Krazy Kripples!

Remember when I destroyed my ankle?

Well a couple weeks ago our dear friend Quail had a freak running accident where she stubbed her toe and ended up shattering her hip socket.

It may or may not be worse than a trimalleolar ankle fracture. Equally awful, I'd say.

You get to stay off your injured leg for 4+ months. You get to re-learn how to walk. You probably get to have metal stuff in you for the rest of your life...

Well, I popped in to have lunch with our Quailfriend, and she seems to be in good spirits. She's recovering at her friend's fancy home in the Palisades...things could be worse.




She's keeping busy, writing a bit.

Oh the krutches. They back memories.






Don't worry Quail! Things will get better. Just enjoy the free time you have.

Lots of positive things come out of Krippledom.

Remember how I got to be on American Idol like 20 times?

Or how I got to skip all the lines at Disneyland?

Or how we befriended Smileyjohn and gave him his nickname?

All these things would not have happened had I not been a Kripple!

And furthermore I probably never would have moved to NYC, which basically changed my life for the best.

Everything happens for a reason and there will many good things to come from this Quail! Just wait and see!

LAX -> NYC

Headed back to NYC w lots of legroom sitting next to a puppy!

-- Post From My iPhone

Machine Gun Preacher Premiere!

I landed in LA around lunchtime yesterday. Grabbed a quick lunch with Kristy. Took a power nap. And then it was off to the premiere of Gerard Butler's new film Machine Gun Preacher!



The premiere was held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (Oscar) Building in Beverly Hills.



The star looked real good with some longer hair.



His costar Michelle Monaghan looked like a skinny little elf.




Zoe Saldana was there too. And a smattering of other rando celebs.



Thanks Naia for hooking up the tickets!



The AMPAS Building houses an enormous fancy theater.



Movie premieres are funny because they're just like a regular movie screening, except the film gets introduced, usually by the star of it, and everyone claps for all the opening credits including the production company logo, in this case Relativity Media. The first few credits are the ones that get the big applauses, for the stars and directors etc. Near the end of the opening credits, when they're crediting the Wardrobe Designer or Casting Director or something there's just an awkward smattering of applause. And in this movie those last credits came up during an awkward sex scene where Michelle Monaghan is getting F'ed in the passenger seat of a car so that combined with the weak applause was kind of funny and made me LOL inappropriately.

The movie is about Sam Childers, a former junkie criminal who reforms himself, finds Jesus, and builds an orphanage in Southern Sudan to save the child victims of the war over there.

Here's the trailer:



After the screening, the theater was completely silent as everyone processed what they had just seen. I thought the movie was pretty incredible and it made me want to do something, anything, to help these kids...except maybe visit. (The movie probbbbably won't be good for Sudanese tourism.) And I kind of wish that it were titled and marketed differently... the words "Machine Gun" and "Preacher" might turn away some potential filmgoers.

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After the movie they had open bar and open FOOD.





But it felt kind of weird to gorge oneself on delicious snacks and beverages after watching a movie about African children who eat SEWAGE. Not that we didn't happily do it.



We mixed and mingled and congratulated the stars on a job well done.



And we ended up chatting with these fabulous ladies from the Official Gerard Butler Fan Club who had won tickets to the premiere. They were REALLY excited to be there, and you could just feel them getting all moist in the presence of Mr. Butler as they fanned themselves continuously.




Somehow my camera managed to make Gerry look old and yucky when really he is anything but.



And people also posed for pics with the real Sam Childers, the man Gerry plays in the movie.



Yay. Fun night! I miss LA.

Melanie's Birthday

Melanie celebrated her 20-somethingth birthday the other night at Antibes Bistro in the Lower East Side. She had a special little menu with place settings all set up for her guests.



(Most of whom were pretty fellow glamazons who clearly subsist on a diet of tic tacs and lemons.)



We started with a delicious Poached Pear and Goat Cheese Salad.



There was plenty of wines which Goon and DK2 clearly enjoy.



And some chickenmeats.



Joyous birthday fun.



A little drunk.



A little meatsweatty.



And a cake.




And another weird sugarcane-y dessert.



Love the Kaminski klan.



After dinner we met up with Melanie's friend Jason who looks like Ryan Seacrest and is the new manager of the Co-Op at the Rivington Hotel.



He hooked us up with three platters of food. Below is just one of them. Sushi rolls, blue cheese fries, okra, and some little meatsticks. I was in heaven. Especially because no one else was eating.



And more cake with fire.



And bottles and bottles of Gooseliquor.



Blackout. The End.



Happy Birthday Mel!

Barrington Reunion!

My childhood friend JennySaunders who I haven't seen in years got married this weekend in Boston and I was the photographer.



All of her bridesmaids and many of her guests were people I knew growing up.

I caught this incredible reflection shot in a glass door when I was trying to take a picture of JenMcGovern getting her makeup done.



Seesters!



The wedding was at the Brookline Country Club, supposedly the very first country club in America.

It was kind of fancy. They made me wear a loaner blazer and change out of my sneakers because they have a stupid dress code. Lame.

It was really neat to be there because a bunch of these people I haven't seen in over a decade and some of these girls were the most popular pretty girls in school when we were like 2nd-9th graders.



As a reminder, this is what I used to look like while these girls were ruling the halls of Nayatt Elementary and Barrington Middle School...




Needless to say, we were not all best friends...



Thankfully, we lived in one of the prettiest houses in town, so I was able to save myself from being a complete social outcast by throwing a couple awful "dance parties" in my basement..



Most of the time, though, I preferred to hide out in that room that is the second window from the left (in the above picture) playing really geeky computer games and prowling AOL chatrooms to trick other idiot kids out of their passwords so that I could steal their internet time. (Remember back when we had to pay by the HOUR?)



These girls still look just as pretty as I remember!




There were a couple nice-looking boys as well.



Congrats Jenny!



Lovely to see all the Barrington babes!