What the 20D Has to Say About Last Night: February 2006

February 27, 2006: Tell Your Friends PodCast Taping at Lolita Bar

Todd Hanson through the front window of Lolita Bar

Baron

Liam sings a traditional Irish folk song

Chris Regan, writer for the Daily Show

Jason Trachtenburg

Pete Fitzpatrick of Clem Snide

Todd Hanson

I'm adding this older picture of Claudia Cogan because I didn't get a good shot of her last night and she was very funny. Yes, a funny girl. It happens.

Sean, Maryanne and Claudia in the back of the crowded room

Baron's shoulder puma

The lovely and fun Kambri

February 25, 2006: Rudy's Bar and Grill,
The Shark Show at Mo Pitkin's and
The Aristocontest at The Pit

You know, drinking for ten hours straight always seems
like a good idea. But it's not, unless you like spending
the next day sending emails of apology to everyone who
had the misfortune of running into you. Ces, Corey and I
were shut out of the Comic Con (no more tickets were
being sold due to fire code issues), so we went over to
Rudy's on 9th Avenue and proceeded to drink 4 pitchers
of McSorleys and talk about the new comic strip they're
pitching (btw...that's what's known in the biz as "a scoop").
After that, we went to The Shark Show where I laughed...
at everything...at far too loud a volume. Then we had pizza,
then we went over to the Aristocontest where Liam McEneaney
and Alex Blagg did fantastic renditions of the classic joke.
Before passing out in a cab, I introduced myself to Todd
from Dead-Frog.com, a fantastic comedy Web site.
Hopefully, he will still speak to me the next time we cross
paths. Oy...my head.

Corey does not look like Benicio del Toro...so stop telling him that.

Ces and Corey will never be rich and successful...

Oh, well, there's beer to be had.

Dan, Gabe and Nick

The Ethereal Baldo

Pizza is my only friend.

Liam gets evil.

February 24, 2006: Moonwork's Dick Danger, B61 in Red Hook, and "I Am Drugs" Locations in Vinegar Hill

Moonwork kicked off it's new weekly show Dick Danger on Friday and it was silly, frenetic and fun. Each episode runs for two Fridays and then the story continues.

B61 in Red Hook is a very cool bar with a nice pool table in the back. Our pictures at the pool table were much more successful than our actual playing.

While driving from Red Hook to Manhattan for the Moonwork show, Jowdy got us a little lost in Vinegar Hill. Maryanne and I were excited to realize we were driving past several locations from Dan and Sean's I Am Drugs series. We jumped out of the car and snapped a few photos, because we're idiots. The first one's from the Weed video and the second is from PCP, which featured the brilliant Matt Preskenis.

February 23, 2006: Abrams Book Party

Ces and Dan Piraro

A book I intend to buy very soon.

February 22, 2006: The Duplex comedy show and after

John

Jesse

Vince

Jiwon

John

Sean

Paul

February 21, 2006: Poker Night at Ace of Clubs

Shayna Ferm, Dustin D'addato and Nick Turner

Jessica Delfino

Roger Hailes

And here we go...teal light in the ceiling series. Maryanne took a lot of these.

Crespo's Set List

Woo...neon!

February 19, 2006: Liam Does a Half Hour at Mo Pitkins and Stone and Stone at Fat Cat

Baron Vaughn

Rob Paravonian

Liam McEneaney

Another night, another color series...RED!

Although I think this looks better in b/w.

Adam and Todd Stone

February 18, 2006: Random Upper East Side locations and The Walsh Brothers at The PIT

Comedy is hard.

Nick Turner and friends

The Walsh Brothers of Boston

February 17, 2006: Incidental shots of Lolita Bras at Mercury Lounge

Paul

Hugh

Patrick

Erica

February 16, 2006: Sweet! Comedy at the Slipper Room

Seth Herzog

Seth explains the rules of the first competition in the Sweet Laugh Olympics, the spit take. Meanwhile, contestant "Jed" ponders his strategy.

The winning spit take.

February 14, 2006: Giant Tuesday at Rififi

Kristen Schaal almost takes it all off

True love is discovered

Mark Douglas performs in the new hottest alternative comedy venue in the city...the Comedy Corner

Rob Gorden in the Comedy Corner

Matt Higgins gets intimate

Rob and Mark

Cartoonist contemporaries, Ces "Medium Large" Marciuliano and Corey "Barkeater Lake" Pandolph
photo taken by Maryanne Ventrice

Kristen Pandolph, Sock Designer and Hottie
photo taken by Maryanne Ventrice

The Drink at Work team minus Nick, who won't hang out with us, and Toby, who had already passed out in the bathroom
photo taken by Maryanne Ventrice

February 14, 2006: Rififi's Blue Room

This requires a wee pint of explanation. There's a little nook in Rififi
that has an exposed brick wall under a blue light. Everyone looks
gorgeous in this light and you can take the most awesome pictures
back there. So last night, after Giant Tuesday wrapped up, we took
photos of everyone we could grab before we got kicked out of the
room. Alas, no blue photos of Rob and Mark...next time. I'll be
posting photos of the rest of the night in a bit, but I figured this
series warranted it's own post. Special thanks to Maryanne for
having the wontons to ask most of these people to pose.