.)

Ok… this was kind of in the first of the three posts I made about my 30th birthday weekend, but I’m moving it into its own post.. hope this doesn’t mess with any of you out there in RSS-land…

In summary…

In the first 72 hours of my 30s:
Number of Bars Visited: 2
Number of Drinks Consumed: 16
Number of Budweisers Consumed: 15
Number of Hours Slept: 17
Number of Cars Wrecked: 2
Number of things Jason set on fire: 2 (1 car, 1 bbq)
Number of Calls To AAA: 6 (it was a fiasco getting them to come and get me, they thought I was *on* the bridge)
Number of Miles Driven In Car: 5
Number of Miles Ridden On Bike: 43
Number of CostCo Chickens Eaten: 1
Pairs of Pants Worn Forwards: 2
Pairs of Pants Worn Backwards: 1
Kris Kross Will Make You: Jump! Jump!
Number of Dudes Tackled At The Hip Hop Party: 3
Number of times “Big” was heard screaming in the background: 7
Number of people crammed into my house for the bbq: 68
Number of Candles Blown Out: 33 (3 on the first cake, 30 on the second)
Number of Birthday Wishes Made: 1 (ok, 2, but they were both for the same thing)

So yah.. thanks everyone for everything! You guys are the best!

Ok.. on the final stretch.. on the third day of my 30th birthday weekend, I decided to have a little bbq at my house… Since there were like 70 people who said they were coming on the evite, I had to do some furniture re-arrangement… I figured since it was a bbq, people could hang out in the main room and outside on the patio and it’d be all fine. Except for one thing.. weather.

We’ve had like two weeks of unseasonably gorgeous weather here in San Francisco, and when does it all break? Of course.. on the day of my birthday bbq… but, not to let the weather thwart my plans, I go right ahead and still plan on bbq’ing. Jason saves the day and brings a Kingsford sponsored tent for the patio (along with two packs of their most advanced mesquite charcoal, available at your neighborhood grocery store). So we’re all set. Awesome.

The bbq went off without a hitch.. everyone showed up, ate a ton of food, drank lots, and had a great time, and I’m so happy to have so many awesome friends who braved the yucky weather to celebrate my birthday.. You guys are the best! Although, I do realize that Bailey did steal most of the attention once people got here though, which is fine with me…

So yah.. that’s my birthday weekend… spent exactly the way that I wanted it to be, with marvelous friends and family.